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Jamie Beck

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Jamie Beck is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of 18 novels, which have been translated into multiple languages and have sold more than three million copies worldwide. She is a two-time Booksellers' Best Award finalist, a Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR award finalist, a National Readers' Choice Award winner, and critics at Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist have respectively called her work "smart," "uplifting," and "entertaining." In addition to writing novels, she enjoys dancing around the kitchen while cooking and hitting the slopes in Vermont and Utah. Above all, she is a grateful wife and mother to a very patient, supportive family.

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“Most people aren’t living. They’re planning, remembering, or regretting.”
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“Keeping quiet forces other people to do all the talking and all the revealing.”
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Jamie Beck Arlene wrote: "Thank you for the friendship, love reading, "Worth the wait" and now I am reading "In the cards" which I am extremely enjoying reading :-)"

I don't know that I ever saw or replied to this notice. Now it is months later! Sorry. Sometimes I stay away from GR for chunks of time. I love it as a reader, but it can be a little harsh when you see a bad review! LOL Anyway, I appreciate your note and hope you enjoyed ITC as well as WTW. I'm busy writing more books for all my series, so hopefully I can continue to keep you entertained. Thanks for writing!
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Arlene Thank you for the friendship, love reading, "Worth the wait" and now I am reading "In the cards" which I am extremely enjoying reading :-)


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