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• Kat Martin
• Glenna McReynolds
• Nora Roberts
• Sharon Robinson
• Amanda Scott
• Elizabeth Thornton
• Sue-Ellen Welfonder
• Susan Wiggs
• More Authors...
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Romance Author Roundtable
Romance. It's more than hearts and flowers. For these sixteen authors --- Shana Abé, Lauren Bach, Sherri Browning, Jacquie D'Alessandro, Madeline Hunter, Brenda Joyce, Donna Kauffman, Betina Krahn, Kat Martin, Glenna McReynolds, Nora Roberts, Sharon Robinson, Amanda Scott, Elizabeth Thornton, Sue-Ellen Welfonder, and Susan Wiggs --- romance is all about writing and it's big business. Read their comments about the genre responsible for more than 50% book sales each year. Now that's a statistic to flirt with!
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| Kat Martin |
Kat Martin is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty
novels, including Heartless, The Secret, Perfect Sin, Silk and Steel, and Night
Secrets. She is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she
majored in anthropology and history. She currently lives in Montana.
Kat Martin's Website
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| Glenna McReynolds |
Glenna McReynolds is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Prince of Time and The Chalice and the Blade. She lives with her husband and two children in the Rocky Mountains West and enjoys yoga and volunteering in her children's school library.
Glenna McReynolds's Website
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| Nora Roberts |
Nora Roberts is truly a publishing phenomenon. With over 127 million copies of her books in print in the U.S. alone, she has come a long way since she wrote her first novel in a spiral notebook using a No. 2 pencil. Now she has published over 140 novels and her work has been optioned and made into films, excerpted in national magazines and translated in over twenty-five different countries.
Her extraordinary accomplishments have also received recognition from her peers. The first author ever to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America's Hall of Fame, and the first author to receive their Centennial Award when she published her 100th novel Montana Sky, she is the recipient of almost every award given in recognition of excellence in romance writing. In 1997, she was honored at the Romance Writers of America National Conference when she was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to her awards from the Romance Writers of America, she has also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Waldenbooks, and she has been honored by B. Dalton Booksellers, the New Jersey Chapter of Romance Writers of America, and BookRak Distributors.
Nora Roberts is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America, and a member of their Washington, D.C. chapter. She was the keynote speaker at their 1994 national conference in New York. She is also a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, The Crime Writers League of America, and Novelists Inc.
The youngest of five children, she was born in Silver Spring, Maryland. She now lives in Keedysville, Maryland.
Nora Roberts's Website
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| Sharon Robinson |
Sharon Robinson has captivated readers with her memoir Stealing Home (HarperColllins Publishers, 1996), her recounting of growing up in the public eye, and Jackie's Nine (Scholastic, 2001), a book for young readers about the nine heartfelt, hard-won values that helped her father, Jackie Robinson, achieve his goals. Now, she has turned her pen to a new genre and is soon to delight a new audience of readers, the lovers of romance novels, with Still The Storm (Genesis Press, March 2002).
In addition to her writing career, Ms. Robinson is Vice President of Educational Programming for Major League Baseball. In this capacity, she oversees school and community-based educational programs. Breaking Barriers, In Sports, In Life is the department's core program; it is a national character education program designed to empower students with strategies to help them face obstacles in their lives. The message is delivered by examining the values demonstrated in the lives of Jackie Robinson and many of today's baseball stars; since its inception in 1997, the program has reached over two million children across the United States and Canada.
Prior to joining Major League Baseball, Ms. Robinson had a 20-year career as a nurse-midwife and educator. She taught at such prestigious universities as Yale, Columbia, Howard and Georgetown. In addition to her work in midwifery, she directed the PUSH for Excellence program founded by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson from 1985 to 1990 and was a fund-raiser for The United Negro College Fund and A Better Chance.
Ms. Robinson currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Jackie Robinson Foundation and the Roberto Clemente Sports City Complex in Carolina, PR. She also serves on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's National Advisory Committee for Local Initiatives.
Sharon Robinson received her Bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1973 and her Master's degree from Columbia University in 1976. She went on to receive a post-Master's Certificate in Teaching from the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1998, Ms. Robinson received her Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from Medaille College.
She has one son and lives in New York City and St. Croix.
Genesis Press Website
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| Amanda Scott |
Amanda Scott, best-selling author and winner of the Romance Writers of America's RITA/Golden Medallion and The Romantic Times' awards for Best Regency Author and Best Sensual Regency, began writing on a dare from her husband. She has sold every manuscript she has written. Her books have been set in the English Regency period (1810-1820), in fifteenth-century England, and in sixteenth-and eighteenth-century Scotland. She has also written contemporary romances. Amanda lives with her husband and son in northern California.
Amanda Scott's Website
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| Elizabeth Thornton |
Elizabeth Thornton, national bestselling historical romance author, was born and educated in Scotland, and came to Winnipeg, Canada, over twenty years ago with her husband and three young sons. Her novels, a unique blend of romance and suspense, are set in the Regency era. Ms. Thornton has been nominated for and received numerous awards. When not writing obsessively seven days a week, she travels with her husband to Great Britain for research, or she takes time off to enjoy her grandchildren.
Elizabeth Thornton's Website
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| Sue-Ellen Welfonder |
Sue-Ellen Welfonder is a dedicated medievalist of Scottish descent who spent fifteen years living abroad, and still makes annual research trips to Great Britain. She is an active member of the Romance Writers of America and her own clan, the MacFie Society of North America. Upon visiting the Eilean Donan Castle in the Scottish Highlands, she was inspired to write Devil in a Kilt, her first novel. Her second novel, Knight in My Bed, will be published this Spring. She is married and lives with her husband, Manfred, and their Jack Russell Terrier, Em, in Florida.
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| Susan Wiggs |
Susan Wiggs is the author of Passing Through Paradise, The You I Never Knew, The Mistress, The Hostage, and The Horsemaster's Daughter. She won the Romantic Times career achievement award and the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award for best historical romance. A Harvard graduate and former schoolteacher, she lives on an island in Puget Sound with her husband and daughter.
Susan Wiggs's Website
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