Read more about Ally in her PRESS RELEASE.

Winner 2008 RomanticTimes BOOKclub Reviewers' Choice

Harlequin Romance Authors

Ally Blake was born in Millmerran a small town in the-middle-of-nowhere, Queensland, Australia. She graduated from St Peters Secondary College in Brisbane, duxing Theatre. 

During her years spent studying for her Bachelor of Arts with a double English major at the University of Queensland, Ally also danced in front of up to 50,000 people per game as a cheerleader for the Brisbane Broncos football team.  In her third year she became cheer captain.  She cheered for the Gold Coast Rollers basketball team and on The Footy Show, a weekly television program all about rugby league.  During this time she travelled to Santa Barbara, California to take part in a cheerleading camp and her squad won the much coveted Spirit Award at the culmination of the camp.

After realising she had spent enough years with a leotard as her work uniform, Ally set to finding a different career.

In early 2003 Ally sold her first book, THE WEDDING WISH, a short romantic comedy, to Harlequin Mills and Boon.  This book was nominated by industry magazine Romantic Times reviewers in North America as Best First Series Romance of 2004.

Since becoming published, Ally has given talks at writers conferences, libraries and literary festivals around Australia regarding The Secrets of Newly Published Sisterhood, being Sassy in the City (how to sell a contemporary romance with an Australian bent), and The Changing Face of Contemporary Romance.

Ally has written several articles giving tips to aspiring romance authors, was interviewed for the TV program A Current Affair, Brisbane Extra, for glossy magazine New Idea, and in 2009 for Style Magazine, Notebook Magazine, and Writing Magazine.  She has appeared on Mix101's Breakfast Show, ABC Talkback radio and many other media outlets.

Ally has now been published in over thirty international markets with almost 1.5 million books sold worldwide and has sold eighteen fun, flirty, romantic novels.  Ally has been named Reviewers' Choice winner of Best Harlequin Romance Novel at CataRomance.com four times, and was nominated in 2007 for the prestigious HOLT MEDALLION for MEANT-TO-BE MOTHER and in 2008 by Booksellers and Librarians across the United States for the Booksellers Best Award for MILLIONAIRE TO THE RESCUE.

She also writes sexy, sassy books for the Modern Heat line edited out of the United Kingdom.  those same novels have appeared as Harlequin Presents in North America and Sexy Sensation novels in Australia and New Zealand.  In 2009 prestigious industry magazine Romantic Times BOOKClub's reviewers named THE MAGNATE'S INDECENT PROPOSAL the Best Harlequin Presents novel of 2008.

Ally enjoyed designing her own website so much she has branched out to create others including the websites for romance authors Liz Fielding, Lucy Gordon, Barbara Hannay and Natasha Oakley, and for the TV comedy game show Hot Dog With the Lot.

including 'HOW TO MARRY A BILLIONAIRE' and

DATING THE REBEL TYCOON

GETTING RED-HOT WITH THE ROGUE

Sexy Sensation, Aus/NZ, September 09