Alison Kent

Alison Kent was a born reader, but it wasn't until she reached 30 that she knew she wanted to be a writer when she grew up. Five years later, she made her first sale. In 1995, she accepted an offer issued by the senior editor of Harlequin Temptation live on the "Isn't It Romantic?" episode of CBS 48 Hours. The resulting book, Call Me, was a Romantic Times finalist for Best First Series Book in 1996.

With her first three Temptations on the shelf, she took a break from writing romance novels and spent a few months living one, finding her own hero and practicing every technique she'd learned from a lifetime of reading the best "how-to" manuals around! And the rest, as they say, is history. Having more than 30 titles contracted or in print, she now writes for both the Harlequin Blaze and Kensington Brava lines. She is also a partner in Access Romance, an online author community (www.accessromance.com) and DreamForge Media (www.dreamforgemedia.com) as a website designer.

Alison lives in a Houston, Texas, suburb with her hero, any number of their four vagabond kids, and a dog named Smith. Readers can contact her through her website [1].

On the Web

• Alison Kent
• Blah Blog of Alison Kent
• Alison Kent at Publishers Marketplace

Non-Fiction

• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Erotic Romance - 2006 (Alpha Books)
• Totally Charmed: Demons, Whitelighters and the Power of Three - 2005 (BenBella Books)

Fiction

Books

• Deep Breath - 2006 (Kensington) (Brava)
• Goes Down Easy - 2006 (Harlequin) (Blaze)

• Red Letter Nights - 2005 (Harlequin) (Blaze) RT Bookclub Top Pick
• Kiss & Makeup - 2005 (Harlequin) (Blaze)
• Larger Than Life - 2005 (Kensington) (Brava)

Novellas

• "Sara Smiles" in Beach Blanket Bad Boys - 2005 (Kensington) (Brava)
• The McKenzie Artifact - 2005 (Kensington) (Brava)
• The Beach Alibi - 2005 (Kensington) (Brava) - National Quill Award Nominee

• The Samms Agenda - 2004 (Kensington) (Brava)
• The Shaughnessey Accord - 2004 (Kensington) (Brava)
• "Upstairs, Downstairs" in Mother, Please! - 2004 (Harlequin)

• "A Blue Christmas" in Jingle Bell Rock - 2003 (Kensington) (Brava)

Series/Related Titles

• Smithson Group / SG-5

• Deep Breath - 04/2006 (Kensington) (Brava)
• Larger Than Life - 06/2005 (Kensington) (Brava)
• The McKenzie Artifact - 02/2005 (Kensington) (Brava)
• The Beach Alibi - 01/2005 (Kensington) (Brava) National Quill Award Nominee
• The Samms Agenda - 12/2004 (Kensington) (Brava)
• The Shaughnessey Accord - 11/2004 (Kensington) (Brava)
• The Bane Affair - 10/2004 (Kensington) (Brava)

• gIRL-gEAR

• Indiscreet - 01/2004 Harlequin) (Blaze) RT Bookclub Top Pick
• Wicked Games - 10/2003 Harlequin) (Blaze)
• Striptease - 08/2003 Harlequin) (Blaze) RT Bookclub Top Pick
• Bound To Happen - 05/2002 Harlequin) (Blaze)
• No Strings Attached - 03/2002 Harlequin) (Blaze)
• All Tied Up - 01/2002 Harlequin) (Blaze)