I have two grown children, a daughter-in-law and two gorgeous grand girls! I've been married for thirty-one years to a classic Type A personality who works hard, plays hard, sleeps fast, thinks deeply, and believes that commuting is a form of vehicular combat. With both the hard and soft cover publications, I've resided on Bestseller Lists many times and have nearly twenty million books in print worldwide, with translations in fourteen languages. Since then, I've published First Born, Rightfully Mine, The Wild Rose, True Colors, The Lucky Ones, Out of Nowhere, Before and Again, Shades of Red, and recently The Nest, the first in a series: Country Club Crimes. My first book, Circles, was published in 1984 as a paperback original and stayed on The New York Times Bestseller List for three months. I grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and went to Skidmore College when it was still an all girl's school.īeing a lifelong wordsmith led me to such jobs as writing copy at ad agencies and doing sales promotions at Mademoiselle magazine. My family moved to the East when I was three. 150,000 first printing $150,000 ad/promo author tour.I was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico-before it was chic.

Mortman overwrites shamelessly, but the fevered plotting and colorful cast add up to a fairly satisfying potboiler. Maximillian Richard, the swain who piques her interest, is a mystery man who sweeps her away to Europe one week and ignores her the next. Men swoon at her feet and women clients pack her off to London with dizzying sums to toss at antique dealers. Abetted by Armand Lafitte and a plain-speaking, filthy-rich female friend, Gaby takes New York by storm. Gabrielle Didier, she lands a job at Castleton's, a venerable auction house locked in grim combat with the House of Lafitte, which also deals in expensive antiques. A 38-year-old Ohio housewife cast off by her husband, she makes a duckling-to-swan metamorphosis and plunges into New York society. Readers able to suspend belief through innumerable baroque plot twists will relish heroine Gaby Cocroft. Child abuse, a Nazi collaborator, diamond smugglers, to-the-death rivalries and lost antique tapestries are a few of the ingredients Mortman ( First Born and Circles ) packs into this high-gloss novel.

Rightfully mine doris mortman