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Barbara Brett

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New York, The United States

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http://www.brettbooks.com

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Fiction, Romance, Mystery

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Barbara Brett’s lively and colorful publishing career includes stints as a proofreader for Esquire magazine and as the meat-and-poultry editor of a trade magazine. For several years she was the editor of, consecutively, True Romance and True Confessions magazines, the nation’s leading confession publications. During this time, she began writing mainstream novels, and after the publication of two of them, Between Two Eternities and Love After Hours, she was named vice president and publisher of Thomas Bouregy & Company, where she oversaw the company’s hardcover fiction line for libraries, Avalon Books, and its softcover reprints of the classics, Airmont Classics. In 1993 she left to establish her own publishing company, devoted to hardcover ...more

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Barbara Brett There are many fictional worlds I'd like to take a peek into--Jane Austen's immediately comes to mind and Henry James's. But the one I think I'd feel …moreThere are many fictional worlds I'd like to take a peek into--Jane Austen's immediately comes to mind and Henry James's. But the one I think I'd feel most comfortable in would be the pleasant, quiet English world Barbara Pym creates in her novels. No problem seems so insurmountable that it can't be solved--or at least put to rest--over a nice cup of tea. I'd love to sit with her and her characters and chat over tea and scones in an old Lyon's tea shop.(less)

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What books are on your summer reading list this year?

Barbara Brett Reading time will be limited this summer because I am determined to finish the mystery novel I'm working on. Nevertheless, I'm excited about one book …moreReading time will be limited this summer because I am determined to finish the mystery novel I'm working on. Nevertheless, I'm excited about one book that has just been published, and I am putting it high on my list. It's STORYTIME AT THE VILLA MARIA by Constance Walker. I'm also hoping to read THE MADWOMAN UPSTAIRS by Catherine Lowell and DAY AFTER NIGHT by Anita Diamant. (less)

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Average rating: 4.67 · 12 ratings · 6 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Between Two Eternities 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secret Agenda: Who's Castrating the Wolves of Wall Street? it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Promise to Keep by Hy Brett (Goodreads Author), Barbara Brett (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1981 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sizzle: Where the Boardroom Meets the Bedroom it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sizzle it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1988 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love after Hours 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars