Alison Kent was a born reader, but it wasn’t until she reached 30 that she knew she wanted to be a writer when she grew up. Five years later, she made her first sale.

In 1995, she accepted an offer issued by the senior editor of Harlequin Temptation live on the “Isn’t It Romantic?” episode of CBS 48 Hours. The resulting book, CALL ME, was a Romantic Times finalist for Best First Series Book in 1996.

With her first three Temptations on the shelf, she took a break from writing romance novels and spent a few months living one, finding her own hero and practicing every technique she’d learned from a lifetime of reading the best “how-to” manuals around!

Having more than 40 titles in print, most with Harlequin and Kensington, she was chosen as one of the launch authors for HCI Books' VOWS imprint, stories of Reality Based Romance. She is also the author of THE COMPLETE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO WRITING EROTIC ROMANCE. Additionally, Alison is a partner in Access Romance and DreamForge Media as a website designer.