{"id":2,"date":"2007-09-14T09:46:15","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-06-15T12:17:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:17:30","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary, Mary, quite contrary, penned a tale that&#8217;s really scary&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:32% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"185\" data-attachment-id=\"7389\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/about\/canzine_mrajotte\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/canzine_mrajotte.png\" data-orig-size=\"185,185\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"canzine_mrajotte\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/canzine_mrajotte.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/canzine_mrajotte.png\" src=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/canzine_mrajotte.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7389 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/canzine_mrajotte.png 185w, https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/canzine_mrajotte-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Canadian author Mary Rajotte has a penchant for penning nightmarish tales of Gothic and folk horror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her <a href=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/bibliography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">short stories<\/a> have been published in a number of anthologies . Her debut novel,<a href=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/book\/the-bone-key\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> The Bone Key<\/a>, will release in Autumn 2024 from Quill &amp; Crow Publishing House.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary also launched <a href=\"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/frightmarish-zine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frightmarish: a Gothic LitZine<\/a> in 2022, featuring original folk horror fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes camera-elusive but always coffee-fueled, Mary welcomes messages via her website<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The youngest of five siblings to a <strong>French Canadian<\/strong> father and a <strong>Mexican American<\/strong> mother, Mary is inspired by the drive &amp; creativity of her grandmother, children&#8217;s writer <strong>Bernadette Rajotte<\/strong>, composer of <em>A Child&#8217;s Christmas Prayer<\/em>, and <em>Young Hearts<\/em>, which are a part of the <strong>National Library of Canada<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bernadette Rajotte is also the author of countless short stories, as well as <em>Who Am I?: A Mother Goose Quiz Book<\/em> (1978), which is part of the Toronto Library&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontopubliclibrary.ca\/uni_spe_osb_collection.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Osborne Collection of Early Children&#8217;s Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 34px; left: 528px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 34px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary, Mary, quite contrary. 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