Ruth Glick

Ruth Day Burtnick Glick
Born Ruth Day Burtnick
April 27, 1942
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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
Genre Romance, mystery, suspense, young adult, children
Spouse Norman S. Glick (1963-present)
Children 2
Website
www.rebeccayork.com

Ruth Glick, née Burtnick (b. 27 April 1942 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States) is a USA Today best-selling 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.

Biography

Ruth Day Burtnick was born on 27 April 1942 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 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 a book about making dollhouse furniture with her friend Nancy Baggett. Two years later, she published two more dollhouse books. With Baggett, Glick has written many cookbooks focusing on healthy eating; she also writes cookbooks alone. Glick 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 (April 1986)
  2. Flight of the Raven (August 1986)
  3. In Search of the Dove (October 1986)

43 Light Street Harlequin Intrigue Series

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

Moon Series

  1. Killing Moon (June 2003)
  2. Edge of The Moon (August 2003)
  3. Witching Moon (October 2003)
  4. Burning Moon (novella) in Cravings (anthology) (July 2004)
  5. Crimson Moon (January 2005)
  6. Shadow of the Moon (June 2006)
  7. New Moon (March 2007)
  8. Ghost Moon (May 2008)
  9. Huntress Moon (novella) in Elemental Magic (anthology) (November 2007)
  10. Eternal Moon (April 2009)
  11. Dragon Moon (October 2009)

Moon Series Omnibus

Beyond Series

  1. Beyond Control (August 2005)
  2. Beyond Fearless (December 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Kennedy, Megan (March 30, 1999), "Writer has a passion for passion", Baltimore Sun

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