marie jolly

BIO

Marie Jolly is a fiction writer who loves all things wild and magical. A storyteller since she uttered her first sentence, Marie has written for both adults and children, and is currently focusing on adult paranormal romance. She’s also a high school biology teacher, crochet fanatic, and class clown. She lives in Boston with her very eccentric spouse and a motley collection of exotic reptiles and amphibians. Marie is represented by Sara Megibow of Megibow Literary. Her debut shapeshifter romance, RIVER RUNS WILD, will be released by Carina/Harlequin in the fall of 2027.

You can learn more about her at weirdandwittytales.com or follow her on Instagram or Threads at @weirdandwittytales.

MSWL

I am open to all genres of commercial fiction in MG/YA/Adult, including mystery, thriller, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and romance, but I have a particular soft spot for the following:

  • Anything you could describe as weird, offbeat, or quirky

  • Nature and STEM elements

  • Monsters, nerds, freaks and geeks

  • Rom-coms

  • Genre mashups

  • Lighthearted, comic, and/or cozy fantasy and sci-fi, and fantasy set in the real world

Some books I love:

Adult:

  • Leviathan Wakes

  • Hench

  • Dungeon Crawler Carl

  • Project Hail Mary

  • Bull Moon Rising

  • Morning Glory Milking Farm

  • Swordheart

  • Tusk

  • Legends and Lattes

  • I Got Drunk and Yeeted A Love Potion at a Werewolf

  • Guards! Guards!

  • Skinny Dip

  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

  • Where’d You Go, Bernadette

  • The Final Girl Support Group

  • The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

  • Whalefall

  • Remarkably Bright Creatures

YA/MG:

  • Grasshopper Jungle

  • Our Crooked Hearts

  • One of us is Lying

  • Knife of Never Letting Go

  • Mongrels

  • Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging

  • Catherine called Birdy

  • Raymie Nightingale

  • The One and Only Ivan

  • Holes

  • Hoot

  • Small Spaces

  • The Truth as Told By Mason Buttle

  • The Curse of Eelgrass Bog

  • The Misadventures of Lightning Girl

  • The Fourteenth Goldfish