Wendy Wax

I was born in St. Petersburg, Florida and grew up on one of the most beautiful stretches of beach in the world.

From childhood, books have been my passion. It was during an annual reading of GONE WITH THE WIND that I decided to attend the University of Georgia and it was there, as a budding journalism major, that I discovered radio and began my broadcasting career. I also studied in Italy, and have a BA in Mass Communications from the University of South Florida.

After graduation, I worked for Tampa’s PBS affiliate as a writer, producer, and on-camera talent. After leaving WEDU-TV to freelance, I hosted a radio call-in show called, Desperate & Dateless, did commercial voiceovers, and worked on commercials and feature films shot throughout Florida. The Home Front , a series I hosted and produced, aired on PBS affiliates across the country.

During this time, I flew to New York on business and accidentally met my husband — also there on business — on the Carey Bus leaving JFK. We've been married for seventeen years and have two boys: Kevin, eleven and Drew, nine.

Despite my love of books, it wasn't until my oldest child was almost two that it occurred to me to try writing fiction. It took a while, given a toddler and then a newborn, but my first short contemporary romance was published in 1997 and my second came out in 1999.

7 DAYS AND 7 NIGHTS, a romantic comedy about two radio talk show hosts (one of each sex) whose growing rivalry gets them locked in an apartment for a week as part of a publicity stunt, is my first for Bantam Books. It’s due out in stores July 1.