BREAKING NEWS AUTHOR SERIOUSLY INJURED

BREAKING NEWS AUTHOR SERIOUSLY INJURED

by Deena Rae

In early March, indie author Melinda Owens (who also writes under the pen name Anne Conley) was horrifically injured during a tennis game. While attempting to return a lob by her opponent, she landed wrong and suffered a tibial plateau fracture. She requires surgery and will be unable to place any weight on the limb for at least three months, most likely more.

As Ms. Owens/Conley is also a personal trainer in her hometown, her finances will take a major hit. Many of you know indie authors pay for their book production expenses out of pocket, sometimes not even breaking even. They write for the love of words and so readers like those of this magazine and others can escape into worlds they have built.

As Anne Conley, she has five romance series. PLAYING WITH FIRE explores the trials and tribulations of a small team of fire fighters in the fictional mountain town of Pamona Gulch. In PIERCE SECURITIES, she gives us Ryan, Evan, Miriam, Zack, Quinten, Jordan, Hollerman, and Simon. Her favorite series, BOOK B!TCHES, is all about a group of women in Mystic, Texas, who get into all sorts of shenanigans. In STORIES OF SERENDIPITY, she explores real people living real lives in small-town Texas in a contemporary romance setting. In THE FOUR WINDS, she chronicles God’s four closest archangels— Uriel, Gabriel, Raphael, and Michael—falling in love and becoming human.

The hugely popular PIERCE SECURITIES series consists of nine fulllength romantic suspense novels and focuses on a Texas-based security firm, the men and women who protect clients, and the romantic entanglements they embark on. These books have everything readers of romance love: hot men,

wonderful women, and thrills in and out of the bedroom. Pick up CRAZE, the first in the series. It is absolutely free in e-book format and a great introduction to the characters Ms. Conley has envisioned. Be sure to read the series, paying special attention to book 6 in the series—BOND—the installment that features a female protagonist who saves the male love interest and shares the same name as this reporter.

In books published under the name Melinda Owens, the novels are also romantic suspense but feature storylines that are a bit edgier and dark. She has the series DARK KNIGHTS IN THE CITY as well as a PIERCE SECURITIES crossover and several standalone novels. Her most recent release is THE MONSTERS WE HIDE, and GROUNDS FOR REDEMPTION arrives mid-April.

ABOUT MELINDA OWENS / ANNE CONLEY

Melinda Owens was born in 2020 when the world turned dark. Her previous muses leaving her, she recreated herself as a darker, edgier author, saving her sanity in a world with happily-ever-afters in spite of her own frustrating circumstances.

She lives in East Texas with an abundance of cats and her family of giant people. She has previously published almost fifty books under the pseudonym Anne Conley.