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  Rhett DeVane's mission statement:

     To share the richness, the juicy goodness, of the South. To use her writing in some small way to fund charities she supports. To give this sad, tired old world a few moments of laughter and entertainment.

  Rhett aims to avoid the gratuitous use of sex and violence in her writing.

     People from the teens to the nineties have read Rhett's work, as well as church groups. She can't say someone won't, someday, be offended by something she writes, but it is not her aim to do so.

     One of Rhett's readers walked up to the author at a book-signing and said, "Let me tell you what you are doing right, gal. I read your book. I'm back to buy copies for my kin for gifts. I like the way you don't use so much nastiness in your books. I'm eighty-eight. I know perfectly well what goes on behind closed doors, and I certainly don't need you to lead me by the hand and give me a blow by blow description!"

  Rhett believes in addressing tough issues.

     "I love the South, and I am proud to call it my home. Still, we have many problems. Through my fiction, I aim to shed a little light, open a few hearts and minds – as well as telling engaging, entertaining stories. Also, I love books with reasonably happy endings. There are so few out there, anymore. Books that give the reader just a little hope that things will work out for the best."

  Rhett has a dream:

     To start a network of like-minded authors who are willing to pledge a percentage of their time and money to making the world a better place. To this end, Rhett has pledged a portion of her books' royalties toward the ongoing fight against breast cancer.

     In Tallahassee, she currently donates to A Women's Place, a not-for-profit organization affiliated with Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. A Women's Place is actively involved in many women's issues, including post-diagnosis counseling, support, and prosthetics for mastectomy patients. In the future, her dream is to work both on local and national levels to lend her writing talents to the cause.

  Rhett's favorite character, ninety-plus-year-old family matriarch Aunt Piddie Longman, has this to say about dreams:

     "When you have a dream, when you have your heart dead-set on something, aim for the stars! Otherwise, you might just end up circling Uranus."

The House on Bonnie Hill -- featured in Rhett DeVane's Southern Fiction

©2006 Rhett DeVane