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Ann Brahm: It's Never Too Late to Live Your Dream

© Linda M. Orlando

Is it ever too late to live your dream? Not according to Maine native and author, Ann Brahms.

Ann Brahms is a contemporary Maine author. She was born and raised in Portland, Maine. She graduated from Portland High School, was married, and resided in the Portland area. She began her writing career in the 1980's, when she and her husband wrote a book about puppy training. This book was only one of their self-publishing projects, but it was this book that led to a contract with Ballantine Books and many more sales of Puppy Ed.

Since then, Brahms has written and had three suspense novels published by Zebra Books of New York: The Burying Point, Cloak of Darkness, and Run for Your Life. The Burying Point is set on the coast of Maine, Cloak of Darkness is set in Freeport, Maine, and Run for Your Life is set in Portland, Maine.

Brahms, very much the traditional Mainer, with old-fashioned Yankee stubbornness and ingenuity, has also written and self-published two memoirs, The Key is Under the Flower Pot and Nana's House. Nana's House is the story of Brahms own family, who faced many hardships during the early 1970's.

But one of the facts that make Ann Brahms so remarkable is the fact that she began her writing career long after her five children were grown and gone from home. Brahms is now sixty-three years old and is living her dream. Brahms has faced the same rejection as most aspiring writers, which led to her experience with self-publishing. But she has not given up. She has persevered, and has become a role model for other women who might have decided it was "just too late" to pursue their passion and live their dream.

Brahms also has pursued a career in radio, teaming with LC VanSavage, another Maine author and columnist, to create a radio show called Characters. Characters featured local people, writers, artists, musicians, etc. and was broadcast not only in Portland, Maine, but over the internet. This provided Brahms with a worldwide audience.

When asked what advice she would give to aspiring authors, Brahms remarked: "I think that every human being has a story to tell. I think that we have an obligation to lave some written word behind for future reference, and most of us don't do that."*

For additional information on Ann Brahms, readers can visit Brahms' website at http://www.annbrahms.com or read a July 2003 interview done by Scott Baker of aroundmaine.com at http://www.aroundmaine.com/03/aabrahms/d...

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