Cathie Linz

Cathie Linz

(Cathie Linz Baumgardner)








Cathie Linz was born on November 29. Her interest in writing began at an early age, when her older brother got a Tom Thumb typewriter. Only three at the time, she loved pounding on those keys! When she reached the third grade, Cathie received Second Prize award for her Class Knowledge Fair project. It was a "book" - three pages long, typed, single-space, about her summer spent with her grandfather who'd retired to Ajijic, on the shores of Lake Chapala, in Mexico.

Knowing that writing was not a financially secure career choice, Cathie went to college and got a job as Head of Acquisitions at a university law library in the Chicago area. She married with Mr. Baumgardner. When she had to have emergency surgery, she realized that life isn't open-ended and if she wanted to write, she needed to start now. While still living at home, she gave herself a year to be published.

Her first publisher, Dell, called within two weeks of the approaching deadline to buy her first book. After writing 12 books for Dell's successful Candlelight Ecstasy line, Cathie began writing for Silhouette Desire. Since then, she's also written for Silhouette Romance and Harlequin Duets. Romantic Times has given Cathie its prestigious Storyteller of the Year Award as well as a Reviewers Choice Award. She's also been nominated for multiple Love and Laughter Awards and Best Series Author.In addition, Romance Writers of America recently made Cathie a lifetime honorary member.

Cathie is also a contributor to DANGEROUS MEN AND ADVENTUROUS WOMEN: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance, a hardcover lead title from the University of Pennsylvania Press which won the distinguished Susan Koppleman Award. The mass market paperback edition was released by Harper Publishing in June of 1996.

Cathie lives in the Chicago area with her family and two cats. She lives near fellow Silhouette authors Lindsay Longford and Suzette Vann, as well as New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips. This rowdy foursome often hangs out at "Chile's" plotting their next masterpiece. Cathie is the one eating the steak fajitas. She has an office in her home, several walls of which feature her large collection of "keeper" romances. She's been known to wear t-shirts that say "So Many Books, So Little Time" and "Give me the Chocolate and No One Gets Hurt!" She writes her books in her home office suite, looking out on a small creek and woods. In the winter, sometimes a deer or two will walk by. She loves the Alps, as you can tell from the photo on this webpage. Her hobbies include reading (she has over 4,000 romances in her keeper library), travelling (she sets books in places she's visited ? from the Alps to Bermuda, and Oregon to New Hampshire), and collecting artist teddy bears (she got hooked on this unusual hobby after researching for a book where the heroine designed teddy bears. Cathie now has over 50 one-of a kind bears in her collection). She is also an accomplished photographer.

Handyman by Cathie Linz



SLOW TO TRUST...

So what if school librarian Alicia Donnelly was great with kids? Ever since her single parent ex-fiance had let it slip that maternalism was her main--and only--attraction, Alicia had sworn off struggling fathers looking for love. Fortunately, Mitch Johnson, the new handyman at her family's lodge, seemed to appreciate her beauty and her brains. Suddenly, reliable Alicia began to feel a little reckless, and another summer in the Canadian Rockies seemed anything but routine.

But when Mitch belatedly announced the imminent arrival of his young daughter, Alicia couldn't, help feeling betrayed. Was he just another man in search of a live-in baby-sitter? Would this Mr. Fix-it mend or break her heart?

Good Girls Do by Cathie Linz



Julia Wright couldn't be more ******* with her job at the local library, nestled in placid, picturesque Serenity Falls. Until her wacky mother, petty-thief sister, and little niece decide to crash her quiet party of one. And her troubles really stack up when a new guy roars into town on his Harley, shaking up more than just the books on her shelves.

Luke Maguire never thought he'd set foot back in the dull town where he'd spent his youth. But when his abusive father dies, he's forced to return and take care of the family bar. While trying to get the people of Serenity Falls to lighten up a little, he makes an unlikely alliance with a feisty librarian, whose pages he'd really like to turn. The battle lines are being drawn and Luke may have an uphill fight on his hands, but he's determined to come out on top, tempting this good girl to be very bad.

Bad Girls Don't by Cathie Linz


When Skye Wright saw flashing lights in her rearview mirror, she figured she'd just charm her way out of yet another speeding ticket. How could she have known that the handsome cop who stepped out of the police cruiser was a Studly Do-Right capable of taming the wild child right out of her?

It took less than two seconds for Sheriff Nathan Thornton to peg the sexy Skye as trouble. Maybe it was the way she shimmied her hips in that I Dream of Jeannie outfit. Or the huge stack of speeding tickets in her bag. Whatever it was, the woman was belly dancing her way into his thoughts. Now if only she'd belly dance into his bedroom...








"The author that readers of romantic comedy have been waiting for."
Jayne Ann Krentz