Romance Book Author Gwynne Forster

A storyteller of rare power, national best-selling author Gwynne Forster has created an intensely moving novel of one family's journey through crisis and healing in When Twilight Comes.

Gwynne Forster was born in North Carolina and grew up in Washington, D. C., where she lived before going to New York to work as a demographer at the United Nations. When she left United Nations to form a working partnership with her husband, she was chief of the Fertility Studies Section of the Population Division. As such, she was responsible for research and analysis of social, economic, cultural and demographic factors and conditions that influence fertility levels and trends throughout the world. The studies were published under the United Nations imprimatur and in the name of its Secretary-General. She lives in New York City with her husband (who is also a demographer) of twenty-nine years. She is very active in her community, has an outdoor vegetable and flower garden, enjoys jazz, opera and other classical music and loves to sing. Gwynne is a gourmet cook, and she and her husband love to entertain with small dinner parties. She likes to laugh and does so at every opportunity.

She holds bachelors and masters degrees in sociology and a masters degree in economics-demography, as well as graduate credits from Columbia University. As a demographer, she has published widely. Her extensive travels for the United Nations and, later, as chairperson of the International Programme Committee of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (London Office) have taken her to sixty-three developed and developing countries.. Her work on these trips included representing the United Nations Secretary-General, lecturing, conducting workshops and delivering research or policy papers at conferences.

Since becoming a published author of romance novels, Gwynne has lectured on various phases of the writing business at the 1995 Romantic Times Conference in Dallas, at a Howard University Seminar in June 1995, and at the March 1996 annual conference of Romance Writers of America/ New York City Club which was convened in Melville, Long Island. She held a workshop on the subject at the 1996 Romantic Times conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and lectured on fiction writing at the African American Women Writers Conference, University of the District of Columbia, in April, 1997. In August 1997, Gwynne was guest speaker at the annual convention of Waldenbooks managers in the Northeast Corridor. Since February, 1998, Gwynne has lectured on all aspects of fiction writing at the branch libraries of the Queensborough and New York City Library system, and has been guest lecturer on aspects of romance writing at Romance Writers of America groups in Manchester, Connecticut (March, 1997), in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (August, 1998) and Knoxville Tennessee (May, 1999). Gwynne is also a free-lance journalist. Her latest article is a profile of Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General, the cover story of the April/May issue of Crisis magazine. Crisis is the media organ of the NAACP.

In 2000, BET/Arabesque published Gwynne’s eleventh full length romance novel, SECRET DESIRE (October), as well as her ninth, SWEPT AWAY (April} and Genesis Press her tenth, MIDNIGHT MAGIC (August). BET/Arabesque will release her new novel, SCARLET WOMAN in July 2001. Look also for the novella Learning To Love in GOING TO THE CHAPEL, a St. Martins Press anthology (June 2001). Kensington will publish Gwynne’s first mainstream novel in 2002.

Gwynne's previous books include the Kensington or BET published Arabesque novels: SEALED WITH A KISS (October 1995), AGAINST ALL ODDS (September 1996), ECSTASY (July 1997), OBSESSION (April 1998) and FOOLS RUSH IN (October 1999). Her paperback novel, BEYOND DESIRE (January 1999) was purchased by Doubleday Book Club, The Literary Guild and Black Expressions for release in hard cover to their members. Her first novella, Christopher's Gifts, is included in the 1996 Christmas anthology, SILVER BELLS (December), her Valentine Day 1998 novella, A Perfect Match in I DO (February) and Love for a Lifetime, her story of two passionate, battling attorneys is in the BET/Arabesque anthology, WEDDING BELLS (June 1999). Genesis Press published NAKED SOUL, Gwynne's first hard cover romance, in July 1998, and released the paperback edition in September 1999. Critics voted Gwynne's first interracial novel, AGAINST THE WIND, which Genesis Press released in November 1999, an Award of Excellence. Her fourth novella, Miracle At Midnight is included in the anthology MIDNIGHT CLEAR, a Genesis Press December 2000 release.

She is represented by the James B. Finn Literary Agency, Inc. P.O. Box 28227A, St. Louis, MO 63132. Readers may write to her at P. O. Box 45, New York, N Y, 10044-0045.

Gwynne Forster's book, BEYOND DESIRE is winner of the prestigious 2001 Gold Pen Award for best romance fiction, given by Black Writers Alliance at its annual Black Writers Reunion Conference, Dallas, TX 3-5, August 2001.

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Once in a Lifetime

July 2002!
BET/Arabesque ISBN: 1-58314-193-6

With a rambunctious four-year old daughter to support, recently divorced Alexis Stevenson, once a college teacher, takes a job as live-in home manager for wealthy businessman, Telford Harrington and his two brothers, an architect and an engineer. She deliberately omits telling Telford that until her divorce she was mistress of a home as elegant as his. Very soon, he questions her suitability for the job, for neither her behavior nor her taste are that of the average home manager. He hired her without seeing her, and their first meeting has the combustible potential of torched dynamite. It is fire meeting fire in the form of a wounded woman and a man who walks alone.

She sets out to turn that bachelor mansion into a home and encounters opposition from the middle brother, connivance from the younger one and grudging acceptance from Telford. Her daughter immediately wins the hearts of the brothers and their old male cook and forms a deep attachment to Telford, who reciprocates the child's love. Although Alexis and Telford try to obey rules of proper employer/employee relationships, the chemistry between them is too powerful and fate too persistent. But Alexis cannot follow her heart, for she is caught in a web of secrets capable of destroying any love. And one of those secrets involves Telford Harrington. It is a story of a woman's struggle for independence and self fulfillment; of a man's drive for revenge; of passion, damaging secrets; and of one horrendous lie, innocent enough in its time, but which comes back to haunt her. Spine tingling. Riveting.

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"Gwynne Forster has taken the next leap in her career with ECSTASY. There is no need to buy a plane ticket for your world tour; ECSTASY will take you places you've only imagined. Filled with passion, suspense, an unshakable love and insurmountable courage, Jeannetta and Mason will hold a place in your heart long after the last page is read. A story for the connoisseur of excellent reading."---Donna Hill, author of Intimate Betrayal.

"This Arabesque Author takes us on another roller coaster ride of romantic adventure. [Jeannetta and Mason continually bait one another with a sexual foreplay that leaves the reader in a feverish tailspin. ...riveting twists and turns..." ---Affaire de Coeur

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