Terri Blackstock Research Paper

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Terri Blackstock has sold over 7 million books worldwide and is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, she is also the winner of two Carol Awards, a Christian Retailers Choice Award, a Romantic Times Book Reviews Career Achievement Award along with a few other awards. She was born December 7, 1957 in Belleville Illinois and spent the first twelve years of her life in a traveling air force family. For her first four years of school she lived in the Netherlands and always being a new kid, her imagination was her closest friend, this is the reason why she thinks she has become such a great novelist. She sold her first novel at the age of twenty five and has had a successful writing career since. In 1994 Blackstock was writing romance novels

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