Reid shows that a person can be lovable with all their flaws and that love is perfect when one finds that one person that loves them for their peculiarities. Her biggest strength that has made her novels stand out is that she is not afraid to make her characters flawed. While the knitting club is a major motif in her novels, she gets much of her inspiration from her everyday experiences with real persons. Having spent a lot of time in knitting groups she has developed a few writing quirks the most interesting of which is the tendency to make up words such manlicious, machismo-asshattery, friendscort, and arousurbed. For Penny the knitting club is a place where women offer help, love, and support to each other without worrying that their deepest secrets will become public knowledge, even if they drink a lot of wine. Having been to numerous Crocheter/Knitter gatherings from Alabama, New Hampshire, Birmingham, New Zealand, and London, she has become one of the most knowledgeable persons about the Knitting Club culture. She always tries to find the local knitting group whenever she visits a city and sits down to stitch and crochet with new people. Reid asserts that she is quite literally a member of nearly every knitting club around the world, having traveled quite a lot while performing her biotechnology research. Most of Penny Reid’s heroines are expert knitters that are members of a knitting club. Given that she can write 1000 words an hour and does not watch TV, she can churn out 8000 words of writing every week without breaking a sweat.

Moreover, she is a great advocate for managing time and uses an author assistant to manage her email, scheduling, and formatting among other tasks. Nonetheless, she has never taken her writing as a career as she thinks of it as more of a source of enjoyment – a kind of hobby that she enjoys doing in her free time. In addition to juggling her full-time career in bio tech and writing, she is also a general crafter, sewer, crocheter, knitter, daughter, wife and mother to three children, and thought ninja. When she is not writing her novels she spends her days working as a researcher in the bio tech industry.

She made a name for herself with the “Knitting in the City” series of novels that has garnered her much critical acclaim and endeared her to many romance fans across the globe. She writes quirky, funny, and smart romantic comedies that feature scorching hot heroes and relatable heroines. Reid made her debut with the 2013 published title “Neanderthal Seeks Human” and has never looked back since. Her very successful novel series include the “Knitting in the City”, “Winston Brothers”, “Hypothesis”, “Rugby”, and “Dear Professor” series. Penny Reid is an American USA Today and New York Times bestselling author who is best known for writing several series of novels in the romance genre.

Dr. Strange Beard by Penny Reid