
Deirdre Martin
http://www.deirdremartin.com/
Books: Straight Up, May 2010
Double the Heat, December 2009
Hot Ticket, September 2009
With a Twist, May 2009
Double the Pleasure, December 2008
Power Play, October 2008
Just a Taste, January 2008
Chasing Stanley, February 2007
Hot Ticket, May 2006
The Penalty Box, March 2006
Total Rush, March 2005
Fair Play, February 2004
Body Check, March 2003
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Deirdre Martin
Deirdre was six when she wrote her first "book", a Peanuts
parody. In addition to penning bad, maudlin poetry in junior
high school and serving as the Arts Editor on her high
school newspaper, she was also the Arts Editor at her
college newspaper at the University of New York at Buffalo,
where she earned her BA in English in 1985. While writing
for the student newspaper there, she also sold her first
freelance magazine article and won a city wide play writing
contest. The play, Spin Cycle, about two lonely people at a
laundromat, was subsequently performed in a theater space in
downtown Buffalo.
Ater graduating college, Deirdre worked at a series of trade
magazines before landing a job at Soap Opera Digest.
While she says it was fun working in a place where you got
to watch TV all afternoon, she longed to branch out, and
after two years, left to begin freelancing full time. Over
the course of her twelve year freelance career, her work
appeared in a wide variety of publications, including
Seventeen, YlI1, McCall's,
Fitness, New Woman, Bride's, Bridal
Guide, Inside Sports, Woman's World,
Modern Maturity, Islands, Newsday, and
the New York Times. In 1998, her first , non fiction
book was published: Investing for Retirement (Avon).
She also contributed to Lifescripts for Managers,
Lifescripts for Employees, and Lifescripts for the
Self Employed. (MacMillan, 1999).
A fan of the romance genre and of soap opera ( "If Dickens
were alive today, he'd be writing for a soap," Deirdre
maintains), she decided to try her own hand at writing a
romance novel. The result, BODY CHECK, was
published in March, 2003, followed by FAIR
PLAY in 2004, TOTAL RUSH in 2005, and
THE PENALTY BOX in 2006. Her next novel,
CHASING STANLEY, will be published in 2007,
heralding a return to her "New York Blades" series,
featuring the sexy the hockey heroes her readers have come
to know and love. In fact, as of December, 2006, the Blades
will have their own website: www.nyblades.com. Both FAIR
PLAY and THE PENALTY BOX made it on to
the USA Today Bestseller List.
A resident of Ithaca, NY, Deirdre enjoys hiking and biking
with her husband, Mark Levine, co author of the financial
bestsellers, Die Broke and Live Rich. When not
busy lavishing affection on her beloved Newfoundlands,
Winston and Rocky, she enjoys reading, baking, listening to
music, yoga, and photography. She's had the same best friend
since she was ten and adores the color purple.
Check out Deirdre's video, A Romance Writer Tells
All, at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeT4Il7V2U
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