Leanne Banks
Leanne Banks (born May 14, 1959, in Roanoke, Virginia, is an American writer of over 60 romance novels since 1991. Biography Leanne Banks was born on May 14, 1959, in Roanoke, Virginia. She published her first novel in 1991, and since then she has received numerous awards and recognitions. She lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband. Awards *Winner of 1996 ''Romantic Times'' Career Achievement Awards in Series Sensuality and Love and Laughter *Winner of the Florida Writers Beacon Award *Winner of Golden Quill Award *Winner of the Georgia Romance Writers' MAGGIE Award *Winner of Booksellers' Best Award *Winner of Award of Excellence Contest *Winner of the National Readers' Choice Awards *Romance Writers of America Honor Roll Bibliography Single Novels *''Guardian Angel'' - October 1992, (Loveswept #572) *''Never A Bride'' - January 1991, (Kismet #26) *''Royal Holiday Baby'' - October 2010, (Silhouette Special Edition #2075) *''The Doctor Takes A Princess'' - July 2011 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anne McAllister
Barbara Schenck under the pseudonym Anne McAllister is an American best-selling writer of over 55 romance novels since 1985. Biography Barbara Schenck was born in California, but spent time on her grandparents' ranch in Colorado and visiting relatives in Montana. She met her husband through her job at a university library, and they have been married for over thirty years. The couple have four children. They live in Iowa but spends much time in Montana. McAllister holds a master's degree in theology. Before she began writing, she held jobs as a Spanish teacher, copyediting textbooks, and ghostwriting sermons. Her novels have been published in the Harlequin Presents, Silhouette Desire, Special Edition, and Harlequin American category romance lines. She has twice won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and has been a finalist an additional seven times. In 2000, she was awarded the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award as Series Author of the Year. She has also been award ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1959 Births
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Lisa Jackson (author)
Susan Lisa Jackson (known as Lisa Jackson; born 1952) is a best-selling American author of over 75 romance novels and romantic suspense novels. Biography Before she became a nationally-bestselling author, Jackson was a struggling mother who wrote novels with the hope that someone would pay her for them. Currently, her books appear on ''The New York Times'', the ''USA Today'', and the ''Publishers Weekly'' national bestseller lists. Jackson is the author of more than 85 novels, including ''Afraid to Die'', ''Tell Me'', ''You Don't Want to Know'', ''Running Scared'', ''Without Mercy'', ''Malice'', and ''Shiver''. She is also the co-author of the Colony Series, co-written with her sister, Nancy Bush. There are over 20 million copies of Jackson's books in print in twenty languages. She also writes under the pen name, "Susan Lynn Crose". Selected works New Orleans series with Detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya *''Hot Blooded'' (May 2001) *''Cold Blooded'' (June 2002) *''Shiv ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eileen Wilks
Eileen Wilks is an American fiction writer living in Midland, Texas. Biography Eileen Wilks moved from West Texas to the town of Norman, OK in the summer of 2012, and has previously lived in Canada and Venezuela, as well as twelve U.S. cities in five states. Wilks' first book, a Silhouette Desire titled ''The Loner and the Lady'' (1996), hit the ''USA Today'' Bestseller List at #146 on May 30, 1996 and was nominated for the 1996 ''Romantic Times'' Best First Short Contemporary award. Since then, she hit the New York Times Bestsellers list with her novel ''Blood Challenge'' (2011) in her current series, World of the Lupi, in which werewolves and magic (fantasy), magic exist in an earth much like our own. Bibliography Series *''Dynasties: The Ashtons'' (including ''Entangled'') *''Dynasties: The Barons'' (including ''With Private Eyes'') *''Dynasties: The Connellys'' (including ''Expecting...and in Danger'') *''Just A Little Bit'' (including ''Just a Little Bit Pregnan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pamela Britton
Pamela Britton (born Armilda Jane Owens, March 19, 1923 – June 17, 1974) was an American actress, best known for appearing as Lorelei Brown in the television series ''My Favorite Martian'' (1963–1966) and for her female lead in the film noir classic ''D.O.A. (1950 film), D.O.A.'' (1950). Throughout her acting career, Britton appeared often on Broadway and in several Hollywood and television films. Early career Armilda Jane Owens was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Ethel (Waite) and Dr. Raymond Gilbert Owens, a physician. Her mother was Ethel Owen, a prominent stage, radio, and early television actress. She had two sisters: Virginia, who was an actress for RKO Radio Pictures; and Mary, a social worker. Armilda attended Holy Angels Academy and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, State Teacher's Normal School in her home town of Milwaukee. By the age of nine she was doing summer stock, and Cinema of the United States, Hollywood came calling at age ten. Her mother rejected ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cherry Adair
