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凯伦·罗巴德斯 Karen Robards
美国 现代美国  (1954年8月24日)

言情 describe loving stories (books)《夏日烟云》

阅读凯伦·罗巴德斯 Karen Robards在小说之家的作品!!!
凯伦·罗巴德斯
凯伦·罗巴德斯
  美国言情小说女作家。著有:《夏日烟云》。


  Karen Robards (born in August 24, 1954 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a best-selling author of over thirty romance novels. After first gaining recognition for her historical romances, Robards became one of the first historical romance novelists to successfully make the switch to contemporary romantic fiction. Her work has been translated into eleven languages, and has won awards from both Romantic Times and Affaire de Coeur.
  
  Biography
  
  [edit]Early years
  Karen Robards sold her first story in 1973. As a teenager working part-time for her orthodontist father, Robards saw a Readers Digest solication for funny anecdotes. She quickly penned and submitted a two-paragraph story. Several weeks later she received a check for $100, and her entry was featured in the December 1973 Reader's Digest. Although she attempted to sell other anecdotes to the magazine, her subsequent attempts were rejected.
  Her first attempts at writing novel came while she was attending the University of Kentucky taking a graduate-level creative writing class, when the professor challenged each student to write 50 pages that could be published. After researching what types of books were selling well, Robards chose to write a historical romance, not realizing that she would be required to read her work aloud to the class. Although her professor and classmates laughed at her choice of subject matter, those 50 pages became the basis for her first book, Island Flame. This debut novel was published in 1981, when Robards was only 24.
  [edit]Career
  At the time that Robards's debut novel was published, the typical paperback historical romance novel had a shelf life of only three weeks. After three weeks, her novel was no longer available on bookstore shelves, and her publisher was reluctant to purchase any further work without seeing the sales figures for the current book. Undeterred, Robards dropped out of law school to pursue her writing career. To pay her bills, she took a job in an orthodontic clinic, writing a new novel in the ladies' room at the clinic while on her lunch break. She finished this second book, the contemporary romantic suspense To Love a Man, in three months. The book sold quickly to a different publisher and became the true launchpad for her writing career.
  Within the next several years, Robards had three additional historical romances published, including Sea Fire, the sequel to Island Flame, before To Love a Man was officially released. After the publication of To Love a Man, Robards's new publisher contracted her to write two novels per year, one a historical romance and the other contemporary romantic suspense. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, publishers began to fear that the contemporary romance market was "dead", and Robards was asked to write only historicals. She switched publishers in the early 1990s, moving to Dell, and convinced them to take a chance on a new contemporary romance. That novel, One Summer, was Robards's first hardcover contemporary novel, and its success convinced Dell to ask Robards to concentrate on her contemporary novels. After yet another publisher switch in 2001, Robards has been able to once again alternate the time periods she uses in her novels. Her novels have been translated into eleven languages.
  Her novels are often praised for their sensuality. According to Romantic Times Magazine, "Robards has a true flair for characterization and excels at adding large doses of humor to the spicy mix." She has won a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and has been nominated for four Romantic Times awards for her novels, winning once for Irresistible. Robards has also received six Affaire de Coeur Silver Pen awards for favorite romance novelist.
  Robards lives in her hometown, Louisville, Kentucky, with her husband, Doug Robards, and their three sons, Jack (b abt 1995), Chris (b abt 1990), and Peter (b 1983). Her parents, three brothers, and sister live nearby.
  [edit]Bibliography
  
  [edit]Historical Romance Novels
  [edit]Hale Duology
  Island Flame, 1981
  Sea Fire, 1982
  [edit]Banning Sisters Series
  Scandalous, 2001
  Irresistible, 2002
  Shameless, 2010
  [edit]Other, by Publication Date
  Forbidden Love, 1983
  Amanda Rose, 1984
  Dark Torment, 1985
  Loving Julia, 1986
  Dark of the Moon, 1988
  Desire in the Sun, 1988
  Tiger's Eye, 1989
  Morning Song, 1990
  Green Eyes, 1991
  This Side of Heaven, 1991
  Nobody's Angel, 1992
  [edit]Romantic Suspense Novels
  To Love a Man, 1985
  Wild Orchids, 1986
  Night Magic, 1987
  One Summer, 1993
  Maggy's Child, 1994
  Walking After Midnight, 1995
  Hunter's Moon, 1996
  Heartbreaker, 1997
  The Senator's Wife, 1998
  The Midnight Hour, 1999
  Ghost Moon, 2000
  Paradise County, 2000
  To Trust a Stranger, 2001
  Manna From Heaven, 2001 (in anthology Wait Until Dark)
  Whispers at Midnight, 2002
  Beachcomber, 2003
  Bait, 2004
  Superstition, 2005
  Vanished, 2006
  Obsession, 2007
  Guilty, 2008
  "Pursuit", 2009
  "Shattered", 2010
  [edit]Anthology
  Wait Until Dark (2001) (with Linda Anderson, Andrea Kane and Mariah Stewart)
    

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