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I've been a writer since the second grade when I wrote my first story about a hound dog
named Blue. Over the years, I've written short stories, plays, novels, screenplays, articles
and more. In addition to my passion for writing romantic comedies, I'm a dog lover
extraordinaire and have fun providing pet tarot readings for humane society and animal rescue
fundraisers.
My personal goal in life is to become the person my dog, Pawlette, thinks I am! My professional
goal is to write entertaining stories that bring pleasure to those who read them.
Please feel free to contact me,
say hello, and share your thoughts and ideas. I'd love to hear from you.
Thank you for your interest and I hope you enjoy the books.
Mattie Fern
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White Christmas With You |
Coming Soon!
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Pet Stylist Dani Schmidt knows how to spruce up a pup until it sparkles like a show dog. Unfortunately, after being dumped by her boyfriend this Christmas, she suddenly feels like an unloved scruffy stray. With fleas.
Local high school teacher, Jeff Dawkins, has his own romance problems. It's so bad that his teen students have threatened to set him up on dates with various relatives if he doesn't get his act together.
When Jeff's dog, a cute but naughty Jack Russell Terrier named Angel, brings Dani and Jeff together for a second chance at love, what can possibly go wrong?
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Fortune-Telling With Fido |
How To Make Your Own Pet Oracle Cards |
Coming Soon!
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"Fortune-Telling With Fido ~ How To Create Your Own Pet Oracle Cards" is a how-to book on creating your own personal oracle deck using your beloved pets from past and present.
Oracle cards are all about connecting with your inner wisdom and our pets definitely connect us with our heart. This book is not only wonderfully woo-woo, but it's fun, simple, and actionable.
Learn how to create the actual cards for arty and not-so-arty types (like myself), how to do readings for yourself, and for others at psychic fairs too.
I love oracle readings--as well as tarot readings too. I do pet tarot readings for animal rescue and humane society fundraisers so I bring that experience to the book as well.
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Bewitched By You (Book 1) |
New Release!
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Fifteen-year-old Sukie Pendragon is cat hissing mad when her mom dumps her off like some stray at her
witchy grandmother’s house in Slingshot, Oregon, to spend more time with her new boyfriend. Granny Bea
adopts homeless creatures, including a bazillion cats--plus Winnie the naughty golden retriever pup that
her grandma stubbornly insists Sukie care for.
Jeremy Powers, Granny Bea’s teenage neighbor, has been crushing on Sukie since she moved in, but he really
doesn’t know why since everything he does and everything he says only seems to annoy her. Her own grandma
calls her 'Hurricane Sukie', and sometimes he gets so frustrated he just wants to tell Sukie off--but in the
next breath, all he can think about is kissing her.
Will these two ever stop arguing long enough to find true love?
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Only Have Eyes For You (Book 1) |
Sixteen year-old Billie Travers knows exactly what she wants: to be a dog trainer and her dad's business partner in Travers Big Dog Board and Train Bootcamp. She has plans.
Mitchell Roberson is living every teen's dream: moving to Yodel, Oregon from upscale Bellevue, Washington
before his junior year because his father wants to start a "hobby farm". Wait, what????
Billie's dad hires Mitchell in spite of an interview that begins with Mitchell meeting a rambunctious yellow lab
and ends with him flat on his back--dazed and confused--looking up at the concerned faces of Billie and her father.
Billie has her doubts, and Mitchell is sure her dad is going to fire him. Then, "The Kiss" changes everything.
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Pineapple Pete (Book 1) |
"If my dog doesn't like you, I probably won't either." So reads one of Roxie Ralston's favorite tee shirts.
But when Pete, Roxie's yellow lab, meets Thor Allen, the handsome owner of the local magic shop, it's a match made in dog heaven.
Pete is not the only one charmed by their unconventional new neighbor. Will Roxie trust Pete's affection for Thor enough to open her reluctant heart to the possibilities?
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Dapper Dan (Book 2) |
Lexie Landon’s heart belongs to two men. Her beloved yellow lab, Dan, and her high school sweetheart Nathan Jamison.
Good ol’ loyal and faithful Dan. He worships her with adoring eyes and loves her unconditionally. Lying no-good
Nathan. Handsome hunky sweet talker who stole her heart all those years ago--and then smashed it to pieces.
