Ann DeFee - Author - Sassy and Southern
Hi friends,
 
Welcome to my world of words.  Thomas Jefferson once said, "I cannot live without books."  As a reader, I certainly can relate to that sentiment.  Reading is a wonderful vacation for the mind.  Far off places and fantasy worlds are available in the pages of a book.  You can laugh or cry, fall in love or fight demons all in the comfort of your own environment.
 
The knowledge our world has gained since the advent of the printing press is astonishing.  Regardless of your taste in reading material - fiction or non-fiction, romance or steampunk - your life has been enriched through the written word.
 
Humor is a mainstay of my life, and I express that through my books.  So when you're feeling blue, turn that frown upside down. 
 
                    Live, love, laugh and keep on reading!
                                                                Ann 
 
 

                                           Fantastic

Beyond Texas (Harlequin Carina, December 2013) is the first story in a new two book contract.  I'm delighted to be working with the digital arm of Harlequin.  I finished the book last week and it will soon be in the revision and editing phase. 



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Lagniappe

As a little something extra I'll be posting pictures of my local travels.  Please click on the Home Lagniappe button for more.

Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia

If you're ever in central Virginia, I highly recommend a visit to Thomas Jefferson's home.  Jefferson started building Monticello when he was 26 and worked on it throughout his life.  This 11,000 square foot home is a marvel of planning and architecture.  It is now a National Historic Landmark and a UNESCO World Heritage site.  It's a must for anyone interested in our Founding Fathers and American history.
 





















Go to Lagniappe for more pictures of Monticello and a few snapshots of my recent trip to Savannah.  


 
 News

Summer After Summer
(Harlequin Everlasting 2007) will be re-released in September 2013.  This book won the national Book Buyer's Best long contemporary award.  I'm pleased as punch to announce this story will be on the market again soon!




     It takes a heavenly wink and a couple of wannabe angels desperate to win their wings for Mary Louise "Pickles" Carson and Cam Hollinwell to realize they're soul mates.  
      A Las Vegas teacher with a proclivity for all things vintage, Pickles' dream is to have a baby. Considering her sex life is a big fat zero, that seems impossible. Cam is a washed up journalist whose only goal in life is to return to mainstream reporting. What will it take for these two very different people to fall in love? How about a miracle?
      Pickles is playing video poker when the angels bowl her over with the news she's pregnant courtesy of an obscure scientific miracle called parthenogenesis-conception without the benefit of a male found in plants and lower level species. Cam's journalistic career tanked because of a false date rape charge, and now reporting on Elvis sightings for a national tabloid.
     His task in this hair-brained scheme is to publicize the angel's miracle. In return they'll help him resurrect his career.   
      Our hero and heroine soon find themselves in a world of murder, mayhem and all things Elvis. Add in a budding romance, the devil's hunky minion, and an inept villain-then set the story in a Vegas that tourists rarely see with a cast of eccentric characters, and you have all the elements of a rollicking good time.
 
 
      "Ann DeFee makes me laugh.  Her sexy, sassy books are
                                   surefire winners."
         New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber
                                                                                                                                    
 
 
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