![]() ![]() (Add Mary Balogh to the mix, and the confusion grew exponentially!) Her full name was actually Mary Josephine (mine is Mary Jo), and I’m grateful that she went by Jo, because we were confused often enough as it was! I would graciously accept compliments on my Rogue books, pointing out that they were actually Jo’s Rogues. In fact, my first book was published the month before Jo’s first book, which pleased Melinda Helfer, the Regency reviewer for Romantic Times Magazine, because that way she could give each of us her Best New Regency Author award for two different years. ![]() She and I were friends for almost 30 years, and our careers have always tracked very closely. There was no one quite like Jo, with her calm English good sense and quiet warmth and dry wit, not to mention her taste for port wine and very dark chocolate. Oh, my gosh, does that make me sad to hear.įrom Mary Jo Putney’s post on Word Wenches, which is a beautiful tribute from all her Word Wench sisters: The Word Wenches announced this evening that historical romance master Jo Beverley has died. ![]()
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