About
Deborah
Deborah Smith is the New York Times
bestselling author of A Place to Call Home, Sweet Hush,
and other acclaimed romantic novels portraying life and love in the modern
Appalachian South. A native Georgian, Deborah is a former newspaper
editor who turned to novel-writing with great success.
With more than 30 romance and women's
fiction novels to her credit, Deborah's books have sold over 3 million
copies worldwide. Among her honors is a Career Achievement Award from
Romantic Times Magazine and a nomination for the prestigious Townsend
Literary Award. In 2003 Disney optioned Sweet Hush for
film.
Deborah is a founding partner of BelleBooks, a
small southern press known for feel-good southern fiction including the
Mossy Creek Hometown Series and the Sweet Tea story collections.
Deborah lives on a secluded dirt road high in
the mountains of north Georgia with Hank, her husband of 27 years, plus a
herd of deer, a flock of turkeys, numerous well-fed raccoons, possums and
the occasional bear, also eight cats, a dog and two enormous koi fish named
Daisy and Albert.
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