The author joined the Romance Writers of America and began to push out her own tales of historical romance.įor her efforts, the wife and mother of three children won a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart in the category of Regency Historical Romance.Īnna Bennett is a very efficient writer. But none of them mattered in the long run because she did not stay long.Īs the years passed Anna Bennett transitioned through a few more careers until she found her way back to publishing. A litany of decisions led her to settle for that particular career.

Sure, she had dreamt of writing romance on numerous occasions.īut she somehow ended up going into the software analysis business. And that should have been enough to push her headlong into the publishing pool. She was deeply moved by its history, architecture and its pubs. And just as she had predicted, she fell in love with the city. And fortunately for her, her mother had plenty of historical romance novels on hand, novels that she happily lent to her daughter, getting her permanently addicted to the genre.īecause had such an intense love for historical fiction, she immediately jumped at an opportunity that came her way to spend a semester in London. But it wasn’t until she discovered Jane Austen that the author realized where her true passions lay: historical romance.īennett remembers being swayed by the wit and poignancy of Jane Austen. And then the author came across Jane Austen in a literature class and her world changed.īennett had read romance before and she knew she loved it.

She knew she was looking something more but she wasn’t sure what. She loved diving into wondrous worlds and getting lost in the magic of the imagination.īut while all those genres had a special place in her heart, they never satisfied her. She experimented with fairy tales, fantasies, and even Greek myths. Bennett remembers stumbling upon Pride and Prejudice and falling in love with reading.ĭuring her early teens, Anna Bennett read everything. The author traces the origins of her writing career to the day she started swiping romance novels from her mother’s bookshelf.

But then she hit her teens and discovered novels, and her life changed forever. It didn’t seem that obvious during her earlier years. Anna is best known for her Wayward Wallflowers series.Īnna Bennett believes she was born to write.

Anna Bennett is an American author that writes historical romance.

My Brown-Eyed Earl by Anna Bennett