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'''Adele Ashworth''' is the pseudonym for ''Adele Budnick''. She writes [[Historical Romance|historical romances]] and won the [[RITA®: Best First Book|RITA® First Book]] category with her first novel, [[My Darling Caroline]], in 1999.
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Adele Budnick was born in 1963. She has always felt she's led a rather dull life on her road to becoming a romance author. Unfortunately, she's also often been wrong.
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From the first time she stepped onstage to sing Petula Clark's "Downtown" for a crowd (at the age of three in a Juarez, Mexico, hotel restaurant, dancing on the table at the urging of the Spanish-speaking waitresses), she knew she was destined to be a singer. Her first miscalculation.
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At the age of six, as she watched one of the Apollo rockets take off on live Saturday-morning television, interrupting the most important TV shows of the decade—The Monkeys and Scooby-Doo—she decided she would become a diplomat. Much to her mother's chagrin, Adele was caught in a heated discussion with a telephone operator who insisted it simply wasn't possible to put a six-year-old child through to President Nixon at the White House just to make a complaint about important programming interruption. Diplomacy clearly wasn't for her.
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In elementary school, Adele, being a voracious reader, decided she would be a defense attorney just like Nancy Drew's father. (One knew at any age that one couldn't make a living simply by being a mystery solver like Nancy, but solving crimes as an attorney seemed practical.) After three years of knowing she was destined for Harvard Law School, Adele finished every published Nancy Drew novel (53 of them at the time) and moved on to reading romance. Thus ended her dreams of solving crimes. The idea of law school seemed far less enjoyable after immersing herself in Victoria Holt at the age of twelve.
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The Song Bird Years
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Adele continued to pursue her singing into her teen years, deciding she was either going to be an editorial reader for a publishing company (because all she loved to do was read) or a Singing Superstar. She figured becoming a Superstar was probably an easier goal to achieve, and so, between reading romances (and in the late 70s there were very few to read), she practiced her art, training her developing coloratura soprano voice with private lessons from one of the best operatic instructors in the city of Albuquerque. Through numerous All-State Choir rehearsals, Jr. and High School choir practice, and various musical productions, she knew she was destined for stardom.
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And then at the age of fifteen, her private vocal instructor told her the cold, hard facts: To really make it as a Broadway Singing Superstar, one not only has to read music well, but be able to act and dance and live on pennies. Adele does not dance (unless you count nightclubs in college and that time in Mexico when she was three…) and the "living on pennies" bit seemed highly questionable. Since her acting and music reading talents were also suspect, she decided Broadway might not be for her. Reality sure can be a shocker.
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On the Career Path
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In college as a journalism major (only because she had to major in something that might get her a paying job), she continued to pursue private vocal instruction with the University of Utah's finest, while performing in various musicals and college recitals. Having directed her through the lead in Cinderella, her drama teacher urged her to try out for local beauty—ahem—scholarship pageants. That was it. Adele was destined to be a singing, reading, reporting, Miss America.
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Unfortunately, reality struck again. Not only was Adele a bit lacking in genius (to put it bluntly), being five feet and two inches tall, and possessing quite possibly the shortest legs in the history of womanhood left Adele doing well in talent portions of the contests, but lacking other…necessary attributes. Aside from being crowned Miss Sandy City and Miss Salt Lake County, the pageant thing never went anywhere. Alas, the Singing Beauty Queen future was out.
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But Adele worked very hard at her favorite pastime and, by her senior year in college, she'd read just about every Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, Victoria Holt, Shirley Busbee, Laurie McBain.
  
 
== On the Web ==
 
== On the Web ==
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* [http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/20197/Adele_Ashworth/index.aspx Authors Page at HarperCollins]
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* Goodreads [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/130346.Adele_Ashworth]
  
 
== Books ==
 
== Books ==
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* ''[[Duke Of Scandal]]'' - May 2006 ([[Avon]])
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* ''[[Duke Of Scandal]]'' - 2006
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* ''[[Duke Of Sin]]'' - November 2004 ([[Avon]])
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* ''[[Duke Of Sin]]'' - 2004
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* ''[[The Duke's Captive|Duke's Captive]]'' - August 2009 ([[Avon]])
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* ''[[The Duke's Captive|Duke's Captive, The]]'' - 2009
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* ''[[The Duke's Indiscretion|Duke's Indiscretion, The]]'' - May 2007 ([[Avon]])
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* ''[[The Duke's Indiscretion|Duke's Indiscretion, The]]'' - 2007
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* ''[[My Darling Caroline]]'' - August 1998 ([[Jove]])
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* ''[[My Darling Caroline]]'' - 1998
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* ''[[A Notorious Proposition|Notorious Proposition, A]]'' - May 2008 ([[Avon]])
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* ''[[A Notorious Proposition|Notorious Proposition, A]]'' - 2008
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* ''[[Someone Irresistible]]'' - December 2001 ([[Avon]])
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* ''[[Someone Irresistible]]'' - 2001
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* ''[[Stolen Charms]]'' - September 1999 ([[Jove]])
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* ''[[Stolen Charms]]'' - 1999
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* ''[[When It's Perfect]]'' - November 2002 ([[Avon]])
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* ''[[When It's Perfect]]'' - 2002
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* ''[[Winter Garden]]'' - July 2000 ([[Jove]])
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* ''[[Winter Garden]]'' - 2000
  
 
== Series/Related Titles ==
 
== Series/Related Titles ==
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# [[Someone Irresistible]], 2001
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'''The Dukes'''
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# [[When It's Perfect]], 2002
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# ''[[Duke Of Sin]]''
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# ''[[Duke Of Scandal]]''
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# ''[[The Duke's Indiscretion]]''
  
