Turn Back Tuesday, Janis Reems Hudson

Today's Turnback Tuesday Author is Janis Reems Hudson, another unique and interesting author. I must say I am really enjoying this series. To find out about the lives and interests of the authors that I have enjoyed over my life. So many of them lead interesting lives BEFORE they became authors.. and since.. well they just keep on going. Janis Reems Hudson is another of those interesting women.

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While Ms Hudson has written many interesting books she wrote a series that touched me deeply and left an indelible place in my heart. Her Colton Series was a fascinating look into our past. She wrote of a family living on the brink of change in Texas.. At the time of Geronimo and the end of so much freedom for the Apache Nation.. She did a stellar job of showing how love can thrive in the most difficult of situations but more than that she wrote about, passion, greed, racism, hatred, all the things that marked that particular era of our country's history. As Phoebe Conn, did with her series on Southern California when the Americans took the land from Mexico, Ms Hudson gives us an interesting look into the thoughts of the Apache people and what drove them. Yes, I know this series was a piece of fiction but it touched me.. Of course, having ancestors that walked the Trail of Tears probably gave me inclinations towards this type of work. I will say this, if you come across any of the stories from this series it is most definitely worth the read.

Romance novelist Janis Reams Hudson was born in California, grew up in Colorado, lived in Texas, but has called central Oklahoma home for most of her adult life. Janis worked for fifteen years in local television in the Oklahoma City and Corpus Christi, Texas, markets. After writing for seven years, during which she left television and completed seven novels, Janis made her first sale in September, 1990. The book was FOSTER LOVE, which sold to Meteor Publishing for their Kismet line of short contemporary romances.  Since the book’s publication in February, 1991, FOSTER LOVE has won several major book awards, including the prestigious National Readers’ Choice Award for Best Short Contemporary Romance of 1991, Best Kismet of the Year from Romantic Times, Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence for Best Short Contemporary of the Year, and was a RITA finalist for Best First Book from the Romance Writers of America.

Within two and a half years of making that first sale, Janis sold twenty-two novels, both contemporary and historical romances.  Her books have appeared on the romance best-seller lists of Waldenbooks, B. Dalton, and Bookrak, have been nominated for numerous awards, and have earned a total of six major book awards.

What little time she does not spend writing and researching her next book Janis spends helping other writers and volunteering her time to various writers’ organizations.  She maintains professional memberships in Romance Writers of America, where she served six years on the national board of directors (including two as president/ceo), and in Oklahoma Romance Writers of America, which she helped found. She also actively promotes her work by holding autographings and speaking at various writers’ workshops and conferences across the country.

Janis lives in Choctaw, Oklahoma, with her husband Ron, and various cats, ducks, and sheep.  * Janis Reems Hudson Website

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