In 2006 Adrianne along with fellow writer Niobia Bryant penned her first Urban Novel, DESPERATE HOODWIVES, writing as De'nesha Diamond. In 2006 her novel Measure of a Man was nominated for Best Multicultural Romance while her Harper Torch novel Deadly Double was nominated for an Emma. In 2004 she released her first romantic suspense novel, If You Dare, with HarperCollins. And lastly Comfort of a Man was a 2003 Georgia Romance Writers Maggie finalist for best Contemporary. Her 2003 release Comfort of a Man won Romantic Times Best Multicultural Romance, Romance in Color’s Readers Choice Awards for Favorite Book, Favorite Hero, and Favorite Heroine Shades of Romance’s Best/Arabesque Romance Book Slam Jams Emma Award for Favorite Traditional Romance Romance in Color’s Reviewer’s Choice Award for Author of the Year, Book of the Year and Best BET/Arabesque Book. In 2001 Slam Jam nominated, Say You Love Me, for best romance. Her other novels were consistently selected as the Magazine’s Top Pick. Her first release received rave reviews by Romantic Times and fans. Who knew there was an organization of women just like her? By 1996 she sold her first novel, Defenseless, to Kensington Publishing. Writing remained a hobby until 1994 when a co-worker approached her with an article on Romance Writers of America. Within a year, she completed her first book, which she vowed would never see the light of day. It wasn’t long before her imagination took flight and she was writing her own love stories. In books, Adrianne found a way out of her awkward teenage years and into a world of fictional friends that would stay with her for a lifetime. The book was probably given to keep her out her brother’s hair, but it was a gift that changed her life. It was also the age when she was introduced to romance novels by a most unlikely source: her fifteen-year old brother. Looking back, Adrianne believes her passion for writing began at the ripe old age of thirteen.
As an army brat, she traveled throughout Europe and learned to appreciate and value different cultures. National Best-selling author Adrianne Byrd has always preferred to live within the realms of her imagination where all the men are gorgeous and the women are worth whatever trouble they manage to get into.