Laura Abbot
Laura Abbot | |
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| Born | Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Romance |
| Children | 5 |
Laura Abbot is an American writer of over a dozen romance novels in the Harlequin Superromance and Love Inspired Historical series.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Laura Abbot was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the eldest of three children. Abbot, a tomboy, spent a great deal of time with her grandmothers, who encouraged her love of reading and writing.
Career
[edit | edit source]Abbot found college liberating and worked hard to graduate in only three years. She became a teacher, and, for over twenty-five years taught secondary English. After Abbot retired from teaching, she began to write. She sold her first romance novel to Harlequin Enterprises in 1994. Harlequin has since published well over a dozen of her novels, mainly in the SuperRomance and Love Inspired Historical categories.[1] Her novel, My Name is Nell was nominated for a Romantic Times Magazine award for Best Harlequin SuperRomance in 2003.[2] and "You're My Baby" was the winner of the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence in Long Contemporary.
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]Single Novels
[edit | edit source]- Mating for Life 1995/Mar Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Trial Courtship 1999/May Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- A Summer Place 2002/Dec Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Second Honeymoon 2005/Sep Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- A Letter for Annie 2009/Apr Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Belleporte Summer (2011) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Change of Heart (2011) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Honeymoon at Home (2011) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- A Family Found (2015) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Class Act Series
[edit | edit source]- Class Act 1998/08 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- You're My Baby 2002/Apr Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Marriage of Inconvenience Series Multi-Author
[edit | edit source]- This Christmas 1996/Nov Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Women Who Dare Series Multi-Author
[edit | edit source]- Where There's Smoke... 1997/Jun
By the Year 2000: Marriage Series Multi-Author
[edit | edit source]- The Wedding Vow 1998/Dec
Welcome to Riverbend Series Multi-Author
[edit | edit source]- Homecoming 2000/Sep Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Hometown U.S.A. Series Multi-Author
[edit | edit source]- A Country Practice 2001/Feb Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- My Name is Nell 2003/Oct Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
9 Months Later Series Multi-Author
[edit | edit source]- You're My Baby 2002/Apr Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Single Father Series Multi-Author
[edit | edit source]- The Wrong Man 2004/Mar (2012) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Everlasting Love Series Multi-Author
[edit | edit source]- Stranger At The Door 2008/Aug Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Anthologies in collaboration
[edit | edit source]- Sanctuary 2003/Dec (with Pamela Bauer, Judith Bowen, K.N. Casper, Brenda Novak and Caron Todd)
- Baby in the House / My Name is Nell 2004/Jan (with Pamela Bauer)
- Wrong Man / Daddy Quest 2004/May (with Lori Handeland) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Stranger at the Door / To Save a Family 2008/Oct (with Anna DeStefano) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Biography at Super Authors
- Laura Abbot in Fantastic Fiction
- Author Profile at Romantic Times
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