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As I was perus­ing the web, I stum­bled upon this bit of news about Ms. Ivory that doesn’t sound promis­ing at all. Appar­ently, Ms. Ivory’s been estranged from her agent and no one seems to know how she is doing. No fur­ther projects seem to be forth­com­ing any­time soon either. I’m dis­ap­pointed because Ms. Ivory was an auto-buy author for me. I see that her pub­lisher, Harper­Collins will be releas­ing three books from her back­list in ebook for­mat soon. I’ve read almost her entire back­list with three that still remain in my stock­pile: Black Silk, The Indis­cre­tion (could fin­ish this one) and Angel in a Red Dress (rewrite of her first book, Star­lit Sur­ren­der).

Well, I’ll have to pimp the books that I’ve enjoyed from her and hope that she comes back to pub­lish­ing soon. The first book I read by Ms. Ivory was Beast, a Regency romance that fea­tured one of my favorite themes of May/Dec romance with the hero play­ing a dual role that wasn’t all that believable. However, Ms. Ivory writes romance the way that I like it and that is with strong, scorch­ing chem­istry along with deft char­ac­ter­i­za­tions. She does like to push the enve­lope just a bit, remem­ber that chair scene in Untie My Heart?  Her nov­els are very intel­li­gently writ­ten to me and I always antic­i­pated a new book from her. The only book of hers that I couldn’t fin­ish was The Indis­cre­tion. Since Ms. Ivory is not cur­rently writ­ing I may have to find that title and give it another try. There are only a hand­ful of authors who can write great chem­istry, San­dra Brown, Laura Kin­sale and Judith Ivory. Those three are the best. So, like my title says, Ms. Ivory, your voice in needed in romance! I miss you.

Any­way, here are my list of favorite titles from Ms. Ivory who also wrote her first three books under the name Judy Cuevas.

In order:

  1. Bliss (1995) and out of print
  2. Dance (1996) and out of print
  3. Sleep­ing Beauty (1998)
  4. Beast (1997)
  5. The Propo­si­tion (1999)

Judith Ivory, if you are out there googling your­self, know that you are missed. Peace.

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