Cork novelist, Mary Malone, realised her dream of becoming a novelist when her phone rang unexpectedly during the winter of 2005.
Mary had submitted the book to the publishers the previous year and had completely forgotten about it and already began working on her next novel. Her debut novel, Love Match, is set in Kinsale (her favourite place!) and was launched in July 2006. Her second novel, All You Need Is Love, is set in Bandon and due for publication in August 2007.

Mary's dearly departed father, Paddy McSweeney, instilled in Mary his own love of interesting tales. After his death, Mary felt it was time to finally write that book she had always been talking about and is still floating on air having realised her dream.

As well as being a novelist, Mary works in the Central Statistics Office in Cork. She also works as a freelance journalist and loves the variation between fact and fiction!

She lives in Templemartin, Bandon, Co. Cork with her husband, Pat, teenage sons, David and Mark, and golden labrador, Prince!