AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jacquelin Thomas is an
award winning, best selling author with twenty-five titles in
print. Other credits include contributions to the Women of Color
Devotional Bible and Brides Noir magazine. She won an EMMA award
in 2000 for her novel, Love’s Miracle. Her books have garnered
other awards, including the Romance In Color Reviewers Award,
Readers Choice Award, the Atlanta Choice Award in the Religious
& Spiritual category. Jacquelin had the privilege of being an
honoree at the 2005 Houston Black Film Festival, for the movie
adaptation of her novel, Hidden Blessings. She was the first
recipient to receive the Writers Achievement Award at the North
Carolina Black Book Festival in Winston-Salem.
Although Jacquelin initially published in the romance genre, she
has decided to follow the call on her heart to write
inspirational fiction because she seeks to write books that will
touch your heart and uplift your spirits with tales of
characters who yearn to have an intimate relationship with God.
Because of her commitment to books that glorify God and her
growing teen audience, Jacquelin's first Young Adult novel titled Simply Divine
came out in October 2006.
When asked why she is so passionate about writing teen novels,
Thomas shares that teens are confronted with so much--sex,
drugs, violence and abuse, physically and mentally. They need to
not only listen to what the world says about these things but
also to what the Bible says.
Jacquelin is the founder and producer of the Annual Faith-Based
Arts Conference, a three-day event held in North Carolina, which
is designed to showcase the talents of a wide-ranging spectrum
of gifted authors currently publishing in the
Christian/Inspirational literary arena. She is a member of the
National Writers Union, Romance Writers of America and the
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She is
happily married to her best friend and is the proud mother of
three children. Jacquelin and her family live in North Carolina
where she is an active member of the Wakefield Family Church.
For more information on Jacquelin's young adult novels, please
visit her site:
www.simplydivinebooks.com.
To schedule book signings and/or other appearances, please
contact
jtpublicity@nc.rr.com.