Rebecca Chance Explained

Lauren Henderson
Birth Date:1966 9, df=y
Birth Place:Hampstead, London, England
Occupation:Novelist
Alma Mater:North London Collegiate School, Cambridge University
Genre:chick lit, Tart Noir, mystery, young adult fiction
Spouse:Greg Stroud
Website:,

Lauren Milne Henderson is an English freelance journalist and novelist who also writes as Rebecca Chance. Her books include thrillers/bonkbusters/chick lit, mysteries, Tart Noir, romantic comedies, and young adult. Between 1996 and 2011 Henderson published 17 books under her own name. She began writing as Rebecca Chance in 2009, and now writes novels exclusively as Rebecca Chance.

Biography

Lauren Henderson was born in Hampstead, London. She attended North London Collegiate School (the model for Wakefield Hall in the Scarlett Wakefield “Kiss” series) and then St Paul’s Girls' School (the model for St Tabby’s).[1] She then studied English Literature at Cambridge University.

Henderson worked as a journalist for newspapers and music magazines including the New Statesman, Marxism Today, The Observer and Lime Lizard (an independent music magazine).[2] She then moved to Tuscany to write books and learn Italian. After eight years, she moved to Manhattan.[3] Her experiences in the New York dating scene gave her the inspiration for the non-fiction dating book, Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating (Hyperion Books, 2005).

With Sparkle Hayter and Katy Munger, Henderson created Tart Noir, the website. She later edited Tart Noir, the anthology, with Stella Duffy.[4] She has been credited as the founder[5] and godmother[6] of the style.

She also writes for UK-based publications, including Grazia, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian,[7] [8] the Mail on Sunday and The Telegraph.[9]

Henderson’s books have been translated into 20 languages. She has participated at literary and crime fiction festivals in the US, UK,[10] and Australia, including being the International Guest Speaker and giving the opening address at the first SheKilda festival[11] in 2001 in St Kilda. In 2010, Henderson interviewed Lindsey Davis for the Italian Cultural Institute’s reading series;[12] she also interviewed Davis in 2011 at Crimefest in Bristol.[13]

Henderson is featured in British Crime Writing: An Encyclopaedia,[14] published in 2008 and edited by Barry Forshaw, and contributed an entry on Peter O’Donnell, author of the Modesty Blaise caper thrillers. She is the only author to have contributed two essays to the 2012 anthology Books to Die For (edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke), one on Agatha Christie’s Endless Night (as Lauren Henderson) and another on Dorothy L Sayers’s Have His Carcase (as Rebecca Chance).

On 28 October 2014 the New York Times published "Murder, They Wrote," a travel article written by Laura Lippman and Rebecca Chance about a trip on the Orient Express.[15]

Novels

Glamorous Thrillers / Bonkbusters (as Rebecca Chance)

Under the alias Rebecca Chance, Lauren Henderson has written ten novels and a companion ebook of short stories[16] published by Simon & Schuster[17] Rebecca Chance’s novels are all standalones, but they include references to previous characters.

Killer Heels,[18] Bad Angels,[19] Killer Queens,[20] and Bad Brides[21] were all on the Sunday Times bestseller list.

In 2014, she moved to Pan Macmillan with a three-book deal.[22]

Sam Jones Mystery Series

Henderson wrote seven novels in her Sam Jones mystery series, published in the UK by Random House and in the US by Crown. This series has been optioned by Freemantle Media/Sandbar Productions. In 2015 and 2016 Fahrenheit Press,[23] a newly-formed publisher founded by self-styled 'punk publisher' Chris McVeigh, republished all seven of the "tart noir" series in eBook format.[24] [25]

  1. Dead White Female (Hodder & Stoughton, 1995; Fahrenheit Press, 2016)
  2. Too Many Blondes (Hodder & Stoughton, 1996; Fahrenheit Press, 2016)
  3. (The) Black Rubber Dress (Arrow, 1997; Crown, 1999; Fahrenheit Press, 2015)
  4. Freeze My Margarita (Arrow, 1998; Crown, 2000; Fahrenheit Press, 2016)
  5. The Strawberry Tattoo (Arrow, 1999; Crown, 2000; Fahrenheit Press, 2016)
  6. Chained![26] (Arrow, 2001; Three Rivers, 2000; Fahrenheit Press, 2016)
  7. Pretty Boy (Arrow, 2002; Three Rivers, 2002; Fahrenheit Press, 2016)

