Gina Ferris Wilkins is a renowned author from America, who is famous for writing romance and contemporary novels. She has written a number of bestselling and successful novel series in her career over the years. Author Wilkins uses different pen names for writing different romance series. Some of her popular pseudonyms include Gina Wilkins, Gina Ferris, and Gina Ferris Vaughan. Author Wilkins is believed to have written more than 85 romance books in her writing career. Wilkins was born on December 20, 1954, as Gina Ferris Vaughan, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her father, Vernon Vaughan, was an electrician, while her mother, Beth Vaughan, was an executive secretary. Author Wilkins married a man John Wilkins in the year 1972, who works as a wood turner. The couple is blessed with 3 beautiful children. Author Wilkins earned a degree in journalism from the Arkansas State Univeristy after which she started working in the field of human resources and advertising. Following several stints in working in other fields, author Wilkins decided to try her hand at writing romance novels. Eventually, she sold her first novel to Harlequin in 1987. This marked the beginning of what went on to become a full time career for Wilkins. Since the publication of her debut, she has penned over 85 books for numerous Silhouette and Harlequin category romance lines. The early Silhouette novels written by her bear her pen names as she used to write them under her pseudonyms. It was only later in her career that author Wilkins decided to drop all her pseudonyms in favor of her original name. Most of the books that author Wilkins has written so far have been translated into more than 20 languages all over the world and they appear in over a hundred countries. Author Wilkins has won the Reviewers’ Choice Award from Romantic Times in 2003 in the category of the Best Special Edition of Silhouette for her novel titled Make-Believe Mistletoe. During her career, Wilkins has also been nominated for a Career Achievement Award by the Romantic Times. She has received the Maggie Excellence Award from the GRW for a total of 4 times. Many of author Wilkins’ books appear on the bestseller lists of B. Dalton, USA Today, and Waldenbooks.
In 1999, author Wilkins entered in a lawsuit against the BET Publishing company as she sued it for plagiarism. A fan of author Wilkins, who used to work as a librarian, once noticed that a new book, When Love Calls, matched her 1991 book Hotline quite closely. When she brought this case to the notice of author Wilkins, she purchased a copy and examined it thoroughly. It was later found by her that more than 100 pages of the book were directly taken from her original book in part or in whole. The case reached a settlement outside the court in which the BET publishing agreed to call back all the printed copies of the plagiarized book from the booksellers and also agreed not to publish the book in the future. However, neither the author of that book, nor the publisher offered any apology to author Wilkins for their plagiarism. Author Wilkins is now a proud member of the RWA and the Novelists, Inc. She is often called as a guest speaker in schools for speaking on the topics of motivation, goal-setting, and literacy. Wilkins says that she had developed an interest in imagining and writing stories from the time she was very small. She used to scribble in spiral notebooks and write about whatever stories came to her mind at that time. However, she used to feel very shy to share her stories with others. The fact that she was an avid reader of romance stories also helped her developed her writing skills. As a child and an upcoming author, Wilkins loved to read almost all types of books, including adventures, science fiction, romances, thrillers, classics, etc. Wilkins considers herself lucky that she got blessed with a caring and supporting family, and a career that she loves very much.
One of the highly successful book series written by Gina Ferris Wilkins is called as Family Found series. This series is comprised of a total of 17 books, which were released between the years 1993 and 2014. All the books of this series revolve around the Walker siblings, who get orphaned and then separated. As the series proceeds, the siblings are seen coming together and reuniting. The first book of the Family Found novel series is entitled ‘Full of Grace’. It was released by the Silhouette publication in the year 1993. Author Wilkins has described the primary characters in this book as Michelle Trent and Tony D’Allessandro. At the start of the book’s story, it is shown that Michelle Trent is desperate to become aware about her shattered childhood’s truth. She is also desperate to understand the dreams that haunt her every night and that she remembers partly after waking up. For Michelle, her past was very dangerous. And for her, power and wealth are nothing but fate. In order to find about the whereabouts of her family, Michelle Trent hires a private investigator named Tony D’Allessandro. She thinks that she can trust Tony with all her secrets. Shortly after, the two begin to come close and this makes Michelle wonder whether she could trust Tony with her fragile heart the way she trusts him that he will not use her secrets for his own benefits.
The next installment of the series is called ‘Hardworking Man’. It was also released by Silhouette in 1993. This book’s tells the story of the main characters, Jared Walker and Cassie Browning. At the beginning of the story of the book, it is depicted that Jared Walker owns a ranch and works very hard to earn his livelihood. He tends to make sure that he does not require the help of others for his works, not even from his long separated siblings. According to Jared Walker, he was doing pretty much fine along with his son at his ranch and didn’t want the involvement of others. But, a private investigator by the name of Cassie Browning did not seem ready to accept his rejection. She has tracked him down after searching for days and seeing his tough attitude, she seems pretty much determined to teach some lessons even though he does not need any of it. Cassie Browning looks to make him realize how much a man needs a family and how much he requires the presence of a woman in his life. And it is only after a lot of friction between the two that they decide to accept each other in one another’s life and live the rest of their days together as one family.
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