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Beverly Jenkins

2011-11-18T00:15:53Z

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jenkins, Beverly}}
[[Category:Authors - J]][[Category:African American Author]][[Category:Historical Romance Authors]][[Category:Michigan Authors]]
'''Beverly Jenkins''' (b. 1951) is a best-selling author of [[contemporary]] and [[Historical|historical]] romances featuring [[African-American]] and [[Multi-Cultural|multicultural]] characters. Her use of 19th-century African-American history is unusual in the romance genre.

Jenkins has received numerous awards, including five Waldenbooks Best Seller Awards, two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times magazine, and a Gold Pen Award from the Black Writers Alliance. In 1999, she was voted one of the Favorite 50 African-American Authors of the 20th Century by AALBC.com, the nation's largest online African-American book club. Her fan club is known for its [http://www.beverlyjenkins.net/pjparty.html Beverly Jenkins Pajama Party Weekend].

Jenkins has written over a dozen romances and two [[Young_Adult|young adult]] historical novels for [[Avon]]. She has also written several [[Suspense|romantic suspense]] novels for [[Harper Torch]]. She lives in Michigan, where she is active as a community volunteer and a lay minister in the Episcopal Church.

== On the Web ==
* [http://www.beverlyjenkins.net/ Beverly Jenkins]
* [http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/17113/Beverly_Jenkins/index.aspx Beverly Jenkins at Harper Collins]

== Books ==

* "[[Something Old, Something New]]" - 2011 ([[William Morrow))]
* "[[Second Helping]]" - 2010 ([[William Morrow]])
* "[[Bring on the Blessings]]" - 2009 ([[William Morrow]])
* ''[[Jewel]]'' - 2008 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Wild Sweet Love]]'' - 2007 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Sexy/Dangerous]]'' - 2006 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Winds of the Storm]]'' - 2006 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Black Lace - Beverly Jenkins|Black Lace]]'' - 2005 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Something Like Love]]'' - 2005 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[The Edge of Dawn]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[The Edge of Midnight]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Josephine and the Soldier]]'' - 2003 ([[Avon]]) ([[Young_Adult|YA]])
* ''[[A Chance at Love]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Belle and the Beau]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]]) ([[Young_Adult|YA]])
* ''[[Before the Dawn]]'' - 2001 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Always And Forever - Beverly Jenkins|Always and Forever]]'' - 2000 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[The Taming of Jessi Rose]]'' - 1999 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Through the Storm]]'' - 1998 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Topaz - Beverly Jenkins|Topaz]]'' - 1997 ([[Avon]]), reissued in 2007
* ''[[Indigo]]'' - 1996 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Vivid]]'' - 1995 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Night Song]]'' - 1994 ([[Avon]])

== Novellas ==
* "Homecoming" in ''[[Gettin' Merry]]'' - 2002 ([[St. Martin's Press]])

== Series/Related Titles ==

=== The Blessings ===
# "[[Bring on the Blessings]]" - 2009 ([[William Morrow]])
# "[[A Second Helping]]" - 2010 ([[William Morrow]])
# "[[Something Old, Something New]]) - 2011 ([[William Morrow]])
=== Topaz/Mail-Order Brides ===
# ''[[Topaz - Beverly Jenkins|Topaz]]'' - 1997 ([[Avon]])
# ''[[Always And Forever - Beverly Jenkins|Always and Forever]]'' - 2000 ([[Avon]])
# ''[[A Chance at Love]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]])

=== Black Seminoles ===
# ''[[Something Like Love]]'' - 2005 ([[Avon]])
# ''[[Wild Sweet Love]]'' - 2007 ([[Avon]])

=== Young-adult historical fiction ===
* ''[[Belle and the Beau]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Josephine and the Soldier]]'' - 2003 ([[Avon]])

=== Romantic suspense ===
* ''[[The Edge of Midnight]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[The Edge of Dawn]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Black Lace - Beverly Jenkins|Black Lace]]'' - 2005 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Sexy/Dangerous]]'' - 2006 ([[Harper Torch]])

