She began writing while at Duke University, and sold her first novel, “Gentle Pirate”, in 1979, after six solid years of rejections from publishers. Since then, she has become one of the romance world’s most popular novelists, and pioneered her own romance subgenre known as futuristic romance, and more recently, paranormal futuristic romance suspense. There are 35 million copies of her books in print, and she is the recipient of a Susan Koppelman Award for Feminist Studies.
