Julia Quinn is the pseudonym used by Julie Pottinger (born Julie Cotler in 1970), a best-sellingAmericanhistoricalromanceauthor, who says

  

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Julia Quinn is the pseudonym used by Julie Pottinger (born

Julie Cotler in 1970), aho says

  she chose her pseudonym so her Regency romances would be on bookshelves next to those of the successful romance writerer novels have been translated into thirteen foreign languages, and she has appeared on thenine times.

  Julie Pottinger was raised primarily in New England, although she spent much time in California after her parents divorced. Even as a small child she devoured books. Her father disagreed with her choices of reading material, Sweet Dreams and thebooks, and told her she could keep reading them only if she could prove that they were good for her. She promptly told him that she was studying them in order to write one herself. Challenged to prove that she meant her statement, Pottinger sat down at their early computer and wrote her first two chapters. After finishing her novel three years later, she submitted it to Sweet

  Dreams , but was rejected.

  Pottinger graduated fromwith a degree in Art History. During her senior year of college, she realized that she did not know what she wanted to do with her degree and decided to attend medical school. That decision required her to attend two additional years of college to complete the science prerequisites necessary to apply for medical school. To occupy herself during the long days of studying science, Pottinger began to write light-hearted Regency romance novels. A few weeks after she was accepted to medical school, she discovered that her first two novels, Splendid and Dancing

  

At Midnight , had been sold at auction, an unusual occurrence for a novice

  romance author. She postponed medical school for two years while she wrote two more novels.

  By the time Pottinger finally enteremedical school to realize her dream of being a doctor, three of her books had been published. After only a few short months of studying medicine, however, Pottinger realized that she preferred writing to dissections. She left medical school and devoted herself full-time to her writing. Pottinger considers herself a feminist and gives her heroines feminist qualities that are not necessarily true to the attitudes of the times her novels are set. Her books are noted for being full of humor, with sharp, witty dialogue. The novels are primarily character-driven, lacking the great external conflicts that many romance novels employ. One of her novels, When He was Wicked, was highly unusual for a romance novel, as the first four chapters actually describe the heroine in a happy marriage with someone who is not the hero, and then shows the death of the original husband and deals with the grief of both the heroine and hero before allowing the second love story to flourish.

  Most of her books are dedicated to her husband, Paul Pottinger, often with references to amusing alternate titles for the work. She won the RITA Award in 2007 for "On the Way to the Wedding" and in 2008 for "The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever". In 2003, she enjoyed the rare honor of being profiled ian accomplishment few romance novelists have achieved, and in 2005 Publisher's Weekly gave To Sir Phillip, With

  

Love a rare starred review, and later named it one of the six best mass market

  original novels of the year. Nine of her novels, An Offer from a Gentleman,

  

Romancing Mr. Bridgerton , To Sir Phillip, With Love, When He Was Wicked, It's

  , On The Way to the Wedding, The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda

  In His Kiss Cheever , The Lost Duke of Wyndham and Mr. Cavendish, I Presume have

  appeared on theMr. Cavendish, I Presume was

  [3] number one on the NY Times list in October 2008.

  Pottinger has appeared in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and

  

Heartwood , and was a contestantShe is an avid reader,

posting recommendations of her favorite books on her website.

  Pottinger and her husband live in thearea of the United States.

  Recognition

• • 1997- Everything and the Moon nominated for Best Regency Historical by

  Romantic Times Magazine

• 2001 - Finalist in thes RITA Awards

  • 2002 - Romancing Mister Bridgerton voted one of the top ten books of the

  year by RWA membership Finalist for the RWA RITA Awards in the Long Historical category

• 2002 - To Sir Phillip, With Love named one of the six best mass market original novels of the year by Publishers Weekly
>2003 - Quinn was profiled in Time Magaz

• • 2007 - Received Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Long

  Historical Romance, for On the Way to the Wedding

• 2008 - Received Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Regency Historical Romance, for The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda

  Cheever

• • 2010 - Received Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best

  Regency Historical Romance for What Happens in London

• 2010 - Quinn was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame.

