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About the author:
AnnElise Makin, native of Munich, Germany, writes from Mesa, Arizona. She honed her skills early on with local reporting, took a stint with Harcourt Brace College Publishers after college (MA Anthropology, MA Photojournalism from UT Austin), and publishes her novels under the trade name iMAKINations. She is a "pantster" with a passion for digging deep.
AnnElise's newest, A Cowboy in Pune, is a multicultural, rom-com, dry humor adventure story. Cowboy Slim goes to India to set up a rodeo fashion import business. He gets taken for the ride of his life by the four women he stays with. No surprise, AnnElise's experience of living with a Sikh husband, Inder, will have infused Slim's perspective.
AnnElise's debut novel, Der Keltenschimmel (The Celtic Stallion Rendezvous), narrates a village girl's coming-of-age story filled with love & ghost adventures, "that Bavarian 70ies show." Rebellious Katrina writes all the wrong stuff about the village. In the course of turbulent events, including bullying by the locals, the truth about the Celtic Stallion comes out. Semi-autobiographical with the paranormal touch of real ghosts.
Kreuzfeuer in Texas is a historic Civil War novel based on actual events. At the time (1864), the German immigrants in Fredericksburg were declared "vogelfrei" (ready to be shot) because they had voted against secession. Eberhard Kohlkrug, the gunmaker of the town, wants to ride out the conflict. But when one more gets hung, he must fight back to protect his family. This gruesome historic background was excavated in AnnElise's thesis research.
Random Accident in Sector Noah 135/56 is a storybook for all ages, illustrated by her daughter Priyanka. Here, a girl brings nature back to the well-controlled planet. AnnElise likes hikes in the Superstitions and roses in the garden,
After two Bandana Book anthologies, a third volume is in the works. The next story collection will shine the light on likely and unlikely heroes. Collaborations bring the best out in all of us.