After realizing that she enjoyed writing much more than teaching, Jeffries left the academic world to work as a technical writer, while writing novels at night. She found herself bored with this attempt, and began writing a romance novel instead. While serving as a visiting assistant professor of English at Tulane University, Jeffries attempted to develop an academic work on her dissertation. in English, writing her dissertation on James Joyce. She began making up her own stories when she was twelve, only to discover that every one of them was a romance of some sort. Because she only had her siblings to play with, Jeffries escaped into the world of books, reading everything from comic books to classics, with romance novels being her favorites. Over the next eleven years, Jeffries saw many adventures, including being chased by a baby elephant, playing in a rain forest, and having to experience the entire series of rabies shots. Jeffries lived a normal childhood until she was seven, when her parents decided to become missionaries and moved the family to Thailand. She also writes under the pen names Deborah Martin and Deborah Nicholas. Deborah Gonzales (born 1958) is a best-selling American author of romance novels, primarily under the pen name Sabrina Jeffries.
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