Name Jeffrey McClanahan | ||
Pen name Sadie Callahan, Dixie Cash, and Anna Jeffrey Occupation Novelist, real estate professional, and a retailer Books The love of a cowboy, The love of a stranger, The love of a lawman, Salvation - Texas, Sweet Return Similar People John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather | ||
Jeffrey McClanahan is a Texas novelist who writes with her sister, Pam Cumbie, under the joint pen name of Dixie Cash. McClanahan is also an “award-winning author of six western romance novels under the name of Anna Jeffrey.” For her 2009 novel, McClanahan has taken on a third pseudonym: “Sadie Callahan”.
Contents
- Personal life
- Writing process
- Works co authored with sister as Dixie Cash
- Works authored as Anna Jefrey
- Works authored as Sadie Callahan
- Critical reception and awards
- References
Personal life
McClanahan “grew up in West Texas during the great oil boom. Pam has always had a zany sense of humor, and Jeffrey has always had a dry wit. Surrounded by cowboys and steeped in country-western music, when they can stop laughing long enough, they work together creating hilarity on paper.”
Jeffery lives with her husband, in “a small town not far from Fort Worth,” Texas and worked as “both a real estate professional and a retailer for most of her adult life, also professions that beg for a sense of humor.”
Cumbie asserts that McClanahan “loves books…like I love earrings and anything liquid that contains liquor. Her home looks like a library. She writes beautiful prose and steamy sex, and then I come along and junk it up with trash."
Writing process
Glenn Dromgoole writes that “Cumbie makes up the stories and characters…then McClanahan edits and rewrites.” Cumbie explains that the sisters send pages back and forth between them as they work on a novel.
Works co-authored with sister as “Dixie Cash”
Works authored as “Anna Jefrey”
Works authored as "Sadie Callahan"
Critical reception and awards
Affaire de Coeur, Medwest Book Review, All About Romance, and Romance Reade at Heart, for example, have all praised Salvation, Texas, calling it "A first-class Romantic suspense tale," a "fine thriller," "a treat to read a good book set in Texas that really felt authentic," and "A good solid read, with great characters and a fast paced plot," respectively. Another reviewer, declared, "This book is like “Dallas” crossed with a police procedural. We’ve got wealth, we’ve got crime, we’ve got greed and we’ve got hot sex. And all the men wear cowboy hats. I like view of small town Texas life where everybody knows just about everything about each other and everybody lives for Friday night high school football and weekend rodeos." Marilyn Weigel writes, "Readers, however, will delight in the scene-setting descriptions, where the prose is especially vivid and enjoyable." One other reviewer graded the book as a B+.
Sweet Water by Anna Jeffrey won a number of awards, including Golden Quill Contest Finalist, Single Title Contemporary, 2007; More Than Magic Contest Finalist, Romance Writers Ink, Single Title Contemporary, 2007; Desert Rose Finalist, Single Title Contemporary, 2007; and Write Touch Readers Award Winner, Single Title Contemporary, 2007. Sweet Return won a similar number of awards, including Award of Excellence Contest Finalist, Colorado Romance Writers, Single Title Contemporary, 2008; Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence Contest Finalist, Single Title Contemporary, 2008; More Than Magic Contest Winner, Romance Writers Ink, Single Title Contemporary, 2008; and Aspen Gold Winner, Single Title Contemporary, 2008.