M. J. Putney
Pseudonym for Mary Jo Putney.
http://www.maryjoputney.com
Mary Jo Putney was born in Upstate New York with a reading
addiction, a
condition for which there is no known cure. After earning
degrees in English
Literature and Industrial Design at Syracuse University,
she did various
forms of design work in California and England before
inertia took over in
Baltimore, Maryland, where she has lived very comfortably
ever since.
While becoming a novelist was her ultimate fantasy, it
never occurred to her
that writing was an achievable goal until she acquired a
computer for other
purposes. When the realization hit that a computer was
the
ultimate writing
tool, she charged merrily into her first book with an
ignorance that
illustrates the adage that fools rush in where angels fear
to tread.
Since fortune sometimes favors the foolish, her first book
sold quickly,
thereby changing her life forever, in most ways for the
better. ("But why
didn't anyone tell me that writing would change the way
one
reads?") Like a
lemming over a cliff, she gave up her freelance graphic
design business to
become a full-time writer as soon as possible.
Since 1987, Ms. Putney has published twenty-six books and
counting. Her
stories are noted for psychological depth and unusual
subject matter such as
alcoholism, death and dying, and domestic abuse. She has
made all of the
national bestseller lists including the New York Times,
Wall Street Journal,
USAToday, and Publishers Weekly. Four of her books have
been named among the
year's top five romances by The Library Journal, and
The
Spiral Path has just
been named one of 2002's top ten romances by Booklist, the
review site of the
American Library Association.
She has also won numerous awards, including Ritas for
Dancing on the Wind and
The Rake and the Reformer, two Romantic Times
Career
Achievement Awards, and
four NJRW Golden Leaf awards, plus the NJRW career
achievement award for
historical romance. Her second contemporary romance,
The
Spiral Path, was
released in January 2002, The Bartered Bride, last
in her
historical Bride
trilogy, was published in hardcover in May 2002, and
November will see the
release of her holiday collection, Christmas
Revels.
Her
next contemporary
romance, Twist of Fate, is scheduled for August
2003.
Ms. Putney says that not least among the blessings of a
full-time writing
career is that one almost never has to wear pantyhose.
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Books
Stolen Magic
June 1, 2005
Heir to an ancient title, Simon Malmain, the Earl of
Falconer, is well known among the Guardians, humans with
magical powers derived from nature. Well known, but not
always well loved . . Read more...
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