Rebecca Chance

Lauren Henderson was born in Hampstead, London. She attended North London Collegiate School (the model for Wakefield Hall in the Scarlett Wakefield “Kiss” series) and then St Paul’s Girls' School (the model for St Tabby’s).{{Cite web|url=https://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=12603&view=sml_sptlght|title = About Lauren Henderson}} She then studied English Literature at Cambridge University.

Henderson worked as a journalist for newspapers and music magazines including the New Statesman, Marxism Today, The Observer and Lime Lizard (an independent music magazine).{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17761.Lauren_Henderson|title=Lauren Henderson}} She then moved to Tuscany to write books and learn Italian. After eight years, she moved to Manhattan.{{Cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/author/henderson-lauren/|title=Random House Teachers and Librarians}} Her experiences in the New York dating scene gave her the inspiration for the non-fiction dating book, Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating (Hyperion Books, 2005).

With Sparkle Hayter and Katy Munger, Henderson created Tart Noir, the website. She later edited Tart Noir, the anthology, with Stella Duffy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/aug/07/bestbooks.fiction|title=Stella Duffy's top 10 tart noir books|website=TheGuardian.com|date=6 August 2002}} She has been credited as the founder{{cite news |title=Now you can try dating, Austen style |author=Hannah Betts |newspaper=The Sunday Times |date=August 27, 2005 |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article559404.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615194532/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article559404.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 June 2011 |accessdate=December 4, 2010}} and godmother{{cite news| url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/256555535 | work=Hartford Courant | first=Deborah | last=Hornblow | title=Liberated Women; Lauren Henderson Is The Godmother Of 'Tart Noir' | date=April 7, 2002| id={{ProQuest|256555535}} }} of the style.

She also writes for UK-based publications, including Grazia, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian,{{cite news|last1=Henderson|first1=Lauren|title=Man watching|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2004/aug/28/weekend7.weekend|accessdate=3 September 2014|work=The Guardian|date=August 27, 2004}}{{cite news|last1=Henderson|first1=Lauren|title=No need to think straight|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/mar/20/realitytv.usnews|accessdate=3 September 2014|work=The Guardian|date=March 19, 2004|location=London}} the Mail on Sunday and The Telegraph.{{cite news|last1=Henderson|first1=Lauren|title=The high price of being a good girl|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/10943285/The-high-price-of-being-a-good-girl.html|accessdate=3 September 2014|work=The Telegraph|date=July 4, 2014|location=London}}

Henderson’s books have been translated into 20 languages. She has participated at literary and crime fiction festivals in the US, UK,{{Cite web|url=http://www.laurenhenderson.net/tartcity/harrogate/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904073325/http://www.laurenhenderson.net/tartcity/harrogate/index.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 4, 2014|title=Harrogate|date=30 May 2021}} and Australia, including being the International Guest Speaker and giving the opening address at the first SheKilda festival{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/womens-crime-writing/3489370|title=Women's Crime Writing|website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=22 October 2001}} in 2001 in St Kilda. In 2010, Henderson interviewed Lindsey Davis for the Italian Cultural Institute’s reading series;{{Cite web |url=http://www.crimetime.co.uk/mag/index.php/showarticle/1613 |title=Crimetime.co.uk | New Crime Series for Rn Morris |access-date=2014-09-04 |archive-date=2015-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923211200/http://www.crimetime.co.uk/mag/index.php/showarticle/1613 |url-status=dead }} she also interviewed Davis in 2011 at Crimefest in Bristol.http://www.crimefest.com/PDF/2011_Programme.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}

Henderson is featured in British Crime Writing: An Encyclopaedia,{{Cite web|url=http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/feature_view.aspx?FEATURE_ID=19|title=Putting Together British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia by BARRY FORSHAW}} published in 2008 and edited by Barry Forshaw, and contributed an entry on Peter O’Donnell, author of the Modesty Blaise caper thrillers. She is the only author to have contributed two essays to the 2012 anthology Books to Die For (edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke), one on Agatha Christie’s Endless Night (as Lauren Henderson) and another on Dorothy L Sayers’s Have His Carcase (as Rebecca Chance).

