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Annette Broadrick
Annette Broadrick (born November 26, 1938) is an American writer of over 55 romance novels since 1984. Biography Broadrick was born on November 26, 1938, and raised as an only child for sixteen years, until her younger sister, Derralee, was born. Two years after that, as soon as she was graduated from high school in 1957, Broadrick married. The first of her four sons, David, arrived a year later, when she was 19. Rick, Randy, and Kevin came along quickly after that. For twenty-five years, Broadrick worked as a legal secretary to help supplement her husband's income. During that time period, the family lived in Arizona, Texas, Illinois and Oregon. After her youngest child graduated from high school, Broadrick decided to try writing a book. In January 1984, she sold her first manuscript to Silhouette. She has been a full-time writer since then, with over fifty books published by Silhouette. Broadrick lives in the Texas Hill Country. Awards * 1984 nominee for Romantic Times Magaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Paula Detmer Riggs
Paula or PAULA may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Paula, in video game ''EarthBound'' * Paula, in ''The Larry Sanders Show'' * Paula Campbell (''EastEnders''), in 2003 Film and television * ''Paula'' (1915 film), a silent film * ''Paula'' (1952 film), an American drama * ''Paula'' (2011 film), a Canadian animation * ''Paula'' (2016 film), a German film * ''Paula'' (TV series), 2017 Music * ''Paula'' (album), by Robin Thicke, 2014 * "Paula" (Zoé song), 2006 * "Paula", a 1972 song by Monica Verschoor * "Paula", a 1981 song by Tim Weisberg People * Paula (given name), including a list of people with the name * Paula of Rome (347–404), ancient Roman saint * Paula (surname) Other uses * Paula (computer chip), the sound chip of the Commodore Amiga computer * ''Paula'' (novel), memoir by Isabel Allende, 1994 * ''Paula'' (1876 barque), a German ship from which was sent the longest travelled message in a bottle * ''Paula'' (insect), a synonym for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Morsi
Pamela Morsi (born March 12, 1951) is an American writer of over 28 romance novels since 1991. Biography Morsi is a USA Today Bestselling Author and has written more than 28 novels. Her accolades include being a two-time recipient of the coveted RITA Award for her novels Courting Miss Hattie (1992) and Something Shady (1996). She is a former librarian, with a master's degree from University of Missouri and a BA from Oklahoma State University Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New .... Morsi is known for writing primarily fiction and romance novels that feature stories of humor and insight as she portrays the lives of ordinary people in everyday situations. She lives with her husband and daughter in San Antonio, Texas. Book to film adaptation Morsi helps in her community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Gillen Thacker
Cathy Gillen Thacker is an American author of over seventy romance novels. Biography Thacker began writing to occupy herself while she was raising small children. She wrote seven books as she taught herself how to be an author. Her eighth attempt was finally published in July 1982. She has written over seventy novels since then, which have been published in seventeen languages and thirty-five countries. Thacker is a charter member of Romance Writers of America. She and her husband Charlie have three children, Julie, David, and Sarah. Bibliography Too Many Dads # ''Baby on the Doorstep'' (1994) # ''Daddy to the Rescue'' (1994) # ''Too Many Moms'' (1994) Wild West Weddings # ''The Cowboy's Bride'' (1996) # ''The Ranch Stud'' (1996) # ''The Maverick Marriage'' (1996) # ''One Hot Cowboy'' (1997) # ''Spur-Of-The-Moment Marriage'' (1997) McCabe Family # ''Dr. Cowboy'' (1999) # ''Wildcat Cowboy'' (1999) # ''A Cowboy's Woman'' (1999) # ''A Cowboy Kind of Daddy'' (1999) # ''Texas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Ferrarella
Marie Ferrarella, née Rydzynski (b. March 28 in West Germany) is an American writer of over 272 romance novels as Marie Ferrarella, which have been translated into at least seven languages. She has also written under the names Marie Nicole, Marie Michael, and Marie Charles. Biography Marie Rydzynski was born on March 28 to Polish parents in West Germany, and moved to the United States when she was four. She has a master's degree in Shakespearean comedy from Queens College in New York City. Her first romance was sold in 1982 and she has since written over three hundred other novels. She has won a Romance Writers of America RITA Award for best Traditional Romance, and has been named a Romantic Times Career Achievement Winner. Ferrarella and her husband live in Southern California, with their two children. Her hobbies include old movies, musicals and mysteries. Bibliography As Marie Ferrarella Single Novels *''Smoldering Embers'' (1982) *''Claimed By Rapture'' (1983) *''Dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen (born Terry Tom; June 12, 1953) is the pseudonym of Terry Gerritsen, an American novelist and retired general physician. Early life Tess Gerritsen is the child of a Chinese immigrant and a Chinese-American seafood chef. While growing up in San Diego, California, Gerritsen often dreamt of writing her own Nancy Drew novels. Her first name is Terry; she decided to feminize it when she was a writer of romance novels.WRITERS AND SECRET IDENTITIES an essay by Tess Gerritsen posted to her blog Sunday, October 7, 2007 @ 11:45 Although she longed to be a writer, her family had reservations about the sustainability of a writing career, prompting Gerritsen to choose a career in medicine. In 1975, Gerritsen graduated from [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Palmer (author)
