More than a decade later, we're still laughing about it. When asked why she mixes serious emotion with humor, she tied it back to her first date with her husband. In 2011, she switched to Avon with the first book in her Spindle Cove series, A Night to Surrender ĭare then signed with Ballantine to publish her debut novel, Goddess of the Hunt. It was from this competition that she broke into publishing, along with the other winner, Courtney Milan. Shortly afterward, she entered and won the first Avon FanLit contest and her short story 'Forget Me Not' was published as Chapter Four of the HarperCollins e-book, These Wicked Games.

Her first publicly seen fiction was Jane Austen fan fiction written under the pen name Vangie. I would read through dinner, read through classes, read into the wee hours of the night, and, yes, I even read while walking!' ĭare works as a full-time author and currently resides in Southern California, USA with her husband, two children, and three cats. Whenever I felt lonely or uprooted, opening a familiar book gave me comfort. She says they became 'my refuge, my entertainment, my source of information on all sorts of topics. Biography ĭuring childhood, her family moved often and books took on an important role for her. In 2012, she won the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA award for Best Regency Historical Romance for her book A Night to Surrender. She has authored fifteen novels and novellas and created four different series. Tessa Dare is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling American historical romance novelist. RITA award – Best Regency Historical Romance

Beauty and the Blacksmith by Tessa Dare