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Anna Erikssön Bendewald

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“Keep your arms and legs inside the gondola at all times! The VENICE TRILOGY is one wild ride!”

Anna Erikssön Bendewald’s writing style has been described "It’s as if Anna were Quentin Tarantino and Robert Altman's love child. Her lush destination thrillers THE VENICE TRILOGY do indeed have a similar theatrical build to an ultimate breathless pace that gives readers quite a romp.” Readers with a more romantic nature have tend to pay closer attention to the spicier story line while fans to thriller and police procedural genres lose themselves in the main thrust of the trilogy – a fight to the death for power in Venice that sucks in the Pope, the Vatican and the Sicilian Mafia.

STEALING VENICE has been described as “50 Shades of DaVinci Code” ...more

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Anna Erikssön Bendewald Writer's block. That's a tough thing for people who suffer from staring at the blank page. I've only had temporary moments when the characters aren't …moreWriter's block. That's a tough thing for people who suffer from staring at the blank page. I've only had temporary moments when the characters aren't speaking to me (or each other) clearly -- but if I got back and read a few pages of the draft, the flow of the story picks back up again for me to continue writing.(less)
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Anna Erikssön Bendewald It is my favorite creativity outlet. I get an idea while sitting in LA traffic driving my daughters to school, go home, write and get it out on paper.…moreIt is my favorite creativity outlet. I get an idea while sitting in LA traffic driving my daughters to school, go home, write and get it out on paper. Then think of the next pages while sitting in traffic going to pick them up and bring them home again.

That being said, writing is something I can do anywhere, and it's more productive than sitting playing Angry Bird* if I have to sit somewhere for a while.

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Average rating: 4.4 · 146 ratings · 42 reviews · 5 distinct works
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message 4: by Icewineanne
Jan 15, 2020 09:37PM

Icewineanne Happy to be friends Anna. Wishing you all the best with your books & new writing......as well as happy reading in 2020 📚 ❣️


message 3: by William
Oct 25, 2019 04:18PM

William Thank you for the friendship!

I look forward to reading more of your reviews!


message 2: by Anna
Jun 17, 2016 10:41AM

Anna Bendewald Hi Majenta,

Thanks for your well-wishes. I'm just now getting a few reviews trickling in from my recent launch of Stealing Venice and trying not to peek at them so I'm keeping myself busy. Today is the first day of my daughter's summer vacation and we're off to a crazy start -- taking a feral kitten to get a health check up at our vets...cuz hey, who needs new shoes? The week's been good with rewrites on the follow up to SV and we're steeling ourselves for a heat wave here in LA.
Hope all is well with you.

Anna


message 1: by Majenta
Jun 16, 2016 04:17PM

Majenta Hello, Anna! Thanks for contacting me, Friend Request accepted! I wish you well with your writing and with your parenting and family life. I hope this has been a good week for you and more great weeks are on their way.

Best wishes from Majenta


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