Michele Jaffe
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| Michelle Jaffe | |
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| Born | March 20, 1970 Los Angeles, California U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Writing period | 1999 - present |
| Genres | historical romance, Suspense, Young Adult |
Michele Jaffe (b. March 20, 1970 in Los Angeles, California), is an American writer, author of several types of genres of novels, including historical romance, suspense thrillers, and novels for Young Adults as well.
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[edit] Biography
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Born on March 20, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, Jaffe obtained her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard. She retired from academia and decided to become an FBI special agent or glamorous showgirl, but somehow ended up writing[1]. 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."[citation needed]
Bad Kitty 2, entitled Kitty Kitty is expected to be published in the summer of 2008.
[edit] Publications
[edit] Historical Novels
[edit] Arboretti Family Saga Series (Romance)
- Lady Killer / Secret Admirer (Collection) - 2002
[edit] Contemporany Thrillers of suspense
[edit] Single Novels
[edit] Collections
- Lover Boy / Bad Girl - 2004
[edit] Young Adult Novels
[edit] Kitty Series
[edit] Omnibus in Collaboration
- Prom Nights from Hell - 2007 (How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot, A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison, Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and Ttyl by Lauren Myracle)
[edit] References and sources
- ^ Her bio on the back cover of "Bad Kitty"
