Media Introduction

USA Today bestselling author Tamera Alexander is one of today's most popular writers of inspirational historical romance. Her novels continue to garner reader loyalty around the world, with her most recent, Colors of Truth, hitting both the US Amazon and the Netherlands bestsellers list right out of the gate. Her novels have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on best-seller lists—including ECPA Bestsellers, the #1 CBA Bestseller spot for historical fiction, and #1 Amazon Bestsellers in Historical Christian Fiction.

Tamera has garnered four Christy Awards and was inducted into the Christy Award Hall of Fame in 2020, which is the highest honor awarded Christian fiction. She's a two-time recipient of the coveted Carol Award bestowed by American Christian Fiction Writers, a national organization dedicated to equipping writers with a Christian world view. She's also a two-time winner (and six-time finalist) of the RITA Award—the top award in the romance genre awarded by Romance Writers of America.

A Christy Award Hall of Fame author, Tamera seeks to draw closer to Christ through her writing and is thrilled when readers share that, through reading one of her novels, they’ve taken steps closer to Him as well. Tamera lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband, not far from the Southern mansions that serve as the backdrop for many of her critically-acclaimed novels.

A reviewer from USA Today wrote about one of the Belmont Mansion novels, "To put it simply: This book is a full-on HIT!" (about A Lasting Impression )

Publishers Weekly raves that "Thanks to Tamera Alexander's vivid writing, one can almost hear the music resonating off of the page." (about A Note Yet Unsung )

Short Bio

Tamera Alexander is a USA Today bestselling novelist and one of today's most beloved authors of inspirational historical romance. Her works have been awarded numerous industry-leading honors—among them the Christy Award, the RITA Award, the Carol Award, Library Journal's top honors—and have earned the distinction of Publisher's Weekly Starred Reviews. Her deeply drawn characters and thought-provoking plots have earned her devoted readers worldwide, including Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, and Romania.

Tamera and her husband reside in Nashville, Tennessee, where they live a short distance from Nashville's Belmont Mansion and Belle Meade Plantation, and Carnton—the settings of Tamera’s #1 CBA bestselling Southern series.

Her newest series, The Carnton Novels, launched in fall 2017 with Christmas at Carnton, which was an instant ECPA Bestseller. Christmas at Carnton, a novella, is set in Franklin, Tennessee at historic Carnton. With This Pledge quickly followed in that series as #1 Amazon bestseller, an ECPA bestseller, and garnered a coveted Christy Award as well, which (being Tamera's 4th win) ushered her into the Christy Award Hall of Fame.

Colors of Truth, the second full length Carnton novel, had a bumpy road to publication when Tamera's publisher cancelled the novel after she objected to rewriting real history. Tamera released the novel as an indie in October 2020 and it became an instant #1 Amazon Bestseller in Historical Christian Fiction —as well as another reader favorite.

Long Bio

Tamera Alexander is the USA Today bestselling author of Rekindled, Revealed and Remembered, the critically acclaimed Fountain Creek Chronicles historical series. Her second historical series, Timber Ridge Reflections (From a Distance, Beyond This Moment, and Within My Heart) continue her signature style of deeply drawn characters, thought-provoking plots, and poignant prose which has earned her devoted readers worldwide—and multiple industry awards.

Her critically-acclaimed Southern Mansion novels—the Belmont Mansion series, the Belle Meade Plantation series, and The Carnton Novels—are continuing that beloved tradition.

Her books have been honored with four Christy Awards for Excellence in Christian Fiction (she's an eleven-time finalist) and have twice earned the distinction of the RITA Award for Best Inspirational Romance (Tamera is a six-time finalist).

Her novels have won two Carol Awards, the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, the Golden Quill Award, the HOLT Medallion, the Bookseller’s Best Award, the National Reader's Choice Award, and Library Journal’s Top Christian Fiction, among others. Tamera's books have been translated into Dutch, German, Polish, Romanian, Slovakian, and Portuguese.

Tamera lives with her husband in Nashville, Tennessee, not far from the Southern mansions that serve as the backdrop for many of her critically-acclaimed novels.

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Press Kit

If you would like a press kit or need a review copy for the Belle Meade Plantation novels, Carnton novels, or The Inheritance, please contact the Harper Collins marketing team via the appropriate contact box below.

If you would like a press kit or need a review copy for the Belmont Mansion novels, Timber Ridge Reflections, or Fountain Creek Chronicles, please contact the Bethany House Publishers marketing team via the appropriate contact box below.

Tamera's book information

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Each book within Tamera's series are "standalone novels." Meaning that even though the characters in one story may make an appearance in another, each book is a complete and satisfying read. The stories can be read "out of order" and still be enjoyed.

But if you're going to read all the books in a series, then reading books 1, then 2, then 3 is best!

