“I always had too many fantasies to be just a housewife,” Marilyn Monroe once said. “I guess I am a fantasy.” Little did she know how many of us would share that fantasy, nearly fifty years after her death. Monroe has been the subject of many biographies, some more fanciful than real, and also a few works of honest fiction. Her image is indelibly marked on our collective consciousness.

Norma Jeane’s Wishes In Time began as a short story, and was later expanded into a full-length novel. As the title indicates, author Stuart P. Coates is fascinated not just by the Marilyn Monroe of screen legend, but the woman who created her – Norma Jeane Mortenson. We all know Marilyn, or think we do – but who was Norma Jeane, and was she very different? Continue reading →