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Laura Abbot
Born Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation Novelist
NationalityAmerican
Genre Romance
Children5

Laura Abbot is an American writer of over a dozen romance novels in the Harlequin Superromance and Love Inspired Historical series.

Early life

Laura Abbot was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the eldest of three children. Abbot, a tomboy, spent a great deal of time with her grandmothers, who encouraged her love of reading and writing.

Career

Abbot found college liberating and worked hard to graduate in only three years. She became a teacher, and, for over twenty-five years taught secondary English. After Abbot retired from teaching, she began to write. She sold her first romance novel to Harlequin Enterprises in 1994. Harlequin has since published well over a dozen of her novels, mainly in the SuperRomance and Love Inspired Historical categories. [1] Her novel, My Name is Nell was nominated for a Romantic Times Magazine award for Best Harlequin SuperRomance in 2003. [2] and "You're My Baby" was the winner of the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence in Long Contemporary.

Bibliography

Single Novels

  • Mating for Life 1995/Mar
  • Trial Courtship 1999/May
  • A Summer Place 2002/Dec
  • Second Honeymoon 2005/Sep
  • A Letter for Annie 2009/Apr
  • Belleporte Summer (2011)
  • Change of Heart (2011)
  • Honeymoon at Home (2011)
  • A Family Found (2015) ISBN  9780373283132

Class Act Series

  • Class Act 1998/08
  • You're My Baby 2002/Apr

Marriage of Inconvenience Series Multi-Author

  • This Christmas 1996/Nov

Women Who Dare Series Multi-Author

  • Where There's Smoke... 1997/Jun

By the Year 2000: Marriage Series Multi-Author

  • The Wedding Vow 1998/Dec

Welcome to Riverbend Series Multi-Author

  • Homecoming 2000/Sep

Hometown U.S.A. Series Multi-Author

  • A Country Practice 2001/Feb
  • My Name is Nell 2003/Oct

9 Months Later Series Multi-Author

  • You're My Baby 2002/Apr

Single Father Series Multi-Author

Everlasting Love Series Multi-Author

  • Stranger At The Door 2008/Aug

Anthologies in collaboration

References

  1. ^ "Laura Abbot". eHarlequin.Com. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
  2. ^ "Romantic Times 2003 Reviewers' Choice Award Nominees". Romantic Times Magazine. 2003. Archived from the original on 2006-12-29. Retrieved 2007-04-10.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laura Abbot
Born Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation Novelist
NationalityAmerican
Genre Romance
Children5

Laura Abbot is an American writer of over a dozen romance novels in the Harlequin Superromance and Love Inspired Historical series.

Early life

Laura Abbot was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the eldest of three children. Abbot, a tomboy, spent a great deal of time with her grandmothers, who encouraged her love of reading and writing.

Career

Abbot found college liberating and worked hard to graduate in only three years. She became a teacher, and, for over twenty-five years taught secondary English. After Abbot retired from teaching, she began to write. She sold her first romance novel to Harlequin Enterprises in 1994. Harlequin has since published well over a dozen of her novels, mainly in the SuperRomance and Love Inspired Historical categories. [1] Her novel, My Name is Nell was nominated for a Romantic Times Magazine award for Best Harlequin SuperRomance in 2003. [2] and "You're My Baby" was the winner of the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence in Long Contemporary.

Bibliography

Single Novels

  • Mating for Life 1995/Mar
  • Trial Courtship 1999/May
  • A Summer Place 2002/Dec
  • Second Honeymoon 2005/Sep
  • A Letter for Annie 2009/Apr
  • Belleporte Summer (2011)
  • Change of Heart (2011)
  • Honeymoon at Home (2011)
  • A Family Found (2015) ISBN  9780373283132

Class Act Series

  • Class Act 1998/08
  • You're My Baby 2002/Apr

Marriage of Inconvenience Series Multi-Author

  • This Christmas 1996/Nov

Women Who Dare Series Multi-Author

  • Where There's Smoke... 1997/Jun

By the Year 2000: Marriage Series Multi-Author

  • The Wedding Vow 1998/Dec

Welcome to Riverbend Series Multi-Author

  • Homecoming 2000/Sep

Hometown U.S.A. Series Multi-Author

  • A Country Practice 2001/Feb
  • My Name is Nell 2003/Oct

9 Months Later Series Multi-Author

  • You're My Baby 2002/Apr

Single Father Series Multi-Author

Everlasting Love Series Multi-Author

  • Stranger At The Door 2008/Aug

Anthologies in collaboration

References

  1. ^ "Laura Abbot". eHarlequin.Com. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
  2. ^ "Romantic Times 2003 Reviewers' Choice Award Nominees". Romantic Times Magazine. 2003. Archived from the original on 2006-12-29. Retrieved 2007-04-10.

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