== Awards/Honors ==
* Detroit Free Press Book of the Year
* Six Borders/Waldenbooks Best Sellers Awards
* [http://www.romantictimes.com/books_awards.php?type=author&level=1&year=2007 Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Winner (Historical Storyteller), 2007]
* YWCA Western Wayne County Woman of Achievement Award, 2001
* [http://www.romantictimes.com/books_awards.php?year=2000&type=author&level=2 Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Winner (Multicultural), 2000]
* Golden Pen Award from the [http://bwga.org/ Black Writer's Guild of America]
* [http://aalbc.com/books/thebesta.htm Voted one of the Top Fifty Favorite African-American writers of the 20th Century by African American Literature Book Club, 1999]

== Interviews ==
* [http://www.mylifetime.com/lifestyle/entertainment/romance-buy-the-book/video/african-american-romance/1641831768/1618591909 Interviewed for myLifetime.com by Michelle Buonfiglio (video)]
* [http://ingridspeak.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/beverly_jenkins/ Interviewed by Ingrid, Through My Eyes, 2008]
* [http://petticoatsandpistols.com/2008/01/12/welcome-author-beverly-jenkins/ Interviewed on Petticoats and Pistols, 2008]

Beverly Jenkins

2011-11-18T00:02:15Z

Donnarae: /* Books */

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jenkins, Beverly}}
[[Category:Authors - J]][[Category:African American Author]][[Category:Historical Romance Authors]][[Category:Michigan Authors]]
'''Beverly Jenkins''' (b. 1951) is a best-selling author of [[contemporary]] and [[Historical|historical]] romances featuring [[African-American]] and [[Multi-Cultural|multicultural]] characters. Her use of 19th-century African-American history is unusual in the romance genre.

Jenkins has received numerous awards, including five Waldenbooks Best Seller Awards, two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times magazine, and a Gold Pen Award from the Black Writers Alliance. In 1999, she was voted one of the Favorite 50 African-American Authors of the 20th Century by AALBC.com, the nation's largest online African-American book club. Her fan club is known for its [http://www.beverlyjenkins.net/pjparty.html Beverly Jenkins Pajama Party Weekend].

Jenkins has written over a dozen romances and two [[Young_Adult|young adult]] historical novels for [[Avon]]. She has also written several [[Suspense|romantic suspense]] novels for [[Harper Torch]]. She lives in Michigan, where she is active as a community volunteer and a lay minister in the Episcopal Church.

== On the Web ==
* [http://www.beverlyjenkins.net/ Beverly Jenkins]
* [http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/17113/Beverly_Jenkins/index.aspx Beverly Jenkins at Harper Collins]

== Books ==

* "[[Something Old, Something New]]" - 2011 ([[William Morrow))]
* "[[Second Helping]]" - 2010 ([[William Morrow]])
* "[[Bring on the Blessings]]" - 2009 ([[William Morrow]])
* ''[[Jewel]]'' - 2008 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Wild Sweet Love]]'' - 2007 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Sexy/Dangerous]]'' - 2006 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Winds of the Storm]]'' - 2006 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Black Lace - Beverly Jenkins|Black Lace]]'' - 2005 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Something Like Love]]'' - 2005 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[The Edge of Dawn]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[The Edge of Midnight]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Josephine and the Soldier]]'' - 2003 ([[Avon]]) ([[Young_Adult|YA]])
* ''[[A Chance at Love]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Belle and the Beau]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]]) ([[Young_Adult|YA]])
* ''[[Before the Dawn]]'' - 2001 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Always And Forever - Beverly Jenkins|Always and Forever]]'' - 2000 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[The Taming of Jessi Rose]]'' - 1999 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Through the Storm]]'' - 1998 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Topaz - Beverly Jenkins|Topaz]]'' - 1997 ([[Avon]]), reissued in 2007
* ''[[Indigo]]'' - 1996 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Vivid]]'' - 1995 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Night Song]]'' - 1994 ([[Avon]])

== Novellas ==
* "Homecoming" in ''[[Gettin' Merry]]'' - 2002 ([[St. Martin's Press]])

