Below you will find a great group of authors who have dedicated themselves to sharing their imaginations with the world. They have accomplished many goals in their lives as well as writing and publishing many great works of art. These people have become more than friends; they are a huge internet family.
They are listed in alphabetical order by last name.
Pam Ackerson
Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Wall Street Journal bestselling, award-winning author, Pamela Ackerson is a time traveling adventurer. She was born and raised in Newport, RI where history is a way of life. She lives on the Space Coast of Florida where everyone is encouraged to reach for the stars! When it's time to runaway, she's a hop, skip, and jump from Disney World and fun-filled imagination and fantasy.
With over 70 published books, she's a multi-genre author writes time travel, westerns, Native American, historical fiction, nonfiction, WW2, inspirational, self-help marketing and advertising, personal and travel journals, and children's preschool/first reader books.
Aurora Jean Alexander
A.J. Alexander is a talented classical musician who has won several music contests in her youth. She is an accomplished skier and loves to swim, amongst other sports.
A.J. Alexander is the author of the award-winning ‘The Council of Twelve’ series, with four published books so far. She lives in Southern California with her three beautiful active and demanding cats. In her rare free time, she loves to meet friends or go for long nature walks.
A. J. Alexander learned reading and writing at the age of four and realized quite early in her education that she loves painting pictures with words. During her school time, she won poetry as well as short story contests. Later on, she participated in writing and poetry workshops to learn the craft. During her time at university, her education as a writer turned toward creative as well as journalistic writing. A. J. published several poems and short stories under a pen name. Currently, she is working on 'The Council Of Twelve' series. Writing fantasy books has always been her dream, and she looks forward to sharing her work with her audience.
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Blake Allwood
Blake Allwood was born in west TN, then moved to Kansas City MO after attending college in Iowa. He met his husband in 1995 and they officially married in 2015, once the United States legalized gay marriage.
In 2017, he and his husband sold their home, purchased an RV and began traveling the country with their two dogs. Their travels provide the inspiration and settings for many of his novels. Typically, Blake can be found writing in the RV or by the fire with his laptop and their Jack Russell Terrier, Buddy, curled up between his legs or demanding his attention. Denver, their Siberian Husky mix is often asleep at his feet or playing tug of war with Blake’s husband.
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Xaneria Ann
Xaneria Ann is a multi-genre queer romance author, writing about adventure, who writes with a passion for emotions, trauma, and polyamorous relationships. Her stories are driven by the characters first, the worlds second, and the plot always.
Loud, optimistic, and opinionated, the secret Goblin Queen drowns in the collection of random objects and revolving hobbies. Easily distracted, Xaneria is constantly hoarding shiny new objects and ideas.
Xaneria is a lover of boba, food of all kinds, plants and furry critters, a caffeine addict, and an evil muse. She loves a good challenge, unless that challenge is getting out of bed before the sun rises.
Richard Arbib
Richard Arbib was born in New York City, earned a master’s degree in English and creative writing at San Francisco State University, taught English in Vietnam, and composition and literature to college students in Nevada. He has had short fiction published in the Mensa Bulletin and articles published in Integra—The Journal of Intertel.
His paranormal romance novel, The Vampire Girl Next Door, was a Finalist in the 2014 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards and named a Notable Book Page-Turner in the 2014 Shelf Unbound Writing Competition. The sequel, The Vampire Girl in London, was named a Notable Book Page-Turner in the 2016 Shelf Unbound Writing Competition.
Rachel Armstrong
Rachel Armstrong is a writer of contemporary romantic fiction ranging from rural to suspense. She creates epic feel-good stories and has a weakness for an adventurous holiday escape.
Rachel lives in Townsville, Queensland, with her border collie Jacob where she rehabilitates hearts as an exercise physiologist. In her spare time, she is either reading on the treadmill or plotting her next novel at yoga. Rachel's a keen traveller and has enjoyed many holidays exploring historic London, flying through the Grand Canyon, and hiking volcanos in Bali.
T. Augury
T.L. Augury grew up in New England and has always been obsessed with drinking tea and curling up with a good book. She started writing as a child to satisfy her vivid imagination, but always kept her writing private until she built her confidence up enough to share what she created.
She enjoys her family, theatre, music, and of course, writing. She's a busy mom with a full-time job, and her best friend is her husband who has always supported her dreams.
