Leigh
Michaels
Author, Teacher, Editor
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Leigh Michaels
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Leigh's Bio
Leigh Michaels is the author of more than 80 books, including 75 contemporary novels and several non-fiction books. More than 30 million copies of her romance novels have been published by Harlequin Books. Six of her books have been finalists for Best Traditional Romance novel in the RITA contest sponsored by Romance Writers of America. She has received two Reviewer's Choice awards from Romantic Times. Her work has been translated and published in 120 countries in more than 25 languages, including Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Czech, Bulgarian, Russian, Turkish, Hebrew, Greek, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Africaans, Hebrew, Arabic, Indonesian, and Chinese. She is the 2003 recipient of the Johnson Brigham Award presented by the Iowa Library Association to an Iowa author for outstanding contributions to literature. She is the author of On Writing Romance, published in January 2007 by Writers Digest Books. She is the author of non-fiction books such as WRITING THE ROMANCE NOVEL, a step-by-step workbook, and CREATING ROMANTIC CHARACTERS. She is also the author of DEAR LEIGH MICHAELS: A Novelist Answers the Most-Asked Questions about Getting Published, and a cookbook, A TASTE OF LOVE. She has produced audio tapes and written magazine articles on subjects of interest to writers in general. She teaches romance writing on the Internet at Gotham Writers= Workshop, www.writingclasses.com, and at Barnes & Noble University www.bn.com. Men and women from around the world have participated in her workshops, and a number of them have gone on to publish their own romance novels with commercial publishers. She wrote her first romance novel when she was fifteen and burned it, then wrote and burned five more complete manuscripts in the next ten years before submitting to a publisher. Her first submission was accepted and published by Harlequin, the first publisher to look at it.
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