== Series/Related Titles ==
=== Topaz/Mail-Order Brides ===
# ''[[Topaz - Beverly Jenkins|Topaz]]'' - 1997 ([[Avon]])
# ''[[Always And Forever - Beverly Jenkins|Always and Forever]]'' - 2000 ([[Avon]])
# ''[[A Chance at Love]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]])

=== Black Seminoles ===
# ''[[Something Like Love]]'' - 2005 ([[Avon]])
# ''[[Wild Sweet Love]]'' - 2007 ([[Avon]])

=== Young-adult historical fiction ===
* ''[[Belle and the Beau]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Josephine and the Soldier]]'' - 2003 ([[Avon]])

=== Romantic suspense ===
* ''[[The Edge of Midnight]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[The Edge of Dawn]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Black Lace - Beverly Jenkins|Black Lace]]'' - 2005 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Sexy/Dangerous]]'' - 2006 ([[Harper Torch]])

== Awards/Honors ==
* Detroit Free Press Book of the Year
* Six Borders/Waldenbooks Best Sellers Awards
* [http://www.romantictimes.com/books_awards.php?type=author&level=1&year=2007 Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Winner (Historical Storyteller), 2007]
* YWCA Western Wayne County Woman of Achievement Award, 2001
* [http://www.romantictimes.com/books_awards.php?year=2000&type=author&level=2 Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Winner (Multicultural), 2000]
* Golden Pen Award from the [http://bwga.org/ Black Writer's Guild of America]
* [http://aalbc.com/books/thebesta.htm Voted one of the Top Fifty Favorite African-American writers of the 20th Century by African American Literature Book Club, 1999]

== Interviews ==
* [http://www.mylifetime.com/lifestyle/entertainment/romance-buy-the-book/video/african-american-romance/1641831768/1618591909 Interviewed for myLifetime.com by Michelle Buonfiglio (video)]
* [http://ingridspeak.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/beverly_jenkins/ Interviewed by Ingrid, Through My Eyes, 2008]
* [http://petticoatsandpistols.com/2008/01/12/welcome-author-beverly-jenkins/ Interviewed on Petticoats and Pistols, 2008]

Beverly Jenkins

2011-11-18T00:00:44Z

Donnarae: /* Books */

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jenkins, Beverly}}
[[Category:Authors - J]][[Category:African American Author]][[Category:Historical Romance Authors]][[Category:Michigan Authors]]
'''Beverly Jenkins''' (b. 1951) is a best-selling author of [[contemporary]] and [[Historical|historical]] romances featuring [[African-American]] and [[Multi-Cultural|multicultural]] characters. Her use of 19th-century African-American history is unusual in the romance genre.

Jenkins has received numerous awards, including five Waldenbooks Best Seller Awards, two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times magazine, and a Gold Pen Award from the Black Writers Alliance. In 1999, she was voted one of the Favorite 50 African-American Authors of the 20th Century by AALBC.com, the nation's largest online African-American book club. Her fan club is known for its [http://www.beverlyjenkins.net/pjparty.html Beverly Jenkins Pajama Party Weekend].

Jenkins has written over a dozen romances and two [[Young_Adult|young adult]] historical novels for [[Avon]]. She has also written several [[Suspense|romantic suspense]] novels for [[Harper Torch]]. She lives in Michigan, where she is active as a community volunteer and a lay minister in the Episcopal Church.

== On the Web ==
* [http://www.beverlyjenkins.net/ Beverly Jenkins]
* [http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/17113/Beverly_Jenkins/index.aspx Beverly Jenkins at Harper Collins]

