About Me

Mary Frances (Gough) Isaacs

Born and raised in Washington State (GO SEAHAWKS!)

Moved to South East Alaska in 2002

Wife to the ultimate Crazy guy-Jess (Dewey) Isaacs

Mother to 5 CRAZier kids....Three boys & two girls

Sister to four amazing and talented sisters

Daughter of the originals whom I get my craziness from

Dewey and I met while working in Duvall, Washington. We were co-workers by day, secretly dating by night; until the day he quit when I announced to all our co-workers that we'd been dating for months. One of the many things I loved about him was that he already had two CUTE kids. When we got engaged I thought it was important to be near the two older kids, who live in SE Alaska with their mom...so I had the bright idea that we should move. It was decided that we'd live in SE Alaska for 10 years, since the younger of the two kids was in second grade. I figured we'd stay until she graduated high school, she has recently graduated from college. Now the youngest of the additional crazy cute kids is in 5th grade. Maybe someday we'll move out of SE Alaska....in the mean time we've made it our home. (And the people here are crazier than we are, so it's okay)

By day I am the branch manager of our local credit union, by night I am either: reading, writing, parenting, cooking or cleaning. Usually in that order, thankfully my kids are old enough to make PB&J, Ramen noodles and eggs. And my husband likes to clean.....likes might be too strong of a word, but he cleans (more than I do).

In 2012 my husband had a pretty nasty accident, while trying to clean the gutters out he slid off the roof from the second story. Long sad story made short, our lives changed that day in so many ways. We have made the best of our situation and will always be thankful that he came through alive. It hasn't always been easy, which is when and why I turned to books. I have a million different quotes about reading....and they are all true.

You can't buy happiness but you can buy books and that's kind of the same thing

"One more chapter..." I whispered two hours ago.

If I had a dollar for every time I felt more emotion for a fictional character than people in real life, I could pay for the psychiatric help I obviously need.

My boyfriend is battery operated. (By a Kindle. You perv.)

I have a sleeping disorder...it's called reading

You get my point, right???

My books read total for 2014, 2015 and year to date 2016: 1,400

I will deny, deny, deny that I have spent that much money on books. Kindle Unlimited, right!

June 14, 2016 after approximately 23 (minus a couple pregnancies) years as a smoker I quit! Woo hoo. Hardest damn thing I've ever done. After the initial shock to my system I quickly discovered, my brain couldn't sit still long enough to keep up with reading like I was use to. Instead, it wandered and created plot twists that never took place.

Fast forward to today....I am still reading. I still stop what I am doing to read the new releases from all my FAVORITES! I have just added writing my own to the mix. I've joined a few groups on goodreads and beta read for others that are in the same boat as me. My debut novel is currently in the hands of the editor. I'm excited, I'm nervous and I'm anxious to share it with the world.