Hannah Meredith has always been a reader. Since the day she first realized that letters made words, and words expressed ideas, and these ideas could tell stories, she’s had her nose in a book. She loved being immersed in imaginative worlds.
She grew up reading anything at hand – mainstream, romance, science fiction, fantasy, mystery. Genre designations had little meaning as long as the story was a good one.
Of course, like all avid readers, she was soon imagining changes in plot or in nuances of characters. After years of mentally creating her own stories, she decided to write some of these down. Short fiction seemed a good place to start. Alas, what lived in her mind didn’t come out quite right on paper, so many classes and workshops followed, as she wrote and wrote, honing her craft.
Under another name, Hannah has sold over a dozen short stories to many of the major genre magazines. The urge to expand the plot and to add additional characters led to writing a novel. But as with her first short story efforts, the results weren’t quite what she wanted. Novels are not just long short stories. She attended more classes and workshops, all the while writing, writing, until she finally got a book she would want to read.
The ideas kept coming, however, and more novels followed. Soon Hannah had quite a collection of thumb drives where all these stories lived. She needed to do something with all these tales. For short stories, the process was straightforward. You simply sent the story to an editor. Not so with novels. The dance here was different, and included queries and pitches and long waits – and she didn’t want to learn the steps to this dance. Independent e-publishing seemed the answer.
And so, her tales are slowly making their way online. She hopes other readers will think these stories are good ones.
Hannah Meredith lives in a small town with a big library in North Carolina. She's been married for 50 years to the same wonderful man - proving both HEA is possible and that she is as old as dirt. They have one dashing son and four terrific grandchildren.
HANNAH WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU and would be happy to let you know when she has a new publication or a deal. Unfortunately, she doesn't have a Newsletter - it's the old as dirt part. You may have noticed there were no irritating pop-ups. She'd have them if she could figure out how to do them. But if you email her below, she will put your name on a list of people to contact when there is something good shaking.
She grew up reading anything at hand – mainstream, romance, science fiction, fantasy, mystery. Genre designations had little meaning as long as the story was a good one.
Of course, like all avid readers, she was soon imagining changes in plot or in nuances of characters. After years of mentally creating her own stories, she decided to write some of these down. Short fiction seemed a good place to start. Alas, what lived in her mind didn’t come out quite right on paper, so many classes and workshops followed, as she wrote and wrote, honing her craft.
Under another name, Hannah has sold over a dozen short stories to many of the major genre magazines. The urge to expand the plot and to add additional characters led to writing a novel. But as with her first short story efforts, the results weren’t quite what she wanted. Novels are not just long short stories. She attended more classes and workshops, all the while writing, writing, until she finally got a book she would want to read.
The ideas kept coming, however, and more novels followed. Soon Hannah had quite a collection of thumb drives where all these stories lived. She needed to do something with all these tales. For short stories, the process was straightforward. You simply sent the story to an editor. Not so with novels. The dance here was different, and included queries and pitches and long waits – and she didn’t want to learn the steps to this dance. Independent e-publishing seemed the answer.
And so, her tales are slowly making their way online. She hopes other readers will think these stories are good ones.
Hannah Meredith lives in a small town with a big library in North Carolina. She's been married for 50 years to the same wonderful man - proving both HEA is possible and that she is as old as dirt. They have one dashing son and four terrific grandchildren.
HANNAH WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU and would be happy to let you know when she has a new publication or a deal. Unfortunately, she doesn't have a Newsletter - it's the old as dirt part. You may have noticed there were no irritating pop-ups. She'd have them if she could figure out how to do them. But if you email her below, she will put your name on a list of people to contact when there is something good shaking.