The one she wound up hiring has been her agent since the year 1990, and Teresa believes that you can sell books without an agent. It was this willingness to revise and overall skill at revision that impressed her first editor and it got her first sale.īefore she hired an agent, she was able to sell two books. She re-wrote it ten times, as she was willing to do whatever revisions would make the story stronger.

She actually had her very first novel published. It took a few years and some books, but then she made it to Avon. Just three months later, she got a book deal with Berkley Books. In response, some wanted to see ten chapters, others only wanted to see three chapters, and some did not want to hear back from her ever. By then, she had sent out 22 query letters to different publishers. It took them a year to reject her, and in that time, she was able to do research and edit the manuscript. She sent off her first manuscript and sent it to Avon Books (due to the fact that they published Rosemary Rogers and Kathleen E. All of her novels have been New York Times Best Sellers. She has won two Waldenbooks Award for bestselling fiction. She has won two Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal Romance Writers PRISM Award. She feels that she loves each one equally.įor those looking to properly pronounce her name, it is like Madeira (the wine) but with an s at the end of it. She does not have a favorite book that she has written, she feels this question is a lot like choosing a favorite kid. She started writing her first novel at the age of 21, and has not looked back since then. She lives with her husband and cat in the state of Kentucky.

Author Teresa Medeiros was born around the year 1962, and before writing novels, she worked as a nurse.

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