RITA nominated author Linda Francis Lee is a native Texan
now calling New York City home. Not crazy about heights,
she's not sure how she ended up living on the 34th floor of
a high rise in Manhattan. But there she is, diving into the
brand new adventure of writing contemporary romance novels.
Lee's career truly began with the
publication of the historical romance, Blue Waltz, which
has
been viewed as a breakthrough novel. The Atlanta
Journal/Constitution called it "absolutely
stunning."
Growing up, Lee created stories in her
head. "That's a nice way of saying I spent too much
time day dreaming," she laughs. At 20, realizing that
she had done most of her living vicariously through
reading,
Lee took on a series of challenges. "I did things I
thought I couldn't do," she recalls.
Among a laundry list of challenges, Lee
began running and taking math and science courses until she
ran a marathon and became a Probability and Statistics
teacher. But it was writing that captured her imagination.
Nineteen books later, Lee's stories have been called wildly
romantic and deeply emotional, a moving combination of
laughter and tears.