birth_date: 1922-01-01 00:00:00
avg_rating: 3.73
name: Jeanne Hines
about: aka Valerie Sherwood, Rosamond Royal.Jeanne Hines was born on 1922 in West Virginia, USA. She grew up in a very traditional atmosphere, but she wanted more. "My family thought I'd be just like everybody else, get married and stop," says she. "I'm a real character. I'm not really like anybody I know.". Jeanne worked as a reporter and fashion magazine illustrator, later she started to wrote gothic novels from 1973 to 1977, until, like other gothic author had to change to the emerging popular romance genre under the pseudonym Valerie Sherwood, and also as Rosamond Royal. She became a popular romance author of five chunky bestselling historicals, including Bold Breathless Love, Her Shining Splendor and This Loving Torment (six weeks on the New aka Valerie Sherwood, Rosamond Royal.Jeanne Hines was born on 1922 in West Virginia, USA. She grew up in a very traditional atmosphere, but she wanted more. "My family thought I'd be just like everybody else, get married and stop," says she. "I'm a real character. I'm not really like anybody I know.". Jeanne worked as a reporter and fashion magazine illustrator, later she started to wrote gothic novels from 1973 to 1977, until, like other gothic author had to change to the emerging popular romance genre under the pseudonym Valerie Sherwood, and also as Rosamond Royal. She became a popular romance author of five chunky bestselling historicals, including Bold Breathless Love, Her Shining Splendor and This Loving Torment (six weeks on the New York Times paperback best-seller list)."I write in great creative bursts-not every day," she trills "inspiration strikes in short bursts of ten or twenty pages or through the night till the dawn comes up-with such formidable force that she is forever wearing through her typewriter keys". Furthermore, she doesn't believe writers who boast in public that they toil daily in disciplined routines, she says: "I think it has something to do with their taxes." She won the Romantic Times 1987-1988 Career Achievement Award in the category of "historical adventure".When the today published author Chris Marie Green (aka Crystal Green), was 19, she wrote a fan letter to Jeanne, who answered her gushing missive and inspired Chris to write her first romance.Married, she and her husband bounce among their five East Coast homes but spend most of their time in a fusty Charlotte. N.C., ranch-style house, surrounded by 11,000 research volumes (among them a sizable collection on witchcraft), "oodles" of never-worn dress-up clothes and six cats, who have a suite all to themselves. ...more