On 28 October 2014 the New York Times published "Murder, They Wrote," a travel article written by Laura Lippman and Rebecca Chance about a trip on the Orient Express.{{cite news| url=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/orient-express-train-travel/?_r=4 | work=The New York Times | first1=Rebecca | last1=Chance | first2=Laura | last2=Lippman | title=Murder, They Wrote | date=October 28, 2014}}

Under the alias Rebecca Chance, Lauren Henderson has written ten novels and a companion ebook of short stories{{Cite book|url=http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Naughty-Bits/Rebecca-Chance/9781471113031|isbn = 9781471113031|title = Naughty Bits|date = 19 July 2012|last1 = Chance|first1 = Rebecca| publisher=Simon and Schuster }} published by Simon & Schuster{{Cite web |url=http://search.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/_/N-/Ntt-rebecca%20chance |title="rebecca chance" Book Results on Simon & Schuster |access-date=2014-09-04 |archive-date=2014-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904193322/http://search.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/_/N-/Ntt-rebecca%20chance |url-status=dead }}

Rebecca Chance’s novels are all standalones, but they include references to previous characters.

• Divas (2009)
• Bad Girls (2010)
• Bad Sisters (2011)
• Killer Heels (2012)
• Bad Angels (2012)
• Killer Queens (2013)
• Bad Brides (2014)
• Mile High (2015)
• Killer Diamonds (2016)
• Killer Affair (2017)

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In 2014, she moved to Pan Macmillan with a three-book deal.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/three-chance-macmillan.html|title = Three from Chance to Macmillan | the Bookseller}}

Henderson wrote seven novels in her Sam Jones mystery series, published in the UK by Random House and in the US by Crown. This series has been optioned by Freemantle Media/Sandbar Productions. In 2015 and 2016 Fahrenheit Press,{{Cite web |url=http://www.fahrenheit-press.com/who-the-hell.html |title=Fahrenheit Press : Who the hell? |access-date=2016-11-16 |archive-date=2016-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116225912/http://www.fahrenheit-press.com/who-the-hell.html |url-status=dead }} a newly-formed publisher founded by self-styled 'punk publisher' Chris McVeigh, republished all seven of the "tart noir" series in eBook format.{{Cite web |url=http://www.fahrenheit-press.com/authors_Lauren_Henderson.html |title=Fahrenheit Press : Our Authors |access-date=2016-11-16 |archive-date=2016-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116230017/http://www.fahrenheit-press.com/authors_Lauren_Henderson.html |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.fahrenheit-press.com/news-the-universe-is-a-minx.html |title=Fahrenheit Press : News |access-date=2016-11-16 |archive-date=2016-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116230231/http://www.fahrenheit-press.com/news-the-universe-is-a-minx.html |url-status=dead }}

1. Dead White Female (Hodder & Stoughton, 1995; Fahrenheit Press, 2016)
2. Too Many Blondes (Hodder & Stoughton, 1996; Fahrenheit Press, 2016)
3. (The) Black Rubber Dress (Arrow, 1997; Crown, 1999; Fahrenheit Press, 2015)
4. Freeze My Margarita (Arrow, 1998; Crown, 2000; Fahrenheit Press, 2016)
5. The Strawberry Tattoo (Arrow, 1999; Crown, 2000; Fahrenheit Press, 2016)
6. Chained!{{cite news|title=CHAINED: A Sam Jones Novel|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-609-80865-8|work=Publishers Weekly|date=November 19, 2001}} (Arrow, 2001; Three Rivers, 2000; Fahrenheit Press, 2016)
7. Pretty Boy (Arrow, 2002; Three Rivers, 2002; Fahrenheit Press, 2016)

The Kiss/Scarlett Wakefield mystery series is published by Delacorte:{{Cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/12603/lauren-henderson|title = Lauren Henderson | Penguin Random House}}

1. Kiss Me Kill Me (2008){{Cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-385-73487-5|title = Children's Book Review: Kiss Me Kill Me by Lauren Henderson, Author . Delacorte $15.99 (260p) ISBN 978-0-385-73487-5}}

Kiss Me Kill Me was nominated for an Anthony Award for Best YA Novel in 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html#2009 |title= Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees|website=www.bouchercon.info |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207060829/http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html |archive-date=2012-02-07}}

1. Kisses and Lies (2009)
2. Kiss In The Dark (2010)
3. Kiss of Death (2011)

The Italian series is also published by Delacorte:

• Flirting in Italian (2013)
• Kissing in Italian (2014)

• My Lurid Past (2003)
• Don’t Even Think About It (2004)
• Exes Anonymous (2005)

• Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating (2005)

Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating has been optioned as a feature film by Martien Holdings/Millennium Films.{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1482267/How-to-capture-a-single-man-in-want-of-a-wife.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Sam | last=Leith | title=How to capture a single man in want of a wife | date=January 29, 2005}}{{Cite web|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article559404.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615194532/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article559404.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 June 2011|title = TLS - Times Literary Supplement}}

• Books To Die For (contributor)

• Girls Night In (contributor) (2004)
• Tart Noir (editor) (2002)

• Carole Matthews
• Rachel Vail

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