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

Nalini Singh

Nalini Singh is an Indian journalist. For the New Zealand author see Nalini Singh .She has been the anchor for several current affairs programs on Doordarshan, and is most known for her program, 'Aankhon Dekhi', on investigative journalism.-Early life:She is daughter of consumer rights activist,...

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Nalini Singh is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 author of numerous paranormal romance novels.

Early life

Of Indian descent

Indians in Fiji

Indo-Fijians are Fijians whose ancestors came from India and various parts of South Asia, South-East Asia and Asia itself. They number 313,798 out of a total of 827,900 people living in Fiji...

, Nalini Singh was born in 1977 in Fiji

Fiji

Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

, and moved to New Zealand as a child. She attended Mount Roskill Grammar School

Mount Roskill Grammar School

Mount Roskill Grammar is a secondary school in the suburb of Mount Roskill, Auckland, officially opened in 1954. The school has students of over 70 different nationalities including approximately 200 International students...

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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. 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, the USA Today best-sellers list, and the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list.

She has won several other awards including the Sir Julius Vogel Award

Sir Julius Vogel Award

The Sir Julius Vogel Awards are awarded each year at the New Zealand National Science Fiction Convention to recognise achievement in New Zealand science fiction, fantasy, horror, and science fiction fandom...

 for best novella/novelette (twice, in 2008 and 2009)
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Her work has been highly recommended by the New Zealand Herald.

She has had over two dozen novels published, including:

Psy/Changeling Series

• Slave To Sensation (September 2006) ISBN 0425212866 (Book 1 Psy/Changeling Series)
• Visions of Heat (March 2007) ISBN 978-0425215753 (Book 2 Psy/Changeling Series)
• Caressed By Ice (September 2007) ISBN 978-0425218426 (Book 3 Psy/Changeling Series)
• Mine to Possess (Feb 2008) ISBN 978-0425220160 (Book 4 Psy/Changeling Series)
• Hostage to Pleasure (September 2008) ISBN 978-0425223253 (Book 5 Psy/Changeling Series)
• Branded By Fire (July 2009) ISBN 978-0425226735 (Book 6 Psy/Changeling Series)
• Blaze of Memory (November 2009) ISBN 978-0425231111 (Book 7 Psy/Changeling Series)
• Bonds of Justice (July 2010) ISBN 978-0425235447 (Book 8 Psy/Changeling Series)
• Play of Passion (November 2010) ISBN 978-0425237793 (Book 9 Psy/Changeling Series)
• Kiss of Snow (May 2011) (Book 10 Psy/Changeling Series)
• Burning Up (August 2010) Novella: "Whisper of Sin" ISBN 978-0425235959
• An Enchanted Season (November 2009) ISBN 978-0425231159
• An Enchanted Season (anthology with other authors - October 2007) ISBN 978-0425217856 (Novella set in Psy/Changeling world)
• The Magical Christmas Cat Anthology (October 2008) ISBN 978-0425223550 (Novella set in the Psy/Changeling world)

Guild Hunter Series

• Angel's Blood (March 2009) ISBN 978-0425226926
• Angel's Judgment (in Must Love Hellhounds, November 2009) ISBN 978-0425229590
• Angel's Pawn e-Special
• Archangel's Kiss (February 2010) ISBN 978-0425233368
• Archangel's Consort (January 2011) ISBN 978-0425240137
• Archangel's Blade (September 2011) ISBN 978-0425243916
• Angel's Wolf (in Angels of Darkness, October 2011) ISBN 978-0425243121
• Angel's Flight (this anthology of novellas features Angels' Wolf, Angels' Judgement, Angels' Pawn, and the never-before-published Angels' Dance, February 2012) ISBN 978-0425246818

Other Books

• Awaken The Senses (May 2005) ISBN 0373766513
• Awaken To Pleasure (August 2004) ISBN 0373766025
• Bound By Marriage (February 2007) ISBN 0373767811
• Craving Beauty (July 2005) ISBN 037376667X
• Desert Warrior (August 2003) ISBN 0373765290
• Secrets In The Marriage Bed (March 2006) ISBN 0373767161

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".

External links

• Nalini Singh's personal web site
• NZ Herald best-sellers list
• NY Times best-sellers list (November 12, 2010)
• Sir Julius Vogels award winners official list 2008 & 2009
• BookAwards list of SJV award winners
• Scoop report on SJV winners
• PublishMe report on SJV winners
• Women on Writing
• The Clendon Award is administered by the Romance Writers of New Zealand Incorporated