Marnie Schulenburg is a Wisconsin native who applied her journalism degree to newspaper and television reporting jobs, followed by editing stints for a political magazine and an industry journal. That led to a new career as product and marketing manager for medical device companies.  Sometime during that period, she began writing fiction and   continued on and off as she launched and operated a management consulting practice specializing in strategic planning and market research.

It was while researching treatment options for a friend diagnosed with cancer that Ms. Schulenburg stumbled across the premise for

A Test of Survival and could not let it go.

One-size-fits-all chemotherapy fails many people, who often go on, sicker, to risk different drugs. She learned that most medical providers aren’t telling patients about the lab test called ‘ex vivo’ in her novel, or are citing arguments against it that are out-of-date and flawed.

“Of the many motivating forces that inspired me during four years of researching and writing this novel,” Ms. Schulenburg says, “one single question – why aren’t people told about this test – pretty much got me up and to the desk every morning.”

From the Author

I feel lucky to have been raised in the 50s and 60s in Wisconsin’s Fox River Valley, because we knew genuine freedom. Our mother would open the door on a summer morning and off we’d scatter to the four winds.

I came late to fiction writing but was inspired early by my favorite teacher, Ken Schroeder. He praised my 8th grade essay on pretzels

and told me I could be a writer. I don't think he envisioned business plans. My first published novel was a mystery (Murder Off the Record).

I'm married to a really fine guy named Harrington, pictured below, who has just co-authored and co-edited a book himself, with Dr. Eric Newman. But this is my website. Oh, okay. It's called Great Health Care: Making It Happen. A positive book brimming with solutions, it really is great.