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About the author

Elisabeth Fairchild fell in love with words as a child. She read voraciously, (although she didn't understand that big word way back then.) Books, magazines, product labels and cereal boxes-- if it had words she read it. In the third grade she wrote her first book (unpublished) about a community of snails that lived under a trash can. She's been writing ever since. A graduate of NTSU, she worked ten years in advertising, writing on coffee breaks and weekends. It was not until she began her first Regency romance, that she considered quitting her job as an art director to make writing her top priotity.

Finished manuscript in hand, Elisabeth entered the 1991 GDWA/UTD Craft Of Writing Competition, winning several awards and connecting with one of the judges, an agent who likes her work and said she could sell the Regency if 200 pages were cut. Elisabeth cut. The agent sold. THE SILENT SUITOR was released by Signet in April '94.

Jane Austen her favorite author since the fifth grade, it is no surprise Texas author ELISABETH FAIRCHILD, should write with a similar sense and sensibility for the Regency period in British history. Half English (her mother still maintains UK citizenship) she writes Regency romances with a keen ear for British voice, a sharp eye for accurate and evocative setting and wry tongue-in-cheek wit.

The winner of numerous writing awards, including Romantic Times's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award, in the Regency genre, her last three releases, VALENTINE'S CHANGE OF HEART, A GAME OF PATIENCE, and SUGARPLUM SURPRISES were chosen as "top pick" releases. For a sneak peek at sample chapters follow the links on the Fairchild home page.