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Another Wonderful Christmas Cookie Club!
posted on: December 10, 2014
Another exciting, wonderful, loving, fun and delicious Christmas cookie club! Our party this year reflected lots of changes. Marybeth Bayer, who was the hostesses, organizer and head cookie bitch for over twenty years, moved to be closer to her family. Her friend, Karin, gladly picked up the reins and had the cookie exchange at her… Read more
Let’s Decrease Violence in our Society
We live in a violent society. This summer we witnessed the murder of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer as well as domestic violence and child abuse perpetrated by our athletic heroes. A student killed 7 and wounded 14 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Military machines from our wars now… Read more
A Labor Day Free Story for You: Snake Patterns
posted on: August 30, 2014
A juniper bush is beside the stairs leading to my front door. Its needles are so tiny and regular, they appear to be a soft green cloud. I walk toward the steps. A sudden motion catches my eye. A baby snake, no more than 5 inches, explores the shrub. The small diamonds and triangles… Read more
A Gift for My Sister Wins Best Fiction Award
posted on: August 12, 2014
Once again the Internet brought me surprising news. I was Googling myself to fulfill a request from my agent. I guess this guilty curiosity is something many do, but I had not indulged in well over a year. I checked through the pages to ascertain that the information was not about the several other Ann… Read more
Sissy’s Independence Day
Sissy Peoples lives in Detroit and works as a nurse. She first appeared in The Christmas Cookie Club and was a major character in A Gift for My Sister. In The Lottery, the third novel of the series which will be launched in October, Sissy wins $10,000 and inspires the cookie club to play the… Read more
Angels is now FREE
posted on: June 25, 2014
My illustrated short story, Angels is FREE on Amazon starting today, June 25, 2014 through June 28. That’s 4 days to pick it up here. Angels is an illustrated short story for adults. Set in inner city Detroit, this is a tale of a family beset by the traumas of drug addiction, adultery, prison,… Read more
Shebooks webpage is live!
Shebooks website is up and I wanted to make sure that you knew about this terrific new service for women who love to read. They are publishing books for women, by women. Suited for the busy women, the books are short (less than 10,000 words) and available on line. Here’s the story, straight from their… Read more
Wearing Books: An Artistic, Literary Adventure
posted on: April 21, 2014
Do you love books so much you feel as though you’re wrapped up in them or part of the scene they conjure? Do you feel you’ve become one of the characters? Recently I jumped at the chance to, literally, become part of a book. This was an artistic as well as literary project that… Read more
His Eye Is On The Sparrow: a Book, a Song, the Oscars
posted on: March 12, 2014
My memoir, His Eye is On the Sparrow takes its title from the song my father-in-law sang the weekend I met him. His gravelly rendition was always my favorite version of this song, in its simple A Cappella. Papa sang it straight out with the vigor of a man who worked all his life and… Read more
His Eye Is On the Sparrow by Ann Pearlman
posted on: January 19, 2014
A dear friend, who is also a writer, heard about Shebooks and suggested that I send some of my writing. Their slogan is: every woman has a story. How could I not love them? Shebooks is a new publisher focusing on short e-books to bridge the gap between magazines with carefully selected fiction… Read more