Michele Gorman is an American-born British author. Gorman is represented by Hardman & Swainson. Her debut, ''Single in the City'', was published by

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; Gorman has now published more than a dozen books with

Notting Hill Press Notting Hill Press, founded in 2012 by authors Michele Gorman,Joyce Lamb"Discover the best of British chick lit/rom-com" Happy Ever After – ''USA Today'', 3 June 2013. Belinda Jones and Talli Roland, was a British book publisher. Notting Hil ...

in the US and Orion/Trapeze and

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in the UK and the rest of the world. She also writes cosy romantic comedies under the pen-name Lilly Bartlett.

Career

Gorman was raised in

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, and her background is financial rather than literary. She went back to school full-time in Chicago for her master's degree in Sociology. In 1998 she moved to London where she worked as a market analyst for more than a decade.Michelegorman.co.uk
/ref> Her first book, ''Single in the City'', was published by

in June 2010. In 2014 she signed with

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, an imprint of

and in 2017 she moved to HarperImpulse for the publication of her Lilly Bartlett pen-named books. In 2020 she signed with Orion/Trapeze for the publication of The Staycation. Today she is a full-time author living in London. In 2012, Gorman joined forces with fellow chick lit authors Talli Roland and Belinda Jones to found

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