I just felt where the story was going,” she said.Īnd although she has a mathematical mind, she said writing a planned and sequential story outline or developing sample sentences for characters did not appeal to her. “I never sat there and had a mental block. Reed said she didn’t experience the angst that sometimes brings writers to a key-tapping halt. The novel takes readers with Mars to familiar locales: King’s Ice Cream, Striper Bites, Baywood Greens, Lewes Bake Shop, Wilmington Country Club and in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins. “I tried to write text like I like to read.
In creating Mars, Reed also created a writing condition some experienced novelists have difficulty handling - giving realistic voice to an opposite gender character. There’s romance, but it’s not a romance novel, and there’s sex, but it’s not tawdry, and there's suspense, the author said. The story unfolds over a period of three weeks. “It’s a moment in his life when things turn on a dime,” she said explaining the novel’s subtitle. “Unfortunately, I didn’t create the most loveable character,” Reed said about Mars, who finds himself trying to clear his name and save his family. But his life gets complicated after he realizes his adulterous partner has framed him for a financial crime. Marshall, nicknamed Mars, is living the good life in Lewes. Marshall Hamilton Stewart III, the book’s protagonist, is a bank manager. For her, that was banking and computers used in the industry.
“I was beginning to think English was my second language,” she said, smiling about the irony. After working a couple decades in a world filled with numbers, writing computer code in languages understood by machines, Reed said she wondered if she could make a transition to writing words. She retired from the banking business in 2003. She worked 20 years in the banking industry developing software for mainframe computers. “I got flagged early as the girl who is good at math,” she said. She left for Arizona, graduating from Arizona State University with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. She said later, she was just as eager to return. Not unlike many who grown up in small towns, Reed said she couldn’t wait to leave the Cape Region. “It was a small town for nine months of the year and on Labor Day it ended,” she said.
“It was awesome,” she said about growing up and living at the beach. Writing her first novel under the pen name Revere Reed, she was born in Rehoboth Beach and graduated from Cape Henlopen High School in 1973. She started writing "On a Dime - Senseless in Lewes," in 2004, and after cutting 100 pages, she self-published it in March. Ann Revere Reed said writing a novel was an item on her bucket list.
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