Silenced, a #MeToo fairytale, is now available for purchase! This book tells the story of four women coworkers who have all been assaulted by their CEO and join forces to break the fairy tale curses he has put on them to keep them quiet. Ann Claycomb's first novel, The Mermaid’s Daughter, published by Harper Collins in 2017, imagines that the Little Mermaid really is trapped as a human and passes that curse down through generations of women unable to return to the sea. An inveterate reader of fairy tales, Ann believes in the power of Faerie, chocolate, and a good workout, in no particular order. She also wishes people would stop using the phrase “fairy tales can come true” as reassurance, because a great deal of what happens in fairy tales, especially to women, is frankly terrifying. And so Ann is drawn to retelling fairy tales to highlight the thorns around the beautiful castles and the dangers of straying off the path. She has an MFA and an MA in English, and baffled her MA thesis committee with an argument that “Beauty and the Beast” is ruined by the Beast’s transformation at the end into just an ordinary prince. Ann lives with her husband, children, two cats, and a mostly hairless dog in Fort Collins, Colorado.