Unlike many of her fellow film-school grads, Mary has actually seen several of the scripts she worked on come to life on television and in theaters. Nevertheless, she is still chasing down that elusive fist sale for one of her own scripts. Meanwhile, Mary and her hubby, Old Hunk, raised five kids, assorted grandkids, three dogs, two cats, various reptiles, rodents galore, a boatload of fish, brain coral, and a Mexican tarantula named Mad Max. It’s been a little crazy. But their drug of choice has always been laughter. Taking the advice, “Write what you know,” Mary turned her talents to penning her first book: MARY MARY QUITE: On Raising Children (And Other Mind-Altering Substances). Mary met Denver artist David Condry back in 2011, took one look at his website, and the rest – as they say – is history. From 2011 ‘till 2014, whenever David was on hiatus from grad school, he and Mary collaborated on over twenty-two illustrations, copious variations of the book’s cover art, and several versions of the Mary Mary Quite logo - he doing all the work, and she doing all the supervising. (Yes, they make a great team.) Mary visits Colorado often, to enjoy two of her kids and their families. But she spends most of her time in southern California to be close to the rest of her family, to be within shouting distance of the film industry, and to keep her favorite chair polished at a secret Hollywood coffee bar - where unemployed screenwriters hover like flesh-eating piranha, ready to attack the first film producer (travelling incognito, of course) who walks through the door.