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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 — 39,905 ratings — published 2022 — 11 editions
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The Moonshiner's Daughter

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The Road to Bittersweet

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When the Jessamine Grows

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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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Reading this book was a bit like moving to another country where the language is different and so are the customs.

Similar to Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain, there are words used in here (British) and I had NO clue what they meant, and because I was in
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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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