DeAnna Cameron
People often ask why I write. The answer is simple: I love stories. I love the way they grab you and take you to a different world, whether it’s the world of someone who could live next door, or in another country, or on another planet. Stories more than any other medium help us transcend ourselves and see life through someone else’s eyes. I’ve always thought that was magical.
Even when I was writing and editing for a number of Southern California publications, it has always been the human element that captivated me most. The issues tend to fade from memory, but what remains are the people, their struggles and their triumphs. Their stories.
When I began writing what became my first novel, my best writing days came when I forgot anyone else might read what I was writing. I was telling myself a story, weaving in what-ifs and then-whats, and building it around my love for the art and history of belly dancing. The result was THE BELLY DANCER, which was released in trade paperback in July 2009 and will be re-released as a mass-market paperback in March 2012.
In researching the lives of some of the Midway performers from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair for THE BELLY DANCER, I discovered many of them went on to perform in vaudeville after the fair closed. Their stories inspired me and led to a new fascination with the show business world that existed in New York City circa 1900, as well as a new novel, DANCING AT THE CHANCE, which will be published in April 2012.
Now I find myself at the beginning of a new story, and it’s a very exciting time, full of all kinds of what-ifs and then-whats. And someday soon I hope to share that one with you as well.
Links to Interviews & Guest Blog Posts
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Bellies Imagination and Books: DeAnna Cameron, Aberration Nation
blog
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Advice to Myself as a Newbie Author, OCC/RWA blog
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DeAnna Cameron's (Not So) Secret Love of Belly Dancing, Romance
Bandits
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Why I Love the Legend of Little Egypt, Historical Tapestry
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Q&A at Number One Novels
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True Confessions of a Newbie Author, Author Sybil Baker's blog
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My Two Loves Meet, The Book Faery Reviews blog
Affiliations
Historical Novel
Society
Historical Novel Society / Los Angeles Chapter
Romance Writers of America
Literary Guild of Orange County
Clan Cameron of
Southern California