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Today we have award-winning fantasy author Anne Elisabeth Stengl with us! Anne makes her home in North Carolina, where she lives with her husband, Rohan, a kindle of kitties, and one long-suffering dog.

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Please join me in welcoming Anne! What is yours? Not that it was a complete walk in the park. The summer after I left college, I experienced a near-crippling bout of depression due to circumstances in my life. I started to write a novel as a means to work out some of the pain. The result was the first draft of Heartless , my debut novel, which was rather appalling in its rough-draft form but definitely showed some spark.

About a month later Rachel signed me up. I learned afterwards that I was the very first author she picked up, since she was almost as new at the business as I was. And she turned right around and sold the manuscript to Bethany House publishers just a few months later. Now, my mother was pursuing her publishing career while I was still a kid at home.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl (born April 11, ) is the Christy Award-winning author of the fantasy series Tales of Goldstone Wood, published by Bethany House Publishers.

I grew up watching how difficult it was for her and her writer friends to sign with agents and with publishing houses. Some of her friends who are now enormously popular bestsellers worked for years to sell their first books! Even now I scratch my head over it. And if I could go over it just one more time , believe me, I would! Sometimes I want to visit in-the-past me and tell that girl to put on the brakes, to slow down a little.