Celia Ashley aka Robin Maderich is an author of historical
romance set in locales from Colonial America to India. The
mother of three grown sons who are out on their own, the
author is a history buff who makes her home with her
husband and a menagerie of pets in a tiny, rural village
in Pennsylvania. Not coincidentally, Pennsylvania is the
setting for her latest romance, a contemporary paranormal
entitled Midnight Hearts. Always willing to stretch
herself in new directions, she welcomed the shift from
historical to contemporary settings. Ms. Maderich has been
published in historical romance under her own name and by
the pseudonym Alyssa Deane. However, in the spirit of
change, she writes contemporary novels under the pen name
Celia Ashley.
Ms. Maderich spent her childhood enamored by art and
history and books, and by the power of words, determining
at a very young age to write. Her first "book" was a
thirty-two page story about a little girl and her horse
(naturally), complete with illustrations and written when
she was in the second grade. From that point, she began
the task of teaching herself the craft of writing, reading
a book the first time for pleasure, the second and
subsequent times in study of the manner in which words
were threaded into tapestries of prose. She received an
offer for her first novel at the age of twenty-eight and
subsequently turned it down. However, from that rather
risky beginning, she was requested to try her hand at
writing a romance novel and Faith and Honor was born,
published by Warner Books (before the merger with Time) in
1989. Now, still writing romance, she happily finds
herself a member of the NCP family.
Robin invites you to visit her website,
www.robinmaderich.com, where you can find out more about
her interests, her previously published works and the
latest news of her upcoming novels and of her life, as
well as enjoy contests and giveaways. She also welcomes
comments from her readers, and you may e-mail her at
robin@robinmaderich.com.
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