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Julie Kenner | |
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Born | Mountain View, California |
Pen name | Julie Kenner J. Kenner J.K. Beck |
Occupation | Novelist, Attorney (former) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin, Baylor University |
Period | 2000–present |
Genre | Romance, Fantasy |
Notable awards | RITA award – Best Erotic Romance 2014 Claim Me |
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Julie Kenner is a USA Today bestselling American author of romance and fantasy novels. She also writes with the pen names J.K. Beck and J. Kenner. [1] In 2014, she received the Romance Writers of America RITA Award as J. Kenner for Best Erotic Romance for Claim Me.
Originally from California, Kenner grew up in Texas and received a bachelor's degree in radio-television-film from the University of Texas at Austin [2] and later attended law school at Baylor University School of Law in Waco, Texas. After practicing law in Los Angeles, California she quit and moved to Austin, Texas and continued practicing. [3] For five years Kenner practiced law and wrote novels, in 2004 she gave up practicing law to become a full-time writer and mother. [4]
She has written a number of books, including the four-part Aphrodite series, and her 2005 novel Carpe Demon. The movie rights for Carpe Demon have been optioned by 1492 Pictures and Warner Brothers in a multi-book deal. [5]
Kenner has also had her works appear in a number of anthologies.
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Kenner has also won a number of awards. She was certified as a USA Today bestselling author and won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Contemporary Paranormal Fiction for her book Aphrodite's Kiss, received two PEARL Award honorable mentions, including Best New Author, and her book The Cat's Fancy won the Venus Award for Best Paranormal Fiction of the Year, the Romance Journal's Francis Award, and was a Sapphire Award Finalist.
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