Born and raised in England, Jo Beverley has a degree in English history, and moved to Canada in the mid-seventies with her scientist husband. She now lives in Victoria. She is the author of more than 30 published romances, both Regency and historical.

Jo Beverley is the recipient of numerous awards including the Golden Leaf, the Award of Excellence, the National Readers Choice and a two Career Achievement awards from Romantic Times. She is also a five-time winner of the RITA, the top award of the Romance Writers Of America, and a member of their Hall of Fame and Honor Roll. She is one of two authors selected to give major addresses to the national conference of RWA in New York in July, 2003. Beverley has regularly appeared on romance bestseller lists, including the NYT bestseller list. Lord of Midnight received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, and a Georgian novel, My Lady Notorious, has appeared on numerous lists of "best ever" romances. Beverley is one of the authors featured with profile and article in the reference book, North American Romance Authors, Ed. Kay Mussell and Johanna Tunon, Scarecrow Press, "...designed to highlight significant recent changes in the romance genre and to profile writers who have made North America the dominant geographic center for romance publishing."

2008 marked the 20th anniversary of her literary career and brought the release of a new novel, A Lady's Secret (NAL Penguin) as well as a double edition of her classic novels, entitled Lovers and Ladies (including The Fortune Hunter and Deirdre and Don Juan). In April of 2008 A Lady's Secret premiered at number 14 on the New York Times Bestseller List for fiction. Asked why she's never appeared on a Canadian bestseller list, Beverley says, "Unfortunately books by Canadian authors that are published in the US are often overlooked when sales my Canadian authors are counted here. Also, there's prejudice against mass market paperbacks, which are often ignored entirely, as if they're not really books. I assume the readers enjoying them know they're not
an illusion!"

Jo Beverley began writing stories at a young age and still has a medieval historical romance written in a school exercise book when she was a teenager. She began to apply herself seriously to writing in the mid-1980s. She completed a regency romance in 1985. It was promptly rejected by a number of publishers, and she settled more earnestly to learning the craft. In 1988, it sold to Walker, and was published as Lord Wraybourne's Betrothed. She is now a fulltime writer, writing novels set in her native England in three periods: the medieval, Georgian, and Regency. As well as novels, she has written romance novellas, and two Science Fiction stories. Her works have been selections of the Doubleday Book Club, and translated into many languages including Italian, Spanish, Chinese, German, and Norwegian. She is a lead author with New American Library, Penguin Putnam, New York.

DATE OF BIRTH: 22/9/1947

PLACE OF BIRTH: England

ARRIVAL IN CANADA: 1976

ARRIVAL IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: 1996

ANCESTRAL BACKGROUND: English

AWARDS: RITA Award from Romance Writers of America,(x5) Career Achievement Award, Romance Times (x2) et al

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Regency

THE SECRET WEDDING, Penguin 2008
LOVERS AND LADIES, NAL Penguin, April 2008 978-0-451-22336-4 (The Fortune Hunter and Deirdre and Don Juan printed together)
SKYLARK, Penguin NAL 2004
ST. RAVEN, Penguin NAL Feb., 2003
HAZARD, Penguin NAL2002
THE DEVIL'S HEIRESS, Penguin NAL 2001
THE DRAGON'S BRIDE, Penguin NAL 2001
FORBIDDEN MAGIC, Penguin NAL1998

Rogues Regencies
DANGEROUS JOY, Kensington 1995
FORBIDDEN, Kensington 1994
CHRISTMAS ANGEL, 1992 Kensington (reissue 10/01)
AN UNWILLING BRIDE, 1992 Kensington(12/00)
AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE,1991 Kensington (11/99)

Georgians -- Malloren series
A LADY'S SECRET, Penguin NAL, April 2008 978-0-451-22419-4
A MOST UNSUITABLE MAN, Penguin NAL February 2005
WINTER FIRE, Penguin NALFall 2003
DEVILISH, Penguin NAL 2000
SECRETS OF THE NIGHT, Penguin NAL 1999
SOMETHING WICKED, Penguin NAL 1997
TEMPTING FORTUNE, 1995 Kensington(12/02)
MY LADY NOTORIOUS,1993 Penguin NAL (7/02)

Medieval Romances
LORD OF MIDNIGHT, Penguin NAL 1998
THE SHATTERED ROSE, Kensington 1996
DARK CHAMPION,1993 Penguin NAL (1/03)
LORD OF MY HEART,1992 Penguin NAL (10/02)

Also novellas

Alan Twigg / [BCBW 2009] "Romance"