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Jayne Castle
Pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz.
The author of more than thirty consecutive New York
Times bestsellers, Jayne Ann Krentz, who also writes
under the pen names Amanda Quick and Jayne Castle, has over
30 million of her books in print. In addition to her fiction writing, she is the editor of,
and a contributor to, a non-fiction essay collection
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on
the Appeal of Romance, published by the University of
Pennsylvania Press. The book received the Susan Koppelman
Award for feminist studies given by the Women's Caucus of
the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture
Association. Ms. Krentz has believed in the importance of romance fiction
since the beginning of her publishing career. With each
passing year she grows more convinced of its significance
and its contributions to the lives of women everywhere. She earned a B.A. in history from the University of
California at Santa Cruz and went on to obtain a Masters
degree in Library Science from San Jose State University.
Before she began writing full time she worked as a librarian
in both academic and corporate libraries. Ms. Krentz is married and lives in Seattle, Washington. Find
her online at http://jaynenannkrentz.com
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