Background
Dewanna Pace was born on February 22, 1954, in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. She is a daughter of Donald D. Williams and Dortha (Duckworth) Williams.
Amarillo, Texas, United States
Pace attended the Amarillo Junior College.
Dewanna Pace was born on February 22, 1954, in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. She is a daughter of Donald D. Williams and Dortha (Duckworth) Williams.
Pace attended the Amarillo Junior College.
Pace held different working positions at the beginning of her career. She worked at Jerry’s Pharmacy in Amarillo, Texas. She served at the company Blue Morrow Meats as a plant manager and American Department of Agriculture food Processor. Later she joined the Amarillo Independent School District as a library researcher. Pace was also a director and reader of the Kirkland Literary Agency in Amarillo, as well as a teacher of writing at the Amarillo College. She also operated a private editorial service.
Pace's first historical romance novel appeared in 1988 under the title Surrender Sweet Stranger. Her other books include So Close to the Flame, Small Blessings, Sugar and Spice, Beckoning Shore, The Beholding, The Will and the Way, A Taste of Honey, Where Heroes Sleep. The novel So Close to the Flame is about the stringing of the telegraph that put the Pony Express riders out of business. In Small Blessings Pace wanted to talk about eight ways to forgive. Sugar and Spice shows how not to throw away the people in our life. It also spotlights the Texas Panhandle in the 1880s. In Beckoning Shore Pace wanted to show how a workaholic hero and a too-mind-for-her-own-good heroine could work out their relationship problems in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1870. In The Beholding - how a hardened bounty hunter has to choose between duty and the woman he loves. The Will and the Way contains advices how not to waste the talents God gave us and why we should learn not to be impatient. A Taste of Honey spotlights German immigrants near New Braunfels, Texas in 1849, a hero who needs to learn to have fun, and a heroine who is too impulsive for her own good.
Some writings appear under the pseudonym Dia Hunter. Pace's interest in history has always been a strong persuation. It allows her to show in the books that people are truly the same, no matter what era or time.
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2012Quotations: "My writing time is any time when I can grab a few minutes. If I am in a doctor’s office waiting, I’m writing. If I am in line at the supermarket, I’m writing. If I am at lunch, I spend half of the time eating, the other half writing. On that note, I am also a binge writer. I don’t write every day, because I don’t have every day to write. However, if I am on deadline, I sit down and tell myself that I will produce a rough draft chapter within four-to-six hours. When on deadline, my weekly goal is no less than three chapters a week. What you see here is that I am a goal-oriented writer."
Pace is a member of the Romance Writers of America, the Panhandle Professional Writers, the Southwest Writers Workshop, the Oklahoma Writers Federation and the Romance Writers of the Texas Panhandle.
DeWanna lives with her cowboy husband Roy Lee Pace and pets.