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Anne McAllister is the author of over sevety books, writing for the [[Harlequin American Romance]], [[Harlequin Presents]], [[Silhouette Desire]], [[Silhouette Special Edition]] lines in addition to novellas and a [[Single Title|single title]] romance. She has written 21 books for Harlequin [[Harlequin Presents]]. As a [[Harlequin American Romance]] Author, she published 13 romances. Writing for the [[Harlequin Romance]] imprint, she published one title.
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'''Anne McAllister''' (Barbara Schenck) was born in California, but spent time on her grandparents' ranch in Colorado and visiting relatives in Montana. She met her husband through her job at a university library, and they have been married for over thirty years. The couple have four children. They live in Iowa but spends much time in Montana.
  
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She has been honored with the [[RITA]] award for her titles [[The Stardust Cowboy]] and [[Cowboy Pride]]. Other titles were [[RITA]] finalists. She was a [[RITA®: Best Contemporary Series Romance|RITA®: Best Contemporary Series finalist]] in the [[RITA®: Best Contemporary Series Romance]] category for her novel ''[[Antonides' Forbidden Wife]]''. Anne McAllister was a [[2010 RITA® Winners|2010 RITA® finalist]] in the [[RITA®: Contemporary Series Romance]] category with her novel ''[[One-Night Mistress...Convenient Wife]]''.
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McAllister holds a master's degree in theology. Before she began writing, she held jobs as a Spanish teacher, copyediting textbooks, and ghostwriting sermons.[1] Her novels have been published in the Harlequin Presents, Silhouette Desire, Special Edition, and Harlequin American category romance lines. She has twice won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and has been a finalist an additional seven times. In 2000, she was awarded the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award as Series Author of the Year. She has also been awarded several Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards.
  
 
== On The Web ==
 
== On The Web ==
 
* Official Website [http://www.annemcallister.com/]
 
* Official Website [http://www.annemcallister.com/]
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* Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McAllister]
  
 
== Books ==
 
== Books ==
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* ''[[The Virgin's Proposition|Virgin's Proposition, The]]'' - 2010
 
