Please welcome my special guest, author Ann Everett.
Ann Everett
Award winning and Amazon Best-Selling
author, Ann Everett embraces her small town upbringing and thinks Texans are
some of the funniest people on earth. When speaking at conferences and to
writing groups, businesses, book clubs, and non-profit organizations, she
incorporates her special brand of wit, making her programs on marketing,
self-publishing, and the benefits of laughter, informative and fun.
Her short stories have appeared in The Green
Silk Journal, Snag Today, and Story Teller Magazine.
A top reviewer on thenextbigwriter.com,
she lives on a small lake in Northeast Texas where she writes, bakes, and
fights her addiction to Diet Dr. Pepper.
She’s been featured on:
Proud of East Texas with Joan Hallmark,
KLTV-TV, Tyler, Texas
East Texas Live and Mid-day, KETK-TV,
Tyler, Texas
KTSS-TV, Hope, Arkansas
The Authors Show with Don McCauley,
Internet radio show
The Chandler & Brownsboro
Statesman, Chandler, Texas
The Daily Tribune, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Tyler Morning Telegraph, Tyler, Texas
InMagazine, East Texas
Ten
things you won’t know about Ann by reading her bio:
She’s been married to her high school
sweetheart.
She loves shopping at thrift stores.
She doesn’t remember her first kiss.
She hates talking on the telephone.
A really sharp pencil makes her happy.
She secretly wants to get a tattoo.
A charter member of National Honor
Society in high school remains one of her biggest surprises.
She’s thankful wrinkles aren’t painful.
She sucks at math.
Ann’s Books:
Tizzy/Ridge romantic suspense trilogy
Laid Out and Candle Lit
You’re Busting My Nuptials
Tied With a Bow and No Place to Go
Contemporary romance companion books
Tell Me a Secret
Two Wrongs Make a Right
Say You’ll Never Love Me
Non-fiction
Strong Verbs Strong Voice: A quick
reference to improve your writing and impress readers (Amazon best seller)
Body Language: A quick reference for
character action and description
Sweet Thangs: Southern Sweets from Two
Sassy Sisters
Critique~~A Writer’s Best Friend
If you’ve never belonged to a critique
group, then you’re missing out on a great resource. In my opinion, nothing is
more valuable than a local group where you read your work aloud, and get
feedback from more experienced writers.
However, not every town has local groups,
so if that’s the case where you live, then you might consider joining an online
site. There are several to choose from,
and they all basically work the same way.
You pay a monthly fee, about $5-$6 dollars,
then read and review/critique chapters of other members to gain points. In
turn, you use those points to post your own work. You retain the copyright to
your postings.
I’ve belonged to http://www.thenextbigwriter.com for
many years and posted all of my rough
drafts on the site where I’ve gotten reviews/critique from a diverse cross
section of the U.S. as well as Germany, UK, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, and
others.
Some reviewers are good with the technical side of writing…grammar and punctuation,
which is good since I can’t place a comma to save my soul! Others are great with pace, flow, logic, even specific
subjects, like police procedure or medical jargon. In my current book, Chirp,
the hero rides a Harley. I had one reader who knew all about motorcycles and
gave me valuable advice. Everything from how you dismount to what type of
luggage can be attached.
Age variation in readers is also helpful in
letting me know if my target audience will enjoy the book.
I think my latest release, Chirp, being
named a Kindle Scout Winner is partly due to the critique I received from my
local and online groups.
Here are three more sites you might be
interested in.
Heiress to the largest steel company in
America, twenty-year-old, socially awkward Blaze Bledsoe hides out at Dessie
Bishop’s farm. For the last three years, Blaze has eluded one investigator
after another, but just when she thinks she’s safe, a PI closes in. Her luck is
about to run out in more ways than one.
A man running from his past….
Rance Keller, a tough, hard-living ex-con,
fresh out of prison for a crime he didn’t commit, arrives to claim the house
his grandmother left him. Finding a strange girl living there, his plans for a
solitary life take a turn. Her lack of modesty, no filter, and word of the day
fetish baffles him, but those big green eyes and sweet mouth have him losing
sleep.
Welcome to Bluebird, Texas
Where two damaged people with secrets,
discover trust can lead to passion.
If you have questions, please contact me through my website or at ann.everett@rocketmail.com and follow me on social media.
Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/loacl/
See all of Ann’s books on her Amazon author page http://www.amazon.com/author/ann.everett
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