Her future lay in a romance writer's hands Shelby had rejected a manuscript only to have it top the New York Times Best Seller list for another publisher. And now her star author wanted to quit. Just like that! There was only one thing to do—beg her reluctant romance author to write again. But how? All Shelby had to go on was a pen name, a Midwest town post-office box and the helping hand of an outrageously handsome local author, Mark Buchanan. There was so little time to unearth her reclusive romance author—even less time for real-life romance. Or so it seemed.
Author
Leigh Michaels is the pseudonym used by LeAnn Lemberger (b. July 27 in Iowa, United States), a popular United States writer of over 85 romance novels. She has published with Harlequin, Sourcebooks, Montlake Romance, Writers Digest Books, and Arcadia Publishing. She teaches romance writing at Gotham Writers' Workshop (www.writingclasses.com) She is the author of On Writing Romance. When Leigh was fifteen she wrote her first romance novel and burned it. She burned five more complete manuscripts before submitting to a publisher. The first submission was accepted by Harlequin, the only publisher to look at it, and was published in 1984. Michaels was born in Iowa, United States. She received a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, after three years of study and maintained a 3.93 grade-point average. She received the Robert Bliss Award as top-ranking senior in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and won a national William Randolph Hearst Award for feature-writing as an undergraduate. She is married to Michael W. Lemberger, an artist-photographer.
