Claudia Dain
http://www.claudiadain.com

Books:
Daring a Duke, July 2010
How To Dazzle A Duke, June 2010
The Courtesan's Wager, April 2010
The Courtesan's Secret, October 2009
How to Dazzle a Duke, September 2009
The Courtesan's Wager, February 2009
The Courtesan's Daughter, October 2008
Private Places, August 2008
The Courtesan's Secret, May 2008
The Courtesan's Daughter, October 2007


Claudia Dain

Pseudonym: Claudia Welch.

It was while writing a descriptive essay in seventh grade English (that was the assignment, to write a 'descriptive essay') that Claudia first fell in love. With descriptive essays. Boys being what they are in seventh grade, there was hardly much choice.

By her ninth grade year, Claudia was spending hours each week in her bedroom writing descriptive essays that heavily featured older boys (eleventh grade). She also practiced her kissing technique on a pole lamp next to her bed. It was less than satisfactory, but the writing was fun.

She attended the University of Southern California as an English major. She'd mastered kissing by this time and writing, strangely enough, was still fun. 'Strangely' because while it had become obvious to her that almost everyone enjoyed kissing, it was equally obvious that very few people enjoyed writing. This was as peculiar to her as, well, not enjoying kissing.

Clearly, something had to be done. The idea of combining kissing and writing seemed the obvious course of action. While Claudia does not claim to have invented the romance novel, she certainly has a lot of fun describing kisses and inventing men to bestow them upon. And not a one of her heroes looks remotely like a pole lamp. (And don't act like one either.)

Claudia was first published in 2000, is a two-time Rita finalist, and a USA Today Bestselling author. Which just goes to prove that you can make a career out of kissing and writing about it.

Claudia lives in the southeastern U.S. and is at work on the second novel in the series.

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