Career Highlights
Love
Letters from A Duke hit the New York Times Extended Bestseller list for two
weeks in September 2007. Eleven of Elizabeth’s books have made multiple
showings on the USA Bestseller list, the Waldenbooks list and Bookscan.
In
May 2008, Romantic Times gave
Elizabeth a Career Achievement Award for Innovative Historical Romances.
Her fast-paced stories are often called “page-turners” and “riveting.”
Nominated
for the Romance Writers of America coveted RITA award on four occasions, (Best
Long Historical Romance for This Rake of Mine and Brazen
Angel, Best Paranormal
Romance for His Mistress by Morning), Elizabeth began her career by winning
the RITA for Best First Book for her debut novel, Brazen
Angel.
Brazen
Angel sold to Dell in 1996 after beating out 200 other entries in the Dell Diamond Debut writing competition. Behind her incredible win is the heart-warming and romantic story of how her husband went to extraordinary lengths to make sure her entry arrived on time. My
Favorite Hero is already a legend in the romance community.
Elizabeth’s
books are favorites all around the world, including translations in Italian,
French, German, Russian, Dutch, Romanian, Norwegian, and Chinese. Her
readership encompasses 80 countries and counting.
AT a glance
An ardent fan of the Regency era, Elizabeth is also a member of the Jane Austen Society of North America, and speaks often on the world and intricacies of Jane Austen’s world and novels, and has been known to go to London just to get a “Jane fix.”
As the mother of a child with autism, Elizabeth is a fervent supporter of Austim Speaks
Prior
to being a writer, Elizabeth worked as a paralegal for a private law firm and
for a major software corporation. Her days working on cases of police misconduct
cases, shootings, arson and insurance fraud, as well as software piracy gave
her enough story ideas to fill a lifetime of novel writing.
short bio
Elizabeth Boyle is the NY Times bestselling author of thirteen novels and one novella. Her favorites moments as an author include winning the Dell Diamond Debut, the Romance Writers of America RITA award and falling over backward into Puget Sound during a photo shoot. Having successfully hunted software pirates for a living, Elizabeth feels equally qualified to delve into the antics of rakes, spies and privateers in her writing life.
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