Good News! I have signed a contract with my publisher, Holand Press, for the Prequel to Never Let Me Go. Stay tuned for details and publication date!
If you liked Rowan O’Clanahan, you will want to meet the rest of her Irish family and read about their immigrant experience and life leading up to how Rowan got to be a Civil War soldier.
Goodreads reviews for Never Let Me Go
PAPER VERSION BUMPED to #1 (November 2025) for NEW RELEASES IN 19th CENTURY HISTORICAL FICTION!!!
Sixteen-year-old Rowan O’Clanahan transforms into a Confederate soldier convinced she must save her brother when he re-enlists in the Civil War.
https://www.amazon.com/author/annhowell
Honors for Never Let Me Go:
2026, The North Carolina Society of Historians The Historical Fiction Award of Excellence.
Semi-Finalist in the Novel Category in the 2023-24 Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, sponsored by the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society in New Orleans, chosen out of 188 entries worldwide in the Novel Category. And from the North Carolina Writers’ Network, 2024 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize for the first chapter: “Though your entry did not win this year’s contest, we did want you to know that it was one of the few finalists chosen, an honor in and of itself.”
