As a girl, Annette dreamed of being an astronaut, but she stank at science and math and became motion sick riding the bus home from school. So she went with her second choice-newspaper journalist-and stuck with it for more than three decades.

After years of ignoring people who said, "You should write a book," she finally did. And then she wrote a few more.

When she's not working, Annette usually is engrossed in someone else's novel, rooting for her favorite sports teams and athletes, camping with her husband, or enjoying animal-related adventures with friends. She has two totally spoiled pets and volunteers at Clearwater Marine Aquarium, home of diva dolphins Winter and Hope from the Dolphin Tale films.

Annette is the author of the woman's fiction novella Getting Her Money's Worth and the Gulf Shore series of contemporary romance novels: The Shore Thing, Shore Feels Right, Shore to Please and Shore is Magical. 

Annette loves to interact with readers on her website, on social media and through her newsletter. For those links and other information about Annette and her books, visit www.annettemardis.com.