Victoria Alexander

Victoria Alexander is a New York Times bestselling novelist and a former television reporter from the United States, who is known for writing historical romance and fiction novels. She began her professional career as a reporter and after working for several years she discovered her interest in fiction. Eventually, she gave up her television career only become a full time writer of fiction novels and was shocked to find out that it worked for her quite well. Author Victoria was born in the year 1965 in Washington, DC. She wrote and published her first book in the year 1995. Since then, Victoria has written a total of 31 full length books and novellas. One of her books, The Perfect Wife, became number one in the list of the bestselling novels by the NY Times. It was originally released in 1996 and was republished in 2008. As many as 16 of her novels are bestsellers, hitting the USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and NY Times bestseller lists. All of Victoria’s books have been translated into over a dozen foreign languages throughout the world. This has helped author Victoria in reaching out to a vast number of readers all across the globe. Victoria has been nominated for the prestigious RITA Award by the RWA on two occasions. In 2009, she was awarded with the Career Achievement Award and was also labeled as Historical Storyteller. In 2008, Victoria was invited as a keynote speaker at the annual conference of RWA in San Francisco. She likes to give the credit of her successful writing career to the vast amount of experience she gained while working as a journalist. Victoria’s career in broadcast journalism was spent in two different areas of America: West Virginia and Nebraska. In West Virginia, Victoria was employed to cover man-made and natural disasters. There, she covered a number of important events such as journalists held hostage by a Vietnam veteran, accident during the construction of a power plant, coal miners getting trapped inside a mine, etc.