about Anna DeStefano

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Anna DeStefano photo Anna DeStefano is the best selling author of classic romance for Harlequin and Silhouette and contemporary psychic fantasy for Dorchester Publishing. She's won and finalled in numerous national contests, including twice winning the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award and finalling in the National Reader's Choice Awards, Book Buyers Best Awards, and the Holt Medallian.

She speaks and blogs regulary about both her writing experience and the fascination with metaphysics and paraspychology that led her to create her Legacy Series' contemporary psychic world. Join Anna at her blog each week for Dream Theory and Psychic Realm updates, as well as her running series on How We Write Wednesdays (HoWW) and the writing industry favorite Publishing Isn't for Sissies (PIFS).

Past President Advisor of Georgia Romance Writers (GRW), a group of over 300 published authors and aspiring writers that meets monthly in Atlanta, Georgia, Anna has successfully channeled her skills as a Senior Tech Writer into the more creative field of writing contemporary fiction. A GA Tech honors graduate with 10 years of experience working in Corporate IT, Anna applies the more analytical side of her personality to studying the craft of storytelling. But her imagination rules when it's time to let the planning go and write. The result—eleven award-winning novels published since 2004, three more scheduled for released in 2009 and 2010, and nearly half a million copies of her books in print in over 5 different languages.

Her interactive workshops on the writing process—plotting through character, improvisation (drafting), and rewriting—regularly attract standing room-only crowds wherever she speaks. Her series of communication workshops (taught independently or with her literary agent, Michelle Grajkowski, 3 Seas Literary Agency) are the latest addition to her teaching resume, and they're quickly becoming the most requested of her programs.

Anna has taught for years in adult education both professionally, as a technical trainer, and in the fields of grief recovery and crisis care teaching team coordinators and volunteers. She's presented her writing workshops to over 60 groups and conferences, including the Harriette Austin Writer's Conference at the University of Georgia, Romance Writers of America National Conferences, Romantic Times Reader Conventions, the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, the Surrey International Writers Conference and DragonCon. She also teaches half-day and one-day seminars to smaller groups interested in a more intensive, interactive experience.

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