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Kennedy Ryan

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Kennedy Ryan is an American romance novelist whose contemporary stories foreground Black love while engaging themes such as grief, trauma, addiction, and social inequity. Her notable books include Long Shot, Reel, and Before I Let Go. A bestselling author, she has also received major genre recognition, including a RITA Award.

Биография и Путь Автора

Kennedy Ryan emerged as a novelist after a long apprenticeship in language, care work, and advocacy. She has described herself as a child from rural North Carolina who entertained herself by acting out stories on her grandmother’s porch, then carried that instinct into formal study by majoring in journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After college, she moved into technical writing, nonprofit work, and ghostwriting, while family life sharpened her sense of purpose. Her son’s autism diagnosis, followed immediately by her husband’s layoff, became a defining turning point: she kept working for benefits, founded autism-support efforts, and returned to fiction at night. By her early forties, after joining Georgia Romance Writers, she had secured the book deal that made Kennedy Ryan a public literary name. ((https://kennedyryanwrites.com/2013/12/02/dont-mess-with-a-girl-her-mop/))

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Цитаты

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I’ve lived my whole life, it seems, doing things I had to do
-Because I Want To
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I promised myself that any time I was ever in a position to do that for someone else, I would
-Carefully Place Money Where Mouth Is
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In many ways, I was living my dream and neglecting my life
-Life Is But A Dream…Is A Load Of Crap!
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He has been my greatest gift and my greatest challenge
-My Greatest Release…Is not what you think!
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I am beyond excited to be lifting up the incredibly worthy cause of Autism this April!
-LIFT: Authors Raising Autism Awareness
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I write love stories. Unabashedly. Unapologetically
-This Is How You Do It…Or at least how I do it…
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We have some of the best Black and brown writers ever in romance writing right now
-Black Romance Authors and Editors Share Their Passion for Love Stories
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And now it’s feeling like the world is for us. It feels like my own hard-won happily ever after
-Kennedy Ryan's romances are coming for your heartstrings
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We won’t stop asking, we won’t stop demanding, we won’t stop agitating until everybody is represented
-A Historic Night at the Romance Awards

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"Kennedy Ryan is one of the finest romance writers of our age"

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"Kennedy Ryan pours her whole soul into everything she writes"

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"Every time Kennedy Ryan sits down to write a book, she is hunting big game from page one"

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"Kennedy Ryan is one of the most talented writers writing today"

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