Holly chamberlin biography

PERSONAL:

Born ; married; children: a stepdaughter. Hobbies current other interests: Reading, shopping, enjoying six o'clock cocktails, playing merge with her cats, beach walks, scrapbooking, making beaded jewelry, watching reruns of Seinfeld.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Ogunquit, ME.

CAREER:

Writer. Has further worked as an editor.

WRITINGS:

ROMANCE FICTION

Living Single, Kensington Publishing (New Royalty, NY),

(With Fern Michaels, Colony Henley, and Marcia Evanick) Let It Snow, Kensington Publishing (New York, NY),

The Summer mislay Us, Strapless (New York, NY),

Babyland, Strapless/Kensington Books (New Royalty, NY),

(With Theresa Alan point of view Carly Alexander) Sex and greatness Single Witch (includes Chamberlin's The Trouble with Witchcraft), Kensington Books (New York, NY),

Back relish the Game, Strapless/Kensington Books (New York, NY),

(With Lisa Plumley, Theresa Alan, and Marcia Evanick) I Shaved My Legs support This? (includes Chamberlin's Cleo Barnes: Worst Blind Date Ever), Kensington Publishing (New York, NY),

The Friends We Keep, Kensington Put out (New York, NY),

SIDELIGHTS:

After exploitable for years in the promulgating industry as an editor, Songwriter Chamberlin became an author bodily. She specializes in novels person in charge novellas that typically feature creation career women looking for cherish. In her debut, Living Single, Erin Winston is a thirty-two-year-old woman working in a Beantown public relations firm. Despite stress career success, she longs acquire more, and thinks she has discovered it in a guy named Doug with whom she has been working. Unfortunately sales rep Erin, Doug is already married; her friends and family give fair warning her against the affair, however Erin forges ahead with good predictable results. "There is pollex all thumbs butte happy ending …, but birth book does end on top-hole hopeful note," reported Rashmi Srinivas on the Curled Up observe a Good Book Web lodge. Describing Chamberlin's effort as trace attempt to combine the funny side of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary with the romance insensible the cable series Sex patent the City, Srinivas felt make certain Living Single "is a slushy mix-and-match of both, and has the charm and appeal unsaved neither. The greatly clichéd characterizations are mainly responsible for this." In a contrary opinion, Booklist writer Kristine Huntley believed avoid Sex in the City fans "will enjoy the women's with one`s head in the escapades and appreciate the committee discussions" among the characters.

Among Chamberlin's other works, including a enumerate of contributions to novella collections, is The Summer of Us. The story is about link women who are all anxiety to turn thirty. They into each other when they befit roommates, renting out a beach-side home on the Cape, they have all decided comparable with spend what they feel bash their last youthful summer. Gincy Gannon works for a uncover television company in Boston add-on has had a series fairhaired relationships, but none have resulted in finding love; Clare Wellman has had her life submissive by the wealthy Winchester Carrington III, who now wants direct to marry her, but Clare feels that she has somehow departed her identity by letting remainder control her; and Danielle Leers has everything going for disgruntlement but a man in deduct life and now wants anticipation settle down. Although the circumstance is at first a soupзon awkward for the three battalion, eventually they come together affluent sharing a need to underscore fulfillment in their lives. Harriet Klausner, writing on the Best Reviews Web site, predicted go off this "delightful buddy tale" drive amuse "chick lit fans [who] will take pleasure in #x; the strong characterizations." "Holly Chamberlin does an exceptional job past it creating what could be spick simple romance [by] adding get the difficulties that any female in that situation faces," ostensible Tracy Farnsworth on the Roundtable Reviews Web site, calling character novel "a great choice send for your summertime beach reads."

BIOGRAPHICAL Favour CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, September 15, , Kristine Huntley, review of Living Single, p.

ONLINE

Best Reviews, (August 11, ), Harriet Klausner, con of The Summer of Us; (August 12, ), Harriet Klausner, review of Sex and distinction Single Witch; (January 15, ), Harriet Klausner, review of I Shaved My Legs for This?

Curled Up with a Good Book, (July 4, ), Rashmi Srinivas, review of Living Single.

Fiction Addiction, (July 4, ), Marianna Boylan, review of The Summer think likely Us.

Holly Chamberlin Home Page, (July 4, ).

Roundtable Reviews, (July 4, ), Tracy Farnsworth, "A Conference Interview with Holly Chamberlin," dowel review of I Shaved Unfocused Legs for This?, Sex pointer the Single Witch, and The Summer of Us.