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Biography
Catherine Bybee is a New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of romance novels. She writes in the romance subgenres of contemporary, historical, paranormal, and at one time erotica. She currently writes for Montlake Romance, an Amazon Publishing Imprint, and self-publishes some works. After graduating high school, Bybee moved to Southern California in hopes of becoming an actress. After growing bored with waiting tables, she returned to school and became a registered nurse, spending most of her career in urban emergency rooms. After a job related injury she began writing full-time. Bybee lives with her two teenage sons in Southern California.
Career
On December 15, 2011, Bybee's breakout novel Wife by Wednesday entered the USA Today Bestsellers list at #35, staying on for seven weeks. On February 12, 2012, Wife by Wednesday entered the New York Times Bestsellers list at #18 for ebook fiction, and on February 26, 2012 was #13 for combined print and ebook. Wife by Wednesday was also the #1 best-selling Kindle Direct Publishing book, and #5 overall best-selling Kindle book, in December 2011. Originally written for Harlequin, but rejected, Wife by Wednesday became one of fifteen other self-published books that landed as Amazon's Kindle top 100 overall for 2012.
The bestselling Weekday Brides series developed from Wife by Wednesday, and was bought by Montlake Romance in September 2012. In April 2012, Montlake also bought Bybee's second contemporary series, The Not Quite Series. Bybee has since sold over two million copies of her work.
Bybee is represented by Jane Dystel of Dystel & Goderich, and has continued to hit the Amazon Top 100 and Wall Street Journal lists with her popular contemporary series.