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Annelies

Biography

Personal Interview

Author, blogger, senior model, financial executive and initiator of Loveable Light

Born in Bussum, the Netherlands, I already started to write in my youth. During the summer holidays I wrote short stories with my sister, Marianne.

I picked up writing at a later age. Concerned about the current situation in this world I started to write a five part fiction series (The Jessie Golden Earth Series) in which I reflect what can happen if change doesn’t come. I find it very important to intertwine fiction with reality to share ultimately my point of view on things that matter. It also led to the Loveable Light initiative

I have a long track-record in the international IT finance world, working as (international) manager for companies like Cisco, HP and Microsoft. Currently I’m working as a CFO for a Dutch IT company.

Sometimes I get a gig as senior model. Due to my everyday job combined with writing, my time is limited. However, I love to make time for a photo shoot to support my own activities.

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Annelies George was born in Bussum, the Netherlands, the second daughter of Levie George and Greet van Weerdenburg. At the age of ten she was given a postcard collection of landscapes and city settings from countries all over the globe, tickling her imagination. Soon she found herself writing fiction stories together with her two year older sister, Marianne, during the school holidays, using the postcards and other pictures she found in magazines as the source of inspiration....READ MORE

After the gymnasium, she followed a one-year course as an international secretary in Amsterdam. Immediately afterward she started to work for a law firm, studying finance, management and law during the evening hours with the goal of becoming a lawyer herself.

A move to a different town brought her into the fast IT world, where she was employed by GE Capital, marking the start of a successful career in the international IT Finance world. Due to the intensity of the job and long working hours, she abandoned her plans for a law degree.

At the age of 30 she was appointed to Benelux managing director of a US based lease company, a rare phenomenon at the time, since few females were holding similar positions in the specific branch in the Netherlands. Thereafter she accepted a variety of EMEA and regional management and sales roles with Cisco, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

Encouraged by her two friends, Carla and Wil, she resumed writing again at a later age, with the purpose of releasing a book detailing her personal adventures as a woman in a male-dominated business environment. Due to circumstances surrounding the events she described, she had to re-write the entire story. Frustrated, she stopped working on the book.

Soon thereafter she spoke to a psychic with an extraordinary life story, which inspired her to start writing again. Combined with the far from easy youth of her own parents – one separated from his family at the age of twelve and held captive during the Japanese occupation in Indonesia and the other living in Amsterdam during the German occupation with a brother killed due to his connection with the resistance – she realized that this specific generation had to endure a lot in their lives and should she ever write a book again, the tale needed to contain an underlying message, in line with the books of some of her own favorite authors.

Annelies still lives in Bussum with her husband. Alongside a full time job as CFO for a Dutch company, she likes to paint, cook and make yewelry when she is not writing. From time to time she works for a model and casting agency. “Loveable Light” is a private initiative she is pursuing, directly linked to the welfare of the Earth. On occasion she likes to travel to discover new places and understand the different ways of living around the globe. She takes care with her husband of six pets.

Interview

Most interviews that I conclude are about my books and my personal initiative Loveable Light. Sometimes, however, I am asked different things, most of the time still related to my writing but on occasion giving the reader a bit more insight into me as a person. Recently that was the case with Pat Rullo of Speak Up Talk Radio. Apart from the radio interview she asked me 21 different questions which you can find underneath. You can click on the link to read the pdf-file. Happy Reading!

PDF 21 questions