One sleeps in Lexie’s bed. The other in the doghouse.
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Candy Cane Callie (Book 3) |
If Tori Tynsdale hears the Twelve Days of Christmas one.more.time, she's gonna freakin' lose it. Seriously. That's a problem because it's not a good look for her as the owner of Candy Cane Callie's, a year-round Christmas store in Twinkle, Texas.
But when handsome doggie daycare owner, Zeke Conway, shows up wearing those silly reindeer antlers, Tori suddenly can't stop smiling and humming--and thinking way too much about kissing under the mistletoe.
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Teddi My Love |
This year at Christmas, 14-year-old Holly Anne Peterson has her tinsel in a tangle.
Her mother is driving her crazy, that stupid life-size singing Santa is getting on her last nerve,
and then, to top it all off, cute Shane Roberts shows up — sure to break her heart.
Thank goodness for Teddi, her beloved Great Dane. Without Teddi, Holly Anne just might not
make Santa's "Nice" list this Christmas.
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Nutmeg Meg (Book 1) |
Teenager Shelly Shornborn loves to give riding lessons at her mom’s horse barn. When cute Blaze Ryker asks for lessons,
Shelly is excited about the possibilities. But she soon begins to wonder why Blaze, the son of the barn’s farrier, seems
so nervous around horses. And why has her normally sweet mare, Nutmeg Meg, recently turned sour?
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Sweetie Pie (Book 1) |
Teen fortune teller Samantha Clementini is seeing valentines
from the Universe — EVERYWHERE! Clouds, rocks, leaves, and
even a recently discovered mole on the tummy of her pitbull,
Sweetie Pie, are heart-shaped.
Could cute Gabe Arnold, a new neighbor, be the reason why?
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Snookums (Book 2)
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Teenage Frankie Fowler loves volunteering at the Serendipity Retirement Home. Playing board games with the residents and her talent for
domino fortune telling keeps things fun while Snookums, her therapy dog, brightens their day as only a dog can do.
When the grandfather of Oliver Channing moves in, Frankie falls hard for the cute grandson. Will the dominoes predict true love — or a
broken heart?
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Cutie Patootie (Book 3) |
Evie Roscoe is hurt and confused. She's a teen fortune teller, but when her heart was recently broken, she didn't see it coming!
Can QT, her beloved dachshund, along with cute new friend Ben Bergen and his Great Dane puppy, Eddie, help her see
a time when her heart finally heals?
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Molly (Book 1) |
Star’s Christmas is in serious trouble! Her mom has the holiday
blues and her best friend, Levi, is moping around. Unless she
can find a way to bring them some holiday cheer, and fast, a lot
of mistletoe goes to waste—along with her chance for her first kiss.
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Rudy (Book 2) |
Christmas, and the winter solstice, is usually a fun and festive time
of the year for teen witch Ginger Bishop-Ballentine and Rudy, her
Belgian draft horse. But when annoying, but cute, Josh Collins and
his mom move into the old mobile home on Ginger's property just before
the holidays, things get Grinchy.
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Noel (Book 3)
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Andi Coriander and her standard poodle, Noel, are spending winter break
helping out at her family's busy pet grooming salon.
But when things get cozy with cute neighbor Charlie Pruett, will he make
her secret Christmas wish come true?
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Banshee (Book 1) |
Having recently moved into an old farmhouse in Magnolia, Oregon, teen Gracie Claudette quickly
realizes that she and her white German shepherd, Banshee, share their attic bedroom with a
ghost. Gracie enlists the help of handsome Sawyer Simmons to learn more about the Presence only
to find herself unsure which scares her more: a ghost, or falling in love for the first time.
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Bane (Book 2) |
Things are changing for fourteen-year-old Cap Sorenson. Her beloved
Malamute, Bane, is showing his age and slowing down. Her relationship
with life-long best friend, Wesley Rhodes, seems to be fading. Now her
Grandma Mar is visiting, bringing with her an unexpected plus-one house
guest: the ghost of Cap’s Grandpa Stan.
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Boo (Book 3)
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OMG! The ghost of a white German shepherd dog in the cemetery? Fur real?
