Ruth Glick

Ruth Day Burtnick Glick
Born Ruth Day Burtnick
April 27, 1942 (1942-04-27) (age 69)
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Pen name -Ruth Glick
-Amanda Lee, Samantha Chase, and Rebecca York (with Eileen Buckholtz until 1998)
-Alexis Hill, Alexis Hill Jordan, and Tess Marlowe (with Louise Titchener)
Occupation Novelist
Language English
Nationality American
Genres Romance, mystery, suspense, young adult, children
Spouse(s) Norman S. Glick (1963-present)
Children 2
www.rebeccayork.com

Ruth Glick, née Burtnick (b. 27 April 1942 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA) is a USA Today best-selling US writer of healthy cookbooks, romance and young adult novels. She has written dozens of novels under the pseudonym Rebecca York; until 1997 these were written in collaboration with Eileen Buckholtz.

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Biography

Ruth Day Burtnick was born on 27 April 1942 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, the daughter of Lester Leon Burtnick, a psychiatrist, and Beverly Miller Burtnick, a middle-school science teacher. She was raised in Washington, DC, she earned a B.A. in American Thought and Civilization from George Washington University and an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Maryland. In 30 June 1963, she married Norman S. Glick, a mathematician for the Defense Department. They have two children: Elissa, a librarian, and Ethan, a Foreign Service Officer.

After several years as a stay-at-home mother, Glick decided to pursue a career. She enrolled in a course at a local community college to help her choose a career. The class helped her identify a talent for writing. For the next few years, Glick wrote articles for local newspapers, and sold several articles on a freelance basis to The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun.[1]

In 1977, Glick published with her friend Nancy Baggett, a Dollhouse book, two years later she published other two books. With Baggett, Glick also is the author of cookbooks focusing on healthy eating, she also writes cookbooks alone. She sometimes hires trained chefs to test the recipes that she creates, and makes sure that every recipe is tested at least three times before it appears in one of her cookbooks.

When Glick wrote her first novel, a children's science-fiction story, it was rejected by five different publishers. The last, Scholastic, sent a two-page note detailing the flaws in the manuscript. Glick rewrote the story based on those suggestions, and Scholastic later purchased the book. It was released in 1982 as Invasion of the Blue Lights. The same year, Glick partnered with three friends, Eileen Buckholtz, Louise Titchener, and Carolyn Males to write romance novels, under the pseudonym of Alyssa Howard they published two novels, their first work "Love is Elected" was nominee for Romantic Times Best Romance. She collabored with Buckholtz writing young-adult novels, and using with her the pseudonyms of Amanda Lee, Samantha Chase and Rebecca York, the duo wrote over 40 novels and novellas together. Most of these were romantic suspense.[1] With Titchener, she wrote under the pseudonyms of Alexis Hill, Alexis Hill Jordan, and Tess Marlowe.

In the late 1990s, Glick decided that she no longer wished to work in collaboration, explaining that "sharing my vision with someone else stopped being satisfying for me".[1] She and Buckholz agreed that each could release solo novels under the pseudonym Rebecca York, provided that the cover page also listed their real names. In 1998, Glick's first solo novel as Rebecca York was published as Nowhere Man.[1]

According to Glick, as of 1999 over 5 million copies of her books were in print in 17 languages.[1] By 2011, there were over 12 million copies of her books in print in 22 languages.

Many of her novels are published under the Harlequin Intrigue line, and in June 2003, she became one of the first authors published under Berkley's new Sensation imprint.

Glick is the head of the Columbia Writers Workshop.

