Ginny Baird has always been fascinated by words. Basically, as a child, she talked a lot, regaling her tolerant family (and somewhat less tolerant friends) with made-up and fanciful stories. As a teen, she began experimenting with poetry and was humbled when her high school headmaster encouraged her to pursue a writing career. It would take a few more decades before that happened!

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Though she published stories in her college's newspaper, Ginny’s successes in print were hit and miss, until she had more regular luck publishing articles and poetry in a regional parenting journal when her children were young.

 

Drawing on her brief career as a federal contracts manager consulting with the US State Department, Ginny also tried her hand at writing spy thrillers and had two published by small electronic presses in years 1999 and 2000.

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Likewise in 2000, Ginny had her first contemporary romance accepted by Kensington Publishing Corporation/Zebra Books. Kensington subsequently acquired a second romance from Ginny for the same line, which sadly closed before that book printed.

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A German film producer’s concurrent interest in her debut spy thriller prompted Ginny to craft her first adapted screenplay. She then wrote other scripts intended for television, receiving over a dozen screenplay options, but none were ever produced.

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After teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and Spanish for a time at the K-12 level, Ginny revamped her fiction writing career in 2012 by getting her rights back to those early Kensington romances and self-publishing them via her own imprint, Winter Wedding Press, under the pen name Ginny Baird.

 

Interest in Ginny's romances bloomed, as she released additional novels, novellas and collections through Winter Wedding Press, eventually achieving USA Today and New York Times bestseller status, before going on to secure deals with traditional publishers, both as Ginny Baird (romance) and Camden Baird (suspense).

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Born the youngest of five children in Wilmington, Delaware, to a Spanish professor dad and a Puerto Rican schoolteacher mom, Ginny moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, when she was four after her dad took an administrative post at UNC-Charlotte.

 

Ginny later graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Spanish, then worked in Washington, DC, before settling in Virginia, where she lived for many years while raising her family.

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In 2020, Ginny and her university professor husband returned to the Chapel Hill area, where they'd both gone to college, to be near family. ​Ginny and her husband have six children between them with their kids' spouses and significant others, as well as various granddogs and grandcats, included in their blended clan.

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When she’s not writing, Ginny enjoys watching crime-solving series on streaming and indulging in fun outings with her husband and their spunky golden retriever mix, Migo. She values your interest in her work and thanks you for visiting her website!