Several months after beginning work for them, she received an offer to buy her second romance manuscript for $2,000, which she considered an 'astounding sum.' Romance novels Still unable to find a publisher, Evanovich stopped writing and signed with a temporary employment agency. She wrote two romances and submitted them for publishing. After someone suggested she try writing romance novels, Evanovich read several romances and discovered that she enjoyed the genre. For ten years, she attempted to write the Great American Novel, finishing three manuscripts that she was unable to sell. To learn the art of writing dialog, Evanovich took lessons in improv acting. In her thirties, she began writing novels.

When Evanovich had children, she chose to become a housewife like her mother. After attending South River High School, she became the first in her family to attend college when she enrolled at Douglass College, part of Rutgers University, to study art. She has over two hundred million books in print worldwide, and her books have been translated into over 40 languages.Įvanovich is a second-generation American born in South River, New Jersey, to a machinist and a housewife.

Evanovich has had her last seventeen Plums debut at #1 on the NY Times Best Sellers list and eleven of them have hit #1 on USA Today Best-Selling Books list. The novels in this series have been on The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestseller lists. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a former lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet after losing her job. Janet Evanovich (née Schneider April 22, 1943) is an American writer.

Wife for Hire by Janet Evanovich