CHARLOTTE BOYETT~COMPO

Charlee is the author of over eighty books, the first nine of which are the WindLegend Saga which began with THE WINDKEEPER. After nearly 43 years of marriage to her high school sweetheart, Tom, she became a widow on April 18, 2009. She is the mother of two grown sons, Pete and Mike, and the proud grandmother of Preston Alexander and Victoria Ashley. She is the willing houseslave to nine demanding felines who are holding her hostage in her home and only allowing her to leave in order to purchase food for them. A native of Sarasota, Florida, she grew up in Colquitt and Albany, Georgia and now lives in the Midwest.

She won Inscription Magazine's 2000 Engraver Award for Favorite E-Author and The Writecharm's Simply Charming Award for promoting e-books and their authors worldwide. Her sci-fi/futuristic novel, BLOODWIND, stayed on Dark Star Publications bestseller list for over 18 months and has now been released in paperback. It was named as one of the Best Books of 1999 at eBook Connections as was her dark historical, IN THE WIND'S EYE. Her psychological thriller, IN THE HEART OF THE WIND, was nominated for a 2000 R.I.O Award and has been named as one of the Best Books of 2000 at Inscriptions and was awarded a Reviewer's Choice Award at Scribe's World. It also the 2004 Bloody Dagger Award for mystery/thrillers. BLACKWIND won the SF/Fantasy Top Choice at Preditors and Editors for 2002. It also carries the distinction as of this update (02/07/09) as being the most expensive book ever offered by Amazon as the seller at $99,999.99--marked down to $72,999.99--because that version is out of print and therefore a Collector's Item. Note: the novel was re-released by Cerridwen Press as two novels, BLACKWIND: SEAN AND BRONWYN & BLACKWIND: VIRAIDAN AND BRONWYN. In 2002, IN THE HEART OF THE WIND won the Bloody Dagger Award in mystery/thriller and NIGHTWIND won the Bloody Dagger Award for horror. Both WINDREAPER and BLACKWIND won Awards for Excellence from WordWeaving. In 2003, BLOODWIND was one of the Top Five Bestsellers at Hard Shell Word Factory and was consistently in the top 25 of Fictionwise's list of dark fantasy bestselling novels along with DARKWIND and NIGHTWIND. PRINCE OF THE WIND was honored with the 2003 CAPA (cupid and Psyche Award) for Best Paranormal Romance. Both BLACKWIND AND BLOODWIND were in the Top Five Dark Fantasy Bestsellers for 2003 at Fictionwise. DARKWIND was honored with a Top Ten in SF/Fantasy at Preditors and Editors. BLACKWIND won the #2 Top Choice from readers at Amber Quill Press for 2003. In 2004, her website was awarded An Author's Site of Excellence by Preditors & Editors. In 2005, her erotica novel, DESIRE'S SIROCCO, was chosen as the Best eBook Romance of 2004 by The Historical Romance Club. In 2005, her dark fantasy PRISONERS OF THE WIND was awarded the Just Erotic Romance Reviews Gold Star Award. It also won the Blue Ribbon Award from Romance Junkies. Also in 2005, the anthology FATED MATES 1, was nominated for Reviewer's Choice for best paranormal erotic romance from Romantic Times Booklovers Magazine. In 2006, three of her works were nominated for RIO (Reviewers International Organization): BLOODWIND (which was also award the League of Amazing Writer's Uber Award), DARKWIND, and from the DREAMS OF THE OASIS IV anthology, the short story, The Sting of the Wind. Also nominated for the prestigious Ecataromance Reviewers Choice awards in 2006 were: WINDWEEPER, WINDHEALER, SHADOWLORD, DESERT WIND, PHANTOM OF THE WIND, ARDOR'S LEVECHE, and SHADES OF THE WIND. PHANTOM OF THE WIND was awarded the first annual FANTASM AWARD for Best Futuristic Romance in 2006. In 2007, THE PHANTOM OF THE WIND won the Fantasm Award and BLOODWIND received the coveted Perfect 10 Award from Romance Readers Today. In 2008, she earned her eighth and ninth Fallen Angels Recommended Read awards for GHOST WIND and MY REAPER'S DAUGHTER and was chosen the first recipient by popular of The Romance Studio's Studio Diva. Also in 2008, DANCING ON THE WIND was nominated for a CAPA award.

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Snail Mail: Charlee Compo P.O. Box 745 Grinnell, IA 50112-0745

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