After getting her first book published, she has written several special editions books as well as several contemporary books. It was in 2002 when her first novel entitled Leaping Hearts was published. While still working as a lawyer in Boston, her husband, John Neville Blakemore III, and her mother both encouraged her to find an agent and sell her manuscript.Īt first, Jessica found the idea absurd but she was able to muster up enough courage to send her manuscript to an agent. It was then in 2001 when Jessica Bird married that she started writing again. While working in the healthcare industry, she stopped writing her novels. After which, she proceeded to acquire her law degree in Albany Law School.Īfter graduating, she works as a healthcare administrator for many years including as the Chief of Staff in a famous hospital and medical school in Boston, Massachusetts. She also collected tons of Harlequin and Silhouette Books that her mother found it difficult to organize back home. When she attended the Smith College, she took a double major in art history and history which focused on the medieval period. After completing her first unpublished novel, she wrote regularly but only for herself. The young Jessica began writing stories in her diaries and before she went for college, she was able to write her first romance novels.

Jessica Bird is born in Massachusetts, USA in 1969 from W. Although she started writing her novels at an early age, she actually published her first manuscript decade ago thus making her one of the breakthrough romantic novelists in the turn of the century. Surprisingly, Jessica Bird hasn’t been in the literary industry for a long time. With her imaginativeness, she was able to receive the Romance Writers of America RITA Award which is considered as the most prominent award given to romantic fiction writers.

Ward specializes in the sub-genre of paranormal romance. Jessica Bird writes contemporary romance novels but the name J.R.

Ward is actually a pseudonym used by Jessica Rowley Pell Bird. It is a sub-genre for romance and speculative fiction which involves elements beyond scientific explanation. Ward is famous in the literary world for writing paranormal romance.

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