The author would have maintained this opinion if it wasn’t for a local adult education center that she stumbled across during her college years. She was too ordinary to join their ranks. To Mallery’s young mind, romance writers were exotic creatures that lived in France. But even after sparking an obsession for the genre, she couldn’t imagine writing romantic fiction. Mallery was 13 when she discovered romance novels. The author took every chance she got to disappear into her favorite fictional settings. But that didn’t work either because Mallery started hiding books under the sink. Once they caught on, the author’s parents started sending her to the bathroom. It just gave her an excuse to read all the books she kept in her bedroom. It took her parents quite a while to realize that it was pointless to punish the girl by sending her to her room. Though, she showed all the appropriate signs.īack then, books were Mallery’s life. As a child, Mallery never thought that she would become a successful full-time writer. Some of her novels have even appeared on bestseller lists. She went on to publish dozens of novels in the years that followed. This encouraged her to devote her time and effort to the industry. While many authors meander through a multitude of careers before entering the publishing field, Mallery was fortunate enough to publish, not one, but two books the moment she left college. However, she has never worked in accounting. She attended Seton Hill University from where she acquired her MA. She gets a lot of joy from the knowledge that her stories have moved them, making them laugh and cry, and leaving them much happier than they were before they read her novels.Ī wife and the owner of several pets, Mallery was born in 1970 in Los Angeles. While Mallery appreciates the praise critics have thrown her way, she is more interested in the opinions of ordinary readers. She has won the hearts of critics from inside and outside the US, with some going so far as to call her the Queen of Romantic Fiction.

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