| Adair, Cherry |
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An adventurer in life as well as in her writing, best-selling author Cherry Adair moved halfway across the globe from Cape Town, South Africa to the United States. She settled in beautiful San Francisco, where she started what eventually became a thriving interior design business...
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Alexander, Victoria |
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Before deciding fiction was much more fun than real life, this New York Times bestselling author was an award-winning television journalist, reporting on stories such as the Teena Brandon (Boys Don't Cry) case for a major Nebraska broadcaster. She's covered a pope, several presidents and the occasional movie star...
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| Barton, Beverly |
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Born and bred Southern Belle Beverly Barton is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller, The Fifth Victim, the USA Today The Last To Die, After Dark, As Good as Dead, Every Move She Makes, and What She Doesn't Know. She writes in the hottest segment of the genre-romantic suspense...
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| Bushman, Jennifer |
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In a time when "sit-down dinner" means ordering at the counter instead of the drive-thru, the very idea of whipping up a healthy meal at home is enough to make most of us dive for the minivan keys.
But not if you've encountered Jennifer Bushman, Kitchen Coach(TM)...
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Collins, Jackie
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Jackie Collins has been called a "raunchy moralist" by the late director Louis Malle and "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust" by Vanity Fair magazine. With over 400 million copies of her books sold in more than 40 countries, and with some twenty-three New York Times bestsellers to her credit, Jackie Collins is one of the world's top-selling novelists.
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| Frommer, Arthur |
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Arthur Frommer's career in travel began when he was drafted into the Korean War. On the very day he was to leave for Korea it was discovered by military personnel that he spoke five languages. He was then sent to the secret service in Berlin and served as a corporal in the U.S. Army Intelligence...
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W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear |
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W. Michael Gear has a master's degree in anthropology from Colorado State University, and has worked for twenty years as a professional archaeologist in the western United States. Kathleen O'Neal Gear has a master's degree in history from California State University, and studied for her Ph.D. at UCLA...
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| Gerard, Cindy |
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Okay. This is the part where you learn something about me and about my writing. So, kick back, take yours shoes off - I did - and get comfortable. This could take a while - but I'll try to make it as painless as possible. In the ABOUT ME, department, I'm a born and raised Midwesterner and love living on our acreage in rural Iowa...
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Goudge, Eileen |
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Eileen Goudge is the New York Times bestselling author of One Last Dance and The Second Silence, as well as Garden of Lies, Trail of Secrets, Such Devoted Sisters, and Blessing in Disguise, which were book club main selections. There are more than 3 million copies of her books in print in twenty-four languages around the world. She lives in New York City.
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Graham, Heather |
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Heather Graham grew up in Dade County, Florida, and attended the University of South Florida at Tampa, majoring in theater arts, and touring Europe and parts of Asia and Africa during her studies. After college, she acted in dinner theaters, modeled, waitressed and tended bar...
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Green, Tim
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Fox Sports commentator, best-selling author, columnist, practicing lawyer and former NFL star player Tim Green is the host of A Current Affair.
Both Sports Illustrated and the Los Angeles Times have called Tim Green the "Renaissance Man" of sports. In 1986, he was selected in the first round of the NFL draft...
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| Kenyon, Sherrilyn |
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With more than four million copies of her books in print in eighteen countries, New York Times best-selling author Sherrilyn Kenyon burst onto the publishing scene with her crossover novel Born of the Night, an out of print novel that now, nine years after publication, is deemed the Holy Grail by her fans...
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| Kline, Carol |
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Carol Kline is the author of five books in the phenomenally successful Chicken Soup for the Soul series, including the #1 New York Times bestselling Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul 2 as well as Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul, and the recently released Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul and Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul. Her books have sold more than 4.6 million copies and have appeared on every best-seller list in America...
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Koontz, Dean
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Dean Koontz was born and raised in Pennsylvania. He graduated from Shippensburg State College (now Shippensburg University), and his first job after graduation was with the Appalachian Poverty Program, where he was expected to counsel and tutor underprivileged children on a one-to-one basis...
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| Levine, Paul |
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PAUL LEVINE worked as a newspaper reporter, a law professor and a trial lawyer before becoming a full-time novelist and screenwriter. Obviously, he cannot hold a job. Paul claims that writing fiction comes naturally: he told whoppers for many years in his legal briefs...
