Joanna Novins
Author Joanna Novins spent over a decade working for the
Central Intelligence Agency. She credits the Agency with
honing her writing skills, teaching her to recognize the
compelling elements of a story, and sending her overseas
where she met her husband while standing on a customs
line. For her work at the agency, Joanna received seven
performance awards, all of which are neatly stacked in a
closet because she can't tell anyone how she earned them.
After the birth of her second child, she retired from the
agency, under the false impression that small children are
easier to deal with than policymakers, military officers,
and State Department officials. Realizing her mistake, she
took refuge in stacks of romance novels and finally turned
to writing them in 2001.
The Souvenir Countess, a romantic adventure set against
the excitement of the French Revolution and the swirl of
English high-society is Joanna's debut novel. Its release
in January 2004 will be closely followed by the release of
a sequel, Souvenir of Love, in February 2004.
Drawing on her experiences living and working in Europe,
Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, Joanna creates a
world in her books that has been described as "lush and
intriguing." As for the colorful characters who inhabit her
novels, she admits to being inspired by several decades of
eccentric Southern relatives. She points out that she's
not the first writer to exploit her family in this way; her
great uncle inspired one of the characters in Robert Penn
Warren's famous novel, All the King's Men. Joanna holds a Masters Degree from the Johns Hopkins School
of Advanced International Studies and was awarded a
Bachelors degree with honors in history from Williams
College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She currently
lives in Connecticut with her husband, her sons, and enough
animals to stock a small zoo.
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Series
Books:Souvenir of Love, February 2004
Paperback
The Souvenir Countess, January 2004
Paperback
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