Sandra Lynn Brown is an American bestselling author of romantic novels and thriller suspense novels. Brown has also published works under the pen names of Rachel Ryan, Laura Jordan, and Erin St. Claire.

Biography

Sandra Brown was born in Waco, Texas

Waco, Texas

Waco is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. Situated along the Brazos River and on the I-35 corridor, halfway between Dallas and Austin, it is the economic, cultural, and academic center of the 'Heart of Texas' region....

 and raised in Fort Worth

Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...

. She majored in English at Texas Christian University

Texas Christian University

Texas Christian University is a private, coeducational university located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States and founded in 1873. TCU is affiliated with, but not governed by, the Disciples of Christ...

 (TCU) in Fort Worth, but left college in 1968 to marry her husband Michael Brown, a former television news anchor and award-winning documentarian of Dust to Dust. After her marriage, Brown worked for KLTV

KLTV

KLTV is the ABC-affiliated television station for East Texas that is licensed to Tyler. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter in Red Springs...

 in Tyler

Tyler, Texas

Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, in the United States. It takes its name from President John Tyler . The city had a population of 109,000 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau...

 as a weathercaster, then returned to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area where she became a reporter for WFAA-TV

WFAA-TV

WFAA, channel 8, is an ABC-affiliated television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, one of the top ten media markets in North America. The station is the flagship of Belo Corporation and the largest ABC affiliate not owned and operated by the network...

's version of PM Magazine

PM Magazine

PM/Evening Magazine was a television series with a news and entertainment format. It was syndicated to stations throughout the United States...

.

Brown started her writing career in 1981 after her husband dared her to. Since then she has published nearly 70 novels and had over 50 New York Times bestsellers. In 2008 Sandra realized her dream of a college degree when she was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from her alma mater, TCU.

Her novel French Silk

French Silk

For the assembler by machine language programmer Don French, see French Silk French Silk is a romance novel written by Sandra Brown. It was published in 1992 and made into a TV movie starring Susan Lucci and R. Lee Ermey.-External links:*...

was made into a movie, released in 1994, for television. Susan Lucci

Susan Lucci

Susan Victoria Lucci is an American actress and entrepreneur, best known for portraying Erica Kane on the daytime drama All My Children. The character is considered an icon, and Lucci has been called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with New York Times and Los Angeles Times citing her as the...

, Shari Belafonte

Shari Belafonte

Shari Belafonte is an American actress, model, writer and singer. The daughter of singer Harry Belafonte, she is known for her role as Julie Gilette on the 1980s television series Hotel and as a spokesperson for the diet supplement Slim-Fast during the 1990s.-Personal life:Shari Lynn Belafonte was...

, and Lee Horsley

Lee Horsley

Lee Arthur Horsley is an American film, television, and theater actor known for starring roles in the television series, Nero Wolfe , Matt Houston , and Paradise . He starred in the 1982 cult film, The Sword and the Sorcerer, and recorded the audiobook edition of Lonesome Dove...

 starred.

In 2007 she contributed to Court TV's series Murder By The Book in regard to the murder of Betty Gore in Wylie, Texas

Wylie, Texas

Not to be confused with the unincorporated area of Wylie, Texas just outside Abilene, Texas.Wylie is a city in Collin, Dallas, and Rockwall Counties in the U.S. state of Texas, and a suburb of Dallas. At the 2000 Census, the population was 15,132; 2004 estimates pegged it at 25,850...

, on Friday, June 13, 1980.

Her latest release is titled Smash Cut and was published in August 2009.

Single Novels

Originally Dell Candlelight Ecstasy Romances

• 1981 Love's Encore
• 1981 Love Beyond Reason
• 1982 Eloquent Silence
• 1982 A Treasure Worth Seeking
• 1983 Prime Time

Single Novels

Originally published as Harlequin/Silhouette Category Romances

• 1982 Not Even for Love
• 1983 Seduction by Design
• 1983 A Kiss Remembered
• 1983 A Secret Splendor
• 1984 Words of Silk
• 1984 Bittersweet Rain
• 1984 Tiger Prince
• 1985 Sweet Anger
• 1986 Above and Beyond
• 1986 Honor Bound
• 1987 Two Alone
• 1989 The Thrill of Victory

Bantam Doubleday Dell's Loveswept Category Romance Books

• 1983 Tomorrow's Promise
• 1983 Relentless Desire
• 1983 Heaven's Price
• 1983 Temptations Kiss
• 1983 Tempest in Eden
• 1984 In a Class by Itself
• 1985 Thursday's Child
• 1985 Riley in the Morning
• 1986 The Rana Look
• 1986 22 Indigo Place
• 1987 Sunny Chandler's Return
• 1987 Demon Rumm
• 1988 Tidings of Great Joy
• 1988 Hawk O'Toole's Hostage
• 1989 Long Time Coming
• 1989 Temperatures Rising
• 1989 A Whole New Light

Bed & Breakfast Series

1. 1983 Breakfast in Bed (Originally Loveswept # 22)
2. 1984 Send No Flowers (Originally Loveswept # 51)

Coleman Family Saga Series

(Historical Romance)

1. 1985 Sunset Embrace
2. 1985 Another Dawn

Mason Sisters Series

1. 1987 Fanta C (Originally Loveswept # 217)
2. 1988 Adam's Fall (Originally Loveswept # 252)

Texas! Tyler Family Saga Series

1. 1990 Texas! Lucky
2. 1991 Texas! Chase
3. 1991 Texas! Sage

Single Title Romance Suspense/Thrillers

• 1988 Slow Heat in Heaven
• 1989 Best Kept Secrets
• 1990 Mirror Image
• 1991 Breath of Scandal
• 1992 French Silk
• 1992 Shadows of Yesterday
• 1993 Where There's Smoke
• 1994 Charade
• 1994 Love beyond reason
• 1995 The Witness
• 1996 Exclusive
• 1997 Fat Tuesday
• 1998 Unspeakable
• 1999 The Alibi
• 2000 Standoff
• 2000 The Switch
• 2001 Envy
• 2002 The Crush
• 2003 Hello, Darkness
• 2004 White Hot
• 2005 Chill Factor
• 2006 Ricochet
• 2007 Play Dirty
• 2008 Smoke Screen
• 2008 Fantasia/Fantasy
• 2009 Smash Cut
• 2009 Rainwater
• 2010 Tough Customer
• 2011 Lethal

Omnibus

• Three Complete Novels: Mirror Image / Best Kept Secret / Slow Heatin Heaven (1992)
• Crush / Hello Darkness (2006)
• Heaven's Price / Breakfast in Bed / Send No Flowers (2007)
• Tomorrow's Promise / Two Alone (2008)
• Led Astray / Devil's Own (2010)
• A Secret Splendor / Above and Beyond (2011)

Awards

• American Business Women's Association's Distinguished Circle of Success
• B'nai B'rith's Distinguished Literary Achievement Award
• A.C. Greene Award
• Romance Writers of America
  Romance Writers of America
  Romance Writers of America is a national non-profit genre writers association. It provides networking and support to individuals seriously pursuing a career in romance fiction and supports top authors such as Nora Roberts and Judith McNaught.-History:...
  
  's Lifetime Achievement Award
• International Thriller Writers Award, "Thrillermaster", 2008

External links

• Q&A With Sandra Brown AllYourTV.com
• Erin St. Claire and Sandra Brown at Fantastic Fiction
• Sandra Brown, Rachel Ryan, Erin St. Claire and Laura Jordan at the Internet Book List
• http://sandrabrown.net/books_search.php
• http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/sandra-brown/