She has an unique and sometimes quirky sense of humor who just loves to laugh and write about life in general.
Bix Barrow
When Bix Barrow got an idea for her first book, it ended up turning into her second — and thus the first two stories in the Bent Oak, Texas series emerged. An aspiring author for most of her life, it took a foray into the MM romance genre to spark the steamy scenes and blazing banter Bix now weaves into her novels. Accompanying her on her writing exploits are her two dogs and multitude of cats (seven at last count). An avid traveler, Bix has started to view her expeditions as interviews for her future home. Born and raised in Texas, she is eager to move somewhere with fewer politicians, hurricanes and flooding. Connect with Bix at www.bixbarrow.com
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Anne Barwell
Anne Barwell lives in Wellington, New Zealand. She shares her home with Kaylee: a cat with “tortitude” who is convinced that the house is run to suit her. To date it appears Kaylee may be winning the discussion. She is an avid reader across a wide range of genres and a watcher of far too many TV series and movies, although it can be argued that there is no such thing as “too many.” Anne’s books have received honourable mentions five times, reached the finals four times—one of which was for best gay book—and been a runner up in the Rainbow Awards.
Melissa Bell
Melissa Bell lives in Brisbane, Australia. She has loved to read since the age of twelve when she discovered ‘To Kill A Mocking Bird’, previous to reading this book she hated reading. With a couple of handfuls of years and thousands of books later she wanted to try writing.
She has most recently accomplished making the USA Today Best Sellers List in October 2021. And has now set her sights on reaching the NY Times Best Sellers List.
She enjoys good food and good company when she’s not trying to concentrate on what she’s writing. She loves to laugh as laughter makes the world go round not money. Unfortunately laughter doesn’t pay the bills unless you’re a really well-known stand-up comedian. Which she is not. She is hoping that this is the start of an exciting adventure as a published Author, and that maybe something amazing will come of it. She would like to invite you all to join her on her journey.
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Kerrie Biehl
The tall trees and murky forests of the Pac NW feed my imagination. Kerrie love vampires, werewolves, and all things paranormal. While I studied criminal justice I became inspired to write suspense romance. That didn't last long though, I found my footing in paranormal romance, and urban fantasy when I attended a writing workshop with one of my favorite authors. As a roomful of aspiring authors, she told us that if we were stalling in our current genre, to look to our bookshelves and write the most prevalent genre. Can you guess what was on my bookshelf? That's right, nothing but paranormal, urban fantasy romance. I love to read books with a strong plots, and unique characters. I desire to bring those qualities to my readers with a heavy "side dish" of lust.
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Aedyn Brooks
After living most of her life in haunted houses, Aedyn Brooks decided to share some of her terrifying, and sometimes funny, stories writing wicked paranormal romances.
She loves suburbia living with a postage-stamp sized yard in the Pacific Northwest, with whatever ghosts happen by. When not writing, you’ll find her casting runes, reading tarot, and honing her skills as a psychic medium. She enjoys spending time with family and babysitting her granddaughters. Being a grandmother is the bestest thing ever!</p?
You can also follow Aedyn on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, or Pinterest (another slight addiction) @aedynbrooks. She shares her personal ghost encounters through her newsletter. Please visit her website to join.
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JC Brown
JC Brown lives in a world where magic is real and anything is possible, or at least she likes to pretend so. She has always held a fascination for the darker side of the paranormal, like evil witches, zombies, werewolves, vampires and the fae. When her adult ADD allows, she’s able to focus and carefully craft the intricate web of imagination onto paper.
JC is an avid reader and lover of education that’s led her through many careers. From barista to graphic design, certified nursing assistant to school bus driver but weaving paranormal tales is what she enjoys the most.
As an American Cuban, family and culture are especially important to her. While writing is her absolute passion, her full-time job is Mistress of Minions to her four needy goblins. They definitely keep her on her toes. However, her hysterical husband makes everything easier with his wild, and sometimes inappropriate humor. She shares her Rhode Island home with her husband, children, and parents.
