Women’s History Month’s Feature: Beverly Jenkins, Historical and Contemporary Romance Author

Hello book lovers! In celebration of Women’s History Month, I would like to present to you, 2013 NAACP Image Award nominee and USA Today best-selling historical and contemporary romance author, Beverly Jenkins. She has also been voted one of the Top 50 Favorite African-American writers of the 20^th century by the African American Literature Book Club (AALBC).

Jenkins began writing romance novels for fun when she worked at the Parke-Davis Pharmaceuticals’ reference desk in Michigan. In 1994, Avon published her first historical romance novel, Night Song. Although she is well-known for writing romance novels inspired by true history, I enjoy reading her contemporary romance novels, like Deadly Sexy. This book was adapted and made into a movie (2018) available on Amazon Prime Video. I will have to check this out as well as her latest release, Wild Rain (Book 2): Women Who Dare series (2021) that follows a female rancher in Wyoming after the Civil War.

WRITING TIP: When writing historical romance novels remember to weave in stories from a specific time period with interesting characters and settings that are vivid and allows readers to get a good sense of being there in the moment.

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