She enjoyswriting young adult, (YA,) fiction alongside her son Alex, usingthe name J. Using the pen-names Rachel Hawthorne and Jade Parker, she also writes contemporary, paranormal and historical romance aimed at the teen reader. Her chosen genres were aimed at adults who enjoy historical and contemporary romance, and also teen readers, into the historical romance genre. Since then, she has written an incredible number of novels in that name, (over sixty at the last count,) with romance being at the forefront of her interests. It was in 1993that she was to sell her first novel, entitled Sweet Lullaby, under her own name, Lorraine Heath. Before that time, she agreed that she probably had misconceptions as towhat romance actually was. She also shows a mastery of small moments.īefore she began fiction writing, Rachelwas working for the IRS, where she was responsible for writing training manuals as well as computer code.She became hooked on the idea of becoming an author when she read LaVyrle Spencer’s Morning Glory’ which not only created a huge interest for her in Spencer’s work, but also convinced her that romance writing was the genre for her at the time. She’s renowned for creating deeply emotional romances with adept characterizations, with a huge amount of attention to getting the historical detailscorrect.
As at June 2015, a considerable fifteen of her titles were on the USA Today bestseller list.
In 1997, her novel Always to Remember’ gained her the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Short Historical Romance. Rachel is probably best-known for herromances, which are beautiful and deeply emotional. Her work has appeared under various pen names, such as Rachel Hawthorne, J.A. She has penned a variety of genres, ranging from contemporary and historical romance, to paranormal romance as well as young adult novels. Rachel currently lives in Plano, alongside her husband and two sons and is a renowned novelist, having the accolade of being both a New York Times and USA Today bestselling American author. She earned her BA in psychology while attending the University of Texas and in 1998,Laura Bush, (at that time theFirst Lady of Texas,)invited her to sit on a panel which was to judge romancebooks for the Texas Book Festival. Plano, Texas was her next destinationin 1987. Rachel lived in the city of Austin, in Texas for sixteen years. Shortly after she was born, Lorraine’s family moved to Angleton, Texas and the family settled there. He served in the Royal Air Force, being stationed at Bovingdon in the UK, which was how her parents first met. Her mother wasand her father was American.
Rachel Hawthorne was born as Lorraine Heath in Hertfordshire, in England.
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