Beverly Bird
Beverly confesses to having been the prototype of the
rebellious teenager. By the age of five — when she tried to
rewrite the ending to The Wizard of Oz because it scared
her — she knew she would be a writer. Therefore, the high school regimen was obviously not for
her, and childhood was just something to get through before
she could make her mark on the world. On one memorable
occasion, she stood up in chemistry class to inform her
teacher that she did not need to understand the subject
because in a few years she would be writing for a living
anyway. She failed the class, of course. Then, some 20
years later, she had to face the teacher at a reunion and
admit that when she had to research DNA for a recent book
she still had no clue what it was about! Since words are meant to be read and not eaten, Beverly
turned seriously to writing when she was 22. The stars
aligned for a time — she was single and her rent was
astronomically low because she looked after the elderly
lady who owned the building. She'd just gotten laid off
from an advertising job with a newspaper due to budget cuts
and therefore had an unemployment check coming in weekly.
She decided that it was now or never — and Emeralds in the
Dark was born, published by Silhouette to launch the
Intimate Moments line in 1983. Since then, Beverly has published 20 books with Silhouette
as well as several romantic suspense and historical novels.
She prefers strong heroines with hidden soft spots and a
penchant for getting themselves into trouble, figuring that
she has had some experience herself in that area. Though she has lived in several places in the United
States, Beverly returned to her roots to live on a barrier
island off the coast of New Jersey with her son and a
Chihuahua named Taco, where periodically she risks running
into that chemistry teacher. But these days, she is much
less rebellious and tends to tuck tail and run when she
encounters someone she probably ticked off 25 years ago! Beverly loves to hear from readers but admits that she is
seriously negligent about actually traveling to the post
office and snail-mailing her replies. She asks that anyone
who would like to contact her please do so via email at
[email protected].
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Series
Books:The Marrying Kind, September 2008
Safe Haven
Paperback
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