Donna Hill

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Donna Hill
Born Brooklyn, New York
Pen nameOlivia Hill
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
EducationMFA in Creative Writing
Alma materGoddard College
GenreYoung Adult Fiction, Romance, Mystery, Women's Fiction
Years active1987- present
Notable worksIntimate Betrayal, Masquerade, A Private Affair
Website
donnahill.wordpress.com

Donna Hill is an American author of romance, mystery, and women's fiction. She has written over seventy novels, twenty short stories, and edited multiple anthologies. Three of Hill's novels (Intimate Betrayal, Masquerade, A Private Affair) have been adapted for screen. [1]

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Personal life

Hill cites the works of Bernice McFadden, Jesmyn Ward, Walter Mosley, James Patterson, Jeffery Deaver, Margaret Johnson Hodge, and Patricia Cornwell's early work as some of her inspirations. [2]

Hill is an editor of novels, and two award-winning anthologies. She is also a writing instructor at The Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center in New York. Hill holds an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and is an assistant professor of English at Medgar Evers College, Essex County College and the College of New Rochelle. [3]

Career

Donna Hill began her career writing novels in 1987, writing True Confessions, [4] and has since published more than seventy novels and received the RT Career Achievement Award for her books. [5] [6]

In 2009 she launched the e-book venture InnerVision Publishing together with author Pittershawn Palmer, with the intention of focusing on multicultural books. [7]

Selected works

Hill's first romance novel, Rooms of the Heart, was published by Odyssey Books in 1990. [8]

Her sixth novel, Intimate Betrayal, is about Reese, who has lived with repressed-memoria amnesia ever since she lost her parents violently. Her memory gets triggered when she meets Maxwell and learns that their fathers were colleagues working for military intelligence. It was published by Harlequin Kimani Arabesque in 1997. [9] Intimate Betrayal was adapted for screen as a TV movie for the BET network, starring Monica Calhoun, Khalil Kain, and Erica Gimpel in 1999. [10] [11]

She is also published under the pen name Olivia Hill. [12]

Bibliography

As Donna Hill

Romance

Scandalous Series

  1. Scandalous (Harlequin Presents, 1995)
  2. A Scandalous Affair (Harlequin, 2000)

Quinten Parker Series

  1. A Private Affair (Harlequin, 1998)
  2. Pieces of Dreams (Harlequin, 1999)
  3. Through the Fire (Harlequin Kimani Arabesque, 2001

The Ladies Cartel Series

  1. Sex and Lies (Harlequin, 2007)
  2. Seduction and Lies (Harlequin, 2008)
  3. Temptation and Lies (Harlequin, 2009)
  4. Longing and Lies (Harlequin, 2009)

Pause for Men Series

  1. Saving All My Lovin' (Harlequin Kimani, 2006)
  2. Love Becomes Her (Harlequin Kimani, 2006)
  3. If I Were Your Woman (Harlequin Kimani, 2007)
  4. After Dark (Harlequin Kimani, 2007)

Lawsons of Louisiana Series

  1. Spend My Life With You (Harlequin Kimani, 2011)
  2. Secret Attraction (Harlequin Kimani, 2012)
  3. Sultry Nights (Harlequin Kimani, 2012)
  4. Everything is You (Harlequin Kimani, 2012)
  5. The Way You Love Me (Harlequin Kimani, 2015)
  6. For the Love of You (Harlequin Kimani, 2016)
  7. Surrender to Me (Harlequin Kimani, 2017)
  8. When I'm With You (Harlequin Kimani, 2018)

Sag Harbor Village Series

  1. Touch Me Now (Harlequin Kimani Arabesque, 2012)
  2. For You I Will (Harlequin Kimani Arabesque, 2014)
  3. My Love at Last (Harlequin Kimani Arabesque, 2015)

Mystery

Tess McDonald Series

  1. Getting Hers (St. Martin's Press, 2006)
  2. Wicked Ways (St. Martin's Press, 2007)

Women's Fiction

Anthologies

Romance

Mystery

As Olivia Hill

Mystery

Filmography

FilmYearDirectorScreenwriterRef(s)
Intimate Betrayal1999Dianah WinterChuck Cummings [10]
Masquerade2000 Roy Campanella II. Janine Sherman [13]
A Private Affair2000 Michael Toshiyuki Uno Tony Lee [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "Donna Hill". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  2. ↑ "Author Donna Hill Gives Readers Two Releases This Month". CHANDRA SPARKS SPLOND. 2018-05-18. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  3. ↑ "About Donna". Donna Hill. 2014-01-04. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  4. ↑ "Donna Hill, Author Info, Published Books, Bio, Photo, Video, and More". AALBC.com, the African American Literature Book Club. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  5. ↑ "Donna Hill". RT Book Reviews. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  6. ↑ Hill, Donna (17 October 2006). "Fiction Book Review: Guilty Pleasures by Donna Hill, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (246p)". PublishersWeekly.com. ISBN   978-0-312-35421-3 . Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  7. ↑ "Veteran Author Launches e-Book Venture". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  8. ↑ "Thank you, Donna Hill, for 25 years of romance". Happy Ever After. 2015-03-23. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  9. ↑ Hill, Donna (1997). "Fiction Book Review: Intimate Betrayal by Donna Hill, Author Pinnacle Books $4.99 (377p)". PublishersWeekly.com. ISBN   978-0-7860-0396-9 . Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  10. 1 2 Wynter, Dianah, Intimate Betrayal, Monica Calhoun, Khalil Kain, Erica Gimpel, retrieved 2018-03-22
  11. ↑ "Happy Ever After: 100 Swoon-Worthy Romances". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  12. ↑ "Author Donna Hill Marks 25th Anniversary with New Series - CHANDRA SPARKS SPLOND". CHANDRA SPARKS SPLOND. 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  13. ↑ II, Roy Campanella (2000-11-10), Masquerade, Simbi Kali, Cress Williams, Kellita Smith, retrieved 2018-03-22
  14. ↑ Uno, Michael Toshiyuki (2000-08-26), A Private Affair, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Clifton Powell, Lou Myers, retrieved 2018-03-22
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