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If you'd like an advance quote on your book for promotional purposes, please contact -

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University Place, WA 98466

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Ally's Booklist

- BILLIONAIRE ON HER DOORSTEP
- GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
- MEANT-TO-BE MOTHER
- A MOTHER FOR HIS DAUGHTER
- HOW TO MARRY A BILLIONAIRE
- WANTED: OUTBACK WIFE
- THE SHOCK ENGAGEMENT
- MARRIAGE MAKEOVER
- MARRIAGE MATERIAL
- THE WEDDING WISH
- THE BARRACKERS ARE SHOUTING

Ally Blake

Ally Blake was born in Millmerran a small town in the-middle-of-nowhere, Queensland. She graduated from St Peters Secondary College in Brisbane, duxing Theatre.  She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Queensland, with a double English major.

Whilst at University Ally worked many odd jobs including dental assisting, as a subject of scientific experiments, and tutoring kids not much younger than herself in mathematics.

Ally also danced in front of up to 50,000 people per game as a cheerleader for the Brisbane Broncos football team. She cheered for the Gold Coast Rollers basketball team and on The Footy Show , a weekly television program all about rugby league. During this time she traveled to Santa Barbara, California to take part in a cheerleading camp and her squad won the much coveted Spirit Award at the culmination of the camp.

During this time Ally also acted in TV ads, in short films and after meeting her future husband at a community television station went on to become production manager his first feature film, Vote For Eddy. For two years she was the secretary of the Queensland branch of the Australian Cinematographers Society. In this role she helped organise award dinners, as well as professional outings to Warner Bros Studios on the Gold Coast and she wrote numerous articles for the ACS Magazine about the functions she attended.

In early 2003 Ally sold her first book, THE WEDDING WISH a short romantic comedy, to Harlequin Mills and Boon. This book was nominated by industry magazine Romantic Times reviewers as Best First Series Romance of 2004.

Since becoming published, Ally has given talks at writers conferences regarding The Secrets of Newly Published Sisterhood, being Sassy in the City (how to sell a contemporary romance with an Australian bent) and The Changing Face of Contemporary Romance. She has also twice MC'd the Romance Writers of Australia awards dinner. Ally has written several articles giving tips to aspiring romance authors.

Ally has been published in over ten languages with nearly 500,000 books sold worldwide. She has now sold a dozen fun, flirty, romantic novels for the Harlequin Romance line. Last year, Ally swept the prize pool at CataRomance.com with her fifth book, A MOTHER FOR HIS DAUGHTER, winning the Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Tender Romance for the first half of 2005 and her sixth, THE SHOCK ENGAGEMENT, winning Best Tender Romance for the second half of 2005.

She recently sold her first book to the new Modern Extra Sensual line; a sexy, sassy office romance entitled GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS which will hit shelves in the UK in April 2007.

WANTED: OUTBACK WIFE

Harlequin Romance
October 2006
ISBN: 0373039166

Londoner Jodie Simpson needs to land a Melbourne husband - and quick. But can she and her friends pull this off with only six weeks until her working visa runs out?

Suddenly this shy British girl finds herself with a line up of males willing to be the other half of her two year marriage deal. There's her neighbour Scott, who has a penchant for mesh shirts, Barnaby the visual merchandiser whose favourite gay bar is just around the corner from her apartment, or the funeral director with the gravity defying Adam's apple.

Of course, even though he lives miles from her adopted city, has more brothers and sisters than she has family in the whole world, and he makes her feel like this project could last more than the allotted two years, there is always Heath Jameson...