Belle Meade Plantation novels

To Whisper Her Name
Belle Meade Plantation Novels, Book 1
USA Today Bestseller
Debuted on CBA and ECPA Bestseller Lists

Acclaim for To Whisper Her Name

To Win Her Favor
Belle Meade Plantation Novels, Book 2
Debuted on CBA and ECPA Bestseller Lists

2016 AudiAward Best Inspirational

2016 Christy Award finalist

Named Top 15 Novels of 2015

Acclaim for To Win Her Favor

To Wager Her Heart

Belle Meade Plantation novels, book 3

ECPA Bestseller

2018 Christy Award finalist

Acclaim for To Wager Her Heart

To Mend a Dream (novella)
the award-winning Belle Meade Plantation eBook novella which is included in the print novella collection of Among the Fair Magnolias

2016 Booksellers Best Award for Best Novella

Acclaim for To Mend a Dream

Belmont Mansion novels

A La sting Impression
Belmont Mansion Novels, Book 1
CBA and ECPA Bestseller
2012 Christy Award finalist

Acclaim for A Lasting Impression

USA Today Review
Interview with WBCL
Visit the Belmont Mansion novels page

A Beauty So Rare
Belmont Mansion Novels, Book 2
2015 Christy Award finalist
2015 Maggie Award finalist

Acclaim for A Beauty So Rare

A Note Yet Unsung
Belmont Mansion Novels, Book 3
Publishers Weekly Starred Review

#1 CBA Bestseller

2017 Christy Award WINNER

2018 Carol Award WINNER

2018 RITA Award finalist

Acclaim for A Note Yet Unsung

Timber Ridge Reflections novels

From a Distance
Timber Ridge Reflections, Book 1
2009 Christy Award WINNER

Acclaim for From a Distance

Beyond This Moment
Timber Ridge Reflections, Book 2
CBA and ECPA Bestseller
2010 Christy Award finalist

Acclaim for Beyond This Moment
Press Release

Within My Heart
Timber Ridge Reflections, Book 3
ECPA Bestseller
2011 Christy Award finalist
2011 RITA Award Finalist
2011 Booksellers Best Award Winner
2011 Golden Quill Award Winner

Acclaim for Within My Heart

Tamera's Memberships and Associations

Tamera's books with Bethany House Publishers
The Belmont Mansion novels — A Lasting Impression, A Beauty So Rare, A Note Yet Unsung

Fountain Creek Chronicles —Rekindled, Revealed, Remembered
Timber Ridge Reflections — From a Distance, Beyond This Moment, Within My Heart
Amy Lokkesmoe, Public Relations Director, Bethany House Publishers

Tamera's books with Harper Collins Christian Publishing (Zondervan/Thomas Nelson)

The Carnton novels — Christmas at Carnton (a novella), With This Pledge (January 2019)

The Belle Meade Plantation novels — To Whisper Her Name, To Win Her Favor, To Wager Her Heart

To Mend a Dream, a Belle Meade novella

Among the Fair Magnolias, Four Southern Love Stories (that includes To Mend a Dream)

The Inheritance (standalone novel)
Kerri Potts, Marketing, Harper Collins Christian Publishing

Tamera's books with

Fountain Creek Press

Colors of Truth, a Carnton novel book 2 (October 6, 2020)
Carnton book 3, coming Summer 2021

Tamera's Dutch Publisher
Uitgeverij Van Wijnen
Albert R.T. de Vos, Director, Editorial Department

Tamera's German Publisher
Francke
Anne-Ruth Meiss, Director, Editorial Department

Tamera's Slovakian Publisher
i527.net
Martin Svikruha, CEO

Poland, Portuguese, and Romania contacts added soon

Inspired by Life…and Fiction
Group blog with nine other writers

(Tamera blogs 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month)

American Christian Fiction Writers

Faith, Hope and Love (Inspirational Chapter of Romance Writers of America)

Press / Media

Media Introduction

Short Bio

Long Bio

Four-time Christy Award Winner and Hall of Fame Inductee

Two-time Carol Award Winner

Two-time Rita Award Winner

Market News

Featured in The Tennessean

#1 Amazon Bestseller & Christy Award Winner

Join Tamera at a recent speaking event in Garland, Texas

Publisher's Weekly February 2019

ECPA Bestsellers February 2019

Southern Writers Magazine

Franklin Lifestyle

Featured in Southern Lady Magazine

Featured in Nashville A&E

Connect with Tamera, her Publishers, and her Agent

Schedule an interview

Press Kit

Contact Harper Collins Marketing Team

Contact Bethany House Marketing Team

Contact Natasha Kern Literary Agency

Videos

Welcome to Belle Meade Plantation

Trailer for To Whisper Her Name

Facebook Live Chats

Interviews

Tamera's book information

The Carnton Novels

Belle Meade Plantation novels

Belmont Mansion novels

Timber Ridge Reflections novels

Stand-alone novel

Fountain Creek Chronicles novels

Tamera's author photos

Tamera's Memberships and Associations