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Tasmina Perry | |
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Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | British |
Period | 2006 – present |
Genre | Drama |
Website | |
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Tasmina Perry is a British novelist. Her novels have been bestsellers in The Sunday Times and have been published in 17 countries. [1] [2] Perry is also a journalist and magazine editor [3] and edits a daily blog on travel, style and the places that have inspired her novels.
A trained lawyer, Perry switched to the world of women's magazines in the mid-nineties. [4] She won the New Journalist of the Year Award and went on to write for Marie Claire , Glamour and Heat , also launching her own travel and style magazine, Jaunt. She was editing InStyle magazine when she signed a book deal with publishers HarperCollins and left the world of magazines to concentrate on her writing career. [5]
Perry's debut novel, Daddy's Girls , was an immediate success. Her subsequent novels have been equally well-received, with Perfect Strangers, for example, being described by Heat magazine as 'a fast-paced, glamorous and enthralling tale'. [6]
Perry has also co-written a series of YA vampire novels with her husband John Perry, under the pseudonym Mia James. The first in the series, By Midnight, was described by the Daily Record as 'outstanding'. [7]
Tasmina Perry is a regular contributor to TV and radio. She has also been a mentor for the Marie Claire/Princes Trust Inspire and Mentor campaign. [8] She was also a judge at the 2011 P&G beauty awards. [9]
Tasmina lives in London with her husband, the writer and former magazine editor John Perry. Perry graduated from Birmingham University with an LLB degree in law in 1990. [10]