Cherry Adair (born 2 April 1951) is a South African–American romantic fiction writer. She lives near Seattle, Washington with her husband. Biography Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Adair moved to the United States in her early 20s and settled in San Francisco,Washington Library Association Newsletter Fall 2006 where she opened a business as an interior designer. Adair and her husband, David, have two daughters; they keep two standard schnauzers, Max and Chase, who compete nationally in agility trials. A voracious reader, she began to have story ideas of her own and transferred her creative process from interior design to writing novels, writing seventeen full books before her first novel, ''The Mercenary'', sold to [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kristi Gold
Kristi Gold is an American writer of over 25 romance novels since 2000. Biography Kristi Gold decided at the age of twenty to write her first book. In 2000 her first book was published. Gold is married to a physician, and they have three children. They currently reside in Central Texas. Awards *1996 Romance Writers of America Double Golden Heart Finalist *2001 Romance Writers of America RITA Nominee for Best First Book, ''Cowboy for Keeps'' *Romantic Times W.I.S.H. Award *2004 National Reader's Choice Winner, Best Short Contemporary Series *Romantic Times BookClub Reviewer's Choice Winner for 2003, 2004, and 2005 Best Silhouette Desire *2004 Romantic Times BookClub Lifetime Achievement Award Nominee for Series Storyteller of the Year *Seven No. 1 Waldenbook Series Best-sellers Bibliography For Keeps Series #''Cowboy for Keeps'' (2000) #''Doctor for Keeps'' (2000) Single novels *''Her Ardent Sheikh'' (2001) *''His Sheltering Arms'' (2001) *''His E-mail Order Wife'' (2002) *''T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Christine Rimmer
Christine Rimmer (born January 28 in California, U.S.) is a ''USA Today'' and Waldenbooks bestselling U.S. writer of over 60 romance novels, which she began writing in 1987. She also published poems and short stories in a number of small literary journals. Biography Christine Rimmer was born on January 28 in California, U.S., where her maternal grandfather were a gold miner. She obtained a theater degree in Sacramento, and then she went to New York City to study acting. She worked as a write-up girl at Barney's, a caterer's assistant, a waitress, a bartender, a phone sales rep, a janitor, receivable clerk, an accounts payable, a teacher, a model, an actress... Later, she moved to Southern California, where she began her writing career with short stories, plays, and poems. Her poems and short stories were published in a number of small literary journals. In 1984, she wrote her first romantic novel, that was published in 1987. She now lives in Washington State with her husband, the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dixie Browning
Dixie Browning, née Burrus (born September 9, 1930 in North Carolina) is an American artist and writer of over 100 romance novels. She also has published under the pen name Zoe Dozier, and with her sister Mary Burrus Williams, she writes historical romance under the name Bronwyn Williams. She is a recipient of the RITA Award. Biography Dixie Burrus was born in 1930 on North Carolina's Outer Banks, daughter of professional baseball player Maurice Lennon "Dick" Burrus. She learned from a young age to enjoy the water and the outdoors, and to spend plenty of time lying down with a good book as well. Browning considers herself foremost an artist. She studied and later taught art. She paints landscapes and seascapes in watercolor, and is listed in ''Who's Who in American Art''.Browne PCL In 1975, Browning began writing a newspaper column on art. Shortly thereafter, she decided to try fiction. As she had recently begun reading romance novels, she attempted to recreate the pieces of t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Peggy Moreland
Peggy Morse, née Bozeman (born in Texas, United States) well known as Peggy Moreland is a ''USA Today'' and Waldenbooks bestselling American writer of over 40 romance novels since 1989. She also signed a novel with her married name Peggy Morse. Biography Peggy Bozeman was born Taurus in Texas, United States. She grew up with her two sisters in a farm. Her father died when she was in high school, leaving her mother to raise her three daughters alone. Peggy received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Stephen F. Austin State University, with a minor in English. She worked on her master's degree in writing at the University of Central Oklahoma. She co-wrote the story of the Edmond post office shooting for Norman Vincent Peale's ''Guideposts'' magazine. Later, in 1987 she began to write romantic novels, and she was published in 1989. Peggy married a Texan green beret. They have three children and live on a ranch in the Texas Hill Country, near her parents farm. There ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke ( ) is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 100,011, making it the 8th most populous city in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the largest city in Virginia west of Richmond. It is located in the Roanoke Valley of the Roanoke Region of Virginia. Roanoke is the largest municipality in Southwest Virginia, and is the principal municipality of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which had a 2020 population of 315,251. It is composed of the independent cities of Roanoke and Salem, and Botetourt, Craig, Franklin, and Roanoke counties. Bisected by the Roanoke River, Roanoke is the commercial and cultural hub of much of Southwest Virginia and portions of Southern West Virginia. History Timeline * 1835 - Town of Gainesborough incorporated. * 1838 - Roanoke County created. * 1852 - Big Lick Depot built near Gainesborough; Virginia & Tennessee Railroad begins operating. * 1865 - April: Big Lick settlement sa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |