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Jayne Ann Castle Krentz (b. March 28 , 1948 ) is an American Writer of Romance Novel s. Krentz is the author of a string of '' New York Times '' bestsellers under three different names. As '''Jayne Ann Krentz''' (her married name) she writes contemporary romantic-suspense. She uses '''Amanda Quick''' for her novels of Historical romantic-suspense. '''Jayne Castle''' (her birth name) is reserved these days for her stories of futuristic/paranormal romantic-suspense. Over 23 million copies of Krentz's 122 novels are in print. With ''Sweet Starfire'', Krentz created the futuristic romance subgenre, and further expanded the boundaries of the genre in 1996 with ''Amaryllis'', the first paranormal futuristic romantic suspense novel. She is an outspoken advocate for the romance genre and has been the recipient of the Susan Koppelman Award for Feminist Studies. BIOGRAPHY Early years Jayne Ann Castle was born March 28 , 1948 in Borrego Springs, California . Her mother, Alberta Castle, raised her and her two brothers, Stephen and James. She earned a B.A in History at the University Of California, Santa Cruz in 1970.. Fearful that she would be unable to find a job using her degree, Krentz elected to obtain a Masters degree in Library Science from San Jose State University . Immediately after graduation she married Frank Krentz, whom she had met at San Jose Stage. The couple moved to the Virgin Islands , where Krentz worked for a year as an elementary school librarian, a time she refers to as "an unmitigated career disaster."1 Realizing that she enjoyed being a librarian but not the aspects of teaching that working in an elementary school required, Krentz moved into the higher levels of academia, including a stint in the Duke University library system. Writing career While working at Duke, Krentz began writing stories her way, combining elements of Romance Novels with paranormal twists. For six years she wrote and mailed proposals for new novels, consistently receiving rejection letters. She claims to have tried to stop writing several times during that period, but that it became a "compulsion." During this time she and her family moved to Seattle, Washington to further her husband's aerospace career. Krentz continued writing, and, in 1979, she sold her first novel, ''Gentle Pirate''.2 That novel and several that followed were published within various category romance lines, as that was the only method in which contemporary romance was published. As more publishers began to release single-title contemporary romances, Krentz shifted into writing only single-title novels.3 Her first novels were released under her birth name, Jayne Castle. An ill-informed Krentz signed a contract allowing one of her publishers to own the name, and, after leaving that publisher, Krentz was unable to use that name on new works for ten years. This led to the creation of several pseudonyms, including Jayne Taylor, Jayne Bentley, Stephanie James and Amanda Glass, although by the mid-1980s she had begun using only her married name, Jayne Ann Krentz, for all of her contemporary romance novels. |
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