Marie Duess has more than twenty-five years of experience in marketing, communications and public relations, with the past 10 years of her career concentrated in the healthcare and non-profit sectors.  Her expertise includes writing/editing, public relations, press relations and event planning and execution.

Marie most recently developed a marketing/public relations campaign, including special events, for a new breast cancer treatment institute in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

She also has handled promotion, advertising, public relations, publicity and press relations for a major Medical Center during a period when this Catholic Health East (CHE) healthcare provider was twice named one of the “Top 100” community hospitals in America by Solucient, a leading provider of healthcare information.

While there, Marie helped launch and publicize several community outreach projects and worked closely on the development and implementation of HeadsUp on Heart Disease®, a large-scale public relations program aimed at promoting the medical center's cardiac services. The program won the Gold Award for "Total Public Relations Program" in the 2003 21st Annual Healthcare Advertising Awards Competition and the Silver Award in the 2004 Aster Awards.

Marie is a published author of two full-length historical novels, numerous magazine articles, and has ghostwritten articles for several clients.

A full-length non-fiction history book titled Colonial Inns and Taverns of Bucks County, Pennsylvania: How Pubs, Taprooms, and Hostelries made Revolutionary History published by the History Press Book Publishing Co., Inc. will be released in December 2007.

Marie was a freelance correspondent for Mature Lifestyles and other specialty publications for the Bucks County Courier Times, a member of the Calkins Publishing Group, and a freelance writer for Times Publishing Newspapers.

She also has conducted and developed creative writing workshops and motivational presentations.