Mia Zachary is an American author of
contemporary romance
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novels.
Biography
Zachary first began writing as a child, creating picture books with simple dialogue for her younger brother.
In the late 1980s, she began her first novel, a medieval
historical romance
Historical romance is a broad category of mass-market fiction focusing on romantic relationships in historical periods, which Lord Byron, Byron helped popularize in the early 19th century. The genre often takes the form of the novel.
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, but did not finish it because of the research it necessitated. In 1998, she formed an online publishing company.
At a
Romance Writers of America
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conference in 2000, she was inspired by a story told by a fellow author,
Kelsey Roberts, about finding a single red shoe under the bed of her hotel room. She wrote a manuscript, ''Red Shoes And a Diary'', which did not sell well through her online company. She rewrote the story and submitted it to
Harlequin
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Temptation, which rejected the story.
[ Zachary entered two of the love scenes from her novel into Harlequin's Summer Blaze writing contest. She won the contest, a chance to have an editor read her full manuscript. The editor purchased the novel,][ which was published in April 2003.][
Zachary says that she writes "romance fiction ecause itis stories about friendship and intimacy, love and respect, commitment, and responsibility".][
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Novels
*''Red Shoes and a Diary'' (2003)
*''Yours in Black Lace'' (2004)
*''9½ Days'' (2004)
*''Afternoon Delight'' (2006)
*''Another Side of Midnight'' (2007)
Omnibus
*''Witchy Business: Under His Spell / Disenchanted? / Spirit Dance'' (2007) (with Julie Elizabeth Leto, Rhonda Nelson)
References
External links
Official website
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Living people
21st-century American novelists
American romantic fiction writers
American women novelists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women writers