Mary Scarpelli spent far too many years toiling away in a variety of professional environments ranging from intellectually stimulating to those rife with destructive levels of ambi...view moreMary Scarpelli spent far too many years toiling away in a variety of professional environments ranging from intellectually stimulating to those rife with destructive levels of ambition. As an offset to the madness, there were her creative endeavors, without which she’d have spent more time than was healthy staring vacantly into empty space. Inspiration leads her, alternately, between collaborative musical ventures and the solitary pursuit of writing.Mary has written three novels: The Pursuit of Enlightenment, a coming-of-age tale, its sequel entitled Love Finds Its Pocket, and a satire about a corporate downsizing gone awry entitled Competitive Stupid, all of which are self-published and available through the new paradigm of distribution channels, such as: CreateSpace, through Amazon.com for hardcopy and Smashwords for ebooks, and also available from ebook retailers such as Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Nobel, Sony, Kobo, Diesel, Baker & Taylor and others.Mary’s first love is her membership in the electronic music duo Illusion of Perfection, in which she is one of two.view less