Favorites include ELDEN RING, THE LAST OF US, the FALLOUT series, the FINAL FANTASY series, and WORLD OF WARCRAFT. Sadly, she cannot play first person shooters because they make her sick to her stomach.
Ice cream! And her favorite flavor ice cream is cookies and cream. She also loves pizza. Especially with pineapple on it!
Mari has travelled all over the world to countries such as England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, Columbia, and Japan. She also loves to go on cruises.
In addition to writing books for Disney, Mari is a Disney super nerd. She's been to Disney World in Florida, Disney Land in California, Disney Paris and Tokyo Disney. Her favorite ride is THE HAUNTED MANSION. She has been to Disney over 100 times!
She works all year long on elaborate costumes to wear at conventions like Comic Con and DragonCon. She especially likes "mash-up" costumes where she takes two fandoms and mashes them together into one costume.
While she's lives in Texas now, when she grew up in the northeast in Massachusetts. And every weekend she'd pack up the car and go to the mountains to snowboard. (She can ski, too, but much prefers snowboarding.)
This is her dog, Minnie. She's a cocker spaniel mix and is about 12 years old. She spends all day sleeping by Mari's feet as she writes books. Her favorite food is steak.
This is Mari and her family. Her daughter is 14 years old and is a competitive dancer. Her husband works with computers.
Kit Kats! She also loves Twix, Reeses, candy corn and marshmallow peeps.
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