Parv, Valerie

With twenty five million copies of her books sold internationally, Valerie Parv is known as Australia's queen of romance. She has written over 60 novels and her short fiction is also regularly featured in national magazines. Valerie is also the author of two best-selling guides for writers; The Art of Romance Writing (A+U 2004) and The Idea Factory (A+U, 1995) as well as the more recent Heart and Craft (A+U, 2009), and she regularly conducts seminars and workshops on all aspects of the writing craft. She was honoured by The Society of Women Writers of Australia with their Bicentennial Medallion for her contributions to Australian writing and recently she was invited to present a workshop at the Romance Writers of America National Conference in San Francisco in July 2008.;