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Michele Jaffe

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Michelle Jaffe
Born March 20
Los Angeles, California (U.S.) Flag of the United States
Occupation Novelist
Nationality United States of America Flag of the United States
Writing period 1999 - present
Genres Romance, Suspense, Young Adult
Website http://www.michelejaffe.com/

Michele Jaffe (b. March 20, 1969), is the author of several types of genres of novels, including romantic and suspense thrillers, and novels for Young Adults as well.

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Biography

Born in Los Angeles, California, Jaffe obtained her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard. Her bio on the back cover of "Bad Kitty" reads that she retired from academia and decided to become an FBI special agent or glamorous showgirl, but somehow ended up writing. Jaffe married and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband, her disco ball, and her zebra wall-to-wall carpeting. After writing a book on the Renaissance, she decided to foray into the fiction genre, more specifically, a romance novel. The novel was published in 1999, and with it, she initiated a familiar saga of four books acclimated in the Renaissance. Soon afterward, she decided to leave the historical atmosphere and to prove with thrillers of suspense with the publication of Loverboy and Bad Girl in 2003. A couple years later, she decided to write her first Young Adult book, Bad Kitty, which was published in January 2006. The following month, Bad Kitty was named Book of the Month in the Meg Cabot Book Club. Jaffe is notably friends with bestselling Young Adult author Meg Cabot, who she occasionally blogged advice columns with on Cabot's website. However, after getting her own Young Adult website, they split up and Michele does more frequent advice blogs on her own site. When asked why two of her books had similar titles: "I titled the manuscript Bad Kitty because, like Bad Girl, it was about a female detective who did forensics in Las Vegas. When Bad Kitty sold as a book, I figured people would want to change the title but it stuck. My BAD series." Bad Kitty 2, entitled Kitty Kitty is expected to be published in the summer of 2008.

Publications

Historical Novels

Arboretti Family Saga Series (Romance)

  1. The Stargazer - 1999
  2. The Water Nymph - 2000
  3. Lady Killer - 2002
  4. Secret Admired - 2002
  • Lady Killer / Secret Admirer (Collection) - 2002

Contemporany Thrillers of suspense

Single Novels

Collections

  • Lover Boy / Bad Girl - 2004

Young Adult Novels

Kitty Series

  1. Bad Kitty - 2006
  2. Kitty Kitty - 2008

Omnibus in Collaboration

References

External links

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