Jackie Diamond Hyman


Jackie Diamond Hyman is an American writer and former Associated Press reporter and columnist. Since 1982, she has written more than ninety novels in genres including romance, horror, fantasy and mystery under the pen names Jacqueline Diamond, Jacqueline Topaz, Jacqueline Jade, Jackie Hyman, and Jackie Diamond Hyman.

Biography

Personal life

Jackie Diamond Hyman was born on April 3, 1949 in Menard, Texas, United States. She is the daughter of Maurice Hyman, M.D., former chief of psychiatry at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and ceramic sculptor Sylvia Hyman.
Hyman was married in 1978 to Kurt Wilson and has two sons.

Career

Hyman graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts and received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel and write in Europe.
After moving to Orange County, California, in 1972, she worked as a reporter and editor for The Orange Coast Daily Pilot and as a copy editor for The Orange County Register. She worked as a reporter and editor the Associated Press in Los Angeles from 1980–1983, and continued to write theater-related articles for the AP until 1999. In 1993–1994, she wrote a weekly television column for AP that was nationally distributed. She teaches short story, article and novel writing through Long Ridge Writers Group, and is the author of How to Write a Novel in One Lesson.
She sold her first in 1982. Her book publishers include Harlequin Enterprises Ltd, William Morrow, St. Martin's Press, Five Star Press, Walker and Company, DAW Books and Berkley Books. Since 2010, she has been reissuing her early novels, including Regency romances and mysteries, in digital editions.
Hyman is a former national board member of Romance Writers of America and has also served on the board of the Orange County, California chapter. She is a two-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award and received a career achievement award from Romantic Times Book Club magazine.

As Jacqueline Diamond

Historical romance novels

  1. Unlikely Partners
  2. Capers and Rainbows

    Babies of Doctors Circle Series

  3. Diagnosis: Expecting Boss's Baby
  4. Prescription: Marry Her Immediately
  5. Prognosis: A Baby? Maybe

    Downhome Doctors Series

  6. The Police Chief's Lady
  7. Nine-Month Surprise
  8. A Family at Last
  9. Dad by Default
  10. The Doctor + Four

    Harmony Circle Series

  11. The Family Next Door
  12. Baby in Waiting
  13. Million-dollar Nanny

    Safe Harbor Medical Series

  14. The Would-Be Mommy
  15. His Hired Baby
  16. The Holiday Triplets
  17. Officer Daddy
  18. Falling for the Nanny
  19. The Surgeon's Surprise Twins
  20. The Detective's Accidental Baby
  21. The Baby Dilemma
  22. The M.D.'s Secret Daughter
  23. The Baby Jackpot
  24. His Baby Dream
  25. The Surprise Holiday Dad
  26. A Baby for the Doctor
  27. The Surprise Triplets
  28. The Baby Bonanza
  29. The Doctor's Accidental Family
  30. The Would-Be Daddy

    Brides Of Grazer's Corner Multi-author Series

  31. The Cowboy and the Shotgun Bride

    The Wedding Party Multi-author Series

Maitland Maternity Multi-author Series

Forrester Square Multi-author Series

Code Red Multi-author Series

Omnibus

Contemporary romance novels

Contemporary romance novels

Fantasy novels

Mystery novels