Alice Orr is an American author best known for romantic suspense novels, writing instruction, and her long career in the publishing industry as an editor, literary agent, and workshop leader. She was born in Watertown, New York, USA, on December 26.

She later retired from agenting and concentrated on writing fiction and teaching writers about publishing. She has written for the Harlequin Intrigue line and later independently published the Riverton Road Romantic Suspense series and other works.

Career Highlights
Former editor and literary agent.
Published multiple novels for Harlequin Intrigue during the 1980s and 1990s.
Author of the nonfiction guide No More Rejections: 50 Secrets to Writing a Manuscript That Sells.
Later became an independent publisher of her own novels and memoir.

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Books by Alice Orr:

Harlequin Intrigue novels

1986 – Sabotage
1991 – Past Sins
1993 – Cold Summer
1994 – Camp Fear
1995 – Key West Heat
1996 – Manhattan Heat
1996 – Protect Me, Love (My Bodyguard series)
1998 – Heat of Passion
1998 – Dear Santa

Riverton Road Romantic Suspense series

2015 – A Wrong Way Home
2015 – A Year of Summer Shadows (novella)
2015 – A Vacancy at the Inn
2016 – A Villain for Vanessa
2017 – A Time of Fear & Loving

Nonfiction

No More Rejections: 50 Secrets to Writing a Manuscript That Sells (2004)

Memoir

Lifted to the Light: A Story of Struggle and Kindness (2014)

Novellas

A Year of Summer Shadows (Riverton Road novella)

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Collectible Books Values

Harlequin Intrigue first editions – $2–10
Fine/unread Harlequin copies – $10–25
Signed Harlequin copies – $20–50
No More Rejections (hardcover) – $8–30
Lifted to the Light – $8–25
Riverton Road paperbacks – $5–20
Signed Riverton Road editions – $20–40