Alice Brilmayer Papers

Alice Brilmayer began writing as an escape from a secretarial job that she described as “miserable.” She had never written fiction before and soon realized that she loved writing romance stories from her imagination hoping that others would like them as much as she did.

Most of Brilmayer's books have been written under the names Alice Gaines or Alice Chambers. By 1994, she had written five books and one novella. Her first manuscript sold to Red Saga Publishing was The Spinner's Dream. The story appeared in the first volume of Secrets in 1995. Waitangi Nights was published by Love Spell in 1996. Another one of her works, Moon of the Jaguar, was published as an e-book by Hard Shell World Factory. Subsequently, she has published Taming America (2000); The Education of Miss Felicity Wells (2000); Always a Princess (2001); The Right Medicine (2004); My Champion, My Love (2002) and By Fate's Hand (2004).

She continues to write and live with her husband in Oakland, California. She has a Ph.D. in personality psychology from a large west coast university.