Tara Taylor Quinn

Tara Taylor Quinn (Born August 22) is a USA Today Bestselling author, who is known for delivering intense deeply emotional novels of suspense, romance and women’s fiction. With 113 original published works, 11 more in production and more than 7 million copies sold, she is a past president of the Romance Writers of America and served eight years on that board of directors. Ms. Quinn is the recipient of the National Reader’s Choice Award and is a five time RITA finalist.

Ms. Quinn wrote her first ‘published’ story when she was six years old, for a class publication. During high school and college she worked as a stringer for the Dayton Daily News, in Dayton, Ohio, where she saw her first bi-line. She got a degree in English, a teacher’s certification, and sold her first book to Harlequin Books in 1992 and has been contracted with them and their subsidiaries ever since.

In 2010, Ms. Quinn was approached by HCI Books to write her true life love story. She and her husband, Tim Barney, collaborated and wrote It Happened On Maple Street, HCI Books, 2011. A proud resident of Arizona, Ms. Quinn has appeared on national and local TV across the country, including CBS Sunday Morning and is a frequent guest speaker. She has one daughter, Rachel, and two step-daughters, and two very spoiled dogs. In her spare time she likes to travel, climb Arizona mountains, and inline skate.

Ms. Quinn is a supporter of the National Domestic Violence Hotline http://www.thehotline.org/. If you or someone you know might be a victim of domestic violence in the United States, please contact 1-800-799-7233