Lori Wilde


Laurie Blalock Vanzura is an American author of contemporary romance novels, first under the pseudonym Laura Anthony, and now as Lori Wilde.

Biography

Laurie Blalock was born in Texas, United States. She wrote her first short story at age eight, and finished her first novel four years later. At sixteen, she submitted a story to Alfred Hitchcock Magazine. Although it was rejected, she received a handwritten note telling her to keep writing. She continued to write, finishing 60 short stories over the next 10 years, persisting even while attending nursing school. All of her short stories were rejected, and a writing teacher finally suggested, in 1990, that she try to write a novel. Wilde took the teacher's advice, and in 1994 sold her second completed work to Silhouette Romance under the pseudonym Laura Anthony. Wilde wrote 11 novels under that name, with one becoming a finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award.
Until 2004, Wilde wrote category romances for Harlequin, primarily in their Duet and Blaze lines. Her first single title, License to Thrill, was published in 2003. Wilde has been nominated three times for Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards, for Coaxing Cupid, Packed With Pleasure, and Santa's Sexy Secret.
She has also been nominated for a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in series love and laughter.
She has won first place in The Colorado Award of Excellence, the More than Magic, The Wisconsin Right Touch, The Laurel Wreath, The Desert Rose Golden Quill and the Lories. In 2007 she was also honored as distinguished alumna by Weatherford College.
In 2010, her book The First Love Cookie Club was on the USA Today and The New York Times best seller lists for five weeks.

As Laura Anthony

Single novels

Single novels

  1. A Touch of Silk
  2. Sexy, Single and Searching
  3. Eager, Eligible and Alaskan
  4. A Thrill to Remember
  1. Charmed and Dangerous
  2. Mission: Irresistible

    Wedding Veil Wishes

  3. There Goes the Bride
  4. Once Smitten, Twice Shy
  5. Addicted to Love
  6. All of Me

    Perfect Anatomy

  7. Crossing the line
  8. Secret Seduction
  9. Lethal Exposure

    EROS Vacations

  10. Zero Control
  11. His Final Seduction

    Twilight, Texas

  12. The Sweethearts' Knitting Club
  13. The True Love Quilting Club
  14. The First Love Cookie Club
  15. The Welcome Home Garden Club

    Jubilee, Texas

  16. The Cowboy Takes a Bride
  17. The Cowboy and the Princess
  18. A Cowboy for Christmas

    Omnibus