Marie J. Butler Freelance Writer

A contemporary mystery novel, The Caretakers - A Sonoma County Mystery, published in Spring, 2025. 

Halloween Poem - Posted in the Petaluma Argus Courier, October 31, 2023.

“When the Angels Came to Town” – a history of the Hells Angels and Healdsburg in the 1960s. The Healdsburg Tribune, June 6, 2018.

"Destination Del Rio" and a "History of the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce" (revised). 2017 Russian River Recorder, a quarterly magazine.  
 
"Sonoma Millworks - VinoPlank" – a feature article. Sonoma Discoveries Magazine, September-October, 2016.
 

“Thriving Art Scene and Community Centers" – a feature article, Sonoma Discoveries Magazine, January-February, 2016. 

Contributor to The Healdsburg Tribune's spring "Progress" publications, and the "Women in Business" publication. 

"Healdsburg's Boys, Tombstone Mystery Solved" – a feature article about a missing 1879 tombstone. The Healdsburg Tribune, May 30, 2013. Re-printed in the Healdsburg Museum’s Fall, 2013 edition of the Russian River Recorder. 

“The Queen of Rodentia” - a short story.  The Upbeat Times.

“History of Clubs and Organizations” – a feature article in The Healdsburg Tribune’s award-winning 150th Commemorative Magazine. 

“Wine and Spirits – Hauntings in the Sonoma County Wine Country” – a feature article in The Healdsburg Tribune’s Harvest edition.

An email newsletter 2013-2022 for a Bed and Breakfast client. 

and more ...

Current projects include research for an article on the architectural significance of a local church, the completion of a women’s fiction novel, a second children's story, and the second compilation of seasonal haiku and tanka into a chapbook.

 

I am happy to provide recommendations and comments from past and current clients upon request.