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Sharon Buchbinder
Sharon Buchbinder got into a lot of trouble for when she was a child for "making things up." Now, she gets rewarded for making things up. Sharon loves to create heroes and heroines people can relate to—even crazy cat ladies, as she did with Catastrophe, her first publication with The Wild Rose Press (WRP). She's been submitting fiction since she was in middle school and has the rejection slips to prove it. In high school, she even submitted a script to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. written in pencil on yellow-lined paper. Sadly, it was rejected. After working in health care delivery for years, she became a researcher, then a professor and department chair. But that itch to write the stories that raced around in her mind kept beckoning her to "come on back" to writing fiction. Since romance has over a dozen sub-genres, she was able to turn her fascination with horror and mystery into paranormal romance and romantic suspense. When not writing she can be found reading, fishing, working out, golfing or enjoying a good meal and laughter with friends and family.
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Jessica Cage
Born and raised in Chicago, IL, writing has always been a passion for Jessica Cage. She dabbles in artistic creations of all sorts but at the end of the day, it's the pen that her hand itches to hold.
Jessica had never considered following her dream to be a writer because she was told far too often, "There is no money in writing." So she chose the path most often traveled. Working at her day job in a law office, she looked at her two year old son and asked herself, how would she be able to inspire him to follow his dreams, reach for the stars, if she never had the guts to do it herself?
Jessica decided to take a risk and unleash the plethora of characters and their crazy adventurous worlds that had previously existed only in her mind, into the realm of readers. She did this with hopes to inspire not only her son but herself. Inviting the world to tag along on her journey to become the writer she has always wanted to be.
Recently Jessica discovered a new passion in encouraging youth to follow their dreams and explore creative passions. It is no secret that programs are dwindling that help to support the development of artistic passion. It is her hope to be able to create an avenue to help fill this void. It is the realization that Jessica's journey is not all about herself, but about others as well, that helps to not only fuel her writing but to keep her moving forward.
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Bill Bush
Bill Bush grew up in Yates Center, Kansas, and is a graduate of Yates Center High School and Tabor College, where he earned a Master's degree in Accounting. He is a CPA and runner as well as a writer, is author of several collections of short stories, and has written a column in the Harvey County Independent since April, 2013.
His desire to write comes from his mom, Phyllis Roth Lewis, who was a published author and wrote numerous short stories, poems, and books.
He took a step toward becoming a full-time fiction author in 2018 by joining Kansas Publishing Venture as a newspaper reporter. Now he writes nonfiction during the day and fiction at night.
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The Kansas Press Association selected Bill’s story as the top Investigative Piece for a weekly newspaper in 2019. In 2020 he won third place in both the Investigative Story and Religion Story categories. His variety newspaper column has appeared in the Harvey County Independent since April 2013. Fiction:
Besides the acclaimed Halstead Mysteries series, Bill is the author of the Vetrix series and dozens of short stories. His flash fiction stories, Lonely Lucy and Uninvited Guest, were included in the Podcast, Alone in a Room With Invisible People, in 2019 and 2020 respectively. You can learn more about Bill at billbushauthor.com or snaderpublishing.com, his publishing company.Website
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Isobelle Cate
Isobelle Cate is a woman who wears different masks. Mother-writer, wife-professional, scholar-novelist. Currently living in Manchester, she has been drawn to the little known, the secret stories, about the people and the nations: the English, the Irish, the Scots, the Welsh, and those who are now part of these nations whatever their origins. Her vision and passion are fuelled by her interest and background in history and paradoxically, shaped by growing up in a clan steeped in lore, loyalty, and legend.
Isobelle is intrigued by forces that simmer beneath the surface of these cultures, the hidden passions, unsaid desires, and yearnings unfulfilled.
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Beth Caudill
Although Beth grew up in West Virginia, she currently resides in North Carolina with her husband, two sons and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who makes an excellent lap warmer.
Blending the analytical and creative sides of her brain, she delights in creating fantasy worlds for others. Catch her online most days except when NCIS and Once Upon a Time air.
Kat Chant
Kat Chant is an award winning writer. A bookworm who grew into a history buff, she exchanged beaches for castles to move from Australia to the UK and study medieval history. There, she fell in love with a lad from Ireland…and fell in love with his country, too. She and her family now live in the heart of Ireland, surrounded by fields in forty shades of green.
Kat is a keen cook and often experiments with traditional farmhouse foods such as making bread, cheese, jam and liqueurs. She also decorates the occasional cake.
