Laura Drake Explained

Laura Drake
Occupation:	Novelist
Nationality:	American
Genre:	Romance, contemporary
Period:	2013–present
Notableworks:	The Sweet Spot

Laura Drake is an American author of contemporary romance. In 2014, she won the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award for Best First Book for The Sweet Spot.

Biography

Drake grew up in the suburbs outside Detroit, Michigan. She sold her Sweet on a Cowboy series, romances set in the world of professional bull riding, to Grand Central in January 2012.^[1] Before the first book in that series was published, she went on to sell a Harlequin SuperRomance in June 2012 and three more in March 2013. Her debut novel, The Sweet Spot, was released in the summer of 2013 and won a RITA for Best First Book.

Drake worked as a CFO until leaving to work full-time on her writing.^[2]

Bibliography

Sweet on a Cowboy series

Book: The Sweet Spot . May 2013. Grand Central. 9781455521951.
Book: Nothing Sweeter . January 2014 . Grand Central . 9781455521975 .
Book: Sweet on You. August 2014. Grand Central. 9781455521937.

Widow's Grove series

Book: Her Road Home . August 2013. Harlequin. 9780373718702.
Book: The Reasons to Stay . August 2014. Harlequin. 9780373608638.
Book: Twice in a Blue Moon . July 2015. Harlequin. 9780373609185.

Awards and commendation

Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best First Book for The Sweet Spot,^[3] 2014
Starred review in Library Journal, as well as Top Picks in RT Book Reviews^[4]

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Laura Drake - Margie Lawson . 2015-05-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180118182413/https://www.margielawson.com/margies-writing-blog/186-margie-grad-laura-drake . 2018-01-18 . dead .
Web site: Bio.
Web site: MyRWA : RITA Awards : RITA Winners . 2015-05-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160109102946/https://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=535 . 2016-01-09 . dead .
Web site: Awards for Laura Drake - FictionDB.