AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

MERRILLEE WHREN 

AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF INSPIRATIONAL ROMANCE

Merrillee Whren is the winner of the 2006 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Love Inspired of 2006 and the Georgia Romance Writers’ Maggie Award for Excellence for her novel, AN UNEXPECTED BLESSING. Her book, LOVE WALKED IN, is the winner of the inspirational category of the 2007 Published Beacon Contest.

Merrillee’s writing journey has had as many stops along the way as her life’s journey. She wrote her first novel while she was in high school and shared it with her friends. However, many years passed before she considered writing anything for publication. Finally in 2003, after writing and revising eight manuscripts, she won the prestigious Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award for best, unpublished inspirational manuscript. The following year, she made her first sale to Steeple Hill Books. THE HEART’S HOMECOMING was an August 2005 release.

Her other books for the Steeple Hill Love Inspired line are, AN UNEXPECTED BLESSING, LOVE WALKED IN, THE HEART’S FORGIVENESS, FOUR LITTLE BLESSINGS, and MOMMY’S HOMETOWN HERO, which will be in stores in January 2009. Because she loves stories with happy endings, she is thrilled to be writing inspirational romance for Steeple Hill Books where the stories have emotional and spiritual happy endings.

Merrillee is an active member of Romance Writers of America and is the president of one of its local chapters, First Coast Romance Writers, which meets in Jacksonville, Florida. She is also a member of American Christian Fiction Writers.

She is married to her own personal hero, her husband of thirty-two years, and has two grown daughters. She has lived in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas and Chicago but now makes her home on one of God’s most beautiful creations, an island off the east coast of Florida. When she’s not writing or working for her husband’s recruiting firm, she spends her free time playing tennis or walking the beach, where she does the plotting for her novels.

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COMPLETE BOOK LIST

	Four Little Blessings Steeple Hill Love Inspired February 2008
	The Heart's Forgiveness Steeple Hill Love Inspired July 2007
	Love Walked In Steeple Hill Love Inspired December 2006
	An Unexpected Blessing Steeple Hill Love Inspired June 2006
	The Heart's Homecoming Steeple Hill Love Inspired August 2005

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LATEST REVIEW

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