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Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel born August 14, is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling living author and one of the best-selling fiction authors of all time , with over million copies sold.

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Based in California for most of her career, Steel has produced several books a year, often juggling up to five projects at once. All of her novels have been bestsellers, including those issued in hardback, despite "a resounding lack of critical acclaim" Publishers Weekly. Steel has also published children's fiction and poetry, as well as creating a foundation that funds mental illness-related organizations.

Steel started writing stories as a child, and by her late teens had begun writing poetry.

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While still attending New York University, Steel began writing, completing her first manuscript at A client, Ladies' Home Journal editor John Mack Carter, encouraged her to focus on writing, [ 11 ] having been impressed with her freelance articles. He suggested she write a book, which she did. She later moved to San Francisco and worked as a copywriter for Grey Advertising.

Her first novel, Going Home , was published in The novel contained many of the themes that her writing would become well known for, including a focus on family issues and human relationships. Her relationship with her second husband influenced Passion's Promise and Now and Forever , the two novels that launched her career. Beginning in , Steel had become a near-permanent fixture on The New York Times hardcover and paperback bestsellers lists.

In , she was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having a book on the New York Times Bestseller List for the most consecutive weeks of any author— consecutive weeks at that time.