Anne Harper

Anne Harper's Biography

Member Info

Currently in: Chicago

Member since: Sep 2008

Many have asked me what prompted a bored hotel executive to write a chick lit. The story of how One Real McCoy came about is quite simple. It was a dare. I'm easily bored, and whilst waiting for my next assignment I read a lot. Mainly mysteries, detective stories, suspence novels, but also the occasional romantic comedy. A good friend recommended a book by a New York Times best-seller. In fact, she was positively raving about it. Eagerly I read it. It was the worst drab ever published, but I plowed through it, because it was, after all, highly recommended. Upon finishing, I threw the book into the recycling bin, and told my husband how disappointed I was. "Even I could write better!" I exclaimed. "Why don't you?" he said.
Challenge had been extended and accepted.

Upcoming Works

'McCoy Ever After', the sequel to 'One Real McCoy' was published in October 2009.

My first serious novel ('Tagged: A War Child Remembers'), a historical fiction, was published late May 2009.

In the meantime I've started writing a mystery.

Publishers

Booksurge

Interests & Hobbies

After many years in the hospitality industry (I started part-time while still in high school), I'm taking a sabbatical, to try my hand at writing.
And yes - I view writing as a hobby, as my definition of a hobby is 'an activity which gives one joy, but no monetary gain'.

Among my other hobbies, I'd like to list golf (terrible waste of money, but a nice way to whack holes into someone else's perfect lawn); tennis (in what other sport would a timid country-girl such as myself get to shout out 'love' a lot?); running with my pure bred American mutt (getting tired of that 'who's walking whom?' question as everyone can see that she's walking me); photography (hardly surprisingly my favorite subject is my dog) and; reading anything and everything (with very few limits), for how could I not?

About Anne

Many have asked me what prompted a bored hotel executive to write a chick lit. The story of how One Real McCoy came about is quite simple. It was a dare. I'm easily bored, and whilst waiting for my next assignment I read a lot. Mainly mysteries, detective...

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