Emma Darcy is the pseudonym created by the writing team marriage Wendy and Frank Brennan. Their life journey have taken as many twists and turns as the characters in their stories, whose international popularity have resulted in over sixty-million book sales. With more than a hundred titles, Emma Darcy appearing regularly on the Waldenbooks bestseller lists in the U.S.A. and in the Nielson BookScan Top 100 chart in the U.K.
Wendy was born 28 November 1940 in Australia. She obtained a Honours degree in Latin and initially worked as a high school English/French teacher. She married Frank Brennan, a Australian businessman borned in 1936. She changed careers to computer programming before marriage and motherhood settled her into a community life. She was reputedly the first woman computer programmer in the southern hemisphere. A voracious readers, the step to writing their own books seemed a natural progression and the challenge of creating exciting stories was soon highly addictive. They were published since 1983. In 1993, for the Emma Darcy pseudonym's 10th anniversary, they created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995, Wendy now writes the books on her own. She currently living in a beachside property on the central coast of New South Wales, she travels extensively to research settings and increase her experience of places and people.
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