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Christine

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About Me

Christine Rimmer has written over sixty contemporary romances for Silhouette Books, Harlequin Books and HQN. A reader favorite, Christine’s stories consistently appear on national bestseller lists, including the Waldenbooks and USA TODAY lists. She has won Romantic Times BOOKreview’s Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Silhouette Special Edition. She has been nominated three times for the RITA and four times for Romantic Times Series Storyteller of the Year.

A California native who first longed to be an actress, Christine earned her theater degree from California State, Sacramento and then went to New York to study acting. Later, she moved to Southern California, where she began her writing career with short stories, plays, and poems. Her poems and short stories were published in a number of small literary journals. Her plays were produced at The Back Alley and Group Theaters in Southern California and have been published by Dramatists Play Service and West Coast Plays.

She now lives in Oklahoma with her family and two very contented cats named Tom and Ed.

Please visit Christine at www.christinerimmer.com Or drop in at her blog, http://christinerimmer.blogspot.com


My Interests

Reading, gardening, movies and TV, home improvement, travel when I get the time.

I'd like to meet:

Readers

Music:

In no particular order. Bruce Springsteen, Amy Winehouse, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Taj Mahal, Dr. Hook, Melissa Etheridge, Macy Gray, Moby, Don Henley, Norah Jones, Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Bob Seger, Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Percy Sledge, Aaron Neville, Santana and many, many more.

Movies:

Mullholland Drive; Love, Actually; the Bourne movies; True Romance; Rob Roy; Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; Dinner Rush; Fight Club; Goodfellas; Casino; Secretary; Reservoir Dogs; Sideways; The Usual Suspects; Pulp Fiction; 2 Days in the Valley; Moulin Rouge; The Lion King; China Town; and more…

Television:

The Closer; Mad Men (okay, totally gone on Mad Men; my fave of this year); Law and Order (the original); Big Love; The Sopranos; The Shield; Countdown with Keith Olbermann; anything HG or TLC; Take-Home Chef; Various and Random cooking shows; History Channel; Rome; Deadwood; Dirty Jobs

Books:

Faves are big, fat delicious sagas and women’s fiction. Rosie Thomas, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, Anita Shreve; Romance, of course: the hotter the better. I love Susan Mallery, Philippa Gregory, Emma Holly, JR Ward and so many others I really can’t think of them all off the top of my head.