Nalini Singh is a New Zealand author of

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descent. She has authored numerous

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novels.

Early life

Of Indian descent, Nalini Singh was born in 1977 in

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, and moved to New Zealand as a child. She attended

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Writing

In 1999, Singh placed third in the Romance Writers of New Zealand's Clendon Award competition. Then in 2001 her manuscript "Coaxing the Sheik" won the Jane Porter Award for highest-placed

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, as well as the Clendon Award's Readers' Choice Award that year. "Coaxing the Sheik" went on to be her first published work, published under the title ''Desert Warrior'' through the imprint Silhouette Desire in 2003. Her books have appeared on the

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best-sellers list, the USA Today best-sellers list, and the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list. She has won several other awards including the

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for best novella/novelette ( twice, in 2008 and 2009). ''Alpha Night'' won the Favourite Paranormal Romance at the 2020 Australian Romance Readers Awards. Her 2021 crime novel, ''Quiet in Her Bones'', was a finalist for the Best Crime Novel at the 2022 Ngaio Marsh Awards. She has had over two dozen novels published, including:

Bibliography

Psy-Changeling series

Initial series

Trinity series

Short stories

Deleted Scenes

Guild Hunter series

Novels

Short stories

Deleted Scenes

Found on Nalini's Website #''Archangel's Storm'' #''Archangel's Shadows''

Rock Kiss series

Novels

Short stories

Available in Newsletter Exclusives: Volume 1 #''Music Awards'' (Molly, Fox, others) #''David's Memo to Thea'' (Thea, David) #''Thea's Reply'' (David, Thea) #''With This Memo'' (the main characters) #''Sunshine'' (the main characters)

Hard Play series

Royal House of Shadows

A series of 4 books each by a different author

Other books

Standalone

*''A Madness of Sunshine'' (December 2019) *''Quiet in Her Bones'' (Feb 2021)

Silhouette Desire

Short stories

* Star Kissed - free short story - about the Keepers - available o
Nalini's website
or Newsletter Exclusives: Volume 1

Anthologies and collections

Other work

Nalini Singh engaging audience Thursday evening, Barnes & Noble Tribeca

Nalini Singh spent three years working in Japan as an English teacher and touring other parts of Asia. At other times she has also worked as a lawyer, a librarian, a candy factory general hand, and a bank temp, but "not necessarily in that order".http://www.nalinisingh.com/bio.php (personal biography)

References

External links

Nalini Singh's personal web site

NZ Herald best-sellers list

(12 November 2010)
Sir Julius Vogels award winners official list 2008

2009

PublishMe report on SJV winners

* The Clendon Award is administered by th
Romance Writers of New Zealand Incorporated
{{DEFAULTSORT:Singh, Nalini Living people New Zealand women novelists New Zealand romantic fiction writers 1977 births People educated at Mount Roskill Grammar School 21st-century New Zealand novelists Women romantic fiction writers 21st-century New Zealand women writers