Sunday, September 2, 2012

MY FAVORITE AUTHOR


SANDRA BROWN

Sandra Brown is the author of fifty-seven New York Times bestsellers, including Smoke Screen (2008), Play Dirty (2007), Ricochet (2006), Chill Factor(2005), White Hot (2004), Hello, Darkness (2003), The Crush (2002), Envy(2001), The Switch (2000), The Alibi (1999), Unspeakable (1998) and Fat Tuesday (1997), all of which have jumped onto the Times bestseller list in the number one to five spot.

Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published seventy-two novels, most of which remain in print. As of 1990, when Mirror Image made The New York Times bestseller list, each subsequent novel has become a Times bestseller. In 1992 her novel French Silk was made into an ABC-TV movie. Brown now has seventy million copies of her books in print worldwide, and her work has been translated into thirty-three languages.

A lifelong Texan, Sandra Brown was born in Waco, grew up in Fort Worth and attended Texas Christian University, majoring in English. Before embarking on her writing career, she worked as a model at the Dallas Apparel Mart, and in television, including weathercasting for WFAA-TV in Dallas, and feature reporting on the nationally syndicated program “PM Magazine. She is much in demand as a speaker and has appeared at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. and the Texas Book Festival in Austin, TX, as well as charity functions throughout the year. TruTV (formerly Court TV) also sought Brown to host the 2007 premier of its popular series “Murder by the Book.

Brown was recently given an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University. Other awards and commendations include the 2007 Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature, the American Business Women's Association's Distinguished Circle of Success, B'nai B'rith's Distinguished Literary Achievement Award, the A.C. Greene Award and the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. Sandra was also named Thriller Master for 2008, the top award given by the International Thriller Writer's Association. In addition, Sandra is a member of Author's Guild, Mystery Writers of America, Novelists, Inc., Literacy Partners, and a founding member of International Thriller Writers.

Sandra and her husband Michael Brown live in Arlington, Texas.




BOOKS:






22 Indigo Place

A Kiss Remembered

A Secret Splendor

A Secret Splendor and Above And Beyond

A Treasure Worth Seeking

A Whole New Light

Above And Beyond

Adam's Fall

Another Dawn

Best Kept Secrets

Bittersweet Rain

Breakfast In Bed

Breath Of Scandal

Charade

Chill Factor

Demon Rumm

Eloquent Silence

Envy

Exclusive

Fanta C

Fantasia/Fantasy

Fat Tuesday

French Silk

Hawk O'Toole's Hostage

Heaven's Price

Hello, Darkness

Hidden Fires

Honor Bound

In A Class By Itself

Led Astray

Led Astray and The Devil's Own

Lethal

Long Time Coming

Love Beyond Reason

Love's Encore

Low Pressure

Mirror Image

Not Even For Love

Play Dirty

Prime Time

Rainwater

Relentless Desire

Ricochet

Riley In The Morning

Seduction By Design

Send No Flowers

Shadows Of Yesterday

Slow Heat In Heaven

Smash Cut

Smoke Screen

Standoff

Sunny Chandler's Return

Sunset Embrace

Sweet Anger

Temperatures Rising

Tempest In Eden

Temptation's Kiss

Texas! Chase

Texas! Lucky

Texas! Sage

The Alibi

The Crush

The Devil's Own

The Rana Look

The Silken Web

The Switch

The Thrill Of Victory

The Witness

Thursday's Child

Tidings Of Great Joy

Tiger Prince

Tomorrow's Promise

Tough Customer

Two Alone

Unspeakable

Where There's Smoke

White Hot

Words Of Silk


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