MEET ANNA

Anna Schmidt is the award-winning author of over twenty works of historical and contemporary fiction. Two of her novels (AN UNEXPECTED SUITOR (4 Stars RT), HOME AT LAST (41/2 Stars RT) are finalists for the 2009 Reviewer's Choice Award from Romantic Times magazine. Anna has twice been a finalist for the coveted RITA award for romance fiction and has twice before won Romantic Times magazine's Reviewer’s Choice Award. In addition she was named a Rising Star finalist and award winner in 2000, and in 2005 she tried her hand at screenwriting. That first screenplay made it all the way to the quarterfinals of the coveted Don & Gee Nicholl Screenwriting Competition sponsored y the Academy of Arts and Sciences (yes, the Oscar folks!).

Critics have called Anna ‘a natural writer, spinning tales reminiscent of old favorites like Miracle on 34th Street.’ Her characters have been called ‘realistic’ and ‘endearing’ and one reviewer raved, “I love Anna Schmidt’s style of writing!”

Having survived her own battle with uterine cancer and discovered wellsprings of compassion and caring she never knew she possessed when family members and friends faced their own health challenges, Anna often draws on the questions she has faced in her own life in creating her characters. Readers regularly write to Anna to let her know that a character’s story touched them on such a personal level that it was as if Anna understood what they were going through in their own lives.

In addition to writing, Anna loves gardening and she's hauled enough seashells home from the Florida beaches that somewhere in the future, archeologists may believe there must have once been an ocean in Wisconsin! 

One of Anna’s favorite pastimes is the chance to hear from and stay in touch with her readers. (Click here to learn how you can receive one of Anna’s handmade bookmarks.)

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