About Annette

Award-winning Author Annette Blair owes her paranormal roots to Salem, Massachusetts where she stumbled into the serendipitous role of Accidental Witch Writer. Magick or destiny, her Bewitching Romantic Comedies became her first national bestsellers.

Annette's Paranormals include her Accidental Witch Trilogy, her Psychic Triplet Witches, and her Works like Magick Novels, all for Berkley Sensation. She’s also writing a series of Vintage Magic Mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime.

Annette's work has garnered multiple Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Awards and HOLT Medallion nominations. A triple Golden Heart Finalist, she's also finaled in the Golden Leaf, the Lauries, the Golden Quill, and the National Readers' Choice Awards. She’s won multiple Booksellers Best Awards, LORIES Awards, Laurel Wreath, Blue Boa, Aspen Gold, RIO, Southern Magic, More than Magic, Orange Rose, Winter Rose, PRISM, Beacon, Colorado Awards of Excellence, Write Touch Readers' Choice Awards and an Orange County Book Buyer's Best Award. With SEX AND THE PSYCHIC WITCH, Annette took three out of four categories and brought home three Anne-Bonney Readers’ Choice Awards. Her latest release, BEDEVILED ANGEL, the second Works Like Magick Novel, Aug. 2010, is an RT Top Pick.

Published for twelve years, Annette is under contract with Penguin for her twenty eighth novel.

To see a list of Annette's present past and future releases click here: Booklist

Left: Annette raising money for Mount St. Charles Academy, Woonsocket RI.

Right: Remember the annoying boy who sat next to you in the 7th grade? Well, Annette remembers the one who sat next to her, because she married him.

Above: Annette (talking with her hands) and Hannah Howell, addressing a group of readers at a Barnes & Noble Booksigning. Special thanks to Ruth Cardello for the photo.

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Annette, at a booksigning and tea party at Some Enchanted Evening, Spencer MA,

the greatest New Age Shop you'll find.

Annette's Smile Makers

Annette (left) in Atlanta, 2006, at the Penguin Authors Party with Heather Waters. Check out Heather's website.

Annette's long-time hero and the new little hero she didn't know she couldn't live without--Travis

Annette can't decide which one's cuter!

Click here to see more pictures of Travis and his adorable new baby sister, Kelsey.

ANNETTE LAGUE BLAIR COMES FULL CIRCLE

When I was about ten, I discovered that the pretty little building next to the playground (left) was filled with books. I went in to investigate and left with my first library card (#2036) and the max number of books allowed. I'd walked a mile to the playground, and after I discovered the Crompton Free Library, I walked that mile twice a week, taking the max amount of books each time. The librarian told me which shelves I could choose from, and I do believe I read them all.

Soon I moved to the higher shelves and discovered the Brontes and Jane Austen and I fell into an amazing new world. My love for reading continued into my adult life, during which time I wrote plot ideas on corners of envelopes, index cards, and paper napkins, and threw them into my nightstand. One day my, daughter, to whom I'd passed my love of reading, challenged me to write a book of my own.

I accepted, raided my nightstand, and some time later, I began selling my work. Today, I'm a National Bestselling Author, and The Crompton Free Library is the Pawtuxet Valley Historical Society where my picture hangs on a wall above a display of my novels.

The beautiful sixteen-year-old in the chair is Annette's cousin, Ninette Bousquet, and Annette is the one-year-old sitting on the arm. Many years and two countries later, thanks to her daughter, Jaclyne, they reconnected through the internet.

The Vintage Magic Mysteries

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Annette Blair

Maddie Cutler's vintage dress shop, Vintage Magic, home to ghost Dante Underhill, was taken, history and all, from the building, pictured below:

Maddie's former morgue turned funeral chapel carriage house is real. My husband and I rented that building for twenty years--formerly the Kent County Morgue, it later became the Read Funeral Chapel Carriage House in Coventry Rhode Island--and later home to my husband's business. Yes, there were horse stalls for the horses that pulled the hearses and there were caskets and “stuff” upstairs when we moved in. While it was ours, we visited the Henry Ford Museum and found a horse drawn hearse listed as coming from the Read Funeral Chapel Carriage house in Coventry RI. :)

The side (shown below) where the horse stalls are has small windows inside each stall, which isnow Maddie's dressing rooms:

Annette Blair, National Bestselling Author

About Annette

Award-winning Author Annette Blair owes her paranormal roots to Salem, Massachusetts where she stumbled into the serendipitous role of Accidental Witch Writer. Magick or destiny, her Bewitching Romantic Comedies became her first national bestsellers.

Annette's Paranormals include her Accidental Witch Trilogy, her Psychic Triplet Witches, and her Works like Magick Novels, all for Berkley Sensation. She’s also writing a series of Vintage Magic Mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime.

Published for twelve years, Annette is under contract with Penguin for her twenty eighth novel.

Left: Annette raising money for Mount St. Charles Academy, Woonsocket RI.

Right: Remember the annoying boy who sat next to you in the 7th grade? Well, Annette remembers the one who sat next to her, because she married him.

Annette's long-time hero and the new little hero she didn't know she couldn't live without--Travis

The beautiful sixteen-year-old in the chair is Annette's cousin, Ninette Bousquet, and Annette is the one-year-old sitting on the arm. Many years and two countries later, thanks to her daughter, Jaclyne, they reconnected through the internet.

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"Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write." ~Sir Philip Sidney

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope . . . And that enables you to laugh at life's realities." Dr. Seuss

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