March's Must-Reads: Mystery, Romance, and Thrills Await!
Shannon Drake
New
York Times and USA Today best-
selling author Heather Graham
majored in theater arts at the University of
South Florida. After
a stint of several years in dinner theater,
back-up vocals, and bartending,
she stayed home after the birth of her third
child and began to write,
working on short horror stories and romances.
After some trial and
error, she sold her first book, WHEN NEXT WE
LOVE, in 1982 and since
then, she has written over one hundred novels
and novellas including
category, romantic suspense, historical
romance, vampire fiction,
time travel, occult, and Christmas holiday
fare. She wrote the launch
books for the Dell's Ecstasy Supreme line,
Silhouette's Shadows, and
for Harlequin's mainstream fiction imprint,
Mira Books.
Heather
was a founding member of the Florida Romance
Writers chapter of RWA
and, since 1999, has hosted the Romantic
Times Vampire Ball,
with all revenues going directly to children's
charity.
She
is pleased to have been published in
approximately twenty languages,
and to have been honored with awards frorn
Waldenbooks. B. Dalton,
Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de
Coeur, Romantic Times,
and more. She has had books selected for the
Doubleday Book Club and
the Literary Guild, and has been quoted,
interviewed, or featured
in such publications as The Nation,
Redbook, People,
and USA Today and appeared on many
newscasts including local
television and Entertainment Tonight.
Heather
loves travel and anything have to do with the
water, and is a certitified
scuba diver. Married since high school
graduation and the mother of
five, her greatest love in life remains her
family, but she also believes
her career has been an incredible gift, and she
is grateful every
day to be doing something that she loves so
very much for a living.