About Dene and Annie

Brought up in the Midwest and a Daughter of the Prairie, Dene Hellman has lived in North Carolina for three decades. She has written and published four books and has just completed "Bird Circle," the sequel to "The Ninety-Ninth Reunion,"  for sale in 2021!!

"I want my readers to have pleasure in the reading and relate to my stories. In the case of "The People Under the House," where my husband's life as a Holocaust survivor led to decades of PTSD and difficulties for his family, I have a message for people locked into tough relationships. 

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin: Green Bay, she has written and published in numerous genres, including a novel (The Ninety-Ninth Reunion), a memoir (The People Under the House), a book of short stories (A House for Her), and a book of contemporary comment (A Broken Hip Episode). She raised four daughters, which is a prime experience for writing about women.

See Dene's Interview in Winston-Salem Artist Journal.

Ann O'Dell, is a full-time National Intuitive Advisor and Achieve Radio Host.  Living in Iowa, one of America's most fertile black soil farming states, she recalls her mother passing down to her a magical farming tale, "If you leave a wicker chair in Iowa dirt long enough, a tree will grow."  Ann is the last of her family to live in Iowa. Driving on the backcountry roads with her dogs is her favorite relaxation, as well as writing.  

Having lived in the Hippie Movement peak, Ann has plenty of stories and life experiences, fertile ground for writing two books on Mystical Gardening.  When the 2020 Pandemic changed the world, Ann's first novel was born and published, "Bone China Mausoleum."  She is currently writing two more books, "Crones of the Huntermoon" and "The Wolf Bead," the latter a sequel to one of her favorite short stories, "One Marlborough  to Divorce."

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Dene Hellman and Ann O'Dell, Mother-Daughter Author team, write books. Dene loves writing Mysteries and Ann, tales of Paranormal romance. 

Family, Friendship, Abuse, Aging, Spiritual Animals, Romance, Alternative LifeStyles, Gardening, Mystery, and the Paranormal are some of their story themes.

 Woven through their books are serene landscapes, twists of humor, sarcasm, original innocence, desperation, and quiet resignation. An empowering choice always shines through. 

Resilience is the shared secret of the characters within their books.