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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