* ''[[The Virgin's Proposition|Virgin's Proposition, The]]'' - 2010
  
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== Honors/Awards ==
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==Anthologies==
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* [[1999 Career Achievement Award Winners|1999 Career Achievement Award Winner]] - [[Romantic Times Magazine]] - Series Romance
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* ''[[Blood Brothers]]'' - 2000
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* [[Romantic Times Magazine]] - [[Career Achievement Award]] - "Series Author of the Year", 2000
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* ''[[Christmas Presents]]'' - 1999
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* Midwest Fiction Writers - "Writer of the Year", 2000
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* ''[[Christmas Weddings]]'' - 2001
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* [[1997 RITA® Winners|1997 RITA® Winner]] in the [[RITA®: Best Short Contemporary Series|Short Contemporary Series]] category with [[Cowboy Pride|''Cowboy Pride'']]
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* ''[[Do You Take This Cowboy]]'' - 2000
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* [[2000 RITA® Winners|2000 RITA® Winner]] in the [[RITA®: Best Short Contemporary Series|Short Contemporary]] category with [[The Stardust Cowboy|''The Stardust Cowboy'']]
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* ''[[Even Better Than Before]]'' - 2002
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* ''[[Greek Millionaires]]'' - 2004
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* ''[[His Majesty, MD]]'' / ''[[A Cowboy's Pursuit]]'' - 2003
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* ''[[Home For Christmas]]'' - 1996
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* ''[[Love In The City]]'' - 2005
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* ''[[Marry Me Cowboy]]'' - 1995
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* ''[[Men Made In America, Vol. 5]]'' - 2007
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* ''[[Men Made In America, Vol. 10]]'' - 2007
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* ''[[My Valentine]]'' - 1993
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* ''[[Valentine Affairs]]'' - 1999
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* ''[[Way Home]]'' / ''[[Cowboy's Christmas Miracle]]'' / [[Because A Husband Is Forever]]'' - 2005
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* ''[[Wedlocked]]'' - 1999
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==Series/Related Titles==
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'''Beware Of Greeks!'''
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# ''[[The Alexakis Bride]]''
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# ''[[The Playboy And The Nanny]]''
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# ''[[The Antonides Marriage Deal]]''
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# ''[[The Santorini Bride]]''
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# ''[[The Boss's Wife For A Week]]''
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# ''[[Antonides' Forbidden Wife]]''
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# ''[[Savas' Defiant Mistress]]''
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# ''[[One-Night Mistress...Convenient Wife]]''
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# ''[[The Virgin's Proposition]]''
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# ''[[Hired By Her Husband]]''
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# ''[[The Night That Changed Everything]]''
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# ''[[Savas's Wildcat]]''
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# ''[[Breaking The Greek's Rules]]''
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# ''[[The Return Of Antonides]]''
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'''Code Of The West'''
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# ''[[Cowboys Don't Cry]]''
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# ''[[Cowboys Don't Quit]]''
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# ''[[Cowboys Don't Stay]]''
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# ''[[The Cowboy And The Kid]]''
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# ''[[Cowboy Pride]]''
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# ''[[A Cowboy's Tears]]''
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# ''[[The Cowboy Steals A Lady]]''
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# ''[[The Cowboy Crashes a Wedding]]''
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# ''[[The Stardust Cowboy]]''
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# ''[[Cowboy On The Run]]''
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# ''[[A Cowboy's Secret]]''
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# ''[[A Cowboy's Gift]]''
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# ''[[A Cowboy's Promise]]''
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# ''[[The Great Montana Cowboy Auction]]''
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# ''[[A Cowboy's Pursuit]]''
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# ''[[The Cowboy's Christmas Miracle]]''
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# ''[[One-Night Love Child]]''
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'''Cowboys Of Horse Thief Mountain'''
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# ''[[The Cowboy Finds A Family]]''
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'''From Here To Paternity''' (multi-author series)
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:  7. ''[[Finn's Twins]]''
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'''Goin' To The Chapel''' (multi-author series)
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* ''[[The Eight Second Wedding]]''
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'''The Great Wedding Giveaway''' (multi-author series)
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:  8. ''[[Last Year's Bride]]''
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'''Greek Tycoons''' (multi-author series)
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:  42. ''[[The Santorini Bride]]''
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:  57. ''[[Antonides' Forbidden Wife]]''
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'''Gull Cottage''' (multi-author series)
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* ''[[Saving Grace]]''
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'''Imagine'''
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# ''[[Imagine]]''
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# ''[[I Thee Wed]]''
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# ''[[Marry-Go-Round]]''
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# ''[[Mackenzie's Baby]]''
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# ''[[Never Say Never]]''
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'''In Bed With The Boss''' (multi-author series)
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:  4. ''[[The Boss's Wife For A Week]]''
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'''Man Of The Month''' (multi-author series)
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:  74. ''[[Cowboy's Don't Cry]]''
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:  91. ''[[The Cowboy And The Kid]]''
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:  109. ''[[The Cowboy Steals A Lady]]''
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:  115. ''[[The Cowboy Crashes A Wedding]]''
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:  126. ''[[The Stardust Cowboy]]''
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:  136. ''[[A Cowboy's Secret]]''
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:  157. ''[[A Cowboy's Promise]]''
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:  163. ''[[A Cowboy's Pursuit]]''
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'''McGillvrays Of Pelican Cay'''
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:  .5 ''[[Nathan's Child]]''
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# ''[[McGillivary's Mistress]]''
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# ''[[In McGillivray's Bed]]''
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# ''[[Lessons From A Latin Lover]]''
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'''Men Of The Year'''
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:  6. ''[[The Stardust Cowboy]]''
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'''Mistress To A Millionaire'''
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:  27. ''[[One-Night Love Child]]''
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'''Modern-Day Knights'''
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* ''[[Nathan's Child]]''
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'''New York! New York!'''
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# ''[[Finn's Twins!]]''
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# ''[[Fletcher's Baby]]''
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# ''[[Gibson's Girl]]''
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# ''[[Rhys's Redemption]]''
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# ''[[The Inconvenient Bride]]''
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# ''[[Nathan's Child]]''
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'''Quicksilver'''
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# ''[[Quicksilver Season]]''
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# ''[[A Chance Of Rainbows]]''
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# ''[[Body And Soul]]''
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# ''[[Marry Sunshine]]''
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# ''[[Gifts Of The Spirit]]''
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# ''[[A Cowboy's Promise]]''
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'''Return Of The Rebels'''
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* ''[[Savas's Wildcat]]''
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'''Royal Wedding Invitations'''
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:  4. ''[[Miss You More]]'' / ''[[The Best Man's Bride]]''
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'''Tall, Dark And Dangerously Sexy'''
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* ''[[The Night That Changed Everything]]''
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'''This Time, Forever'''
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* ''[[A Baby For Christmas]]''
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'''Wedlocked!'''
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:  34. ''[[The Antonides Marriage Deal]]''
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==Awards==
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*2010  [[RT Reviewers Choice Award]] Winner - Harlequin Presents, ''[[The Virgin's Proposition]]''
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*2000  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Winner - Short Contemporary Romance, ''[[The Stardust Cowboy]]''
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*1997  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Winner - Short Contemporary Romance, ''[[Cowboy Pride]]''
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* 1996  [[RT Reviewers Choice Award]] Winner - Silhouette Desire, ''[[The Cowboy And The Kid]]''
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==Recognitions==
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*2010  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Contemporary Series Romance, ''[[One-Night Mistress...Convenient Wife]]''
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*2009  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Contemporary Series Romance, ''[[Antonides' Forbidden Wife]]''
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*2002  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Short Contemporary Series Romance, ''[[The Inconvenient Bride]]''
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*2000  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Short Contemporary Series Romance, ''[[Gibson's Girl]]''
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*1999  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Long Contemporary Series Romance, ''[[Cowboy On The Run]]''
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*1998  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Short Contemporary Series Romance, ''[[Finn's Twins]]''
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*1995  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Long Contemporary Romance, ''[[The Eight Second Wedding]]''
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*1993  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Long Contemporary Romance, ''[[Mackenzie's Baby]]''
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*1990  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Long Contemporary Romance, ''[[Saving Grace]]''
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== Awards (body of work) ==
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*2000  [[RT Career Achievement Award]] Winner - Series Romance Author of the Year
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*1999  [[RT Career Achievement Award]] Winner - Series Romance
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*2000  [[Midwest Fiction Writers]] - Writer of the Year

