Meet Christina
Readers become writers, and Christina Dodd has always been a reader. She reads everything, but because she loves humor, she likes romance best.
A woman wants things like world peace, a clean house, and a deep and meaningful relationship based on mutual understanding and love. A man wants things like a Craftsman router with attachments, undisputed control of the TV remote, and a red Corvette which will miraculously make his bald spot disappear. So when Christina’s first daughter was born, she told her husband she was going to quit work and write a book. It was a good time to start a new career, because how much trouble could one little infant be?
Ha! It took ten years, two children and three completed manuscripts before her first novel, CANDLE IN THE WINDOW, was published. In the thirty-two years since, her novels have been translated into 25 languages, won Romance Writers of America’s prestigious Golden Heart and RITA Awards and been called the year’s best by Library Journal and Booklist. Christina Dodd herself has been a clue in the Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle (11/18/05, # 13 Down: Romance Novelist named Christina.) Her cross-word loving mother was thrilled! With more than 15 million of her books in print, Booklist praises her, “brilliantly etched characters, polished writing, and unexpected flashes of sharp humor that are pure Dodd.”
Christina’s current historical fiction series, Daughter of Montague, stars Rosie Montague, the eldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet. As Rosie says, “Yes, that Romeo and Juliet. The one that Shakespeare wrote about. No, they didn’t die in the tomb. Rumors of their deaths were greatly exaggerated. In fact, they’re alive and well and the parents of seven kids. I’m the oldest, with the emphasis on ‘old’—a certified spinster at twenty, and happy to stay that way. It’s not easy to keep your taste for romance with parents like mine. Picture it—constant monologues, passionate declarations, fighting, making up, making out . . . it’s exhausting.”
Order book #1 A DAUGHTER OF FAIR VERONA.
Order novella #1.5 WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
Order book #2 THUS WITH A KISS I DIE
Order novella #2.5 MUCH ADO ABOUT MISTLETOE
Click to read an excerpt and laugh out loud!
Christina’s full-length stand-alone suspense is GIRL ANONYMOUS is available in hardcover, ebook and audiobook.
GIRL ANONYMOUS is a third person stand-alone dark and sexy thriller featuring two protagonists, a dominant male and a gutsy, “whoops she’s a virgin” female. “West Side Story” meets “The Godfather”… Expect:
—Magical Realism
—Passionate sex scenes.
—Mafia-like characters, violence and crude language.
—Scenes in Gothic California (see Last Seen in Gothic.)
—No cliffhangers and a guaranteed HEA.
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Christina Dodd is married to a man with all his hair and no Corvette, but many Craftsman tools. They have been married since the earth’s crust cooled.