Young Adult

The Kiss/Scarlett Wakefield mystery series is published by Delacorte:[27]

  1. Kiss Me Kill Me (2008)[28]

Kiss Me Kill Me was nominated for an Anthony Award for Best YA Novel in 2009.[29]

  1. Kisses and Lies (2009)
  2. Kiss In The Dark (2010)
  3. Kiss of Death (2011)

The Italian series is also published by Delacorte:

Romantic Comedies

Non-Fiction

Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating has been optioned as a feature film by Martien Holdings/Millennium Films.[30] [31]

Anthologies

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Lauren Henderson.
  2. Web site: Lauren Henderson.
  3. Web site: Random House Teachers and Librarians.
  4. Web site: Stella Duffy's top 10 tart noir books. TheGuardian.com. 6 August 2002.
  5. News: Now you can try dating, Austen style . Hannah Betts . . August 27, 2005 . December 4, 2010.
  6. News: Liberated Women; Lauren Henderson Is The Godmother Of 'Tart Noir' . Hartford Courant . Deborah . Hornblow . April 7, 2002.
  7. News: Henderson. Lauren. Man watching. 3 September 2014. The Guardian. August 27, 2004.
  8. News: Henderson. Lauren. No need to think straight. 3 September 2014. The Guardian. March 19, 2004. London.
  9. News: Henderson. Lauren. The high price of being a good girl. 3 September 2014. The Telegraph. July 4, 2014. London.
  10. Web site: Harrogate. https://web.archive.org/web/20140904073325/http://www.laurenhenderson.net/tartcity/harrogate/index.html. usurped. September 4, 2014. 30 May 2021.
  11. Web site: Women's Crime Writing. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 22 October 2001.
  12. Web site: Crimetime.co.uk | New Crime Series for Rn Morris . 2014-09-04 . 2015-09-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923211200/http://www.crimetime.co.uk/mag/index.php/showarticle/1613 . dead .
  13. http://www.crimefest.com/PDF/2011_Programme.pdf
  14. Web site: Putting Together British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia by BARRY FORSHAW.
  15. News: Murder, They Wrote . The New York Times . Rebecca . Chance . Laura . Lippman . October 28, 2014.
  16. Book: Naughty Bits. 9781471113031. 19 July 2012. Chance. Rebecca.
  17. Web site: "rebecca chance" Book Results on Simon & Schuster . 2014-09-04 . 2014-09-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140904193322/http://search.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/_/N-/Ntt-rebecca%20chance . dead .
  18. http://www.rebeccachanceauthor.com/media/291471/KillerHeels.png
  19. http://www.rebeccachanceauthor.com/media/255743/bad-angels.jpg
  20. http://www.rebeccachanceauthor.com/media/253782/img.jpg
  21. http://www.rebeccachanceauthor.com/media/287131/bad-brides-lg.png
  22. Web site: Three from Chance to Macmillan | the Bookseller.
  23. Web site: Fahrenheit Press : Who the hell? . 2016-11-16 . 2016-11-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161116225912/http://www.fahrenheit-press.com/who-the-hell.html . dead .
  24. Web site: Fahrenheit Press : Our Authors . 2016-11-16 . 2016-11-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161116230017/http://www.fahrenheit-press.com/authors_Lauren_Henderson.html . dead .
  25. Web site: Fahrenheit Press : News . 2016-11-16 . 2016-11-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161116230231/http://www.fahrenheit-press.com/news-the-universe-is-a-minx.html . dead .
  26. News: CHAINED: A Sam Jones Novel. Publishers Weekly. November 19, 2001.
  27. Web site: Lauren Henderson | Penguin Random House.
  28. Web site: Children's Book Review: Kiss Me Kill Me by Lauren Henderson, Author . Delacorte $15.99 (260p) ISBN 978-0-385-73487-5.
  29. Web site: Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees. www.bouchercon.info . https://web.archive.org/web/20120207060829/http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html . 2012-02-07.
  30. News: How to capture a single man in want of a wife . London . The Daily Telegraph . Sam . Leith . January 29, 2005.
  31. Web site: TLS - Times Literary Supplement.

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