Biography:
Lori Handeland is a New York Times, USA Today, Waldenbooks and Bookscan Bestselling Author and the recipient of many industry awards, including two RITA Awards from Romance Writers of America for Best Paranormal (BLUE MOON) and Best Long Contemporary Romance (THE MOMMY QUEST), a Romantic Times Award for Best Harlequin Superromance (A SOLDIER'S QUEST), the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence, the Write Touch Readers Award, the National Readers Choice Award and the Prism Award.
Lori sold her first novel, a western historical romance, in 1993. In the years since then, she has written eleven novels in the popular Nightcreature Novels, five installments in the Phoenix Chronicles, six works of contemporary romance about the Luchettis, a duet of Shakespeare Undead novels, a trilogy, Sisters of the Craft, where she created time traveling witches, and other standalone novels. Lori is also the author of the critically acclaimed Once Upon a Time in the West trilogy, writing as Lori Austin.
Lori lives in Southern Wisconsin with her husband. In between writing and reading, she enjoys long walks with their rescue mutt, Arnold (also known as The Great Black Beast), and occasional visits from her two spectacular grown sons, brilliant daughter-in-law and perfectly adorable grandsons. She loves to hear from readers and can be reached at [email protected].
(from the author's website)
Works by Lori Handeland:
Lori Handeland is a New York Times, USA Today, Waldenbooks and Bookscan Bestselling Author and the recipient of many industry awards, including two RITA Awards from Romance Writers of America for Best Paranormal (BLUE MOON) and Best Long Contemporary Romance (THE MOMMY QUEST), a Romantic Times Award for Best Harlequin Superromance (A SOLDIER'S QUEST), the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence, the Write Touch Readers Award, the National Readers Choice Award and the Prism Award.
Lori sold her first novel, a western historical romance, in 1993. In the years since then, she has written eleven novels in the popular Nightcreature Novels, five installments in the Phoenix Chronicles, six works of contemporary romance about the Luchettis, a duet of Shakespeare Undead novels, a trilogy, Sisters of the Craft, where she created time traveling witches, and other standalone novels. Lori is also the author of the critically acclaimed Once Upon a Time in the West trilogy, writing as Lori Austin.
Lori lives in Southern Wisconsin with her husband. In between writing and reading, she enjoys long walks with their rescue mutt, Arnold (also known as The Great Black Beast), and occasional visits from her two spectacular grown sons, brilliant daughter-in-law and perfectly adorable grandsons. She loves to hear from readers and can be reached at [email protected].
(from the author's website)
Works by Lori Handeland:
- Stand-Alone Novels
- Second Chance (1994)
- Charlie and the Angel (1995)
- Shadow Lover (1995)
- D.J.'s Angel (1995)
- Full Moon Dreams (1996)
- By Any Other Name (1998)
- Dreams of an Eagle (1998)
- When You Wish (2000)
- An Outlaw for Christmas (2001)
- Red Moon Rising (2015), a novella previously published in the anthology Stroke of Midnight
- Just Once
- Series
- Precious Gems Historical Romance line - Lori Handeland is but one of multiple authors that wrote mostly non-related romance stories for this now defunct line of books
- 35 Just After Midnight (1999)
- 67 Loving a Legend (2000)
- Harlequin Superromance line - Lori Handeland is but one of many authors that write or have written mostly non-related romance stories for this line of books
- 922 Mother of the Year (2000)
- 969 Doctor, Doctor (2001)
- 1004 Leave It to Max (2001)
- 1063 A Sheriff in Tennessee (2002)
- 1099 The Farmer's Wife (2002)
- Luchetti Brothers series - Part of the Harlequin Superromance line, but with connected characters
- 1151 The Daddy Quest (2003)
- 1193 The Brother Quest (2004)
- 1226 The Husband Quest (2004)
- 1293 A Soldier's Quest (2005)
- 1334 The Mommy Quest (2006)
- Rock Creek Six series Books 2, 4, and 6 of this series were written by Linda Devlin
- 1 Reese (2001)
- 3 Rico (2001)
- 5 Nate (2002)
- Night Creature series
- 1 Blue Moon (2004)
- 2 Hunter's Moon (2005)
- 3 Dark Moon (2005)
- 4 Crescent Moon (2006)
- 5 Midnight Moon (2006)
- 6 Rising Moon (2007)
- 7 Hidden Moon (2007)
- 8 Thunder Moon (2008)
- 9 Marked by the Moon (2010)
- 10 Moon Cursed (2011)
- 11 Crave the Moon (2011)
- The Phoenix Chronicles
- 1 Any Given Doomsday (2008)
- 2 Doomsday Can Wait (2009)
- 3 Apocalypse Happens (2009)
- 4 Chaos Bites (2010)
- Shakespeare Undead
- Shakespeare Undead (2010)
- Zombie Island (2012)
- Sisters of the Craft
- In The Air Tonight (June 2015)
- Heat of the Moment (June 2015)
- Smoke on the Water (August 2015)
- Collections
- Trick or Treat (1997) (with Lark Eden, Stobie Piel and Lynda Trent)
- The Farmer's Wife / Dreamless (2002)
- Then He Kissed Her (2003) (with Kate Donovan and Julie Moffett)
- Stroke of Midnight (2004) (with Amanda Ashley, L A Banks and Sherrilyn Kenyon)
- Wrong Man / Daddy Quest (2004) (with Laura Abbot)
- Family of Her Own / Brother Quest (2004) (with Brenda Novak)
- Husband Quest / Operation - Texas (2004) (with Roxanne Rustand)
- Dates from Hell (2006) (with Kelley Armstrong, Kim Harrison and Lynsay Sands)
- My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding (2006) (with L A Banks, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, P N Elrod, Esther Friesner, Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon and Susan Krinard)
- Moon Fever (2007) (with Caridad Piñeiro, Maggie Shayne and Susan Sizemore)
- No Rest for the Witches (2007) (with MaryJanice Davidson, Cheyenne McCray and Christine Warren)
- Hex Sympols (TBA)