Anne Clinard Barnhill

Excit­ing news!  AT THE MERCY OF THE QUEEN, Anne’s debut novel, is forth­com­ing from St. Martin’s Press in early 2012!  Set in the court of Henry VIII, the book tells the story of Anne’s ances­tor, Lady Mar­garet Shel­ton, one of three named mis­tresses of the king.  “Pretty Madge” as she is called, is also first cousin to Queen Anne Boleyn, com­pli­cat­ing everything.

Anne Cli­nard Barn­hill has been writ­ing pro­fes­sion­ally since 1991 and has writ­ten hun­dreds of fea­ture arti­cles, the­ater and book reviews, and inter­views for a vari­ety of news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines. Her sec­ond book, WHAT YOU LONG FOR, a col­lec­tion of short sto­ries, is avail­able now at Main Street Rag.

Her first book, AT HOME IN THE LAND OF OZ, was pub­lished by Jes­sica Kings­ley (June, 2007) and is avail­able for pur­chase online at JKP, Ama­zon, or Barnes & Noble. This mem­oir tells the poignant story about grow­ing up in the 60’s with an autis­tic sis­ter when few peo­ple had ever heard the word. It has been described as “a beau­ti­ful book” and “a clas­sic coming-of-age story that reads with the sus­pense, and superb prose, of a ter­rific novel.”

Barn­hill has also pub­lished poetry, short sto­ries and essays in a vari­ety of lit­er­ary jour­nals and antholo­gies. She holds a Mas­ter of Fine Arts in Cre­ative Writ­ing from the Uni­ver­sity of North Carolina-Wilmington and cur­rently has sev­eral projects under­way, includ­ing a sec­ond novel set in Tudor England.

Read more about Anne on the bio page. She loves hear­ing from her read­ers, so feel free to con­tact her.