Hello and welcome to my brand-new redesigned website. I’ve added some new features including a monthly note to keep you updated on all my books, reviews, new releases, and more. In response to the many questions I receive about how I get ideas for stories, I’ve added a new page called Inspirations that I hope you’ll enjoy, and I’ve included some links to keep you connected to some of my favorite YA authors and writers sites.

Enjoy the site and come back often.

All the best,
D. Anne

What’s New

Everyone I know has a MySpace page, so I got one, too! Meet my cyber friends and check out my blog where you’ll find the latest information about my books, travels, and other literary happenings at www.myspace.com/dannebooks. I’ve also done two interviews that you can listen to: one is a 30 minute radio interview, the other is a shorter video podcast.

Radio: www.blogtalkradio.com/bookbitesforkids
Video podcast: www.meetmeatthecorner.org

Both teens and adults continue writing to me about SEMIPRECIOUS, which has just gone back to press for a third printing. Reviews are posted on the Books page, and the latest reader mail on the Let’s Talk page. Thanks to all who have written to express your affection for Garnet and Opal and their story.

HYPATIA will soon find new audiences in Eastern Europe and Korea. I’m excited to share the story of this amazing woman with readers around the world.

New Books: PICTURE PERFECT, released in March 2007, is the story of high school freshman Phoebe Trask who finds herself dealing with monumental changes at home and at school. Not to mention figuring out her relationship with her gorgeous science lab partner Nick Harper, who is dealing with problems of his own. Click here to read my new author interview about this book.

If you’ve ever been bullied in school or know someone who has, you’ll identify with Haley Patterson, high school freshman and budding journalist, who finds her life turned upside down after writing an item in her high school newspaper gossip column. For more on this book coming in 2008, click on Inspirations.

The 2008 travel schedule is filling up. Next year I’ll be teaching and speaking in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, at the national SCBWI conference in Los Angeles, at a writers retreat in Iowa, and at a university in Arkansas, as well as several other events yet to be finalized. I hope to meet many more of you next year.

Keep reading, and keep those letters coming to Let’s Talk. I love hearing from you.

All my best, D. Anne

defying the diva cover
Coming in March 2008: Defying the Diva

picture perfect
Now Available: Picture Perfect. Read more in Books.

semiprecious
Now Available: Semiprecious. Read more in Books.