Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hello, My name is Annemarie Brear. I’m Australian born but currently living in England since my marriage to an Englishman. I’ve been a life-long reader and started writing in 1997 when my children were small. I have a love of history, of grand old English houses and a fascination of what might have happened beyond their walls.
My interests include reading, genealogy, watching movies, spending time with family and eating chocolate – not always in that order!
My available novels:
Kitty McKenzie
Kitty McKenizie’s Land
To Take Her Pride.
Where Dragonflies Hover
The Gentle Winds Caress.
The House of Women.
A Noble Place
The Day Embroidered.
To Gain What’s Lost.
Long Distance Love.
Broken Hero.
Hooked On You.
The New Dawn, short story.
The Right Man, short story.
New Beginnings: short story anthology
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest release, available 04/08/16 is titled Where Dragonflies Hover. It’s really two stories in one. Set in modern day England, Lexi, a solicitor, finds a diary in a boat shed of the house she ends up buying. The diary is written by an Australian war time nurse, detailing her time in France in 1915. The diary gives Lexi comfort as she struggles with problems in her marriage.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No I don’t think I have, except that perhaps I like a quiet place to write and have plenty of coffee to hand, plus the odd piece of chocolate always keeps me going too! LOL
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’ve been a reader for a long time. As a child I enjoyed Enid Blyton, and as I grew older my influence was mainly English authors such as Catherine Cookson and later Audrey Howard. However, my tastes are wide and varied. Now I will read any author whose story grabs my interest.
What are you working on now?
I’m currently writing another historical family drama. This one is set in England at the outbreak of World War I. I’m hoping to get it published next year.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I think Facebook and Twitter are useful tools, as are blogs and google+. Any website that helps readers to find authors and their books is a wonderful resource.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
My advice to new authors would be to write the book you love. This industry is such hard work and can be soul destroying even with a book you love, so to try and survive it without feeling any passion will only give you more heartache and stress.
Write what you want to read.
Research well about everything, not just what you need to write your book, but research agents, publishers, marketing, the book industry as a whole.
Finally get the book finished, then put it away for as long as you can then edit it again before sending it out.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
To write another book!
Don’t be a one book wonder. Always keep writing for as long as you enjoy it.
What are you reading now?
I’m between books at the minute as I’v been busy finishing the last edits on a short story I’ve written and also writing on my novel. My ‘to be read’ pile is becoming huge!
What’s next for you as a writer?
Well, I’ve a lot of promotion to do my new release, Where Dragonflies Hover, and I have some short stories to publish and then I need to finish my current historical in the next few months. Aside from all that I need to keep promoting my other books that are on Amazon. So there is a lot to do.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
That is such a hard question! It’s like choosing your favourite child!
Here goes…
The Woman from Browhead by Audrey Howard.
The Dwelling Place by Catherine Cookson.
The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick
and an atlas. (I find them fascinating)
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