Vanessa Grant

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Vanessa Grant
BornDecember 7, 1946
DiedApril 26, 2023
Nanaimo, BC
Occupation Novelist
Nationality Canadian
Period1985 - 2001
Genre Romantic novel

Vanessa Grant was a Canadian writer of romance novels, having had 29 published from 1985 to 2001. Her books have been translated into 15 languages and she has over 10 million books in print. While she wrote under the name "Vanessa Grant" her full name was "Vanessa Grant Oltmann." [1]

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In 1997 she wrote a manual of writing: Writing Romance and became an international lecturer.

Biography

Grant wrote 29 romance novels from 1985 to 2001. Her books have been translated into 15 languages and she has over 10 million books in print.[ citation needed ] In 1997 she wrote a manual of writing: Writing Romance.

Grant became an international lecturer who has given workshops to writers' groups in Canada and the United States. In August 2001 she was the featured speaker at the Romance Writers of Australia and Romance Writers of New Zealand's annual conferences.

Bibliography

Single novels

Jenny & Georgina series

  1. Jenny's Turn (1987)
  2. Stray Lady (1987)

MacAvoy series

  1. Takeover Man (1988)
  2. One Secret Too Many (1990)

Gabriola Island series

  1. With Strings Attached (1991)
  2. When Love Returns (1991)

Non fiction

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