Barbara Brett's lively and colorful publishing career includes stints as a proofreader for Esquire magazine and as the meat-and-poultry editor of a trade magazine. For several years she was the editor of, consecutively, True Romance and True Confessions magazines, the nation's leading confession publications. During this time, she began writing mainstream novels, and after the publication of two of them, she was named vice president and publisher of Thomas Bouregy & Company, where she oversaw Avalon Books, the company's hardcover fiction line for libraries, and Airmont Classics, its softcover reprints of the classics. Many of the writers she worked with over the years have gone on to great success and even bestsellerdom. In 1993, Barbara left Bouregy to establish her own publishing company, Brett Books, devoted to hardcover inspirational nonfiction. The first book she published was the international bestseller Where Angels Walk by Joan Wester Anderson, which was on The New York Times bestseller list for over a year and has sold over two million copies. She has been interviewed in the media and has lectured on writing and publishing around the country.

Barbara is the author of Between Two Eternities and Love After Hours, originally published by Avon Books, and Sizzle, originally published by Zebra. With her husband, Hy, she wrote the critically acclaimed mystery novel Promises to Keep, originally published by Harper & Row, and a Mystery Guild main selection. Time constraints forced her to give up her writing after first joining Bouregy and later running her own company. No longer willing to make that sacrifice, she has now closed her company to return to what has always been her first love—writing. First on her agenda, however, is joining the e-book revolution with the publication of her earlier novels here on Smashwords.