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| Liu, Marjorie M. |
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My bio is pretty boring. Which is to say, I don't feel sufficiently motivated to write the story of my life (which I'm sure I could make very interesting, but it would be a pack of lies).
I was born out east, spent my formative years out west, and now reside smack dab in the middle...
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Macomber, Debbie |
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In 1973, Debbie Macomber began a journal with the prophetic words, "Since the greatest desire of my life is to somehow, some way, be a writer, I'll start with this journal. "Today, with more than 60 million copies of her books in print, this New York Times bestselling author says, "No one should underestimate the power of a dream."
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Martin, Kat |
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For New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin, a career in real estate led her down the road to romanceÃëboth literally and figuratively.
A native of Bakersfield, California, Kat set her sights high and headed to college at the University of California at Santa Barbara...
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| Mason, Connie |
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Connie Mason is the bestselling author of more than 50 historical romances and novellas. Her tales of passion and adventure are set in exotic as well as American locales. Connie was named Storyteller of the Year in 1990 by Romantic Times, and was awarded a Career Achievement award in the Western category by Romantic Times in 1994...
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| Medeiros, Teresa |
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Teresa Medeiros started writing her first book at age 21 while working as a registered nurse in labor and delivery. (Because nothing says romance like women screaming in labor.) She would often sneak into the nursery after the newborns were asleep to escape the cranky postpartum patients and jot down notes on the hospital computer...
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| Neggers, Carla |
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Carla Neggers grew up in western Massachusetts, the third of seven children. Just before she was born, her Dutch immigrant father and Southern mother packed up the car with two kids and all their belongings and headed north to start a new life. They settled in an eighteenth-century carriage house on 90 acres and began a long process of renovation...
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| Rice, Luanne |
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Luanne Rice is the New York Times best-selling author who has inspired the devotion of readers everywhere with her moving novels of love and family. She has been hailed by critics for her unique gifts, which have been described as "a beautiful blend of love and humor, with a little bit of magic thrown in ...
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Rose, Karen |
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I've been a romance reader for years and I like to know a little about the authors I read, so here's a little about me. I'm the wife of Martin, the best husband in the universe (stand aside ladies, he's mine) and the mother of two wonderful daughters.
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| Ross, JoAnn |
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When New York Times bestselling author JoAnn Ross was seven-years-old, she had no doubt whatsoever that she'd grow up to play center field for the New York Yankees. Writing would be her backup occupation, something she planned to do after retiring from baseball. Those were, in her mind, her only options...
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| Sala, Sharon |
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After pulling herself out of two bad marriages, then losing her sister and her father within months of each other in 1985, New York Times bestselling author Sharon Sala decided that she had waited long enough to fulfill her aspirations. "I came to the conclusion that life was too fleeting not to pursue my dreams wholeheartedly," she says...
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| Skye, Christina |
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New York Times bestselling author Christina Skye loves a good adventure. To that end she has climbed the Great Wall in a snowstorm, eaten snake meat in Shanghai and bicycled in search of folk art in mountainous Fujian. A scholar with a doctorate in classical Chinese literature ...
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Steinback, Jyl
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Jyl Steinback, "America's Healthiest Mom," is a cookbook author, personal trainer and health expert. She has been described by the media as "enthusiastic, "weight loss guru", "America's Super (Healthy) Mom," "national sensation" and "a one women business dynamo." Regardless of the accolades, she is committed to a mission ...
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| Thompson, Larry
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Larry began his legal career at age twenty-three and successfully tried seven district court cases before his twenty-fourth birthday. Early in his career as a trial lawyer he would often try fifteen or twenty cases in a year. Now he has tried over three hundred cases with a success rate exceeding ninety percent. He has been named a "Texas Super Lawyer" by Texas Monthly Magazine for 2005.
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| Wilson, F. Paul |
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F. Paul Wilson was born and raised in New Jersey where he misspent his youth playing with matches, poring over Uncle Scrooge and E.C. comics, reading Lovecraft, Matheson, Bradbury, and Heinlein, listening to Chuck Berry and Alan Freed, and watching Soupy Sales and horror movies...
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