"Plain Jane's Secret Life / Beauty and the Black Sheep" (2005) (with Cathy Gillen Thacker).
From the First / What are Friends for?.She was also number 2 on the New York Times Bestsellers List of 2014. She has also been nominated six times for Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards, winning once for Lover Awakened. The Romance Writers of America awarded her the RITA Award for Best Short Contemporary Romance in 2007 for her novel From the First.
Her heroes are most often alpha males, "the tougher, the cockier, the more arrogant, the better", while the heroines are smart and strong. She likens the process of creating a series to "meeting friends through other friends".
īird likes to write series novels which incorporate characters from her previous books. These novels are a series, known as the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Several years later, Bird invented a world populated by vampires and began writing single-title paranormal romance novels under the pen name J.R. She found an agent, and in 2002 her first novel, a contemporary romance called Leaping Hearts, was published. Her new husband encouraged her to try to get an agent and market her manuscripts. In 2001, Bird married John Neville Blakemore III. She then received a Juris Doctor degree from Albany Law School and worked in healthcare administration for several years, including as the Chief of Staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Bird attended Smith College where she double majored in history and art history, concentrating on the medieval period. After that, she wrote regularly, but for herself. The summer before she went to college she wrote her first book, a romance novel. She began writing as a child, penning her thoughts in diaries as well as inventing short stories. She is a three-time winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA Award, once as Bird for Best Short Contemporary Romance for From the First and twice as Ward for Best Paranormal Romance for Lover Revealed and Dearest Ivie, and her books have been on The New York Times Best Seller list.īorn Jessica Rowley Pell Bird in Massachusetts, United States, she is the daughter of W. Under her maiden name, Jessica Bird, she writes contemporary romance novels, and as J.R. Jessica Rowley Pell Bird Blakemore is an American novelist. John Neville Blakemore III (2001–present) RITA award – Best Short Contemporary Romance
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