== Books ==

* "[[Something Old, Something New]]" - 2011
* "[[Second Helping]]" - 2010 ([[William Morrow]])
* "[[Bring on the Blessings]]" - 2009 ([[William Morrow]])
* ''[[Jewel]]'' - 2008 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Wild Sweet Love]]'' - 2007 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Sexy/Dangerous]]'' - 2006 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Winds of the Storm]]'' - 2006 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Black Lace - Beverly Jenkins|Black Lace]]'' - 2005 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Something Like Love]]'' - 2005 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[The Edge of Dawn]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[The Edge of Midnight]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Josephine and the Soldier]]'' - 2003 ([[Avon]]) ([[Young_Adult|YA]])
* ''[[A Chance at Love]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Belle and the Beau]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]]) ([[Young_Adult|YA]])
* ''[[Before the Dawn]]'' - 2001 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Always And Forever - Beverly Jenkins|Always and Forever]]'' - 2000 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[The Taming of Jessi Rose]]'' - 1999 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Through the Storm]]'' - 1998 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Topaz - Beverly Jenkins|Topaz]]'' - 1997 ([[Avon]]), reissued in 2007
* ''[[Indigo]]'' - 1996 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Vivid]]'' - 1995 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Night Song]]'' - 1994 ([[Avon]])

== Novellas ==
* "Homecoming" in ''[[Gettin' Merry]]'' - 2002 ([[St. Martin's Press]])

== Series/Related Titles ==
=== Topaz/Mail-Order Brides ===
# ''[[Topaz - Beverly Jenkins|Topaz]]'' - 1997 ([[Avon]])
# ''[[Always And Forever - Beverly Jenkins|Always and Forever]]'' - 2000 ([[Avon]])
# ''[[A Chance at Love]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]])

=== Black Seminoles ===
# ''[[Something Like Love]]'' - 2005 ([[Avon]])
# ''[[Wild Sweet Love]]'' - 2007 ([[Avon]])

=== Young-adult historical fiction ===
* ''[[Belle and the Beau]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Josephine and the Soldier]]'' - 2003 ([[Avon]])

=== Romantic suspense ===
* ''[[The Edge of Midnight]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[The Edge of Dawn]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Black Lace - Beverly Jenkins|Black Lace]]'' - 2005 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Sexy/Dangerous]]'' - 2006 ([[Harper Torch]])

== Awards/Honors ==
* Detroit Free Press Book of the Year
* Six Borders/Waldenbooks Best Sellers Awards
* [http://www.romantictimes.com/books_awards.php?type=author&level=1&year=2007 Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Winner (Historical Storyteller), 2007]
* YWCA Western Wayne County Woman of Achievement Award, 2001
* [http://www.romantictimes.com/books_awards.php?year=2000&type=author&level=2 Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Winner (Multicultural), 2000]
* Golden Pen Award from the [http://bwga.org/ Black Writer's Guild of America]
* [http://aalbc.com/books/thebesta.htm Voted one of the Top Fifty Favorite African-American writers of the 20th Century by African American Literature Book Club, 1999]

== Interviews ==
* [http://www.mylifetime.com/lifestyle/entertainment/romance-buy-the-book/video/african-american-romance/1641831768/1618591909 Interviewed for myLifetime.com by Michelle Buonfiglio (video)]
* [http://ingridspeak.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/beverly_jenkins/ Interviewed by Ingrid, Through My Eyes, 2008]
* [http://petticoatsandpistols.com/2008/01/12/welcome-author-beverly-jenkins/ Interviewed on Petticoats and Pistols, 2008]

Beverly Jenkins

2011-11-17T23:35:20Z

Donnarae: /* Books */

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jenkins, Beverly}}
[[Category:Authors - J]][[Category:African American Author]][[Category:Historical Romance Authors]][[Category:Michigan Authors]]
'''Beverly Jenkins''' (b. 1951) is a best-selling author of [[contemporary]] and [[Historical|historical]] romances featuring [[African-American]] and [[Multi-Cultural|multicultural]] characters. Her use of 19th-century African-American history is unusual in the romance genre.

Jenkins has received numerous awards, including five Waldenbooks Best Seller Awards, two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times magazine, and a Gold Pen Award from the Black Writers Alliance. In 1999, she was voted one of the Favorite 50 African-American Authors of the 20th Century by AALBC.com, the nation's largest online African-American book club. Her fan club is known for its [http://www.beverlyjenkins.net/pjparty.html Beverly Jenkins Pajama Party Weekend].

