About
Roger and Mala Burt
Authors of A Dream Across Time
Roger
and Mala Burt are partners in marriage and work. Annie Rogers, a juxtaposition
of Mala's middle name and Roger's first name, is the pen name chosen by the Burts
for their works of fiction. The Annie Rogers adventure began in June of 1987 when
they made their first visit to St. Lucia in the West Indies. By the end of a week,
St. Lucia had worked its magic and they wanted to come back. So they did over
the next 16 years, building a second home, starting a Caribbean travel business
and, now, writing novels set in the Caribbean.
A Dream Across
Time grew out of the Burts' fascination with the complex lives of the colorful
people they encountered on St. Lucia. The authentic details of life in the tropics
ring true because of the Burts' intimate experience with island life. They feel
that the only way to effectively bring to life the underlying nature of the Caribbean
people is through fiction.
With backgrounds as a psychologist
and clinical social worker respectively, both Roger and Mala were married previously,
each bringing two children to their second marriage. The challenges in their remarriage
led them to become nationally recognized experts in stepfamily relationships and
problems. Their joint clinical practice specialized in helping stepfamilies and
led to their seminal work Stepfamilies: The Step By Step Model of Brief Therapy.
Their
previous publications have been works of nonfiction and include What's Special
About Our Stepfamily? (Doubleday, 1983) and Stepfamilies: The Step By Step Model
of Brief Therapy (Bruner/Mazel, Inc. 1996). As experts in the field of stepfamilies,
they have appeared on national TV programs such as Oprah, and been interviewed
extensively for newspaper and magazines as well as on NPR.
With changes
in the mental health field, the Burts chose to close their practices dealing with
stepfamily adjustment and opened a specialty travel business for the short term
rental of villas, www.islandtrips.com.
After 15 years, they closed the travel business and are devoting full time to
their writing endeavors.
The second book in the series, A
Circle of Dreams, has a publish date of June 2006. The third in the series will
follow six months later. The Burts live in St. Michaels, MD.
www.annierogers.com
