Terry Spear
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Terry Spear born in Sacramento
, California
, is an award-winning American
author who specializes in writing paranormal romance
novels and medieval romance novels for both adults and teen audiences. Her urban fantasy
romance
series started with Heart of the Wolf which Publishers Weekly named as one of their Best Books of the Year, 2008. Her Young Adult series appears under the name Terry Lee Wilde.
, and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the USAR. She is a graduate of Monmouth University's MBA program and was featured in their Alumni magazine. She has written for a number of genealogy magazines for both the United States and Canada, short romances for confessionals, and articles for a teen magazine.
Heart of the Wolf received the 2008 Fall N.O.R. Reader Choice Awards for Best Paranormal Romance.
The urban fantasy series shows a contemporary world where humans who shape shift into wolves are so realistically portrayed, Publishers Weekly had this to say about Heart of the Wolf, "The vulpine couple's chemistry crackles off the page, but the real strength of the book lies in Spear's depiction of pack power dynamics, as well as in the details of human−wolf interaction. Her wolf world feels at once palpable and even plausible." And from Romantic Times, "A solidly crafted werewolf story, this tale centers on pack problems in a refreshingly straightforward way. The characters are well drawn and believable, which makes the contemporary plotline of this story of love and life among the lupus garou seem, well, realistic."
When interviewed, Spear talks about what influenced her to write such a realistic werewolf world: "For my wolf tales, Jack London’s Call of the Wild and White Fang helped influence my love of wolves and of their survival instincts, just like humans’ instincts to survive. I also was influenced by the way he told part of the story from the humans’ perspective and the wolves’. Ironically, I hadn’t read them since I was a teen, but only vaguely recalled this about his works as I began Heart of the Wolf. Yet they still influenced my desire to make the werewolf world as close to the real world as possible."
Sacramento
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, California
California
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, is an award-winning American
United States
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author who specializes in writing paranormal romance
Paranormal romance
Paranormal romance is a sub-genre of the romance novel. A type of speculative fiction, paranormal romance focuses on romance and includes elements beyond the range of scientific explanation, blending together themes from the genres of traditional fantasy, science fiction, or horror...
novels and medieval romance novels for both adults and teen audiences. Her urban fantasy
Urban fantasy
Urban fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy defined by place; the fantastic narrative has an urban setting. Many urban fantasies are set in contemporary times and contain supernatural elements. However, the stories can take place in historical, modern, or futuristic periods...
romance
Romance novel
The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late...
series started with Heart of the Wolf which Publishers Weekly named as one of their Best Books of the Year, 2008. Her Young Adult series appears under the name Terry Lee Wilde.
Biography
A Distinguished Military Graduate, DMG, of West Texas State University, she was one of the first graduates of the United States Army Reserve Officer Training Corp two-year program, member of the military honor society, Scabbard and BladeScabbard and Blade
Scabbard and Blade is a college military honor society founded at the University of Wisconsin in 1904. Although membership is open to R.O.T.C. cadets and midshipmen of all military services, the society is modeled after the U.S. Army and its chapters are called companies and are organized into...
, and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the USAR. She is a graduate of Monmouth University's MBA program and was featured in their Alumni magazine. She has written for a number of genealogy magazines for both the United States and Canada, short romances for confessionals, and articles for a teen magazine.
Heart of the Wolf received the 2008 Fall N.O.R. Reader Choice Awards for Best Paranormal Romance.
The urban fantasy series shows a contemporary world where humans who shape shift into wolves are so realistically portrayed, Publishers Weekly had this to say about Heart of the Wolf, "The vulpine couple's chemistry crackles off the page, but the real strength of the book lies in Spear's depiction of pack power dynamics, as well as in the details of human−wolf interaction. Her wolf world feels at once palpable and even plausible." And from Romantic Times, "A solidly crafted werewolf story, this tale centers on pack problems in a refreshingly straightforward way. The characters are well drawn and believable, which makes the contemporary plotline of this story of love and life among the lupus garou seem, well, realistic."
When interviewed, Spear talks about what influenced her to write such a realistic werewolf world: "For my wolf tales, Jack London’s Call of the Wild and White Fang helped influence my love of wolves and of their survival instincts, just like humans’ instincts to survive. I also was influenced by the way he told part of the story from the humans’ perspective and the wolves’. Ironically, I hadn’t read them since I was a teen, but only vaguely recalled this about his works as I began Heart of the Wolf. Yet they still influenced my desire to make the werewolf world as close to the real world as possible."
Wolf Urban Fantasy Romance Series
- Heart of the Wolf, Sourcebooks Casablanca, Apr 2008
- Destiny of the Wolf, Sourcebooks Casablanca, Mar 2009
- To Tempt the Wolf, Sourcebooks Casablanca, Sep 2009
- Legend of the White Wolf, Sourcebooks Casablanca, Feb 2010
- Seduced by the Wolf, Sourcebooks Casablanca, Aug 2010
- Wolf Fever, Sourcebooks Casablanca, Dec 2010
- Heart of the Highland Wolf(Jun 2011)
- Dreaming of the Wolf(2011)
- The Wolf and the Seal(2012)
- Highland Wolf in Paradise(2012)
- Hero of a Highland Wolf (TBA)
- Silence of the Wolf (TBA)
- Rogue of a Highland Wolf(TBA)
Highlander Medieval Series
- Winning the Highlander's Heart, Vintage Romance, Aug 2006
- Accidental Highland Hero, Vintage Romance
Young Adult Paranormal & Urban Fantasy Romance
- The Vampire...In My Dreams, Samhain, Aug 2008
- Deidre's Secret, TWRP, Mar 2009