She has achieved a lifelong dream and now pursues writing fiction full-time.įirst married with Anthony Moeller, now she is married with Bill Vanzura, her own real-life hero. She sold her first book in 1994 as Laura Anthony, but later discovered she had a flair for comedy and branched out under the pseudonym Lori Wilde. She nursed for 20 years, working in a variety of settings from the newborn nursery to the recovery room, to dialysis. She even went to nursing school so she could have a schedule flexible enough to allow her to write on the side.

She can't remember a time when she didn't want to write. She credits her father, Fred Blalock, as the guiding force behind her career.

Sand, Sun.Laurie Blalock was born on 1958 in Texas, USA.

Real Men Do It Better (2007) (with Carrie Alexander, Susan Donovan, Lora Leigh).

Sexy, Single and Searching / Eager, Eligible And Alaskan (2002).

Bye, Bye Bachelorhood / Coaxing Cupid (2001).

Going in Style / I Love Lucy (2001) (with Bonnie Tucker).

Mistletoe and Mayhem / Santa's Sexy Secret (2000) (with Cara Summers).

Stranded with a Tall, Dark Stranger (1998).

In 2007 she was also honored as distinguished alumna by Weatherford College. In 2007, her book You Only Love Twice won first place in The Colorado Award of Excellence, the More than Magic, The Desrt Rose Golden Quill and the Lories for best romantic suspense. Wilde has been nominated three times for Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards, for Coaxing Cupid, Pakced With Pleasure, and Santa's Sexy Secret.She has also been nominated for a Romantic Times career achievement award in series love and laughter. Her first single title, License to Thrill, was published in 2003. Until 2004, Wilde wrote category romances for Harlequin, primarily in their Duet and Blaze lines. Wilde wrote 11 novels under that name, with one becoming a finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA AWard. Wilde took the teacher's advice, and in 1994 sold her second completed work to Silhouette Romance under the pseudonym Laura Anthony. All of her short stories were rejected, and a writing teacher finally suggested, in 1990, that she try to write a novel. She continued to write, finishing 60 short stories over the next 10 years, persisting even while attending nursing school.

Although it was rejected, she received a handwritten note telling her to keep writing. At sixteen, she submitted a story to Alfred Hitchcock Magazine. Wilde wrote her first short story at age eight, and finished her first novel four years later.

Saving Allegheny Green by Lori Wilde