Penelope Ward
★ Penelope is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author.
★ With over a million books sold, she’s a sixteen-time New York Times Bestseller (hitting at the #2 spot on three separate occasions).
★ Her fourth novel, Stepbrother Dearest, was also the #1 independently published kindle e-book on Amazon’s 2014 bestseller list.
★ Her birthday is 7/10
★ Penelope spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor before switching to a more family-friendly career.
★ She grew up in Boston with five older brothers.
★ She lives for reading books in the new adult genre, coffee, messaging with her buddy and sometimes co-author Vi Keeland, as well as hanging out with her friends and family on weekends.
★ Fifty Shades of Grey started her obsession with romance as a reader.
★ When writing, she outlines the story first, spends a lot of time thinking about it and daydreaming before starting. She writes in chronological order.
★ She self-published her first book in May of 2013
★ She’s not a big fan of flying.
★ Penelope loves coffee, sushi, the color royal blue, and big band music.
★ If she wasn’t a writer, she may have wanted to be a florist.
★ Ward is her actual maiden last name. Penelope is a pen name. She doesn’t have any other pen names.
★ She is the proud mother of a 13-year-old beautiful girl with autism (the inspiration for the character Callie in Gemini) and an 11-year-old boy, both of whom are the lights of her life.
★ Penelope, her husband, and kids reside in Rhode Island.
My Q & A with Penelope:
1. Where is the strangest place you’ve ever gotten a great story idea?
✧ Driving home from the post office, the entire plot of Sins of Sevin unfolded before my eyes. I had to pull over into a parking lot to dictate the ideas into my phone.
2. Bucket list vacation spot?
✧ Los Angeles. I know there are probably a lot more obvious/tropical places…but I’ve always wanted to visit Hollywood.
3. Who is your favorite book boyfriend from another author?
✧ Kellan Kyle from Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens
4. What is your all-time favorite song?
✧ Down Under by Men At Work
5. What’s your favorite gift ever received from a fan?
✧ Mini bottles of vodka
6. Who is your unicorn author?
✧ This is tough. Colleen Hoover or EL James
7. What is your favorite brand of mascara?
✧ Loreal Voluminous Lash Paradise
8. What’s your favorite name out of all your characters?
✧ Elec