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Originally Posted by Blossom
She has so many pen names.
- Jayne Bentley
- Jayne Castle
- Amanda Glass
- Stephanie James
- Jayne Ann Krentz
- Amanda Quick
- Jayne Taylor
I think she has the most I've seen a author use. |
I've not read any of the Bentley titles. I think she only wrote one book as Amanda Glass and one or very few as Jayne Taylor.
She was ahead of the curve as far as writing futuristic/paranormal romance. Which did not sell at the time and no one would publish her under Jayne Castle (her maiden name) or Jayne Ann Krentz (her married name). Hence the Amanda Quick pen name. Nowadays she writes only contemporary under JAK, historical as AQ and futuristic as JC so it makes sense in a way.
I love her early one-word historicals as AQ and her 90s/early 2000 contemporary titles (before she began writing so much paranomal*). I also like most of her old category titles she wrote for Silhouette as Stephanie James, though I haven't yet read them all.
* I do enjoy her Arcane series which is paranormal, I just miss her writing straight contemporary. January's hardcover is a non-paranormal so maybe she's going back to that for a while.