

She has also worked as a newspaper editor and drama critic in San Antonio, Texas, and as a college professor at Southwest Texas Junior College, Barry University, and the University of Miami. For the next five years, Johnston worked as an attorney, serving with the Hunton & Williams firm in Richmond, Virginia, and with Squire, Sanders, & Dempsey in Miami. She received a law degree (with honors) at the University of Texas at Austin in 1980. in theatre from the University of Illinois, Urbana in 1971.

in theatre arts from Jacksonville University in 1970, then earning an M.A. Johnston was the third of seven children born to an Air Force sergeant and his music-teacher wife.

writers include Freda Vasils' Black Night, Amber Morning (Harlequin/Sept.), Judy Gill's Sharing Sunrise (Bantam/June), Catherine Spencer's Winter Roses (Harlequin/July), Naomi Horton's No Lies Between Us (Silhouette/ Aug.), Jenna Ryan's Masquerade (Harlequin/Nov.) and Judith Bowen's Paper Marriage (Silhouette/Oct.) to be set in the Nicola Vallev.Joan Johnston (born Little Rock, Arkansas) is a best-selling American author of over forty contemporary and historical romance novels. And thank God for that!" Forthcoming romances from B.C. I've found that what one house hates, another loves. chapter of Romance Writers of America to make a first sale (two years ago), she says, "The romance market is getting a lot tougher but rejection by one house should never stop a really determined writer. "I was inspired by the interesting possibilities raised by reading Edith Iglauer's Fishing With John," says Delta author Judy Corser (aka Judith Bowen). And he's a legendary loner named Big Mike Steele. She's a 'petite' deckhand on the troller.

It's a story of true love somewhere east of Bella Bella. THE HEROINE OF JUDITH BOWEN'S newest romance novel Man of Steele (Silhouette $2.50) goes overboard for her man hook, line and sinker.