  Bibliography The Splendid Trilogy

• Splendid (1995)
• Dancing At Midnight (1995)

• Minx (1996)

• • "A Tale of Two Sisters" in Where's My Hero? (2003, anthology wit

  

  The Lyndon Sisters

• Everything And The Moon (1997)
• Brighter Than The Sun (1997)

  Agents of the Crown

• To Catch An Heiress (1998)
• How To Marry A Marquis (1999)

  The Bridgertons

• The Duke and I (2000)
• The Viscount Who Loved Me (2000)
• An Offer From A Gentleman (2001)
• Romancing Mister Bridgerton (2002)
• To Sir Phillip, With Love (2003)
• When He Was Wicked (2004)
• It's In His Kiss (2005)
• On the Way to the Wedding (2006)

  The Bridgerton family consists of eight siblings and their widowed mother. In the novels, the Bridgertons are well respected and favored among British society. The Bridgertons are an extremely loving and tight-knit clan. The series comprises eight books in which each of the siblings finds true love. Each book is set against the backdrop of upper English society during the period of Regency England.

  

On the Way to the Wedding , won theRITA Award

  in 2007. In 2002, To Sir Phillip, With Love was named one of the six best mass market original novels of the year by Publishers Weekly. Several books on the series have been on the Quinn has published six "second epilogues" for The Viscount Who Loved Me, An

  

Offer From A Gentleman , Romancing Mister Bridgerton, To Sir Phillip, With

Love , When He Was Wicked, andIt's In His Kiss. The second epilogues are

  currently only available as e-books.

  The Two Dukes of Wyndham

• The Lost Duke of Wyndham (2008)
• Mr. Cavendish, I Presume (2008)

  According to Quinn, this two-book set was based on the premise "two men say they’re the Duke of Something. One of them must be wrong." Events are concurrent and the plots are intertwined, with some scenes appearing in both books, but from different perspectives.

  The Bevelstoke Series

• The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever (2007)
• What Happens in London (2009)
• Ten Things I Love About You (2010)

  The Smythe-Smith Quartet

• Just Like Heaven (May 31, 2011)
• A Night Like This (May 29, 2012)

  Lady Whistledown

  The witty gossip columnist "Lady Whistledown" from the Bridgerton series ties together these two anthologies of interlinked novellas:

• • "Thirty-Six Valentines" in The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown

  (2003, anthology wit

• • "The First Kiss" in Lady Whistledown Strikes Back (2004, anthology with

  

  Others

• • "Gretna Greene" in Scottish Brides (1999, anthology wit

  

• The Lady Most Likely... (December 28, 2010 a novel with

  

  

SUMMARY

  1) Sebastian Grey is a devilishly handsome rogue with a secret. 2)

  Annabel Winslow‘s family voted her The Winslow Most Likely to Speak Her Mind and The Winslow Most Likely to Fall Asleep in Church.

  3) Sebastian’s uncle is the Earl of Newbury, and if he dies without siring an heir, Sebastian inherits everything.

  4) Lord Newbury detests Sebastian and will stop at nothing to prevent this from happening.

  5) Lord Newbury has decided that Annabel is the answer to all of his problems. 6)

  Annabel does not want to marry Lord Newbury, especially when she finds out he once romanced her grandmother.

  7) is shocking, 8) is delicious, 9) is downright wicked, all of which leads the way to 10) Happily. Ever. After.

  Miss Annabel Winslow is the eldest sister of 8 siblings, who are a gentle country bred family from Gloucestershire. Money is running out, and her siblings’ futures are at stake – especially her brothers, who could be sent home from Eton if they don’t have the money to keep them there. But things change for Annabel – and not for the better – when her estranged Grandmother and Grandfather call on Annabel for her to stay with them in London. And it’s there that Annabel finds out that her Grandparents are arranging for her to be married to the Earl of Newbury: a very old, very fat, and very unpleasant man who only wants Anna for her childbearing hips that are described as ‘…so fertile that birds sing when she draws near.’ The Earl of Newbury wants an heir very badly so that his very hated nephew will not inherit.

  Annabel is in despair at the thought of being married to such a man as Newbury, but she acknowledges that being married to an Earl would financially help her family. And with her Grandparents being such strict, and quite awful people, she’s stuck in a very hard place. One night, at an annual affair, Annabel escapes into the garden after being pawed by Newbury, and it’s there she trips over – literally – a certain Sebastian Grey, the hated nephew of the Earl. Annabel

• – not knowing who he is originally and vice versa – partakes in a very flirty conversation with Sebastian. The evening ends with a sultry kiss that surprises and affects them both quite deeply. After they meet a couple of times again – much to the dismay and also pleasure of Annabel – a scandal erupts, and it’s up to Sebastian to make things right.