Jenkins has written over a dozen romances and two [[Young_Adult|young adult]] historical novels for [[Avon]]. She has also written several [[Suspense|romantic suspense]] novels for [[Harper Torch]]. She lives in Michigan, where she is active as a community volunteer and a lay minister in the Episcopal Church.

== On the Web ==
* [http://www.beverlyjenkins.net/ Beverly Jenkins]
* [http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/17113/Beverly_Jenkins/index.aspx Beverly Jenkins at Harper Collins]

== Books ==
* "[[Bring on the Blessings]] - 2009
* "[[ Second Helping]] - 2010
* "[[Something Old, Something New]] - 2011
* ''[[Jewel]]'' - 2008 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Wild Sweet Love]]'' - 2007 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Sexy/Dangerous]]'' - 2006 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Winds of the Storm]]'' - 2006 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Black Lace - Beverly Jenkins|Black Lace]]'' - 2005 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Something Like Love]]'' - 2005 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[The Edge of Dawn]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[The Edge of Midnight]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Josephine and the Soldier]]'' - 2003 ([[Avon]]) ([[Young_Adult|YA]])
* ''[[A Chance at Love]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Belle and the Beau]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]]) ([[Young_Adult|YA]])
* ''[[Before the Dawn]]'' - 2001 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Always And Forever - Beverly Jenkins|Always and Forever]]'' - 2000 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[The Taming of Jessi Rose]]'' - 1999 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Through the Storm]]'' - 1998 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Topaz - Beverly Jenkins|Topaz]]'' - 1997 ([[Avon]]), reissued in 2007
* ''[[Indigo]]'' - 1996 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Vivid]]'' - 1995 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Night Song]]'' - 1994 ([[Avon]])

== Novellas ==
* "Homecoming" in ''[[Gettin' Merry]]'' - 2002 ([[St. Martin's Press]])

== Series/Related Titles ==
=== Topaz/Mail-Order Brides ===
# ''[[Topaz - Beverly Jenkins|Topaz]]'' - 1997 ([[Avon]])
# ''[[Always And Forever - Beverly Jenkins|Always and Forever]]'' - 2000 ([[Avon]])
# ''[[A Chance at Love]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]])

=== Black Seminoles ===
# ''[[Something Like Love]]'' - 2005 ([[Avon]])
# ''[[Wild Sweet Love]]'' - 2007 ([[Avon]])

=== Young-adult historical fiction ===
* ''[[Belle and the Beau]]'' - 2002 ([[Avon]])
* ''[[Josephine and the Soldier]]'' - 2003 ([[Avon]])

=== Romantic suspense ===
* ''[[The Edge of Midnight]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[The Edge of Dawn]]'' - 2004 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Black Lace - Beverly Jenkins|Black Lace]]'' - 2005 ([[Harper Torch]])
* ''[[Sexy/Dangerous]]'' - 2006 ([[Harper Torch]])

== Awards/Honors ==
* Detroit Free Press Book of the Year
* Six Borders/Waldenbooks Best Sellers Awards
* [http://www.romantictimes.com/books_awards.php?type=author&level=1&year=2007 Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Winner (Historical Storyteller), 2007]
* YWCA Western Wayne County Woman of Achievement Award, 2001
* [http://www.romantictimes.com/books_awards.php?year=2000&type=author&level=2 Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Winner (Multicultural), 2000]
* Golden Pen Award from the [http://bwga.org/ Black Writer's Guild of America]
* [http://aalbc.com/books/thebesta.htm Voted one of the Top Fifty Favorite African-American writers of the 20th Century by African American Literature Book Club, 1999]

== Interviews ==
* [http://www.mylifetime.com/lifestyle/entertainment/romance-buy-the-book/video/african-american-romance/1641831768/1618591909 Interviewed for myLifetime.com by Michelle Buonfiglio (video)]
* [http://ingridspeak.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/beverly_jenkins/ Interviewed by Ingrid, Through My Eyes, 2008]
* [http://petticoatsandpistols.com/2008/01/12/welcome-author-beverly-jenkins/ Interviewed on Petticoats and Pistols, 2008]