The queen of the revenge novel, Jane Fallon is a British author, but also the multi-award-winning television producer behind shows such as This Life, Teachers, EastEnders, and 20 Things to Do Before You’re 30. Her debut novel “Getting Rid of Matthew’ was published in 2007. Since then, she has published almost 10 more books, and…
Louise Rennison (1951-2016) was an English author and comedian. She found success with her one-woman autobiographical show, “Stevie Wonder Felt My Face,” and began to write for Woman’s Hour on Radio Four, for comedians, and for a London newspaper. This led her to publish in 1999 her first fiction book for teenage girls. The Confessions…
Like the Landry series, The Cutler Series is actually not written by V.C. Andrews but by Andrew Neiderman, the ghostwriter hired by her estate to continue to write novels to be published under her name (Virginia Andrews’s name is considered a valuable commercial asset). V.C. Andrews had started writing the first book in the series,…
Written by American author Anna Todd, The After series is a young-adult romance series that was originally published on Wattpad before being picked up by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. The series started as fan fiction, as it was initially inspired by the music and fandom of One Direction. The singer Harry…
Written (in part) by American author Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl follows the privileged socialite teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite private school in New York City’s Upper East Side. The story focused on best friends Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen, their lives being chronicled by the eponymous gossip…
Lesley Pearse is a best-seller British novelist who started writing more than a decade before being published for the first time. Her books always center around women with troubles. She published more than thirty books, not always in the same genres, from romance to crime, traditional sagas, historical, and contemporary. He is known for Belle,…
American writer from Kansas City, Julie Garwood is known for her romance novels in both the historical and suspense subgenres – more than 20 of them being New York Times Bestsellers. Encouraged by a professor, Julie started to write and published her first historical novel, Gentle Warrior, in 1985. The next one quickly followed. She…
Janet Evanovich is famous for the Stephanie Plum series, but she also writes other series, like this one with the help of Lee Goldberg. It’s about FBI special agent Kate O’Hare who has devoted her career to taking down one of the FBI’s most wanted con men, the master thief known as Nick Fox. For…
Canadian novelist, Susanna Kearsley used to work as a museum curator before making a name for herself as a writer – she also used the pen name Emma Cole to write thrillers. However, Susanna Kearsley is mostly known for writing historical fiction and mysteries and found her biggest success with The Winter Sea, The Firebird,…
Published between 1985 and 1990, The Casteel book series was the second novel series written by V.C. Andrews, after The Dollanganger series. Andrews wrote the first two books and started the third, but didn’t finish it. The series was completed by Andrew Neiderman, the ghostwriter hired by her estate following her death to continue to…
From American author of romance novels Debbie Macomber, Cedar Cove is a book series that takes place in the quaint, picturesque town on an island in Puget Sound in Washington state. Residents of Cedar Cove are old-fashioned in their values, neighbors for the most part trying to help neighbors, and people not locking their doors…
American author Taylor Jenkins Reid used to work in film production. In fact, she attended Emerson College, a film and TV school in Boston, before moving to Hollywood at age 21. This led her to work in casting for movies for a number of years. Working in casting was not her passion, as she discovered,…
