Here's a link to the Crusie/Mayer website: http://www.crusiemayer.com/
Here's a link to Jenny's blog (be sure to check out the January 30th post):http://www.arghink.com/
Here's a list of her books with short descriptions:
http://www.jennycrusie.com/books/fiction/
Follow Jenny on Twitter: http://twitter.com/crusienews
There's an interview with Jenny here:http://www.likesbooks.com/crusie.html
Visit the Cherry Forums here:http://www.cherryforums.com/
Here's Jenny's bio from the Crusie/Mayer website, slightly out of date but still interesting:
Jennifer Crusie is the New York Times, USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author of sixteen novels, one book of literary criticism, miscellaneous articles, essays, and short stories, and the editor of two essay anthologies.
Jenny was born in a small town in Ohio, earned a BS in Art Education from Bowling Green State University, married her college sweetheart, and spent three years as a military wife and pre-school teacher before settling down in Beavercreek, Ohio, to raise her daughter and teach elementary and junior high art.
An MA in Professional Writing and Feminist Criticism from Wright State University led to teaching high school English at Beavercreek and undergraduate English at WSU and Antioch College, and acting as advisor for the Beavercreek theater tech department. It also led to the beginning of her PhD in literature at Ohio State, where she taught as a graduate assistant and lecturer and published her lone book of literary criticism, Anne Rice: a Critical Companion.
Her PhD was derailed in 1991 when, in the middle of researching her dissertation on the differences in the way men and women write stories, she read 100 romance novels and fell in love with the genre. She changed her dissertation topic so she could study romance and shortly thereafter began to write it, selling her first manuscript in 1992, a novella calledSizzle.
Her first book, Manhunting , was published in 1993, followed by Sizzle and seven other category novels for Harlequin and Bantam, which further derailed her PhD when the OSU creative writing department lured her into their program, where she earned her MFA in fiction. She's still ABD on that PhD.
Jenny left category fiction for single title romance when she signed with St. Martin's Press, publishing her first hard cover, Tell Me Lies, in 1998. Six books later, she is still happily writing novels and novellas for St. Martin's, along with short stories and essays on writing and pop culture.
Don't Look Down (SMP April 2006) is a collaboration with bestselling thriller writer Bob Mayer, an experience that reinforced everything she learned in that first long ago dissertation. She still lives in Ohio because she likes it there.
Selected titles by Jennifer Crusie:
Bet Me, Faking It, Fast Women, Welcome to Temptation, Crazy for You, Tell Me Lies, Trust Me on This, The Cinderella Deal, Anyone But You, Charlie All Night, What the Lady Wants, Strange Bedpersons, Getting Rid of Bradley, Manhunting, Sizzle and Anne Rice: A Critical Companion (writing as Jennifer Smith)