Awards

Bibliography

As Ruth Glick

Dollhouse Books

Young adult novel

Single titles
Twistaplot Series Multi-Author
10. Mission of the Secret Spy Squad (1984) (with Eileen Buckholtz)
Micro Adventure Series Multi-Author
1. Space Attack (1984) (with Eileen Buckholtz)
5. Mindbenders (1984) (with Eileen Buckholtz)
7. Doom Stalker (1985) (with Eileen Buckholtz)
Magic Micro Adventure Series Multi-Author
1. Captain Kid and the Pirates (1985) (with Eileen Buckholtz)
4. The Cats of Castle Mountain (1985) (with Eileen Buckholtz)
Charisma Inc. Series
  1. Saber Dance (1988) (with Eileen Buckholtz)
  2. Breathless (1988) (with Eileen Buckholtz and Kathryn Jensen)
  3. Smoke Screen (1988) (with Eileen Buckholtz and Barbara Cummings)
  4. Desperado (1988) (with Eileen Buckholtz and Chassie, L. West)
  5. The Golden Hawk (1988) (with Eileen Buckholtz and Jean M. Favors)
  6. On Edge (1988) (with Eileen Buckholtz)
  7. Risky Venture (1989) (with Eileen Buckholtz and Alice Leonhardt)
  8. Roller Coaster (1989) (with Eileen Buckholtz)
  9. The Big Score (1989) (with Eileen Buckholtz and Kathryn Jensen)
  10. Night Stalker (1989) (with Eileen Buckholtz and Kathryn Jensen)

Cookbooks

Romance novels

As Alyssa Howard

Single romance novels

As Alexis Hill

Single romance novels

As Alexis Hill Jordan

Single romance novels

As Amanda Lee

Single romance novels

As Rebecca York

The Peregrine Connection Series

  1. Talons of the Falcon (Apr 1986)
  2. Flight of the Raven (Aug 1986)
  3. In Search of the Dove (Oct 1986)

43 Light Street Harlequin Intrigue Series

In collaboration
  1. Life Line (Aug 1990)
  2. Shattered Vows (Feb 1991)
  3. Whispers in the Night (Aug 1991)
  4. Only Skin Deep (Feb 1992)
  5. Trial by Fire (Sep 1992)
  6. Hopscotch (Feb 1993)
  7. Cradle and All (Jul 1993)
  8. What Child Is This? (Dec 1993)
  9. Midnight Kiss (May 1994)
  10. Tangled Vows (Sep 1994)
  11. Till Death Us Do Part (Apr 1995)
  12. Prince of Time (Sep 1995)
  13. Face to Face (Oct 1996)
  14. For Your Eyes Only (Feb 1997)
  15. Father and Child (Oct 1997)
  16. Remington and Juliet (Feb 1998) (in Key to My Heart)
Alone
  1. Nowhere Man (Jul 1998)
  2. Shattered Lullaby (Dec 1998)
  3. Counterfeit Wife (Aug 1999) (in After Dark)
  4. Midnight Caller (Oct 1999)
  5. Never Too Late (Mar 2000)
  6. Amanda's Child (Sep 2000)
  7. The Man from Texas (Aug 2001)
  8. Never Alone (Oct 2001)
  9. Lassiter's Law (Dec 2001)
  10. From the Shadows (Jun 2002)
  11. Phantom Lover (Apr 2003)
  12. Intimate Strangers (Jul 2003)
  13. Out of Nowhere (Apr 2004)
  14. Spellbound (Feb 2005)
  15. The Secret Night (Apr 2006)
  16. Return of the Warrior (Oct 2007)
  17. Soldier Caged (Jul 2008)
  18. More Than a Man (Aug 2009)
  19. Guarding Grace (Jul 2010)
  20. Solid As Steele (Jan 2011)

Moon Series

  1. Killing Moon (Jun 2003)
  2. Edge of The Moon (Aug 2003)
  3. Witching Moon (Oct 2003)
  4. Burning Moon (novella) in Cravings (anthology) (Jul 2004)
  5. Crimson Moon (Jan 2005)
  6. Shadow of the Moon (Jun 2006)
  7. New Moon (Mar 2007)
  8. Ghost Moon (May 2008)
  9. Huntress Moon (novella) in Elemental Magic (anthology) (Nov 2007)
  10. Eternal Moon (Apr 2009)
  11. Dragon Moon (Oct 2009)

Moon Series Omnibus

Beyond Series

  1. Beyond Control (Aug 2005)
  2. Beyond Fearless (Dec 2007)

Other Berkley Paranormal Romantic Suspense

Other Harlequin Intrigues

Omnibus

Anthologies

As Tess Marlowe

Single romance novels

As Samantha Chase

Single romance novels

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Kennedy, Megan (March 30, 1999), "Writer has a passion for passion", Baltimore Sun 

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