Toni Blake
Biography
Toni Blake was born in Kentucky in 1965. At the age of ten, she settled on writing as a career. Years laster, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received the Kentucky Women Writers Fellowship. In addition to writing novel-length fiction, she has published over 40 short stories in a variety of literary journals. In 1999, she was featured as an up and coming writer in the Novel & Short Story Writer's Market. She has also taught writing at Northern Kentucky University.
Blake sold her first three novels to the Precious Gems line in 1998. She sold to Harlequin Temptation in 1999, a line she'd been targeting since reading the work of Jennifer Crusie. As an author for Harlequin Temptation, Toni Blake published three novels.
Blake was a 2008 RITA® finalist in the RITA®: Best Contemporary Single Title category for her novel Tempt Me Tonight, published by Avon Red. Tempt Me Tonight was excerpted in Cosmopolitan magazine in June 2007.
Blake is a member of the Ohio Valley Romance Writers of America, a chapter of the Romance Writers of America and Novelists, Inc..
See Also
Books
Fiction
Writing as Toni Blake
- One Reckless Summer - June 2009
- Letters to a Secret Lover - May 2008 (HarperCollins Avon Red)
- Tempt Me Tonight - 2007 (HarperCollins Avon Red)
- Swept Away - September 2006; reissued June 2007 (HarperCollins Avon Red)
- In Your Wildest Dreams - July 2005 (Warner Forever)
- The Red Diary - September 2004 (Warner Forever)
- Mad About Mindy...And Mandy - April 2003 (Harlequin Duets # 98)
- Something Wild - March 2002 (Harlequin Temptation # 870)
- Seducing Summer - April 2001 (Harlequin Temptation # 825)
- Hotbed Honey - September 2000 (Harlequin Temptation # 800)
Writing as Toni Blair
- October Moon - November 1998 (Kensington Precious Gems # 166)
- Baby Love - August 1998 (Kensington Precious Gems # 145)
- The Cinderella Scheme - July 1998 (Kensington Precious Gems # 139)
Novellas
- "After Hours" in The Power of Love - June 2008 (Penguin)
- You Send Me - May 2008 (HarperCollins e-book)
- "Brushstrokes" in Taking Care Of Business - August 2005 (NAL)
On the Web
- Toni Blake Official Website
- Spotlight on Toni Blake - Cincy Chic (June 2007)
- AuthorView:Toni Blake - story at KCCI Des Moines (September 2006)