Susan Kyle, née Susan Eloise Spaeth (born December 11, 1946, in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States) is an American writer who was known as Diana Palmer and has published romantic novels since 1979. She has also written romances as Diana Blayne, Katy Currie, and under her married name Susan Kyle and a science fiction novel as Susan S. Kyle. Before writing fiction, she was a journalist for sixteen years under her birth name. Now, she has over 150 books in print, more of them translated and published around the world. Her novel ''Diamond Girl'' was made into a movie that was released in 1998 for television. Biography Personal life Born Susan Eloise Spaeth on December 12, 1946, in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States. She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor. She and her younger sister, Dannis Spaeth (Cole), were raised in Chamblee, Georgia, where Susan graduated from Chamblee Charter High School, Chamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Bevarly
Elizabeth Bevarly (born 1961 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States) is an American writer of over 70 romance novels since 1989. She is a ''New York Times'' bestselling author. Biography Bevarly was born in 1961 and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Her grandmothers were Ruth Bevarly and Hazel Robinson. In 1983, she obtained a B.A. with honors in English from the University of Louisville. She worked many diverse jobs, including an editorial assistant for a medical journal. In 1989, she published her first novel. Now, she is a ''New York Times'' bestselling, award-winning author. She married a member of the Coast Guard who was stationed in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has also lived in Washington D.C., Northern Virginia, and South Jersey. In 1994, they had a son, and now they, their son and their two cats reside back in her native Kentucky. Awards * Career Achievement Award, ''Romantic Times'', for ''Series Love and Laughter'' * 1996, National Readers' Choice Award, for ''The Perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Darcy
Emma Darcy is the pseudonym used by the Australian husband–wife writing team of Wendy Brennan (28 November 1940 – 12 December 2020) and Frank Brennan (1936 – 1995), they wrote in collaboration over 45 romance novels. In 1993, for the Emma Darcy pseudonym's 10th anniversary, they created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995, Wendy wrote on her own. She lived in New South Wales, Australia. Darcy sold 60 million books from 1983 to 2001, and averaged six new books per year. In 2002, Darcy's first crime novel ''Who Killed Angelique?'' won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel. In 2003, the next novel, ''Who Killed Bianca'', was a finalist for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel. Personal life Wendy Brennan Wendy was born 28 November 1940 in Australia, she had an Honours degree in Latin and worked as a high school English teacher. She was reputedly the first woman computer programmer in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Graham Pozzessere
Heather Graham Pozzessere (born March 15, 1953) is a best-selling American writer, who writes primarily romance novels. She also writes under her maiden name Heather Graham as well as the pen name Shannon Drake. She has written over 150 novels and novellas, has been published in approximately 25 languages, and has had over 75 million copies printed. Biography Born Heather Graham on March 15, 1953, she grew up in Miami-Dade County, Florida. She married Dennis Pozzessere shortly after her high school graduation. After high school, she went on and earned a degree in theater arts from the University of South Florida. She spent several years after that working in dinner theater, singing backup vocals, and bartending. After the birth of her third child, Pozzessere decided she could not afford to go to work anymore. She chose to stay at home, and, to fill her time, began to write horror stories and romances. After two years, in 1982, she sold her first novel, ''When Next We Love''. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Macomber
Debbie Macomber (born October 22, 1948) is an American author of romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. Six of her novels have become made-for-TV movies and her ''Cedar Cove'' series of novels was adapted into a television series of the same name. Macomber was the inaugural winner of the fan-voted Quill Award for romance in 2005 and has been awarded both a RITA Award and a lifetime achievement award by the Romance Writers of America. She also works as executive producer on the television adaptations of her books. Career Early career Macomber is dyslexic and has only a high school education. Determined to be a writer, she sat in her kitchen in front of a rented typewriter to develop her first few manuscripts, while raising four children. After five years and many rejections from publishers, she turned to freelance magazine work. Macomber attended a romance writer's conference, where one of her manuscripts was selected to be publicly critiqued by an editor from Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raye Morgan
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