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Books published to date: 35

Most Current Release: Sin Bin

First Novel Published: Ghosts of Fire (2002)

Former Career: Newspaper Staff Writer, Public Relations/Communications/Editing

Education: B.A. in English

Hometown: Upper Marlboro, MD

Family Background: Maureen’s father received a Ph.D. in graphic design from the University of Iowa. Her mother worked as a registered nurse for over forty years. Maureen has three sisters and two brothers. She met her husband, Lorrent, at the University of Maryland in College Park, where they were paired together through a campus mentoring program. They married in 1995 and have two children.

PROFESSIONAL BIO

Maureen Smith is the USA Today bestselling author of over thirty novels. She spent her early childhood in Iowa before her family relocated to Maryland. After graduating from Largo High School in Upper Marlboro, Maureen attended the University of Maryland in College Park, where she majored in English and minored in creative writing.

As an undergraduate, Maureen held summer jobs at the National Air and Space Museum and the famed Watergate Complex in Washington, DC, and interned with Ralph Nader’s consumer advocacy group Newsprints. What she most remembers about her internship experience was receiving personal advice from Nader when the bridal boutique where she’d purchased her wedding gown filed for bankruptcy. As a result of being interviewed by a local news station, Maureen and several other panic-stricken brides received their gowns from the bridal shop.

After graduating from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in English in 1995, Maureen went on to work for a local newspaper, a small publishing company, and a nonprofit organization before she struck out on her own as a freelance writer. Her articles were featured in various magazines, websites, and newspapers including the Baltimore Afro-American and Prince George’s Journal.

Following the publication of her debut novel in 2002, Midwest Book Review called Maureen “a writer of considerable promise and ability.” Of her romantic suspense novels, Publishers Weekly says “Smith gives equal credence to spicy romance and nail-biting suspense.” According to RT BOOKreviews, Maureen’s reputation in the romantic suspense genre is “well deserved.”

Maureen has given writing workshops and served as a panelist at various literary events, including the RT Booklovers Convention, Romance Slam Jam, and the Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers.

Many of her books have been designated an RT BOOKreviews “Top Pick,” and seven have been nominated for RT Reviewers’ Choice awards. She has also been nominated for numerous Emma Awards, winning her first in 2010 for Secret Agent Seduction and winning several after that. Her novel, Recipe for Temptation, was named one of the Best Reviewed Books of 2010 by Urban Reviews, and won an RT Reviewers’ Choice award and three Emma awards. She also received awards from Building Relationships Around Books (B.R.A.B.) in 2014 and 2015. Maureen’s books have appeared on bestseller lists for USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Harlequin, and Mosaic Books, to name a few.

Maureen also writes pseudonymously as Naomi Chase. Her popular women’s fiction novels, Exposed and Deception, were chosen a “Top Pick” from RT BOOKreviews and were both nominated for RT Reviewers’ Choice awards. In 2012, Naomi Chase was named Featured Author of the Year and Featured Romance Author of the Year by Shades of Romance Magazine.

Maureen lives in Houston, TX with her husband and two children.

R/S – denotes romantic suspense
C/R – denotes contemporary romance

NOVELS

GHOSTS OF FIRE (R/S)
iUniverse/May 2002 (reprinted 2004; republished 2013)

WITH EVERY BREATH (R/S)
BET Books/November 2004 (republished 2012)

A HEARTBEAT AWAY (R/S)
BET Books/September 2005 (republished 2012)

WEAPON OF SEDUCTION (R/S)
Kensington/September 2006

A LEGAL AFFAIR (C/R)
Harlequin/December 2006

TAMING THE WOLF (C/R)
Parker Publishing/January 2007 (republished 2011)

A GUILTY AFFAIR (C/R)
Harlequin/May 2007

WHISPER MY NAME (R/S)
Kensington/June 2007

A RISKY AFFAIR (C/R)
Harlequin/March 2008

SECRET AGENT SEDUCTION (R/S)
Harlequin/September 2008

NO ONE BUT YOU (R/S)
Kensington/December 2008

TOUCH OF HEAVEN (C/R)
Harlequin/October 2009

LIKE NO ONE ELSE (R/S)
Kensington/December 2009

RECIPE FOR TEMPTATION (C/R)
Harlequin/June 2010

WHATEVER YOU LIKE (Erotic Romance)
Harlequin/November 2010 (launch title for Kimani Nights line)

TEMPT ME AT MIDNIGHT (C/R)
Harlequin/December 2010

IMAGINE US (C/R)
Harlequin/May 2011

EXPOSED (writing as Naomi Chase)
Kensington/February 2011

ROMANCING THE MD (C/R)
Harlequin/October 2011

INFERNO (C/R)
Wordsmith Enterprises/January 2012

DECEPTION (writing as Naomi Chase)
Kensington/March 2012

ANY WAY YOU WANT IT (Erotic Romance)
Harlequin/November 2012

SEDUCING THE WOLF (C/R)
Wordsmith Enterprises/January 2014

BETRAYAL (writing as Naomi Chase)
Kensington/April 2014

THIS I PROMISE YOU (C/R)
Wordsmith Enterprises/March 2015

WICKED GAMES (C/R)
Wordsmith Enterprises/December 2015

SPEECHLESS (writing as Naomi Chase)
Wordsmith Enterprises/September 2016

WHATEVER YOU NEED (Erotic Romance)
Wordsmith Enterprises/October 2019

THE SWEDE (C/R)
Wordsmith Enterprises/September 2017

SIN BIN (C/R)
Wordsmith Enterprises/February 2019

NOVELLAS

“Stay With Me” (C/R)
Wordsmith Enterprises/July 2014

“Falling Into You” novella in the LOVE FOR ALL SEASONS anthology (C/R)
Parker Publishing/2007 (reissued as standalone story in 2013)

“Treacherous” (Fiction)
Wordsmith Enterprises/March 2011

“A Holiday Affair” novella in the MERRY SEXY CHRISTMAS anthology (C/R)
Kimani Arabesque/October 2012

“Oh Baby” (C/R)
Wordsmith Enterprises/January 2017

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