Kicking offArt In Fiction's weekly Author Spotlight feature is Amy Maroney, author of The Miramonde Trilogy. Welcome, Amy! If you could give your younger writing self one piece of advice, what would it be? I grew up reading and writing fiction, but I decided along the way that there was no point in pursuing fiction as a career path because it was so difficult to get published. I stopped writing fiction for about fifteen years and became a writer and editor of nonfiction.