Seven Secrets of Seduction by Anne Mallory

Saw a Great White Shark in real life (at Monterey Bay Aquarium, thankfully). Thankfully said bow was recovered in time to start bowing once more. Played at Carnegie Hall and was so excited she launched her violin bow across the stage when she got to the picking section of the piece. In the normal variety of paddleball, she helped score 432 hits with Cousins J and Mg one summer day. Loves paddleball, especially “extreme” paddleball. Loves tubing (behind a boat) and roller coasters (Cedar Point, here we come!). That’s “Anne is obviously not a golfer” for you normal people). Anne’s response? “What?” (In coding terms, Anne != golfer. After a quick rotating hip dance, she was surprised to see her Dad still looking from the tee to the hole where the ball had bounced once and dropped in. Got a hole-in-one on a Par 3 and was just happy to have beaten her Dad on a hole for once. Thinks that 11pm is a perfectly normal time to begin reading a 400 page book. Started writing on September 11th, 2001 as an escape from the day (needed an escape with a happy ending). If you are headed “up north” this summer, maybe I’ll see you on the way…

Give me a roomful of romances, some Agatha Christie, some Edgar Allan Poe, the Harry Potter series and an armful of other fantasy novels, (and steady meals with chocolate) and I’m in heaven.Īnd heaven is what I consider a particular cottage on an inland lake in northern Michigan during the summertime. I mean, what’s not to love? Rakish men and smart, feisty women, adventure and mystery, the love and loyalty between two people. I’ve always loved romance novels, ever since I started sneaking them from my Mom in elementary school. Building a world, populating it with characters and giving them a script and satisfying ending - what more could a creative type ask for?

Writing books provides a challenge I accept with relish (and a bit of hair pulling).

I love to start something from scratch, and then mold and shape it into a finished project. From creating two minute stories for people on the street, to creating jewelry, crafts, stained glass, pottery, music, crazy art projects… the list of things I like to create (and buy all the necessary materials for) keeps getting longer amidst my family’s exasperated groans. I’ve always considered myself a creator, so transitioning to writer was not as grueling as it might have been. All I needed was to make that “someday” into “today.” There seem to be a lot of people who say, “Someday I’ll write a book.” For me, the feeling tickled, moved into an incessant knocking and finally became a dull roar. As an avid reader, writing a novel had always tickled the back of my mind. Others fall into it and discover its inherent joy. Some people have always known they wanted to write.

Seven Secrets of Seduction by Anne Mallory