Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Novelist and poet
Location	Surrey, United Kingdom
Introduction	Anne Brooke lives in Surrey, UK, and writes in a variety of genres, including gay erotic romance, fantasy, comedy, thrillers, biblical fiction and the occasional chicklit novel. When not writing, she spends time in the garden attempting to differentiate between flowers and weeds, and in the allotment trying to grow vegetables. Occasionally, she can also be found in the kitchen making cakes. Every now and again, they are edible. Her websites can be found at: www.annebrooke.com, www.gayreads.co.uk, www.biblicalfiction.co.uk and www.gathandria.com (for fantasy fiction).
Interests	Writing and reading crime, gay and general fiction, poetry, theatre going, playing bad golf
Favorite movies	The Sound of Music, Calamity Jane, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Man from Snowy River, The Piano
Favorite music	David Gray, Mozart, Handel, Haydn
Favorite books	Middlemarch by George Eliot, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami, South of the Border West of the Sun by Murakami, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann

Your bow is not broken but you've run out of arrows. How can you fake being a bard?

It's all done by smoke and mirrors.