Write what you know is Maria Augustus-Dunn 's mantra.
With this in mind, she wrote her first book Married Quarter - Boots, Berets and Bloody Uniforms in 2016 which detailed her 21 years as a military spouse.
Married Quarter is a glimpse into the world of military families who endure postings, deployments, long periods of separation and often loneliness.
A diagnosis of a benign brain tumour in 2008 turned her life upside down and forced some pretty se.