Maryanne received her first rejection from St. Anthony's Messenger when she was five years old. Now after working with Mother Teresa in Mexico, California, New York, India and South Africa St. Anthony's Messenger is publishing What Mother Teresa Taught Me. With Lennox Raphael she wrote Garden of Hope. Her other books are Runaways, (with Jeni Wolf) reprinted by Authors Guild in their back in print books. The Man Who Loved Funerals, A Personal Look at Madness, Alexandria (with Patricia Walden)Anais Nin, The Voyage Within and How to Survive as a Free lance Writer.
Planning Book Tours in Ohio, California, New York City and Hawaii where she has lived and has many friends and family members."