MRW'S PUBLISHED AUTHORS
Our Shining Stars!
Jackie Manning
Meredith March
Cherie Claire
Linda Hall
JACKIE MANNING
Best-selling author, Jackie Manning, writing under the pseudonym, Jackie Summers, began her debut with EMBRACE THE DAWN (Harlequin Historical #260), a 1995 March Madness promotion of Harlequin Historicals, which showcase the years’ most talented new writers. Her current and future books for Harlequin are being issued under the author’s own name of Jackie Manning.
A member of Romance Writers of America since 1985, Jackie remembers enduring the eight-hour trip each month to her, then, nearest R.W.A. chapter to learn the craft of commercial fiction. She’s a ready speaker on behalf of the industry, as well as teaching workshops throughout the country. With Harlequin author Marge Smith, Jackie developed WRITING THE DREADED SYNOPSIS, which they presented at the Over The Rainbow Conference in West Palm Beach, FL.; the Silken Sands Conference in Gulf Shores, AL.; the Moonlight and Magnolia Conference in Atlanta, GA.; and RWA National Conference in Dallas, TX. With Silhouette author Carol Prescott, they presented the SHAMELESS HUSSY’S GUIDE TO SELF-PROMOTION at New England Writer’s Conference in Boston, MA. Also, Jackie gave STRESSING OUT YOUR CHARACTERS, and QUERIES, COVERS, AND THEN SOME at Silken Sands Conference, and THE MIDDLE OF THE BOOK BLUES at the New England Writers’ Chapter. HOW TO WRITE WHEN YOUR WORLD IS FALLING APART was Jackie’s first on-line workshop with GEnie, the Romance Writers Exchange. Through the adult education department in Central Maine, Jackie’s classes on how to write commercial fiction continue to be very popular. She is also one of the leading instructors in writing workshops at Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance based in Brunswick, ME.
Prior to writing full-time, Jackie had managed her own tax accounting agency, with over three hundred clients, many of whom she has recruited into devoted fans of the romance genre. When she isn’t writing or presenting workshops, Jackie is judging writing contests, researching places for future books, and hanging out with writer pals. She lives with her husband, Tom, and their two spoiled-rotten dogs in a one-hundred-and-fifty-year-old colonial in Maine. The couple are avid rose growers, whose combined collection of weighty blue ribbons and tales of braggadocios keep their neighbors and Maine’s black flies away.
A WISH FOR NICHOLAS (Harlequin Historical #398, ISBN 0-373-28998-7) by Jackie Manning was a January 1998 release. It has been on Amazon.Com’s best seller list for Romance/Historical/England through this date.
SILVER HEARTS (Harlequin Historical #454, ISBN 0-373-29054-3), was a March 1999 release. Here are some of the reviews:
"Silver Hearts is pure magic!"-Debbie Macomber.
"The sparks that fly between the hero and heroine are hot enough to ignite a blaze of major proportions"-The Fiction Works
Don't miss Jackie's April 2003 release Tough As Nails
The info on her books:
Embrace the Dawn- March 1995 release-Harlequin Historical #260- ISBN 0-373-28660-3
A Wish for Nicholas- January 1998 release-Harlequin Historical #398- ISBN 0-373-28998-7
Silver Hearts- March 1999 release-Harlequin Historical #454- ISBN 0-373-29054-3
E-Mail: jmanning@adelphia.net
Visit her website at: http://jackiemanning.com
MEREDITH MARCH
Meredith March, co-founder of Marshlands Romance Writers, brings a diverse background in the arts, media and business to her writing. She has written everything from children's stories to television commercials.
Meredith has always loved romance and being one of eight children, she found that submersing herself in romance novels, gave her just the rare freedom and solitude she craved. That passion for the romance genre, coupled with Meredith's journalism background, subsequently led her into writing her own romance novels.
The result of her creative endeavors have been truly golden for Meredith. While her first manuscript had been rejected by Harlequin Superromance, her second one had more success. As a result, THE ROCKY RIDGE MAN, a novel set in both Calgary and the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada, was sold to Harlequin Temptation in June 1998. The novel was released in August 1999. THE ROCKY RIDGE MAN has been published in Canada, US, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Greece, UK, and Holland.
While Meredith has lived in seven of Canada's ten provinces, she now resides in Prince Edward Island with her two children.
The Rocky Ridge Man (Temptation # 743, ISBN: 0-373-25843-7)
Visit her website at : http://members.tripod.com/~meredithmarch
CHERIE CLAIRE
Claire's debut novel, A CAJUN DREAM (July 1999, Zebra Splendor), was called a "charming and heartwarming tale" by best-selling author Rexanne Becnel. It won Best Novel by the Louisiana Press Women Association and came in third nationally, plus finaled in the Holt Awards and RT Reviewer's Choice Awards.
Claire is also a contributor to CRUMBS IN THE KEYBOARD, Stories From Courageous Women Who Juggle Life and Writing (Echelon Press, June 2002), a fund-raising anthology for battered women. http://www.crumbsinkeyboard.com/
Cherie Claire is the pseudonym of Cheré Dastugue Coen, an award-winning arts and entertainment journalist for Variety magazine in Los Angeles. A native of New Orleans, Cheré began her career in communications as press liaison for the Louisiana Pavilion at the 1984 World's Fair. She has written for the Baton Rouge Advocate, Glendale News-Press in Southern California, Gambit Weekly in New Orleans, Where New Orleans and New Orleans City Business, among many other publications, including ghost writing several non-fiction books.
Visit Cherie Claire's website
http://cherieclaire.romance-central.com/index.shtml OR E-Mail: cherie@cherieclaire@romance-central.com
LINDA HALL From an early age, Linda was a lover of stories. As a child she would walk home from school and make up stories, most of which didn't get written down. She also read book after book far into the night. She still enjoys reading, and probably reads a novel a week. When she's not writing she and her husband enjoy sailing the St. John River system and the Bay of Fundy in their 28 foot sailboat, Gypsy Rover II. Visit Linda Hall's website at
JOY LIDDY
