Marilyn Wright Dayton
maredayt@yahoo.com
About Marilyn Wright Dayton
Marilyn Wright Dayton is a lifelong writer whose dynamic career has spanned advertising, marketing, media, entrepreneurship, and consulting. She has worked as a creative director, ad agency owner, TV and radio host/producer, fashion model, newspaper reporter, magazine columnist, and business consultant.
International award-winning author Marilyn is the author of multiple fiction and nonfiction works, including The Hightower Murder Mystery Series, The Guy Davis Murder Mystery Series, Beyond, The Hollow Soul, The Other Side of Her Mountain, Our Roots Run Deep, and Reflextions, a book based on her life (including stories on her friend Elvis and her friend/mentor Dick Clark). She also co-authored the anthology WOmenopause and updated an historical tribute honoring influential women of Rochester, NY. She also had fun creating a book called Sizzle & Spice TRIVIA, Culinary Curiosities From Around the World.
Just before she became an author, she had a television show and a marketing business. Although her marketing consulting business has been 'retired', the website has been kept live with many marketing tip articles, available on the website. You can also click on the picture on the right to get to that website.
She continues to love creative writing and art, as she also designs her own book covers. She will have 18 published books by the end of 2026 and has 5-6 more in the planning stages.
She gets an idea and sits down and starts writing...as simple as that!
There is more information on the books that she has written on the Books page on this site.
You can reach Marilyn via email at maredayt@yahoo.com.
Also, in 2026, she wanted to help other would-be and new authors by sharing her insights on creative writing through her 2 volume workbook course, Creative Writing Made Easy. This course is available from Amazon and you can see more on her website TakeAMinuteWithM.com, you can easily get to it by clicking on the logo below.
Coming soon is her innovative column on SubStack. She wants to have some fun and include the readers in creating short stories. Her idea is that if you send her a phrase (approximately 3 words in length), she will actually build a short story around it. Then, it will become one of the weekly columns (and she will source you). This is a great way to have some fun with being creative in writing a story. The first one will be mid-June, on "The Forever Girl", contributed by an old friend Janet T. from NYS. Look for more information soon.
Copyright 2015-2026 by Marilyn Wright Dayton
Contact her at maredayt@yahoo.com.
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I was recently interviewed on Silver Linings TV Show about my life and career. It is a half-hour show. Check it out here:
Also, I was interviewed for a U.K. magazine Reader's House, where they focused on the murder mystery series The Hightower Mysteries. l have a large following in the U.K. for both of my murder mystery series. Here is the interview online, soon to be included in their print magazine:
WINNER of Literary Award 2025
See the Author's Amazon Page at https://www.amazon.com/author/marilynwrightdayton
See the Author's Books.by page at https://books.by/mwdayton-author
