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Jean Brashear
This 5th-generationTexan has
built a very successful career as an award-winning, top-selling
romance writer; a devotee of taking the back roads and collecting
photos of oddball sights, she's also fascinated with the glimpses of
history provided by her state's roadside markers. She sews, knits
and has tried just about every kind of craft or needlework invented,
with a stash of raw materials that frequently threatens to take
over; she writes books for her grandchildren and taught herself to
hand-bind them. She enjoys cooking with the bounty from her
ex-Marine husband's garden and makes her own bread the old-fashioned
way, swearing that kneading dough is its own kind of therapy.
The author of 23 novels in romance and women’s fiction, with
sales of more than 1.6 million copies, she is a three-time RITA
finalist and Romantic Times BOOKReviews Career Achievement
Award winner, she has won numerous other awards and been a
Waldenbooks bestseller. Foreign editions of
her novels include the UK, Latin America, Spain, Germany,
Japan, Italy, Iceland, Holland, France, Australia, Belgium, New
Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Jean knows a lot about taking crazy
chances. A lifelong avid reader, at the age of forty-five with no
experience and no training, she decided to see if she could write a
book. It was a wild leap that turned her whole life upside down,
but she would tell you that though she's never been more terrified,
she's never felt more exhilarated or more alive. She's an ardent
proponent of not putting off your dreams until that elusive
'someday'—take that leap now.
She lives in Central Texas with her husband
and a shaggy, stray, escaped-from-the-circus dog.
Author Photo by Kimberly Stephens
Photography
Her Books From Belle Books:
The Goddess of Fried
Okra
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