Latest revision as of 00:12, 6 October 2024


Anne McAllister (Barbara Schenck) was born in California, but spent time on her grandparents' ranch in Colorado and visiting relatives in Montana. She met her husband through her job at a university library, and they have been married for over thirty years. The couple have four children. They live in Iowa but spends much time in Montana.

McAllister holds a master's degree in theology. Before she began writing, she held jobs as a Spanish teacher, copyediting textbooks, and ghostwriting sermons.[1] Her novels have been published in the Harlequin Presents, Silhouette Desire, Special Edition, and Harlequin American category romance lines. She has twice won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and has been a finalist an additional seven times. In 2000, she was awarded the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award as Series Author of the Year. She has also been awarded several Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards.

On The Web

  • Official Website [1]
  • Wikipedia [2]

Books

Anthologies

Series/Related Titles

Beware Of Greeks!

  1. The Alexakis Bride
  2. The Playboy And The Nanny
  3. The Antonides Marriage Deal
  4. The Santorini Bride
  5. The Boss's Wife For A Week
  6. Antonides' Forbidden Wife
  7. Savas' Defiant Mistress
  8. One-Night Mistress...Convenient Wife
  9. The Virgin's Proposition
  10. Hired By Her Husband
  11. The Night That Changed Everything
  12. Savas's Wildcat
  13. Breaking The Greek's Rules
  14. The Return Of Antonides

Code Of The West

  1. Cowboys Don't Cry
  2. Cowboys Don't Quit
  3. Cowboys Don't Stay
  4. The Cowboy And The Kid
  5. Cowboy Pride
  6. A Cowboy's Tears
  7. The Cowboy Steals A Lady
  8. The Cowboy Crashes a Wedding
  9. The Stardust Cowboy
  10. Cowboy On The Run
  11. A Cowboy's Secret
  12. A Cowboy's Gift
  13. A Cowboy's Promise
  14. The Great Montana Cowboy Auction
  15. A Cowboy's Pursuit
  16. The Cowboy's Christmas Miracle
  17. One-Night Love Child

Cowboys Of Horse Thief Mountain

  1. The Cowboy Finds A Family

From Here To Paternity (multi-author series)

7. Finn's Twins

Goin' To The Chapel (multi-author series)

The Great Wedding Giveaway (multi-author series)

8. Last Year's Bride

Greek Tycoons (multi-author series)

42. The Santorini Bride
57. Antonides' Forbidden Wife

Gull Cottage (multi-author series)

Imagine

  1. Imagine
  2. I Thee Wed
  3. Marry-Go-Round
  4. Mackenzie's Baby
  5. Never Say Never

In Bed With The Boss (multi-author series)

4. The Boss's Wife For A Week

Man Of The Month (multi-author series)

74. Cowboy's Don't Cry
91. The Cowboy And The Kid
109. The Cowboy Steals A Lady
115. The Cowboy Crashes A Wedding
126. The Stardust Cowboy
136. A Cowboy's Secret
157. A Cowboy's Promise
163. A Cowboy's Pursuit

McGillvrays Of Pelican Cay

.5 Nathan's Child
  1. McGillivary's Mistress
  2. In McGillivray's Bed
  3. Lessons From A Latin Lover

Men Of The Year

6. The Stardust Cowboy

Mistress To A Millionaire

27. One-Night Love Child

Modern-Day Knights

New York! New York!

  1. Finn's Twins!
  2. Fletcher's Baby
  3. Gibson's Girl
  4. Rhys's Redemption
  5. The Inconvenient Bride
  6. Nathan's Child

Quicksilver

  1. Quicksilver Season
  2. A Chance Of Rainbows
  3. Body And Soul
  4. Marry Sunshine
  5. Gifts Of The Spirit
  6. A Cowboy's Promise

Return Of The Rebels

Royal Wedding Invitations

4. Miss You More / The Best Man's Bride

Tall, Dark And Dangerously Sexy

This Time, Forever

Wedlocked!

34. The Antonides Marriage Deal

Awards

Recognitions

Awards (body of work)

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