That's the quest for teenager Cheyanne Boleyn, who enlists the help of her best friend, Henry John King. They work together at the Barn Boo-tique Halloween store owned by their two families.
The traditional frights of Halloween intensify as Cheyanne encounters her first ghost—and her first kiss.
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Charm (Book 1) |
As a 14-year-old already practicing pyrokinesis, teen witch Marnie
Foxglove knows a thing or two about playing with fire. Upon meeting her
Intended, cute Finn Kingsley, she finds the road to true love is not only
rocky, but a fire hazard as well.
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Jinx (Book 2) |
Drusilla Morningstar and her familiar, Jinx, come from a long line of
flora-and-fauna loving Kitchen Witches. She and George Shannon have
been BFFs since kindergarten--so why, since her 14th birthday, has
their friendship become weird and awkward? And why does he care so
much that someone else asked her to the Halloween dance?
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Tricksy (Book 3)
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The only thing teen witch Fawnie Carnivali likes as much as writing
plays is her new crush, Alex Alcott. An aspiring playwright, she loves
to write happy endings. Now that she finds herself falling in love for
the first time, can she conjure up a happy ending of her own?
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Scratch And Sniff (Book 1)
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A closet pet psychic, 14-year-old Lizzie Luna can talk to animals.
Literally. But communicating with the people in her life? Not so much.
And she goes completely tongue-tied whenever that cute Vincent Metzger
is around. What can she do?
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Bark And Call (Book 2)
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Fourteen-year-old Randi Scott, a closet pet psychic, is allergic to her
cute neighbor, Cory Kaplan. Every time she gets near him her eyes water,
her nose runs, and she sneezes. Gesundheit! Will true love overcome or
will she forever need allergy shots?
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Woofers And Tweeters (Book 3)
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Rainy Radcliff, a 14-year-old closet pet psychic, has yearned her whole
life for a place to call home. She thinks she's finally found it. And
maybe her first boyfriend, too. But what is cute Damien Clark gonna say
when he finds out who's visiting Rainy in her dreams?
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Eating With Willie |
When visiting his Aunt Sylvia and Uncle John, nine-year-old Zack
must deal with his nemesis, Willie, their Old English sheepdog.
Willie teaches Zack the truth in the old saying: "You can trust
a dog with your life—but not with your lunch."
Eating with Willie is a very short tale (1500 words) about a boy,
his dog, and the battle for strawberry cream cheese muffins.
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Wednesday Night Nail Trims At The Pink Poodle
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Newly trained pet stylist, Marnie, knows that grooming at the Pink Poodle Grooming Salon is so much more than
“playing with puppies” all day. But nobody at pet grooming school prepared her for what happens behind closed
doors every Wednesday night at the Pink Poodle.
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Conan The Chihuahua |
Recent U Dub graduate Rainy is super bummed because her plans after graduation definitely don't include spending the
summer baking snickerdoodles at her family's cookie store at Pier 70~or babysitting Conan, her mom's grouchy old
Chihuahua.
And if that isn't bad enough, a sudden influx of Grenchills, those nasty creatures who smell like chicken soup and
sea slime, are slithering out of Elliot Bay and onto the sidewalks of Seattle's waterfront to snack on small pets.
Looks like it time for Rainy to kick butt and take names,
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Henry David Thoreau's Laundry |
Can too much solitude be a bad thing?
After spending the past two years holed up alone during the coronavirus pandemic, Fawn decides to rejoin the land of
the living by becoming a volunteer dog walker at the Marion County Animal Shelter. There she meets Beastly~a humongous
dog who is part Irish wolfhound and part T-Rex~and who desperately needs Fawn's help. Can he count on her?
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Catching Fireflies |
Capturing The Bright And Shining Moments Of Your Past and Present On Paper |
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Mattie Fern Worrix has kept an almost daily journal since she was twelve and began scribbling her
secrets inside the pages of a tiny diary that had its own lock and key.
She has taught journaling classes for many years at community centers and senior centers too.
Why keep a journal? There are many reasons--like clarifying your thinking and connecting with your
heart--but most of all, keeping a journal is just plain fun.
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Catching Fireflies Journal |
120 blank, lined pages
6x9 matte paperback
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Inner Visions Journal |
120 blank, lined pages
6x9 matte paperback
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