Ally Blake

Ally Blake was born in a small town in Outback Queensland, Australia. She graduated from St Peters Lutheran College in Brisbane. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Queensland, with a double English major.

She was a cheerleader for both the Brisbane Broncos football team and the Gold Coast Rollers basketball teams. She was a contracted dancer on The Footy Show for Channel Nine in Brisbane. For two years, she was the secretary of the Queensland branch of the Australian Cinematographers Society.

Ally married in Las Vegas in 2000, and since then has lived in both Melbourne and Brisbane. She and her husband have three children.

In 2003, Ally's first romance novel, The Wedding Wish, was published by Harlequin Mills & Boon. This book was nominated by industry magazine Romantic Times as Best First Series Romance of 2004. Since that time she has sold 16 novels, both for the Harlequin Romance and Modern Heat imprints. In 2007 she was nominated for the reader judged HOLT (Honoring Outstanding Literary Talent) Medallion for Best Traditional Romance published in 2006.

Ally has now sold over four million books worldwide in over twenty-five countries. She has hosted courses at public libraries and romance writing conventions and has appeared in the print media and on A Current Affair. She also designs romance author websites including those for award winners Liz Fielding, Lucy Gordon and Trish Wylie as well as her own

• Official website