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Linda Winstead Jones is an American author who has written more than fifty romance books in several subgenres, [1] including paranormal romance, historical romance, fairy tale romance, and romantic suspense.
Jones has published many of her novels under various pseudonyms including Linda Jones, Linda Fallon, and Linda Devlin.
Jones's September 1996 time-travel novel, Desperado's Gold was the winner of the Colorado Award of Excellence in the paranormal division. She was nominated for a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Innovative Historical Romance, and her book Someone's Been Sleeping In My Bed was nominated in their Best Historical Love and Laughter category for 1996. She has won the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence twice, is a three time RITA Award finalist, and (writing as Linda Fallon) winner of the 2004 RITA Award for paranormal romance.
Paranormal romance is a subgenre of both romantic fiction and speculative fiction. Paranormal romance focuses on romantic love and includes elements beyond the range of scientific explanation, from the speculative fiction genres of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Paranormal romance range from traditional romances with a paranormal setting to stories with a science fiction or fantasy-based plot with a romantic subplot included. Romantic relationships between humans and vampires, shapeshifters, ghosts, and other entities of a fantastic or otherworldly nature are common.
Emma Darcy is the pseudonym used by the Australian husband–wife writing team of Wendy Brennan and Frank Brennan, they wrote in collaboration over 45 romance novels. In 1993, for the Emma Darcy pseudonym's 10th anniversary, they created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995, Wendy wrote on her own. She lived in New South Wales, Australia.
Linda S. Howington is an American best-selling romance/suspense author under her pseudonym Linda Howard.
Susan Kyle, née Susan Eloise Spaeth is an American writer who was known as Diana Palmer and has published romantic novels since 1979. She has also written romances as Diana Blayne, Katy Currie, and under her married name Susan Kyle and a science fiction novel as Susan S. Kyle.
Sandra Lynn Brown, née Cox is an American bestselling author of romantic novels and thriller suspense novels. Brown has also published works under the pen names of Rachel Ryan, Laura Jordan, and Erin St. Claire.
MaryJanice Davidson is an American author who writes mostly paranormal romance, but also young adult literature and non-fiction. She is the creator of the popular Undead series. She is both a New York Times and USA Today bestseller. She won a 2004 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award and was nominated for the same award in 2005. Davidson lives in Minnesota with her husband and two children. She grew up on military bases and moved often, as she was the child of a United States Air Force airman. Pamela Clare of USA Today wrote, "It's Davidson's humor, combined with her innate storytelling ability and skill with dialogue, that has lifted her from small presses to the big best-seller lists.". Davidson is the mother of fantasy author C. M. Alongi.
Dixie Browning, née Burrus is an American artist and writer of over 100 romance novels. She also has published under the pen name Zoe Dozier, and with her sister Mary Burrus Williams, she writes historical romance under the name Bronwyn Williams. She is a recipient of the RITA Award.
Sabrina Jeffries is American author of romance novels, who also writes under the pen names Deborah Martin and Deborah Nicholas. Entertainment Weekly calls her "one of the long-reigning leading voices in historical romance."
Miranda Lee was an Australian writer of over 75 romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon's beginning in 1990.
Sandra Marton is a best-selling American author of over 86 romance novels in Harlequin Enterprises Ltd since 1985. In 2012, she began writing self-published novels. Six titles are currently available: "The Prince of Pleasure," "Emily: Sex & Sensibility," "Jaimie: Fire & Ice," "Lissa: "Sugar & Spice," "The Gift," and "On the Wilde Side."
Sharon Kendrick, née Wirdnam is a popular British writer of over 100 romance novels published by Mills & Boon since 1993. Her books regularly top the sales charts for romance fiction on both sides of the Atlantic.
Maureen Child is an American writer who wrote over 50 romance novels since 1990. She has written under the pen names Ann Carberry, Kathleen Kane, Sara Hart and Regan Hastings.
Barbara McCauley is an American romance writer. She has written over 35 romance novels for Harlequin Enterprises since 1991.
Christine Rimmer is a USA Today and Waldenbooks bestselling U.S. writer of over 60 romance novels, which she began writing in 1987. She also published poems and short stories in a number of small literary journals.
Kristi Gold is an American writer of over 25 romance novels since 2000.
Kresley Cole is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of paranormal romance and young adult novels. She has received three Romance Writers of America (RWA) RITA Awards and was inducted into the RWA Hall of Fame in 2009.
Linnea Sinclair is an American writer of Science Fiction Romance, Fantasy romance and Paranormal romance. Sinclair's Gabriel's Ghost was the winner of the 2006 RITA Award in the Best Paranormal Romance category. She has used the pseudonym Megan Sybil Baker. Formerly, she has been a news reporter and a private detective.
Pamela Brooks is a British writer of non-fiction books. She also writes romance novels and crime novels under the pseudonym of Kate Hardy. Her romance novels have won three Love Story of the Year awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association: in 2008, Breakfast at Giovanni's; in 2014, Bound by a Baby; in 2021, A Will, a Wish and A Wedding.
Jane Porter is an American author of contemporary romance and women's fiction. She is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over forty-five titles, with over 12 million books in print, in 20 languages and in 25 countries. Her novel Flirting with Forty was made into the Lifetime movie of the same name starring Heather Locklear. In 2014, she received the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Romance Novella for Take Me, Cowboy.
Bibliography of British science fiction and fantasy writer Tanith Lee: