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NTRWA August
2003 Spotlight On...
ANNA
ADAMS
by Juliet Burns
Whether it’s
a small town in Maine, a coastal city in Georgia, or a valley in the
Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, Anna Adams’ Superromances all have a
connecting theme: Family. In particular, the concept of a matriarch.
Anna’s
own grandmother was a strong family matriarch. At age sixty-nine, her
grandmother spent a week hunting caribou with her husband. They were so
far away from civilization they had to be dropped off and picked up in a
seaplane! Though she died when Anna was just seventeen, she was a
powerful influence in Anna’s life and Anna admits several of her
characters resemble her grandmother. In fact, though Anna was already
reading Phyllis Whitney and Mary Stewart, it wasn’t until she received a
sack full of Harlequin Presents from her grandmother that she considered
writing romance. Of course, she was only twelve at the time.
Anna
has always wanted to be a writer and grew up on Tybee Island, a tiny
island off the coast of Savannah, Georgia—later adapted for the setting
in her Talbot Twins books. With four brothers, she grew up a bit of a
tomboy, but while they bought toy cars, Anna bought writing pads and
pens.
Wanting
to see the world, she joined the Navy out of high school and met her
husband in Iceland. Since then she’s lived in most of the places where
her novels take place. She credits a severe bout of homesickness for the
beautiful descriptions of the Smoky Mountains in her September release,
THE SECRET FATHER - the first of her Calvert Cousins Trilogy. The hero,
Zach Calvert, is a sexy Navy Pilot with amnesia from a crash. And if you
want to find out what happens to his cousin, Sophie, the sequel, THE
BRIDE RAN AWAY, will be released in November.
Between
college and raising four children, Anna didn’t seriously pursue
publication until 1993. She sold HER DAUGHTER’S FATHER in 1999, and has
since written seven Harlequin Superromances for Harlequin. She joined NT
when she moved to Fort Worth two years ago and Karen Whiddon is her
invaluable critique partner here.
She’s
just finished the third Calvert Cousins book, THE PRODIGAL COUSIN, due to
be released in March 2004, and her next project is another Superromance,
tentatively called THE COP AND THE SOLDIER.
Visit
Anna's Website.
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