Jane Porter

Jane Porter is an American author of contemporary romance and women's fiction. She is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over forty-five titles, with over 12 million books in print, in 20 languages and in 25 countries. Her novel Flirting with Forty was made into the Lifetime movie of the same name starring Heather Locklear. In 2014, she received the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Romance Novella for Take Me, Cowboy. Biography Porter was born in Visalia, California. She earned a Bachelor's degree from UCLA in American Studies, as well as Masters in Writing from the University of San Francisco. She has worked in sales and marketing, as well as a director of a non-profit foundation and teacher of Jr. high and High school English. She sold her first novel, The Italian Groom, to Harlequin in 2000.