Bestseller No Accident

Barbara Delinsky's 66th novel, An Accidental Woman, hit the stores July 16 with a first printing of 260,000 copies. A major television, print and radio advertising campaign, coupled with New England book signings, have gotten this S&S title off to a fast start. Delinsky's new Pocket Books paperback, The Woman Next Door, has been on the bestseller charts for four weeks. There are currently 28 million copies of her books in print worldwide in 25 languages. She began writing back in 1980, when her twins were four. She read a newspaper article profiling three female writers and was intrigued enough to try her hand at the craft. She spent three months researching, plotting and writing her own book—and it sold. She started in the field of romance, and moved on to mainstream fiction in the 1990s with such titles as For My Daughters and Together Alone.