Talia Hibbert

Talia Hibbert is a British author of contemporary and paranormal romance. She is a proponent of writing diverse narratives, with characters that vary in race, ethnicity, body shape, sexual orientation, and life experience. She is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. 
== Career ==
During her childhood, Hibbert dealt with negative comments about her dream to be a writer. She used an inheritance from her great-grandmother to finance the beginning of her writing career. She began self-publishing in 2017 and put out her first nine books within one year. Her first traditionally published book, Get a Life, Chloe Brown, was released in 2019 with Avon Romance and is the first book in a family romance trilogy.
Get a Life, Chloe Brown was featured on the popular morning show Today, in a segment that involved developing recipes based off of scenes within books, and it reached the best sellers lists of both USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. The audio version of Get a Life, Chloe Brown is read aloud by Adjoa Andoh. 
== Themes ==
Multiple of Hibbert's characters fall under the category of Own Voice, meaning they are part of a marginalized group that author also identifies with. Many of her protagonists are black women. In her book A Girl Like Her, the main character Ruth is autistic. The main character in Get a Life, Chloe Brown deals with chronic pain.
Hibbert writes stories that include characters with realistic body types.
In Hibbert's book Get a Life, Chloe Brown, she demonstrates the strain that chronic pain can place on both familial and romantic relationships. But, as a romance novel, Get a Life, Chloe Brown also shows how someone with chronic pain is deserving and capable of having a loving relationship. The book explores methods of reasserting a sense of control within a life that was once ruled by illness.
Hibbert's books reflect a change in the romance genre toward explicit consent during intimate scenes.
In the author's LGBTQ romance Work For It, one of the protagonists deals with finding love even while living with depression.
== Personal Life ==
For an extended amount of time, Hibbert struggled with mystery health issues until a doctor diagnosed her fibromyalgia, a disease known for causing chronic pain. Hibbert's multiple issues with doctors dismissing her invisible disease inspired the inclusion of the topic of medical discrimination in her novel Get a Life, Chloe Brown.
Hibbert is autistic.
== Bibliography ==
Title 	Series 	Publication Year	ISBN/ASIN
Always with You 	 	2017 	
Operation Atonement 	 	2017 	B075W2PL6N
Bad for the Boss 	Just for Him #1 	2017 	B076XJJZHT
Merry Inkmas 	 	2017 	B077NTCPVP
Undone by the Ex-Con 	Just for Him #2 	2018 	B078JM9D7Y
The Princess Trap 	Dirty British Romance #1	2018 	B079K8MFJD
A Girl Like Her 	Ravenswood #1 	2018 	B07B9Z6846
Wanna Bet? 	Dirty British Romance #2	2018 	B07C5LMBJ6
Damaged Goods 	Ravenswood #1.5 	2018 	B07DFQXNM9
Sweet on the Greek 	Just for Him #3 	2018 	B07FK6LQ7V
Untouchable 	Ravenswood #2 	2018 	B07G4KDTKK
Mating the Huntress 	 	2018 	B07HLV1R85
Rogue Nights 	Rogue #6 	2018 	B07JKQPZ9B
Work For It 	 	2019 	1230003333167
Get a Life, Chloe Brown: A Novel	The Brown Sisters #1 	2019 	9780062941220
Take a Hint, Dani Brown: A Novel	The Brown Sisters #2 	2020 	9780062941237
== Awards ==
* 2019 - Get a Life, Chloe Brown - The Ripped Bodice Awards for Excellence in Romance Fiction
== External Links ==
* Talia Hibbert's author website 
* Talia Hibbert on Linkedin
* Talia Hibbert on facebook
* Talia Hibbert on Instagram
* Talia Hibbert on twitter
== References ==
Category:British writers
Category:British female writers
Category:Romance novels
Category:Contemporary literature
Category:Contemporary romance novels
Category:Lists of bestsellers
Category:Top book lists
Category:The Wall Street Journal