Gwyn Cready
Encyclopedia
Personal life
Cready was born in Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
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. She attended Mt. Lebanon High School (where she became close friends with novelist Teri Coyne (The Last Bridge, 2009) and shared theatre classes with actress Ming Na), graduating in 1979. Cready majored in English literature at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
, graduating with a BA in 1983, and followed that with an MBA in marketing, also from Chicago. She married Lester Pyle (who shares a last name with Seph, the heroine of Tumbling Through Time) in 1986. They have two children, born in 1988 and 1994. Like Seph, Cready worked as brand manager in the pharmaceutical industry.
Writing career
Cready is a paranormal romance author who specializes in sexy, funny time travel stories. Her novels are typically set in Pittsburgh, Cready's hometown. Her first book, Tumbling Through Time (2008), involves a woman who tries on a pair of magical pink sandals in the Nine WestNine West
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shoe store in the Pittsburgh Airport and ends up on the deck of a privateer ship in 1705. Her second book, Seducing Mr. Darcy (2008), involves a woman who, through a magical massage in which one is encouraged to "imagine oneself in one's favorite book," ends up thrust not just into the pages of Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England...
but into the arms of Fitzwilliam Darcy
Fitzwilliam Darcy
Fitzwilliam Darcy, generally referred to as Mr Darcy, is one of the two central characters in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. He is an archetype of the aloof romantic hero, and a romantic interest of Elizabeth Bennet, the novel's protagonist...
himself.
Publishers Weekly called Tumbling Through Time "a joy" and Cready "an author worth watching." Given the humorous tone and situations which often involve one woman and two men, Cready's books have been likened to those of Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to...
. Seducing Mr. Darcy won the 2009 RITA Award
RITA Award
The RITA Award is the most prominent award given throughout the genre of romance novel and some other romantic fiction. It is presented by Romance Writers of America . It is named for the RWA's first president, Rita Clay Estrada. It signifies excellence in one of 13 categories of romantic fiction.-...
for Best Paranormal Romance Novel.
Works
- Flirting With Forever (2010)
- Tumbling Through Time (2007)
- Seducing Mr. Darcy (2008)
- Aching for Always (2010)