Jane Porter is an American author of contemporary romance and women's fiction. She is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over forty-five titles, with over 12 million books in print, in 20 languages and in 25 countries. Her novel Flirting with Forty was made into the Lifetime movie of the same name starring Heather Locklear. In 2014, she received the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Romance Novella for Take Me, Cowboy.
Biography
Porter was born in Visalia, California. She earned a Bachelor's degree from UCLA in American Studies, as well as Masters in Writing from the University of San Francisco.
She has worked in sales and marketing, as well as a director of a non-profit foundation and teacher of Jr. high and High school English. She sold her first novel, The Italian Groom, to Harlequin in 2000.
In 2005, Porter branched into women's fiction with the publication of The Frog Prince.
Porter founded Tule publishing in 2013.
She resides in San Clemente, California with her husband and three sons.
Bibliography
Bellevue Wives
A Brennan Sisters Novel
The Desert Kings
The Disgraced Copelands
The Galvan Brides
Princess Brides
A Royal Scandal
Taming of the Sheenans
Stand alone works
(in My Cowboy Valentine)
Anthologies and short stories
in One Christmas Night
in Mistletoe Wishes
Non-fiction
with Rebecca Lyles
Awards and reception
2006 - Romance Reviews Today for Best Contemporary Novel for Flirting with Forty
2013 - Golden Leaf Award for Best Novel with Romantic Elements for The Good Daughter 2014 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Romance Novella for Take Me, Cowboy
Porter has garnered a starred review from Library Journal for Flirting with Forty, and several top picks from RT Book Reviews.
References
External links
Author's blog
Author's website
Jane Porter: 'Reading, I am free. Thanks, Grandma'
STRANGER THAN FICTION FLIRTING WITH FORTY ROMANCE NOVELIST STARS IN HER OWN STORY IN WAIKIKI
Living people
21st-century American novelists
American romantic fiction writers
American women novelists
RITA Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people) University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of San Francisco alumni 21st-century American women writers