Barbara Freethy
{{Short description|American author}}
{{use mdy dates|date=August 2021}}
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| occupation = Novelist
| nationality = America
| alma_mater = University of California, Santa Barbara
| genre = contemporary romance, romantic suspense, women's fiction
| period = 1996–present
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Barbara Freethy (born in California) is a #1 New York Times bestselling American author of women's fiction, contemporary romance and romantic suspense. She is a two-time winner of Romance Writers of America's RITA Award for Best Contemporary Single Title Romance for Daniel's Gift in 1997, and for Best Contemporary Single Title Romance for The Way Back Home in 2013. She has sold over 5 million books, with 18 books making the New York Times bestseller list.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-barbara-freethy-becam_b_5647391|title=How Barbara Freethy Became the Bestselling Amazon KDP Author of All-Time|first=Michael|last=Price|date=August 5, 2014|website=HuffPost}} In 2014, she was named the Amazon KDP Bestselling Author of All Time.{{Cite web|url=http://www.barbarafreethy.com/about/|title=About – Barbara Freethy|website=www.barbarafreethy.com}}
Biography
Freethy is a native of California and earned a degree in Communications from UC Santa Barbara. She worked for a while in public relations before launching her writing career with novels published by Silhouette Romance, Harper Collins, Penguin and Simon and Schuster. In 2011, she started self-publishing by releasing backlist titles, and then new works. In 2012, she hit #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List with Summer Secrets. She attributes her success to building a consistent brand, as well as releasing multiple books—backlist and new—a year. In an article in The Economist, a columnist visited a booth of eight self-published authors which included Freethy and Bella Andre and reported that traditional publishers were skeptical of their claim that between them they'd sold 16 million books. Freethy was quoted as saying, "No one is counting our books in any survey that comes out in the media."{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/essay/2014/10/11/from-papyrus-to-pixels|title=From papyrus to pixels|date=October 11, 2014|newspaper=The Economist}}
In 2014, Amazon's Kindle Worlds added Freethy's "The Callaway" series as one of four new offerings.{{cite web |title=The Callaways by Barbara Freethy |url=https://kindleworlds.amazon.com/world/Callaways?ref_=kww_home_ug_Callaways |website=Kindle Worlds |access-date=14 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171208010011/https://kindleworlds.amazon.com/world/Callaways?ref_=kww_home_ug_Callaways |archive-date=8 December 2017 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140626005459/en/Kindle-Worlds-Introduces-Four-New-Worlds-from-Best-Selling-Romance-Novelists-Barbara-Freethy-Bella-Andre-H.M.-Ward-and-Lucy-Kevin|title=Kindle Worlds Introduces Four New Worlds from Best-Selling Romance Novelists Barbara Freethy, Bella Andre, H.M. Ward, and Lucy Kevin|date=June 26, 2014|website=www.businesswire.com}}
Bibliography
= Angel's Bay =
- {{cite book | title = Suddenly One Summer | orig-date = 2009 |date=July 2009}}
- {{cite book | title = On Shadow Beach | orig-date = 2010 |date=April 2010}}
- {{cite book | title = In Shelter Cove | orig-date = 2010 |date=May 2010}}
- {{cite book | title = At Hidden Falls | orig-date = 2011 |date=January 2011}}
- {{cite book | title = Garden of Secrets | orig-date = 2011 |date=September 2011}}
= Bachelors & Bridesmaids =
- {{cite book | title = Kiss Me Forever | orig-date = 2014 |date=November 2014}}
- {{cite book | title = Steal My Heart | orig-date = 2014 |date=December 2014}}
- {{cite book | title = All Your Loving | orig-date = 2014 |date=December 2014}}
- {{cite book | title = Before I Do | orig-date = 2015 |date=March 2015}}
= The Callaways =
1. {{cite book | title = On A Night Like This | orig-date = 2012 |date=December 2012}}
2. {{cite book | title = So This Is Love | orig-date = 2013 |date=April 2013}}
3. {{cite book | title = Falling For A Stranger | orig-date = 2013 |date=July 2013}}
4. {{cite book | title = Between Now And Forever | orig-date = 2013 |date=October 2013}}
4.5 {{cite book | title = Nobody But You | orig-date = 2013 |date=December 2013}}
5. {{cite book | title = All A Heart Needs | orig-date = 2014 |date=February 2014}}
6. {{cite book | title = That Summer Night | orig-date = 2014 |date=June 2014}}
7. {{cite book | title = When Shadows Fall | orig-date = 2014 |date=September 2014}}
8. {{cite book | title = Somewhere Only We Know | orig-date = 2015 |date=February 2015}}
= Deception =
- {{cite book | title = Taken | orig-date = 2006 |date=June 2006}}
- {{cite book | title = Played | orig-date = 2006 |date=October 2006}}
= Sanders Brothers =
- {{cite book | title = Silent Run | orig-date = 2008 |date=March 2008}}
- {{cite book | title = Silent Fall | orig-date = 2008 |date=April 2008}}
= Wish =
- {{cite book | title = A Secret Wish | orig-date = 2011 |date=December 2011}}
- {{cite book | title = Just A Wish Away | orig-date = 2012 |date=April 2012}}
- {{cite book | title = When Wishes Collide | orig-date = 2012 |date=September 2012}}
= Stand-alone novels =
- {{cite book | title = Daniel's Gift | orig-date =1996|date=March 1996}}
- {{cite book | title = Ryan's Return | orig-date =1996|date=October 1996}}
- {{cite book | title = Ask Mariah | orig-date =1997|date=May 1997}}
- {{cite book | title = One True Love | orig-date =1998|date=August 1998}}
- {{cite book | title = The Sweetest Thing | orig-date =1999|date=April 1999}}
- {{cite book | title = Almost Home | orig-date =2000|date=January 2000}}
- {{cite book | title = Just The Way You Are | orig-date =2000|date=November 2000}}
- {{cite book | title = All She Ever Wanted | year =2000}}
- {{cite book | title = Some Kind of Wonderful | orig-date =2001|date=January 2001}}
- {{cite book | title = Love Will Find A Way | orig-date =2002|date=March 2002}}
- {{cite book | title = Summer Secrets | orig-date =2003|date=May 2003}}
- {{cite book | title = Golden Lies | orig-date =2004|date=February 2004}}
- {{cite book | title = Don't Say A Word | orig-date =2005|date=January 2005}}
- {{cite book | title = The Way Back Home | orig-date =2012|date=May 2012}}
Awards and reception
- 1996 - Romantic Times Reviewers Choice award for Best Contemporary for Ryan's Return{{Cite web|url=https://www.fictiondb.com/author/barbara-freethy~2651.htm|title=Barbara Freethy Book List - FictionDB|website=www.fictiondb.com}}
- 1997 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Contemporary Single Title for Daniel's Gift{{cite web|url=https://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=535|title=myRWA : RITA Awards : RITA Winners|work=rwa.org|accessdate=24 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109102946/https://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=535|archive-date=9 January 2016|url-status=dead}}
- 2013 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Contemporary Romance for The Way Back Home
References
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External links
- {{official|http://www.barbarafreethy.com/}}
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Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American women novelists
Category:American romantic fiction writers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century American women writers