Brenda Novak
Brenda Novak (born in 1964 in Vernal, Utah) is an American author. She has written nearly 50 books, and has sold more than 4 million copies. Her novels have received critical acclaim and won many awards, including three RITA Award nominations, the National Reader's Choice, the Book Buyer’s Best and the Bookseller's Best Award. They have hit many national bestseller lists, including USA Today and The New York Times.[1].[1]
Biography
Novak was born in Utah, the youngest of five children. Her father worked for the government for the Bureau of Reclamation for thirty years. He retired when Brenda was ten and moved the family to Arizona. Her mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was eight years old and was often sick during her childhood, but remained active in the community serving as a member of the Chandler City Council. Brenda married Ted Novak in 1984, and they have five children of their own. In 1993, she caught her day-care provider drugging her children to get them to sleep all day. That was when Brenda decided to quit her job as a loan officer and work from home so she could take care of them herself. Novak sold her first book, a historical romance published by HarperCollins titled Of Noble Birth, in 1998. She sold a contemporary romance to Harlequin Enterprises shortly thereafter and has written for Harlequin ever since.
Novak's annual online auction for diabetes research is the largest online diabetes auction in the world and is held on her website every May. To date, she's raised over $2 million for research. For the 2013 auction, her 9th, she raised $360,000. She runs this fundraiser in honor of her youngest son, who was diagnosed with Type 1 at five years old, and the millions of others who suffer from diabetes. The proceeds go to the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami. [2] She and her husband and children live in Sacramento, CA.
Bibliography
Whiskey Creek
- Come Home To Me, 3/2014 -- MIRA Books
- Take Me Home for Christmas, 10/2013 -- MIRA Books
- Home to Whiskey Creek, 7/2013 -- MIRA Books
- When Summer Comes, 1/2013, MIRA Books
- When Snow Falls, 10/2012 -- MIRA Books
- When Lightning Strikes, 8/2012-- MIRA Books
- When We Touch (prequel novella), 8/2012
Historical Romance
- Through The Smoke, 10/2013 - Montlake
- Honor Bound (original title: The Bastard), 11/2011
- Of Noble Birth, 11/99 (HarperCollins), reprint 3/2011
Bulletproof Series
- Inside, 7/2011 - MIRA Books
- In Seconds, 9/2011 - MIRA Books
- In Close, 11/2011 - MIRA Books
Dept. 6 Hired Guns Series
- Killer Heat, 10/2010 – MIRA Books
- Body Heat, 9/2010 – MIRA Books
- White Heat, 8/2010 – MIRA Books
Last Stand Series
- The Perfect Murder, 10/2009 – MIRA Books
- The Perfect Liar, 9/2009 – MIRA Books
- The Perfect Couple, 8/2009 – MIRA Books
- Watch Me, 8/2008 – MIRA Books
- Stop Me, 7/2008 – MIRA Books
- Trust Me, 6/2008 – MIRA Books
Stillwater Series
- Dead Right, 8/2007 – MIRA Books
- Dead Giveaway, 2/2007 – MIRA Books
- Dead Silence, 8/2006 – MIRA Books
Single Title
- Every Waking Moment, 7/2005, Harlequin
- Cold Feet, 2/2005, Harlequin
- Taking the Heat, 2/2004, Harlequin
Harlequin Superromance (Dundee, Idaho Series)
- A Baby of Her Own, 9/2002
- A Husband of Her Own, 5/2003
- A Family of Her Own, 4/2004
- A Home of Her Own, 12/2004
- Stranger In Town, 6/2005
- Big Girls Don't Cry, 9/2005
- The Other Woman, 5/2006
- Coulda Been a Cowboy, 6/2007
- That Christmas Feeling, 11/2010
Harlequin Superromance
- Sanctuary
- Shooting the Moon
- We Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
- Dear Maggie
- Baby Business
- Snow Baby
- Expectations
Anthologies in collaboration
- Love Is Murder, 2/2013 (With Allison Brennan, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Heather Graham, Lee Child and Edited by Sandra Brown)
- More Than Words, 2/2012 (with Debbie Macomber and Meryl Sawyer)
- Once Upon a Christmas, 10/2011 (with Melinda Curtis and Anna Adams)
- That Christmas Feeling, 11/2010 (with Kathleen O'Brien and Karina Bliss)
- The Night Before Christmas, 11/2009 (with Day LeClaire and Molly O'Keefe)
- Mother, Please! (2004) (with Alison Kent and Jill Shalvis)
- More Than Words (2004) (with Susan Mallery, Diana Palmer, Carla Neggers, and Emilie Richards)
- Family of Her Own / Brother Quest (2004) (with Lori Handeland)
- Omnibus : Snow Angels (2004) (with B. J. Daniels)
- Baby Jane / We Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus / Wide Open Spaces (2004) (with Roz Denny Fox and Judith Arnold)
- Sanctuary, 12/2003 (with Pamela Bauer, Judith Bowen, K.N. Casper, Laura Abbot and Caron Todd)
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