Georgina Gentry is the pen name of a petite, blue-eyed blonde born and reared in central Oklahoma. She says she is a Virgo, left-handed, likes to garden and collect antiques. The former Ford Foundation school marm met her mixed-blood Irish-Indian husband when they were both students at Oklahoma State University. The couple have three grown children and seven grandchildren. They live on a small lake in central Oklahoma where Georgina can watch through her big office window as the Canadian geese and wild ducks swim on the lake.

She belongs to numerous writing and historical organizations and is related by marriage to the former Director of the Bureau Of Indian Affairs in Washington D.C., which gives her an advantage, she says, in researching various Indian tribes. Known for the accuracy of her research, Georgina tries to walk the ground of every location she writes about.

Often a speaker at writers' conferences, Georgina is usually on the best-seller lists with her books and has won numerous honors. Among them are two Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Awards, one for Indian romance, the other for Western romance. She has won two Gold Awards and two Silver Pen awards from Affaire de Couer Magazine and made their list of Readers' Top Ten Favorite Romance Authors.

Romantic Times book reviewer, Kathe Robin placed one of Georgina's novels: Cheyenne Captive, on her list of the best Western/Indian Romances of All Time. In addition, Georgina has won the Romantic Times Best Western Romance
Of the Year two out of the last three years with To Tame A Savage and To Tame A Texan. Now she has moved away from Indian romance for awhile to write light-hearted, funny Westerns that have been so popular with readers, Zebra Books has just signed her to a new three book contract.

Here are the answers to the questions most often asked:

Question: How did you get started in this business?
I was working on a Master's degree and took a class called "Writing the
Historical Romance" from veteran author Sara Orwig. I sold the book I wrote
in that class, Cheyenne Captive, and dropped out of the Master's program to
become a full-time writer. Captive launched the new Zebra Heartfire line in
February, 1987.

Question: Is it true all your Zebra books connect in some way?
Yes, it is. I call it "The Panorama of the Old West." The idea is that by
using friends, relatives, enemies and acquaintances of the characters, I can
tell much of the history of the old West during the period of about 1850 to
1900.

Question: So how many books are there in the Panorama so far?
At the moment, there are twenty-five and two novelettes in anthologies. I
expect to spend the rest of my life writing the Panorama because it's
challenging and as a history buff, I find it interesting.

Question: I don't have a complete collection of the Panorama; how can I
complete my collection?
The series began with Cheyenne Captive in 1987 and has continued for the
past eighteen years. Unfortunately, the earliest ones are out of print and
can only be found in used bookstores or on the internet. Those copies
sometimes bring outrageous prices and I can't control that nor do I get a
penny of that money. The bright spot is that the Chief Editor at Zebra
(Kensington Publishing) says that when she logs enough requests for a title
from readers, she will reprint that book. Still available as of January,
2005 in many book stores were these reprinted titles: Cheyenne Song,
Comanche Cowboy, Eternal Outlaw, Apache Tears, Warrior's Honor, Warrior's
Heart, To Tame A Savage, and To Tempt A Texan.

Question: Can I order past books from you or Zebra?
Sorry, I don't have extra copies of most of the titles and Zebra no longer
does mail order except their monthly book clubs. If you have a book store
that sells new books in your area, they can check their computers for my
books and tell you what's still available and special order it for you.

Question: I came in somewhere in the middle of the series; will I be
confused if I haven't read the earlier ones?
No, because each book was written to stand alone. In fact, some readers
read several of my books before they realize they all connection.

Question: What if I wait to collect them all, put them in order and then
start reading?
Unlike other authors' sequels, the Panorama will only end with my death or
when I quit writing, so you will never collect them all. Even if you have
a complete collection as of now, which is rare, the stories are written out
of sequence so that the story line seldom follows the publication date. For
instance, so far, the first story of the series, Warrior's Honor, was
actually the twentieth book published. Plus I am always going back in time
and squeezing in another story, so it's diffiicult to keep ahead of me. I
generally write one book a year that comes out early in the spring.

Question: Would you be willing to read my manuscript? I am hoping to be
published.
I'm sorry, butI because I write full-time, I don't have the time and I don't
consider that I'm a good judge of other people's work anyway. If you are
writing romance, you should call the Romance Writers of America in Houston,
Texas, and talk to them about joining. They accept unpublished writers and
it and its magazine will be a great help to you. They will also be able to
tell you if there is a RWA chapter meeting in your area. Your public library
may have some "how to" books on writing. Look under "authorship." Also,
there are magazines for writers in big book stores: Look for: The Writer,
Writers' Digest, and Romantic Times Book Club Magazine.

Question: Have you written for anyone except Zebra?
In 1991, I did two novelettes for Topaz Books. One collection was called:
The Topaz Man Presents: A Dream Come True, the other was called: Topaz Man
Presents: Secrets of The Heart.

Question: When will your next stories be in stores?
To Tease A Texan will be in stores in March, 2006. It's the story of Lark,
the twin sister of Lacey, the girl you met in my last book, To Tempt A
Texan. Also, at the same time, I'll have a novelette in a collection
called: My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys. You met that hero, Comanche
Jones, as a minor charactor in my earlier book, To Tame A Texan.

