Robin Elliott
Robin Elliott was a pseudonym used by Joan Elliott Pickart.
Pickart was one of three daughters of Robert G. Elliott, an Episcopal pastor in Detroit, Michigan and Douglas, Arizona.[3] She graduated from Douglas High School before attending Arizona State University.[4] In 1982, she was employed as a secretary at Amphitheater High School, Tucson, Arizona, when she began writing romance novels after taking a course at Pima Community College. Her first published novel, Breaking All the Rules, was bought by Bantam Books in winter 1983-84 for their Loveswept range, and appeared in summer 1984. Pickart then became a full-time writer, with Bantam immediately buying six more of her novels.[5] By late 1985, a reviewer wrote that Pickart was "fast becoming one of Loveswept's most consistent and popular authors [who] brings an extra dimension of humanity to the characters she creates ... [In Midnight Ryder she] employs humor and honest emotion to keep readers involved. ... Pickart's sensual writing is ... all the more romantic for being understated."[6] In Waiting for Prince Charming, she used "many original touches [in] a modern rendering of an old fairy tale".[7]
Elliott was the co-founder of the Professional Writers of Prescott, a member of the national Romance Writers of America, the Phoenix Desert Rose Chapter of RWA, and a charter member and co-president of the Northern Arizona RWA.
Elliott was a single mother of four daughters. She lived in Prescott, Arizona.
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Books
- Betting Man - 1987
- Brooke's Chance - 1986
- Call It Love - 1985
- Dawn's Gift - 1986
- Gauntlet Run - 1987
- Haven's Call - 1994
- Lost And Found - 1987
- Mother At Heart - 1995
- Not Just Another Perfect Wife - 1993
- Out Of The Cold - 1988
- Pennies In The Fountain - 1986
- Picture Of Love - 1986
- Rancher's Heaven - 1994
- Silver Sands - 1987
- Sophie's Attic - 1992
- To Have It All - 1985
Recognitions
- 1989 Golden Medallion Finalist - Short Contemporary Romance, Out Of The Cold
- 1987 Golden Medallion Finalist - Short Contemporary Romance, Pennies In The Fountain