Tina Wainscott
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Tina Wainscott is an American
author of suspense
novels and category romance novels.
. She was graduated from Lely High School in Naples in 1983 and studied business at Edison College. While attending college she often found herself daydreaming about stories, and eventually left school to devote herself to writing short stories. To enhance her skills, Wainscott attended night classes in creative writing
. The creative writing classes helped Wainscott to become more focused, as she was expected to deliver new material in each session. Her third attempt at writing a novel won a prize in a Romance Writers of America
competition in 1993, helping her to gain an agent. The manuscript, On the Way to Heaven, sold the following and was published in 1995. This paranormal romance was very popular, and within six months her publisher had released the sequel, Shades of Heaven.
she has published 17 novels, in the contemporary romance, paranormal romance, and suspense genres. Her 2007 novel Until the Day You Die is not considered a romance novel but is instead a psychological suspense novel. Her in-depth research allows her to create "a strong sense of place," which she pairs with "intriguing characters."
Wainscott has been nominated three times for Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards, winning in 2000 for The Wrong Mr. Right. She has also been nominated for the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award.
Many of her novels are set in and around Naples, where Wainscott still lives with her husband, Dave Wainscott, a local architect
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author of suspense
Suspense
Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. Suspense may operate in any situation where there is a lead-up to a big event or dramatic...
novels and category romance novels.
Biography
Tina Wainscott was born in Naples, FloridaNaples, Florida
Naples is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States. As of July 1, 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 21,653. Naples is a principal city of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated total population of 315,839 on July 1, 2007...
. She was graduated from Lely High School in Naples in 1983 and studied business at Edison College. While attending college she often found herself daydreaming about stories, and eventually left school to devote herself to writing short stories. To enhance her skills, Wainscott attended night classes in creative writing
Creative writing
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems...
. The creative writing classes helped Wainscott to become more focused, as she was expected to deliver new material in each session. Her third attempt at writing a novel won a prize in a Romance Writers of America
Romance Writers of America
Romance Writers of America is a national non-profit genre writers association. It provides networking and support to individuals seriously pursuing a career in romance fiction and supports top authors such as Nora Roberts and Judith McNaught.-History:...
competition in 1993, helping her to gain an agent. The manuscript, On the Way to Heaven, sold the following and was published in 1995. This paranormal romance was very popular, and within six months her publisher had released the sequel, Shades of Heaven.
she has published 17 novels, in the contemporary romance, paranormal romance, and suspense genres. Her 2007 novel Until the Day You Die is not considered a romance novel but is instead a psychological suspense novel. Her in-depth research allows her to create "a strong sense of place," which she pairs with "intriguing characters."
Wainscott has been nominated three times for Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards, winning in 2000 for The Wrong Mr. Right. She has also been nominated for the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award.
Many of her novels are set in and around Naples, where Wainscott still lives with her husband, Dave Wainscott, a local architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
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Novels
- On the Way to Heaven (1995)
- Shades of Heaven (1996)
- Dreams of You (1996)
- Second Time Around (1997)
- In a Heartbeat (1999)
- Trick of Light (2000)
- Back in Baby's Arms (2001)
- Unforgivable (2001)
- Now You See Me (2002)
- The Best Of Me (2002)
- I'll Be Watching You (2003)
- What She Doesn't Know (2004)
- I'd Kill for That (2004) (with Rita Mae BrownRita Mae BrownRita Mae Brown is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle. Published in 1973, it dealt with lesbian themes in an explicit manner unusual for the time...
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, Julie Smith) - In Too Deep (2005)
- Until the Day You Die (2007)
Omnibus
- The Wrong Mr Right / Never Say Never! (2000) (with Barbara DalyBarbara DalyBarbara Daly is an American author of romance novels. She won the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award in 2002 for Best Short Contemporary Romance for her novel A Long Hot Christmas. She has also been twice nominated by Romantic Times for Reviewers' Choice Awards, for A Long Hot Christmas and...
) - Dan All Over Again / The Mountie Steals a Wife (2001) (with Barbara Dunlop)
- Driven to Distraction / Winging It (2002) (with Candy Halliday)