Nalini Singh (author)

Nalini Singh
Born 1977
Fiji
Genres Paranormal Romance
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Romance

www.nalinisingh.com

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Nalini Singh is a New Zealand writer; for the Indian journalist of the same name see Nalini Singh.

Nalini Singh is a New Zealand author of numerous paranormal romance novels.

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Early life

Of Indian descent, Nalini Singh was born in 1977 in Fiji, and moved to New Zealand as a child. She attended Mount Roskill Grammar School.

Writing

First coming to note in 1999, she placed third in the RWNZ's "Clendon Award". Then in 2001 her manuscript "Coaxing the Sheik" won the Jane Porter Award for highest placed Mills and Boon, as well as the Clendon Award's Readers' Choice Award that year.[1] It went on to be her first book sale as "Desert Warrior", sold to Silhouette Desire in September 2002 (published in 2003).

Her books have appeared on the New York Times best-sellers list,[2] the USA Today best-sellers list,[3] and the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list.[4]

She has won several other awards including the Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novella/novelette (twice, in 2008 and 2009) .[5]

Her work has been highly recommended by the New Zealand Herald.[6]

She has had over two dozen novels published,[7] including:

Psy/Changeling Series

Guild Hunter Series

Other Books

Other work

Nalini Singh spent three years working in Japan as an English teacher and touring other parts of Asia. At other times she has also worked as a lawyer, a librarian, a candy factory general hand, and a bank temp, but "not necessarily in that order".[8]

References

  1. ^ http://barbarasbooks.co.nz/competitions.htm
  2. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/books/bestseller/bestpapermassfiction.html New York Times best-sellers list for 21 Nov 2010
  3. ^ http://books.usatoday.com/list/search-results?t=author&k=Nalini+Singh USA Today best-sellers list
  4. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/bestsellers/mass-market-paper/20100215.html Publishers' Weekly best-sellers for 15 Feb 2010
  5. ^ http://sffanz.sf.org.nz/sjv/sjvResults-2009.shtml Sir Julius Vogel awards 2009
  6. ^ Nicky Pellegrino (18 May 2010). "Love story at heart". The New Zealand Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/books/news/article.cfm?c_id=134&objectid=10645555. Retrieved 11 September 2011. 
  7. ^ http://www.nalinisingh.com/booklist list of books sourced from Nalini Singh's own web site, but verifiable on most publication databases
  8. ^ http://www.nalinisingh.com/bio (personal biography)

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