Terri Blackstock

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Terri Blackstock
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Belleville, Illinois, U.S.
Pen nameTerri Herrington
Tracy Hughes
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Education Wingfield High School
Northeast Louisiana University
Genre Christian fiction
Notable awards Christy Award (2016, 2019)
Website
terriblackstock.com

Terri Blackstock (born 1957) is an American Christian fiction author with a focus on suspense novels. She began her career writing romance novels under the pseudonyms Terri Herrington and Tracy Hughes.

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Early life and education

Blackstock was born in Belleville, Illinois in 1957, and her family moved multiple times during her childhood to follow her father's career as a US Air Force officer. [1] At age 11, she began writing poetry. [1] After her parents divorced, she moved to Mississippi with her mother and graduated from Wingfield High School in Jackson, Mississippi in 1975. [1]

She completed a bachelor's degree in English from Northeast Louisiana University in 1981. [1] She left graduate school to focus on writing. [1]

Writing

Blackstock began her writing career with romance novels under the pseudonym Terri Herrington, and published her first novel, Blue Fire, in 1984. [1] She also wrote under the pseudonym Tracy Hughes, and by the mid-1990s had published thirty-three romance novels under her pseudonyms. [1]

In 1994, Blackstock shifted to Christian fiction, with a focus on the suspense genre, and began publishing under her married name with Zondervan, a Christian publishing imprint of HarperCollins. [1] [2] By 2004, the first three books in her "Cape Refuge" series reached the top of the Christian Booksellers Association bestseller list before the fourth book in the series was released. [2] In January 2010, the first two books in the series reached the top two places in the Kindle bestseller list after Zondervan temporarily made the books available for free downloads. [3]

In 2014, Blackstock cited Barbara Kingsolver, John Grisham, Dean Koontz, Jodi Piccoult, Harlen Coben, Pat Conroy, and Christian authors as influences on her work. [4] By 2017, she had written 80 titles, including novels, story collections, and a devotional, [5] and more than 7 million copies of her books had been sold. [6]

In addition to her suspense novels, she has written Christian fiction in the women's fiction genre, including the "Seasons" series co-written with Beverly LaHaye, a founder of Concerned Women for America [7] and the wife of Tim LaHaye. [8]

Awards

Selected work

The Sun Coast Chronicles

Second Chances

Newpointe 911 [18]

Seasons, co-written with Beverly LaHaye

Cape Refuge

Restoration

Intervention

Moon Lighter

If I Run

Stand-Alones

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