ANN NARCISIAN VIDEAN

Book Shepherd, editor,
author, illustrator, composer

Ann guides peers through the writing, editing, publishing and word-of-mouth marketing of both fiction and nonfiction books.

A professional writer since 1981, she opened her own award-winning home-based marketing firm, Videan Unlimited, LLC, in 1996. She has served as an editor for corporations, visionary entrepreneurs, and national publishers. She is also a novelist and runs a side business—Absolutely Wild! Enchanted Faerie Portals & Other Whimsy—inspired by the Fae characters in her Song of the Ocarina novel. She composed and recorded an original music soundtrack to accompany her first novel, Rhythms & Muse. Also, she and 13 other authors in her ALWAYS writing group released an anthology of author-origin stories, Journeys to Authorship—an Amazon #1 bestseller—to help other writers visualize their own paths to publishing.

Ann showed up in this world with a pen in her hand, a song in her heart, and the desire to share with you. She adores creativity of all types, and especially the people who live it. She gathers friends like flowers, including authors, musicians, artists, and her husband and two grown-up children. The Colorado native lives in Mesa, Arizona, along with numerous invisible friends including snarky mythical creatures and magical story characters.

Cosplay background: Ann writes fiction about extremely tall, wingless, New Zealand Fae who use Earth energy and music to make magic. Her favorite-ever book character is Harry Dresden, the wizard detective in Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series. So how could she not mash up a cosplay as “Faerie Dresden?”

Marketing career highlights

2024– Journeys to Authorship earns #1 Amazon bestseller status.
2007– Selected by peers for the Public Relations Society of America’s top honor:
the PERCY Award
2005 – Selected by a national panel for The Crown Jewel Award
(top U.S. home-based business)
2004 – Served as the catalyst to reintroduce white rhinos to the Phoenix Zoo
1996 – Her PR efforts enticed 15,000 extras to Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, AZ, to film football movie scenes for Jerry Maguire
1995 – Earned a Gold Quill honorable mention from the International Association of Business Communicators, for RealTime tabloid news magazine

Ann’s books

In 2024, Ann contibuted writing to, edited, and compiled Journeys to Authorship: How Wannabe Writers Can Realize Their Publishing Dreams. This Amazon #1 top-seller anthology takes you on an enlightening expedition as fourteen established authors from Ann’s ALWAYS writers’ group reveal their personal author-origin stories. Via their collective experiences, you’ll learn what the authoring process involves and gather ideas to overcome the obstacles of time, inertia, and resources. You’ll also gain concrete advice on navigating the complex publishing world as you connect with successful fiction and nonfiction authors across a variety of genres.

In 2016, Ann wrote and illustrated Absolutely Wild! Enchanted Faerie Portals Coloring & Creative Writing Pages, inspired by the Fae characters in her first sci-fi/fantasy novel Song of the Ocarina.

Her 2014 fantastical adventure Song of the Ocarina, is book 1 in the Delfaerune Rhapsody series. It tells the story of Lark, a New Zealand teen, who discovers she’s the “Maestra” in the realm of Delfaerune, and the only Noble Fae with the musical prowess and Earth connection to save humans from Dark Fae magic. She’s up against mythical creatures and Dark Fae who pattern themselves after hard-living human rock stars.

Ann is also the author/singer/songwriter of a 2011 women’s fiction novel Rhythms & Muse, along with its complementary soundtrack of five original songs inspired by the story. You’ll follow Grammy-winning vocalist Alex on her journey toward fulfillment when dreams guide her to forego her glamorous, yet stressful, Hollywood lifestyle and return to her roots and first love in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

Ann’s books, ghostwritten for other authors

In 2020, Ann ghostwrote Illuminate Your Future: Start Your Crusade to Achieve True Financial Freedom, an informative powerhouse book for managing your money by Vincent del Franco of LifeTyme Financial, LLC. 

In 2016, Ann ghostwrote The Mutilation of Marilyn Monroe, for the late Donnie Parrillo, First Ward Alderman of Chicago, and son of Al Capone’s lawyer. His tell-all reveals what actually happened to Marilyn from an insider’s viewpoint.

Contact Ann:
602-769-8316
ann@annvidean.com
Ann online