AUTHOR

ANNE SCHROEDER

"I write so that my handful of pebbles, tossed each day into still waters, can create a ripple."

ABOUT ANNE

Hello and WELCOME!!!

I'm a fifth generation Californian, whose love of writing was fueled by stories of my immigrant ancestors.

At ten, I picked up a copy of Laura Ingall Wilder's Little House on the Prairie. and nearly singed my fingers with envy.

In high school I discovered Zane Grey and fell in love for the first time.

Later, in a college cultural anthropology class, I learned that the world had stories that were complex and strange and wonderful.

After that I was hooked.

Life has brought me great stories and great blessings--including a forty-year marriage to a man who has taught me to embrace adventure, like the 600-mile-day we spent on a BMW motorcycle riding from Boise to Yellowstone Park.

We crossed the Continental Divide at midnight, in a hailstorm. I have felt the grim reaper's breath and I live to tell!

I consider exercise a necessary evil, but I enjoy sitting in the sauna after an easy workout, and walking our two Labs on the Central Coast of California where I live.

Short Stories and Essays (selected)

Potpourri, Skipping Stones, Radiance, Mindprints, Liguorian, Family Digest, Christianity Today, Grit, Central Coast Magazine, Lynx Eye, Motorcycle City News, Greenprints

Education

B.S. Social Science, Cal Poly SLO

Awards and Grants

Writer’s Retreat, Zihuatanejo, Mexico

Mystery Time “Readers Choice” Award

William Saroyan Persie Award, Non-Fiction

NAAPW So. CA Chapter, Humor

Speeches and Presentations (selected)

Scandinavian Festival, Thousand Oaks, CA

Women Writing the West Conference,

Norwegian Banquet, Solvang, CA

Rotary and Service Clubs

Ventura County Writer’s Club

Classroom History Talks

Professional Positions

WILLA Awards Historical Fiction Judge

WILLA Awards Contemporary Fiction

Friends of the Library Judge, Decatur, IL

President, SLO NightWriters

Affiliations

National Association of Baby Boomer Women

National Association of Women Writers

Women Writing the West

Association Christian Fiction Writers

“When I sit astride life’s moral fence, the grass seems to grow greener on the forbidden side; Part of me wants to offer succor to the universe, but the other part tells me to cinch up my corset and be a lady.”

From Ordinary Aphrodite

AUTHOR EVENTS

Catch my latest writing classes through RWA online.

Starting January 2010- Writing classes through the Paso Robles Rec Dept.

Blog Links

Read about my writing room on Riehlife. http://bit.ly/bgoJLU

Celebrate the fog http://www.slonightwriters.org

I paste my book signing events on FB

Summer/Fall 2010

San Luis Obispo Book Fair, Mission Plaza, SLO, Sunday, Sept 19th 9-5.

Friends of the Nipomo Library Saturday, Aug 21th 10-2

Day with Creative Women- Mission Plaza SLO Saturday, Aug 14th 9-5.

Paso Robles School District Writing Contest, May13th.