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==Awards==
 
==Awards==
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*2015  [[RT Reviewers Choice Award]] Winner - Contemporary Romance, ''[[This Heart Of Mine]]''
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*2012  [[RT Reviewers Choice Award]] Winner - Contemporary Romance, ''[[When Snow Falls]]''
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*2003  [[RT Reviewers Choice Award]] Winner - Harlequin SuperRomance, ''[[Sanctuary]]''
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==Recognitions==
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*2021  [[Publishers Weekly]] Starred Review, ''[[The Bookstore On The Beach]]''
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*2019  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Romantic Suspense, ''[[Before We Were Stangers]]''
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*2018  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Contmeporary Romance: Long, ''[[No One But You]]''
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*2017  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[No One But You]]''
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*2017  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[Until You Loved Me]]''
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*2016  [[Booklist]] Starred Review, ''[[Her Darkest Nightmare]]''
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*2016  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Contmeporary Romance: Long, ''[[The Secret Sister]]''
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*2016  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[Her Darkest Nightmare]]''
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*2015  [[Booklist]] Starred Review, ''[[This Heart Of Mine]]''
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*2015  [[Library Journal]] Starred Review, ''[[This Heart Of Mine]]''
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*2015  [[RT Book Reviews]] Tpop Pick, ''[[The Secret Sister]]''
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*2015  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[This Heart Of Mine]]''
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*2015  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[A Winter Wedding]]''
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*2014  [[Library Journal[['' Starred Review, ''[[The Heart Of Christmas]]''
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*2014  [[Library Journal[['' Starred Review, ''[[A Matter Of Grave Concern]]''
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*2014  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Contmeporary Single Title, ''[[Home To Whiskey Creek]]''
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*2014  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[Come Home To Me]]''
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*2014  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[The Heart Of Christmas]]''
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*2013  [[Library Journal]] Starred Review, ''[[Take Me Home For Christmas]]''
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*2012  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[When Snow Falls]]''
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*2011  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Romantic Novella, ''[[A Dundee Christmas]]''
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*2010  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Romantic Novella, ''[[On A Snowy Christmas]]''
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*2009  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Romantic Suspense, ''[[Stop Me]]''

Revision as of 13:42, 7 November 2024


It was a shocking experience that jump-started Brenda Novak’s bestselling author career.

“I caught my day-care provider drugging my children with cough syrup and Tylenol to get them to sleep while I was away,” Brenda says. “It was then that I decided I needed to do something from home.”

However, writing was the last profession she expected to undertake. In fact, Brenda swears she didn’t have a creative bone in her body. In school, math and science were her best subjects, and when it came time to pick a major in college, she chose business.

Abandoning her academic scholarship to Brigham Young University at the age of twenty in order to get married and start a family, Brenda dabbled in commercial real estate, then became a loan officer.

“When I first got the idea to become a novelist, it took me five years to teach myself the craft and finish my first book,” Brenda admits. “I learned how to write by reading what others have written. The best advice for any would-be author: read, read, read….”

Brenda sold her first book OF NOBLE BIRTH, and the rest is history. Many of her novels have won or placed in contests such as the Rita, the National Reader’s Choice and the Bookseller’s Best, and she now runs a warm and enthusiastic book group on Facebook with over 17,000 members.

Brenda and her husband, Ted, live in Sacramento and are the proud parents of five children—three girls and two boys. When she’s not spending time with her family or writing, Brenda is usually raising money for diabetes research. Her youngest son, Thad, has diabetes, and Brenda is determined to help him and others like him. She also enjoys traveling, playing pickle ball, hiking and biking — she rides an amazing 20 miles several times a week!

On The Web

Books

Series/Related Titles

9 Months Later (multi-author series)

21. Expectations / Back To You
26. Snow Baby
27. Baby Business
35. A Baby Of Her Own / That One Night

The Birth Place (multi-author series)

2. Sanctuary

Bulletproof

  1. Inside
  2. In Seconds
  3. In Close

Coyote Canyon

  1. Talulah's Back In Town
  2. The Talk Of Coyote Canyon
  3. The Messy Life Of Jane Tanner

Dundee, Idaho

  1. A Baby Of Her Own / That One Night
  2. A Husband Of Her Own / Falling For You
  3. A Family Of Her Own / First Love, Second Chance
  4. A Home Of Her Own / Say You Love Me
  5. Stranger In Town / Meant For You
  6. Big Girls Don't Cry / Finding You
  7. The Other Woman / Just The Two Of Us
  8. Coulda Been A Cowboy / The More I Love You
  9. [[A Dundee Christmas

Evelyn Talbot Chronicles

  1. Hanover House
  2. Her Darkest Nightmare
  3. Hello Again
  4. Face Off
  5. Blind Spot

Fairham Island

  1. The Secret Sister
  2. The Secrets She Kept

Hired Gun

  1. White Heat
  2. Body Heat
  3. Killer Heat

Last Stand

  1. Trust Me
  2. Stop Me
  3. Watch Me
  4. The Perfect Couple
  5. The Perfect Liar
  6. The Perfect Murder

Silver Springs

  1. Finding Our Forever
  2. No One But You
  3. Until You Loved Me
  4. Right Where We Belong
  5. Unforgettable You
  6. Christmas In Silver Springs
  7. A California Christmas
  8. When I Found You
  9. Keep Me Warm At Christmas

Stillwater

  1. Dead Silence
  2. Dead Giveaway
  3. Dead Right

Whiskey Creek

.5 When We Touch
  1. When LIghtning Strikes
  2. When Snow Falls
  3. When Summer Comes
  4. Home To Whiskey Creek
  5. Take Me Home For Christmas
  6. Come Home To Me
  7. The Heart Of Christmas
  8. This Heart Of Mine
  9. A Winter Wedding
  10. Discovering You
10.5 Home For The Holidays

Awards

Recognitions

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