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I couldn't resist uploading a picture of my spike heels to CNN's iReport recent call for stories about shoes and the people who love them. Here's the back story on my getting-famous stilettos! http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-446919www.runningwithstilettos.com

Vicki was a beautiful, high-spirited woman. She always had men waiting in the wings for her attention. I was her friend (we worked together) and had been close to her for several years, particularly close during her devastating, painful divorce a year earlier. She had just met a new man and was high on life again, as we all are in those circumstances. We decided to go to her place in the...

I just signed the contract to produce my third collection of essays, whose title shall remain a state secret until the book is actually "live"! I'm really hoping to see this in print in time to have fun talking about it and selling it in Chicago at the Printers Row Lit Fest in early June.In the meantime, here's a link to a sample chapter--"Full Circle" Just like the first two books, this new...

When I first set out to self-publish my first collection of essays, "Running with Stilettos," my sights were not exactly what you'd call high. All I was really looking for back in 2008 was to get ten copies of my book in 3-D format so that I could give one to each of my four kids, one each to me and my guy, and a few to send out to agents and publishers to take a look at. A second book, "Heck on...

I cannot tell a lie, I wanted Mary Wagner’s (GB's Running with Stilettos) book the minute I...

"Fabulous in Flats," my third essay collection, finally went "live" a couple of days ago! It's available in both paperback and Kindle editions at iUniverse, which is the publishing company I used for my first two books, Running with Stilettos and Heck on Heels. I am so glad that I forged ahead and wrote these books, the experiences and friendships I've made as a result of that leap of faith have...

The world of cyberspace is so amazingly and randomly connected, and can lead to such surprises!...

Announcing the arrival of “Heck on Heels,” my new collection of essays! Here's the text of the press release I'm sending out into the universe... "This is the second collection of essays by award-winning Wisconsin writer and photographer Mary T. Wagner. “Heck on Heels” follows Wagner’s debut collection, “Running with Stilettos: Living a Balanced Life in Dangerous Shoes,”...

As the rain and cold envelops my house this evening, I think it would have been lovely to...