by Ann Lee Miller | Aug 31, 2015 | Ann's Books, Blog
Chasing Happy, set in two towns I’ve called home—Gilbert, Arizona, and New Smyrna Beach, Florida—took three years to write. The story springs from a deep well of emotion that early readers say they sense in Ash’s tale. A young man in my life struggled with same sex... by Ann Lee Miller | Aug 28, 2015 | Blog, Florida Southern College, Just The Facts Fridays
I glanced at the board four feet from my desk in Intro to College Math. I chose this seat five days ago on my first day of college so I’d have to pay attention. The left side of my brain liked to loll around and do nothing. I couldn’t afford to indulge its sloth if I... by Ann Lee Miller | Aug 26, 2015 | Ann's Books, Blog
People who don’t know me will think I’m one of those crazies who love to catapult into controversy—the LGBT fray in this case—when my new novel, Chasing Happy launches September 1. They would be wrong. I like to be liked, more than just about anything—short of caramel... by Ann Lee Miller | Aug 21, 2015 | Blog, Florida Southern College, Just The Facts Fridays
Mom and I motored southwest on I-4, diagonally bisecting Florida with our Plymouth Duster crammed full of my clothes, plants, posters, Peanuts sheets I’d swiped from R.J.—all my possessions and possibilities. New Smyrna Beach lay behind us, the place I’d always call... by Ann Lee Miller | Aug 14, 2015 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
I stare out the window of my Phoenix home office at gardenias like the ones that grew in our Miami yard where Dad built the Annie Lee. And I wonder if his naming the boat after me had been a grand gesture of his love for me. The Annie Lee was a dream Dad wrangled to...