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Donna Everhart

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Donna Everhart is a USA Today bestselling author known for vividly evoking the challenges of the heart and the complex heritage of the American South in her acclaimed novels When the Jessamine Grows, The Saints of Swallow Hill, The Moonshiner’s Daughter, The Forgiving Kind, The Road to Bittersweet, and The Education of Dixie Dupree.

She is the recipient of the prestigious SELA Outstanding Southeastern Author Award from the Southeastern Library Association and her novels have received a SIBA Okra Pick, an Indie Next Pick, and two Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books selections.

Born and raised in Raleigh, she has stayed close to her hometown for much of her life and now lives just an hour away in Dunn, North Carolina. Please visit Donna Everhar
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Donna Everhart Hi there!

First and foremost, thank you so much for reading my books! I'm glad you enjoyed them - and it would be AWESOME if any one of them was made i…more
Hi there!

First and foremost, thank you so much for reading my books! I'm glad you enjoyed them - and it would be AWESOME if any one of them was made into a movie.

As to a new book, I'm almost finished writing my fifth. It's not due to the publisher until January of 2021, and pub date would likely be late 2021 or early 2022.

In the new story, I'm stepping away from the coming of age characters. It's set during the Depression, my characters are adults, and it's told from two different viewpoints. Very different for me to write this one, but I love the setting, and the characters.

It's about two people, one searching for their future, the other looking to escape their past, who each experience life altering events and end up in a labor camp during the Depression in South Georgia.

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Donna Everhart I could fill a page here. 1) Write every day - even if you don't meet your goal, putting down one hundred new words or even editing material from the …moreI could fill a page here. 1) Write every day - even if you don't meet your goal, putting down one hundred new words or even editing material from the day before is better than nothing. 2) If you suddenly feel the urge to give up because you can't seem to gain any traction (acquire an agent, or your books aren't selling, or self-published books aren't doing as well as you hoped) play a little mind game. Act out your decision internally. Think about declaring to everyone who knows you and what you've been doing, "I'm done writing, and I'm going to do something else." How does that make you feel? That's your answer.(less)
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The Saints of Swallow Hill

4.10 avg rating — 41,562 ratings — published 2022 — 12 editions
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The Moonshiner's Daughter

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When the Jessamine Grows

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The Road to Bittersweet

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The Education of Dixie Dupree

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The Forgiving Kind

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Women of a Promiscuous Nature

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Donna Everhart is 40% done with The Calamity Club: This audiobook is something else!

The voice of Meg is perfection. All the voices are done well, but I think Meg is one of the best I've ever heard. What's interesting is I'd have bet they had a child do Meg, but no, both narrators are grown women. (!!!)🫤
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Not my usual read, but GREAT, nonetheless!

The audiobook narrators were superb - there's a lot to be said about how a book is narrated that can make/break it. In this case, the accents (which I loved) added what I guess could be like a secret sauce t
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Writers like Woodrell who have multiple novels will usually have one (or two) that become a reader's favorite. In this case, Winter's Bone followed by The Death of Sweet Mister will likely be my 5 star reads of his. I have Tomato Red I'll get to at s ...more
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Great advice - and while I knew a lot of this, we all need reminders!

I loved the style - and how they played off of each other's nature/habits and way of communicating the dos/don'ts. Allen's style was very professor-like, while Lamott's was chatty,
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Great advice - and while I knew a lot of this, we all need reminders!

I loved the style - and how they played off of each other's nature/habits and way of communicating the dos/don'ts. Allen's style was very professor-like, while Lamott's was chatty,
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“Often when we read, especially when we are younger, we are looking for a mirror, echoes of our voices, people who might look and sound like us.... Write for the twelve-year-old girl, who is looking at a mirror, at a window.

~Edwidge Danticat”
Donna Everhart, The Education of Dixie Dupree

“Bold and brash, she was different.”
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~Edwidge Danticat”
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