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M.J. Pullen

Biography

M.J. Pullen

When she’s not chasing two little boys or trying to wipe something sticky off the floor, M.J. (Manda) Pullen is the bestselling author of women’s fiction and romantic comedies.

M.J. grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. Writing has always been a big part of her life, both professionally and personally. She studied English Literature and Business at the University of Georgia in Athens, and later Professional Counseling at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She practiced psychotherapy for five years before taking a sabbatical to spend more time writing and raising her brood. Since high school, she has also been an executive assistant, cashier, telemarketer, professional fundraiser, marketing guru, magazine writer, grant-writer, waitress, box-packer, HR person and casual drifter.

M.J. loves creating true-to-life characters who are flawed, relatable and, most importantly, redeemable. She tries to explore all aspects of relationships, from romantic entanglements to battles between mortal enemies and everything in between. She reads and writes across many genres and learns something from everything she does. No matter what she’s writing, M.J. believes that love is the greatest adventure there is and that hopeless romantics are never really hopeless.

After years traveling and living in places like Portland, Oregon and Austin, Texas, M.J. has now returned to her home city of Atlanta, where she lives with her husband and two young sons.

M.J. Pullen

Books by M.J. Pullen

by M.J. Pullen - Fiction

Marci lives alone in 480 square feet of converted motel space next to a punk rock band, hundreds of miles from her friends and family. She works in a temporary accounting assignment that has somehow stretched from two weeks into nine months. And the only bright spot in her life, not to mention the only sex she's had in two years, is an illicit affair with her married boss, Doug. Then the reappearance of an old friend with whom she had made a drunken marriage pact ten years earlier opens a long-forgotten door, and the lines between right and wrong, heartache and happiness are all about to get very blurry, as Marci faces the most difficult choices of her life.