Mimi's book career started when she walked into Audubon Court Books in Fox Point, Wis. to get a part time job for her teen-age son. They walked out with a job for Mom instead, which was a good thing. She started working as a bookseller and and created their community events program. It became a beloved second home.
She hosted 200 plus authors, including, John Grisham, Deepak Chopra, and Dave Barry; jazz nights; competitive chess; poetry readings and Sundays of classical music. They were voted "Best Place to Hang Out" by readers of Milwaukee Magazine.
Life's next big adventure took Mimi to Florida for six years. While writing human interest stories for The Pensacola News Journal, she met some of the fascinating Southern characters that she had always read about as a Yankee. She also wrote book reviews for The PNJ. She then started Max Communications, which provided marketing for authors, nonprofits and a publisher, and subsequently opened a new Barnes & Noble as the Community Relations Manager.
She decided to further explore the South, big city style, by moving to Atlanta, where she lucked out again and found a second home at Peachtree Publishers as the Publicity Manager.
Mimi is now the sole proprietor of Max Communications.