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. Her novel 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..
Toni Blake was a 2008 RITA® finalist in the RITA®: Best Contemporary Single Title category for her novel Tempt Me Tonight.
As an author for Harlequin Temptation, Toni Blake published three novels.
Books
- Hotbed Honey - September 2000 (Harlequin Temptation #800)
- Seducing Summer - April 2001 (Harlequin Temptation #825)
- Something Wild - March 2002 (Harlequin Temptation #870)
- Tempt Me Tonight - 2007 (Avon Red)
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)
