From a young age I could always be found carrying around books to read while watching my grandmother's soap operas with her. I read anything and everything I could get my hands on and even made up skits and stories for my friends and me to act out. Once I outgrew the children's and YA books, my mom introduced me to an entirely new world -contemporary romance. Upon discovering I had a love for history I began devouring historical romances. One day, sitting in a college British History class, something the professor said made me think, I wonder. I quickly called mom (also a writer) and ran the idea by her. After being told, "Of course you can do it, you're my daughter," the rest, as they say, is history.I currently share my love of reading with the next generation as a high school librarian, and share my personal life with my demanding dog trapped in a cat's body, Ajax.In 2017, my novel, The Beast of Yorkshire (Book 1 of Those Scandalous Taggarts), my take on Beauty and the Beast, won the Carolyn Reader's Choice Award Contest for Historical Romance hosted by the North Texas RWA. Find out more about my books by checking out my website: http://www.tammyjoburns.com You can also follow me on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and Google+