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Penny Reid is a Seattle-based best-selling author of romance novels. She has written thirty-eight full-length novels, of which several have reached the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller lists.

Reid self-published her first "smart-romance" novel, Neanderthal Seeks Human in 2013, which together with her subsequent books, has received tens of thousands of reviews on the Amazon-owned social network/book cataloging website, Goodreads.

Reid built on the success of the Winston Brothers series to launch the publishing imprint, Smartypants Romance, in which other authors write books set in the same fictional universe. Hope Ellis' Before and After You is one example of the many romance novels that have been published by Smartypants Romance. Reid's collaborative approach to the self-publishing space stands in direct contrast to the by other self-published authors to trademark certain words that may crop up in book titles by several authors.

In 2022, Reid's Winston Brothers series was reported as being adapted for streaming/television.