She never gave up and continued working hard and learning the art of writing until the editors and readers finally appreciated her work. It may seem delusional to anyone not built to be so persistent but it worked for Debbie. It was this event that rekindled her love for writing and she started writing a lot more, garnering more than three hundred rejections from agents during the first two years. In the years that followed she withdrew from anything to do with writing for a few more years until she was convinced to go to a local library where some author was speaking. However, she was still optimistic about becoming a professional author. While it was not a dream job it sparked her interest in psychology and crime and probably led her down the path of writing crime and suspense fiction.ĭuring her time working in corrections, she stopped writing for years except for a little poetry that she submitted to a publishing house which went nowhere. She remembers sitting in death row/segregation unit and listening to women laughing about how they killed their spouses and thinking about how she ended up in corrections. However, while she has never expected to work as a corrections officer, she developed a fascination for the job. Debbie worked in the women’s and men’s prisons for three years before she was promoted to the public relations department. She applied for a job with the state prison and though the process required a firearms test and rigorous physical agility test, she surprised herself by passing. While she had always dreamed of becoming an author, she had no money that would have allowed her to sit at home and write professionally. Upon graduating from college in 1979, she got married and moved to Alabama where she had very limited choices. Growing up, Debbie was a bookworm and as a teen spent much of her time reading angst-filled poems. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America Georgia chapter and was a Maggie Award finalist for both Paranormal and Young Adult Romance categories. She went to Berry College in Georgia where she got a bachelor’s in English and then proceeded to the University of Alabama for her masters in Library studies. Debbie has two grown sons, the oldest is autistic which means she sometimes includes characters with autism in her novels. She is a big fan of the Crimson Tide football team.
She is currently married and lives with her husband in Alabama. Herbert publishes her novels through Harlequin and Thomas & Mercer as well as independently. She has said that she has always had a fascination for Gothic and romance stories with some magic in them. Debbie Herbert is a Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestselling author of paranormal, romantic suspense and psychological suspense novels.
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