Jeffrey McClanahan facts for kids

Jeffrey McClanahan is an American novelist from Texas who writes with her sister, Pam Cumbie, under the joint pen name of Dixie Cash. McClanahan is also an “award-winning author of six western romance novels under the name of Anna Jeffrey.” For her 2009 novel, McClanahan has taken on a third pseudonym, Sadie Callahan.

Personal life

McClanahan “grew up in West Texas during the great oil boom. Pam has always had a zany sense of humor, and Jeffrey has always had a dry wit. Surrounded by cowboys and steeped in country-western music, when they can stop laughing long enough, they work together creating hilarity on paper.”

Jeffery lives with her husband, in “a small town not far from Fort Worth,” Texas and worked as “both a real estate professional and a retailer for most of her adult life, also professions that beg for a sense of humor.”

Writing process

Glenn Dromgoole writes that “Cumbie makes up the stories and characters…then McClanahan edits and rewrites.” Cumbie explains that the sisters send pages back and forth between them as they work on a novel.

Major publications

Works co-authored with sister as “Dixie Cash”

• Since You're Leaving Anyway, Take Out the Trash (2004)
• My Heart May Be Broken, But My Hair Still Looks Great (2005)
• I Gave You My Heart, But You Sold It Online (2007)
• Don't Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes (2008)
• Curing the Blues with a New Pair of Shoes (2009)
• Our Red Hot Romance is Leaving Me Blue (2010)
• I Can't Make You Love Me, but I Can Make You Leave (2011)
• You Can Have My Heart, but Don't Touch My Dog (2016)

Works authored as “Anna Jefrey”

• The Love of a Cowboy (2003)
• The Love of a Stranger (2004)
• The Love of a Lawman (2005)
• Sweet Water (2005)
• Salvation, Texas (2007)
• Sweet Return (2007)
• Lone Star Woman (written originally as Sadie Callahan, re-released by Anna Jeffrey)
• Man of the West (written originally as Sadie Callahan)
• The Tycoon, Book #1, Sons of Texas trilogy (2012)
• Desired (2013)
• The Cattleman, Book #2, Sons of Texas trilogy

Works authored as "Sadie Callahan"

• Lone Star Woman (2009)
• Man of the West (2010)