Linda Wisdom | |
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Born | United States |
Pen name | Also writes as Linda Randall Wisdom |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | American |
Period | 1978–present |
Genre | Romantic novel, paranormal romance |
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Linda Randall Wisdom is an American author of contemporary romance novels.
Wisdom began writing in 1978, and sold her first two novels, Dancer in the Shadows and Fourteen Karat Beauty to Silhouette Romance in 1979. After her supervisor discovered that she had written the books, he fired her from her job as the office manager for a personnel agency, and she turned to writing fiction full-time. [1]
Wisdom has twice been nominated for a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, in 2002 for Two Little Secrets and in 2003 for Pregnancy Countdown. She has been a multi recipient of the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. [2]
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