Books in Order: Delving Deep into Julia Quinn’s Publishing Timeline
Authored by Julie Pottinger, better known as Julia Quinn
Known for her historical romance novels, Julia Quinn, born Julie Pottinger, has taken the world by storm aiming her pen at the Bridgerton and Smythe-Smith series. Her pen name was chosen strategically to place her novels alongside those of Amanda Quick on the bookstore shelves. As a youth, she read Sweet Dreams and Sweet Valley High books as an exercise in studying the art of writing. Her fascination with novels led her to submit chapters of her own to the publishers of the Sweet Dreams series. Despite being rejected at such an early age, Julia never lost sight of her goals.
Diverting Paths: Medicine Versus Writing
After graduating from Harvard with a degree in Art History, Julia had plans to attend medical school. However, fortune favored her passion for writing when two of her novels were auctioned and sold. The promising beginning in writing motivated her to delay schooling for a while to focus on churning out more stories. Eventually, even when she took the plunge to join a medical school, it only took her few months of juggling between books and books in order to realize her true calling. She gave up medicine and embraced writing as her full-time career. Her decision bore fruit when in 2001, she won a staggering $79,000 on the TV game show The Weakest Link. Julia and her husband Paul Pottinger now live in the serene Pacific Northwest.
Announcing the Arrival: A Personal Triumph
Julia Quinn marked her debut as a published author in 1995 with the novel Splendid, followed closely by Dancing at Midnight. Here, we unfold an exhaustive list of Julia Quinn’s books in order of their publishing dates:
Publication Order of Blydon Books
| Dancing at Midnight | (1995) |    |
| Splendid | (1995) | |
| Minx | (1996) | |