I'm a sixth generation Alabamian who writes mainstream romantic suspense for Kensington. I'm also a wife, mother and grandmother. People who know me well will tell you that my family is more important to me than anything in the world. I'm fortunate to have a cousin who is like a sister to me and am blessed with a handful of close friends, whom I refer to as my bosom buddies. I wouldn't know what to do without these great gals who give me encouragement, support, advice, love and lots of laughs.

I was born in Alabama, where my parents lived on my paternal grandmother's ancestral home place, a farm that is still owned by a member of the family. My upbringing was divided between Tuscumbia & Barton, Alabama and Chattanooga, Tennessee. I graduated high school from Chattanooga Central and then attended college at the University of North Alabama. I married young and traveled briefly with my husband, who served in the navy in the mid-to-late sixties. After my husband decided against a military career, we settled back in our home state of Alabama and started a family. I was “in my element” as a stay-at-home mother and I can truthfully say that I've loved every moment of motherhood. I enjoyed my children as babies, as toddlers, grade-schoolers, teenagers and now as adults.

Our children are both adults with successful lives and good marriages. I always wanted four children and when my two kids married fabulous people, I finally got that second daughter and son. We have two handsome, brilliant grandsons, who have brought tremendous joy into our growing-older world, as has our beautiful and brilliant granddaughter, a toddler who is helping us, once again, see the world through a child’s eyes.

I sold my fist book in 1989 and it was released as a July 1990 Silhouette Desire. YANKEE LOVER was set in my hometown of Tuscumbia, Alabama, during the annual Helen Keller Festival. Since that first sale, I've written over seventy books for Silhouette and Kensington. My first mainstream romantic suspense, AFTER DARK, was released in December 2000 under the Zebra imprint for Kensington. In the past twentyyears, I've gone from being one of the “new kids on the block” to one of the “old pros.”

 

 

July 28th - August 1st 2010
Romance Writers of America National Conference

Orlando, Florida
www.rwanational.org for more information

Friday, August 20th
BOOKS-A-MILLION, Reading and Signing, 7:00 PM
1720 Old Fort Parkway, Murfreesboro, TN 38129

Saturday, August 21st
BOOKS-A-MILLION, Reading and Signing, 7:00 PM
1001-7 North Memorial Parkway, Huntsville, AL 35801

Sunday, August 22nd
BOOKS-A-MILLION, Reading and Signing, 7:00 PM
302 Cox Creek Parkway, Florence, AL 35630

Saturday, August 28th
Cold Water Books, Reading & Signing, 2:00 PM
101 W. Sixth St., Tuscumbia, AL 35674
Gift Basket give-away!
Free autographed Beverly Barton book
to the first 25 who purchase a copy of DON'T CRY.

 

 

 

Beverly's Office


Lunch with Rhonda Nelson

Beverly 2010


Beverly Barton,
Linda Winstead Jones and Linda Howard 2008


Beverly with friends Linda Randall Wisdom and Paula Detmer Riggs, San Diego 2009

 



Beverly Barton in Dallas with readers
Elaine Howell and Kay James.

Beverly with Ann Linker and friends at The Book Rack in Memphis.


Beverly with Ann Linker at the May 2009 HOD
Readers Luncheon in Huntsville, Alabama

With friends Linda Howard & Linda Jones

 

Beverly Barton, Linda Winstead Jones, Linda Howard and
The Children, aka members of The Writing Playground.

 

 

 

 

Some of my favorite places

Peggy Webb Writing Playground
Fresh Fiction Diesel eBook Store

 

 

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