Question: So what are you working on now?
I've just signed a new contract with Zebra to do three books that will
probably come out in 2007, 2008, 2009. They will be funny Western romances.
At the moment, I plan to call them: Texas Lily, Texas Rose, and Texas
Bluebonnet. Remember publication dates and titles are always subject to
change. I hope you enjoy all three.

Question: Finally, will you please tell us the sequence the Panorama of the
Old West was printed in?
Beginning in 1987, the books were published over a nineteen year span in
this order:

Cheyenne Captive
Cheyenne Princess
Comanche Cowboy
Bandit's Embrace
Nevada Nights
Quicksilver Passion
Cheyenne Caress
Apache Caress
Christmas Rendezvous (this was an antholgy featuring my novelette, Cheyenne
Mistletoe.)
Sioux Slave
Half-Breed's Bride
Nevada Dawn
Cheyenne Splendor
Song of the Warrior
Timeless Warrior
Warrior's Prize
Cheyenne Song
Eternal Outlaw
Apache Tears
Warrior's Honor
Warrior's Heart
To Tame A Savage
To Tame A Texan
To Tame A Rebel
To Tempt a Texan
To Tease A Texan (coming in March, 2006)
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (anthology coming in March, 2006)

However, if you are trying to read them in proper order by the year the
action takes place, they would be correctly lined up like this:

Warrior's Honor 1857
Talako and Lusa (A schoolmate of Summer Van Schuyler's)

Cheyenne Captive 1858
Iron Knife and Summer Van Schuyler

Nevada Nights March, 1860
Dallas Durango and Quint Randolph

Quicksilver Passion March, 1861
Silver Jones and Cherokee Evans (he's a friend of Quint Randolph's)

To Tame A Rebel October, 1861
Two heroes:Yellow Jacket & Jim Eagle, (friends of Talako's & fellow scouts)
,& two heroines, Twilight Dumont, & April Grant, a schoolmate of Summer
Van Schuyler's.

Warrior's Heart June, 1862
Rider, a gunfighter trained by Trace Durango & Emma Trent, the girl raped by
Angry Wolf in Cheyenne Captive

Cheyenne Princess September, 1864
Cimarron, (Iron Knife's sister) and Trace Durango

Cheyenne Splendor November, 1864
Summer, Iron Knife & their children in a direct sequel to Cheyenne Captive

Half-Breed's Bride March, 1865
Sassy Malone (Sassy used to work as a maid in Summer Van Schuyler's home) &
Hunter

Sioux Slave 1868
Kimi & Rand (Randolph Erickson. Rand is a cousin on his mother's side to
Quint Randolph)

To Tame A Savage 1868
Austin Shaw (Summer Van Schuyler's former fiance & Wiwila. Also, their son
Colt, & Samantha MacGregor)

Cheyenne Caress 1869
Luci & Johnny Ace (son of Bear's Eyes, Iron Knife's Pawnee enemy)

Timeless Warrior 1873
Blossom Murdock & Terry (brother of Johnhny Ace)

Bandit's Embrace April, 1873
Amethyst Durango (a Mexican cousin to the Texas Durangos & Bandit)

Comanche Cowboy 1874
Cayenne McBride & Maverick,( Trace Durango's adopted brother)

Song of the Warrior 1877
Willow & Bear (Iron Knife once saved this Nez Perce warrior's life)

Cheyenne Song 1878
Glory Halstead & Two Arrows (Iron Knife's cousin)

Warrior's Prize 1879
A direct sequel to Quicksilver Passion, the characters are Wannie & Keso,
the children adopted by Silver Jones & Cherokee Evans)

Apache Tears 1881
Libbie Winters & Cougar ( a fellow scout & friend of Cholla)

To Tame A Texan 1885
Direct sequel to Cheyenne Princess & Comanche Cowboy. (Ace Durango is the
son of Cimarron & Trace Durango, Lynnie McBride is the younger sister to
Cayenne McBride)

Apache Caress 1886
Sierra Forrester & Cholla ( The Forresters are old enemies of the Durangos)

Nevada Dawn 1887
A direct sequel to Nevada Nights. Cherish Blassingame & Nevada Randolph (
(Quint & Dallas' son)

To Tempt A Texan April 1889
A direct sequel to Cheyenne Captive & Cheyenne Splendor. Lacey, one of Iron
Knife & Summer's twin daughter & Blackie O'Neal

Christmas Rendezvous December, 1889
Ginny Malone (Sassy Malone's cousin) & Hawk

To Tease A Texan 1890
A direct sequel to Cheyenne Captive & Cheyenne Splendor. Lark, twin sister
to Lacey, & Larado

Eternal Outlaw 1892
Angie Newland & Johnny Logan (Johnny was in prison with Nevada Randolph)

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys 1893
An anthology featuring my novelette "The Great Cowby Race." The heroine is
Henrietta Jennings, the hero is Comanche Jones whom you met as a minor
character in To Tame A Texan

AND MORE TO COME!