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.

On the Web

• Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Elliott_Pickart}

See Also

• Joan Elliott Pickart

Recognitions

• 1989 Golden Medallion Finalist - Short Contemporary Romance, Out Of The Cold
• 1987 Golden Medallion Finalist - Short Contemporary Romance, Pennies In The Fountain