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Deborah Smith

Pseudonym for Jackie Leigh.

http://www.deborah-smith.com/

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.