Jill Marie Landis

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Jill Marie Landis | The Tale of THE ACCIDENTAL LAWMAN or The Book with the Big Headed Hero.
May 22, 2009
Last year Steeple Hill released HOMECOMING, my first western historical with an inspirational theme. The  Read More...

Jill Marie Landis | Celebrate Every Day!
June 24, 2008
Aloha to all of you readers out there in cyberspace. How exciting to be back on the Fresh Fiction Blog and in such good company  Read More...

Jill Marie Landis | Welcoming Westerns Back
August 31, 2007
Aloha One and All: A big Mahalo (thank you!) to Fresh Fiction for inviting me to blog today. This is such a fabulous site, one  Read More...

Known for the emotional intensity of her stories and the depth of her characters, Jill Marie Landis is considered one of the country's foremost authors of romance and women's fiction.

Her career in publishing began in 1988 with the historical romance, SUNFLOWER, the first of her many books to earn distinguished awards and slots on such national bestseller lists as USA Today's Top 50 and the New York Times' Bestsellers Plus.

A seven time Romance Writers of America Finalist for the RITA Award in both Single Title Historical and Contemporary, she is a Golden Heart as well as a Rita Winner. In 2005, her hardcover novel, HEARTBREAK HOTEL, was chosen by the American Library Association’s Booklist Magazine as one of the Top Ten Romances of 2005, by Library Journal as one of the Top Five Best Romances of 2005, and by RWA as a Rita Finalist in the Single Title Contemporary.

Jill Marie has just completed the first of two Inspirational single title romances for Steeple Hill Books. With stories set in Texas in the 1870's, Jill Marie has gone back to her Western Historical Romance roots with the added element of faith as the heart of the novel. Though HOMECOMING is a step in a new direction, this and subsequent other Inspirational love stories contain all of the rich characterization, page turning tension, and heartwarming family drama that has made her previous books “keepers”.

In June of 2008, DESTINATION: MARRIAGE, an anthology of wedding stories from Harlequin, will include "Trouble in Paradise," a story the author has set on the island of Kauai.

Jill Marie Landis resides in Hawaii and California. When she’s not writing or sitting on the beach reading, she enjoys raising orchids, working in her garden, playing the ukulele, dancing the hula and quilting--but not all at once.

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