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=== Home Office ===
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'''Marsh'''
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# [[Stolen Charms]], 1999
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# ''[[Someone Irresistible]]''
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# [[Winter Garden]], 2000
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# ''[[When It's Perfect]]''
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# [[A Notorious Proposition]], 2008
 
  
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=== Duke Series ===
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'''Wentworth'''
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# [[Duke Of Sin]], 2004
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# ''[[Winter Garden]]''
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# [[Duke Of Scandal]], 2006
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# ''[[A Notorious Proposition]]''
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# [[The Duke's Indiscretion]], 2007
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# ''[[The Duke's Captive]]''
  
 
== Awards ==
 
== Awards ==
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* [[1999 RITA® Winners|1999 RITA®]] in the [[RITA®: Best First Book|First Book]] category for [[My Darling Caroline]]
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*2004  [[All About Romance Reader Award]] Winner - Most Luscious Love Story, ''[[Duke Of Sin]]''
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*2000  [[All About Romance Reader Award]] Winner - Best Cabin/Road Romance, ''[[Winter Garden]]''
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*2000  [[All About Romance Reader Award]] Winner - Best European Historical, ''[[Winter Garden]]''
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*2000  [[All About Romance Reader Award]] Winner - Best Romance, ''[[Winter Garden]]''
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*1999  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Winner - First Book, ''[[My Darling Caroline]]''
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==Recognitions==
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*2007  [[All About Romance Reader Award]] Top 100 Romances (#83), ''[[Winter Garden]]''
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*2004  [[All About Romance Reader Award]] Top 100 Romances (#83), ''[[My Darling Caroline]]''
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*2004  [[All About Romance Reader Award]] Top 100 Romances (#27), ''[[Winter Garden]]''
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*2000  [[All About Romance Reader Award]] Top 100 Romances (#41), ''[[My Darling Caroline]]''

Latest revision as of 15:50, 7 October 2024


Adele Budnick was born in 1963. She has always felt she's led a rather dull life on her road to becoming a romance author. Unfortunately, she's also often been wrong.

From the first time she stepped onstage to sing Petula Clark's "Downtown" for a crowd (at the age of three in a Juarez, Mexico, hotel restaurant, dancing on the table at the urging of the Spanish-speaking waitresses), she knew she was destined to be a singer. Her first miscalculation.

At the age of six, as she watched one of the Apollo rockets take off on live Saturday-morning television, interrupting the most important TV shows of the decade—The Monkeys and Scooby-Doo—she decided she would become a diplomat. Much to her mother's chagrin, Adele was caught in a heated discussion with a telephone operator who insisted it simply wasn't possible to put a six-year-old child through to President Nixon at the White House just to make a complaint about important programming interruption. Diplomacy clearly wasn't for her.

In elementary school, Adele, being a voracious reader, decided she would be a defense attorney just like Nancy Drew's father. (One knew at any age that one couldn't make a living simply by being a mystery solver like Nancy, but solving crimes as an attorney seemed practical.) After three years of knowing she was destined for Harvard Law School, Adele finished every published Nancy Drew novel (53 of them at the time) and moved on to reading romance. Thus ended her dreams of solving crimes. The idea of law school seemed far less enjoyable after immersing herself in Victoria Holt at the age of twelve.

The Song Bird Years

Adele continued to pursue her singing into her teen years, deciding she was either going to be an editorial reader for a publishing company (because all she loved to do was read) or a Singing Superstar. She figured becoming a Superstar was probably an easier goal to achieve, and so, between reading romances (and in the late 70s there were very few to read), she practiced her art, training her developing coloratura soprano voice with private lessons from one of the best operatic instructors in the city of Albuquerque. Through numerous All-State Choir rehearsals, Jr. and High School choir practice, and various musical productions, she knew she was destined for stardom.

And then at the age of fifteen, her private vocal instructor told her the cold, hard facts: To really make it as a Broadway Singing Superstar, one not only has to read music well, but be able to act and dance and live on pennies. Adele does not dance (unless you count nightclubs in college and that time in Mexico when she was three…) and the "living on pennies" bit seemed highly questionable. Since her acting and music reading talents were also suspect, she decided Broadway might not be for her. Reality sure can be a shocker.

On the Career Path

In college as a journalism major (only because she had to major in something that might get her a paying job), she continued to pursue private vocal instruction with the University of Utah's finest, while performing in various musicals and college recitals. Having directed her through the lead in Cinderella, her drama teacher urged her to try out for local beauty—ahem—scholarship pageants. That was it. Adele was destined to be a singing, reading, reporting, Miss America.

Unfortunately, reality struck again. Not only was Adele a bit lacking in genius (to put it bluntly), being five feet and two inches tall, and possessing quite possibly the shortest legs in the history of womanhood left Adele doing well in talent portions of the contests, but lacking other…necessary attributes. Aside from being crowned Miss Sandy City and Miss Salt Lake County, the pageant thing never went anywhere. Alas, the Singing Beauty Queen future was out.

But Adele worked very hard at her favorite pastime and, by her senior year in college, she'd read just about every Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, Victoria Holt, Shirley Busbee, Laurie McBain.

On the Web

Books

Series/Related Titles

The Dukes

  1. Duke Of Sin
  2. Duke Of Scandal
  3. The Duke's Indiscretion

Marsh

  1. Someone Irresistible
  2. When It's Perfect

Wentworth

  1. Winter Garden
  2. A Notorious Proposition
  3. The Duke's Captive

Awards

Recognitions

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