Penny Jordan was M&B's most prolific author

January 24, 2012 17:51

Penny Jordan, who died aged 65, worked as a secretary in a bank before she fired off a manuscript to Mills & Boon and became one of the world's biggest-selling romance authors, selling more than 90 million copies of nearly 190 titles. says The Telegraph, UK.

Though Penny Jordan became Mills & Boon's most prolific author, she led a modest life at her cottage in rural Cheshire: "It's not very glamorous. People certainly wouldn't think so if they saw me sitting in my woolly socks at the kitchen table. Many times I sit at the typewriter and think: 'Why am I doing this?''

A tribute to the queen of romance.

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