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London Clarke
London Clarke is the award-winning and Amazon bestselling author of Wildfell and the Legacy of Darkness series. Obsessed with vampires and haunted houses from a young age, Clarke grew up reading gothic tales like Wuthering Heights and Dracula, featuring romance, tragedy, and tortured souls. She considers herself a recovering runaway and confesses that she once moved to England in search of a man who was the perfect amalgamation of Dracula, Hamlet, Heathcliff, and Mr. Rochester. Clarke graduated from George Mason University with a bachelor’s in music and master’s in creative writing and has had an eclectic array of jobs, including receptionist, legal secretary, literary assistant, high school English teacher, and freelance editor.
Clarke lived for more than thirty years in the greater Washington DC area before moving to South Carolina, where she now lives with her husband and two Italian greyhounds.Website
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J. Scott Coatsworth
Scott lives with his husband Mark in a yellow bungalow in Sacramento. He was indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine. He devoured her library, but as he grew up, he wondered where all the people like him were.
He decided that if there weren’t gay characters in his favorite genres, he would remake them to his own ends.
A Rainbow Award winning author, he runs Queer Sci Fi, QueeRomance Ink, and Other Worlds Ink with Mark, sites that celebrate fiction reflecting queer reality. Scott is also the chair of the SFWA Self Publishing Committee.
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Candace Colt
My stories are perfect for fans of feel-good, sweet romance stories, lovable magical characters, and enchanting small towns.
All of my characters deal with day-to-day problems, just like everyone else. Usually in an ordinary way. Often with the help of their special gifts.
And you’ll always find a magical and usually snarky feline in each story.
My new series, Baga Shores Romance, launched in July 2022. Set in a fictional coastal town on the west coast of Florida, BEWITCHING ANDIE is the first book in the Baga Shores Romance Series. Newly divorced, Andie returns home for help raising her 7-year-old wizard. But everyone seems to have a different idea on what "help" looks like!
In my Nocturne Falls Universe series, you meet a modern family of falcon shapeshifters who are fabulously wealthy! An interesting combination, right?
The Cat’s Paw Cove Romance series introduced a family who traces their ancestry to the 1700’s Salem Village witch hunt. Did I mention my main character is a psychic who can bring the dead forward? She thought she'd retired from that business until someone knocks on her door with a very strange letter.
And don’t forget the ornery magical cats! Each series introduces a new full-of-themself feline who insists on stealing every scene.
I invite you to subscribe to my newsletter on CandaceColt.com When you sign up, you get a freebie short story, “Superstition’s Sway," a prequel to my first Cat’s Paw Cove Romance series.
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Karenna Colcroft
Karenna Colcroft lives just north of Boston, Massachusetts, and has been in love with the city since childhood, though she has yet to encounter any werewolves, vampires, or other paranormal beings in her travels. At least none that she knows of. Though since in her non-writing life, under another name, she offers services as a channel and energy healing practitioner, it could be said that she herself is a paranormal being. The jury’s still out on that.
Karenna is a polyamorous, nonbinary human who splits time between the home she shares with her husband and the one she shares with her committed partner. She also has two adult children and a bonus son, three grandchildren, and two and a half cats. (Half in terms of time the cat lives with her, not in terms of the cat itself…)
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T.M. Cromer
T.M. Cromer is a multi-award-winning, international best-selling author who loves to craft wildly entertaining stories designed to keep you glued to your seat, turning the pages to find out what the heck happens next. She specializes in kickass heroines and the men who adore them. When she isn't writing, she's usually playing butler to her two fuzzy hellhounds: Wee Wicked Willow and Georgie Girl, or exploring the wonders of her new home in the PNW.
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AA DaSilva
Born and raised in New England, AA DaSilva holds a degree in clinical laboratory science and brings her love of science and writing together via science fiction. When she’s not working in the lab or writing, she can be found with a book in one hand, and a cup of iced coffee in the other. She resides in Massachusetts with her husband, two sons, and pup Didi (who looks suspiciously like an Ewok).
Her debut novel, Periphery, is a science fiction love story that explores fate, strength, and the choices that determine our destiny.
Book two in AA DaSilva’s Periphery series, titled The Bleed-Through Effect, is forthcoming in 2025 from The Wild Rose Press. For the latest updates on new releases and events, sign up for email updates at aadasilva.com and follow her on socials.
Joy Ross Davis
Joy Ross Davis is of Irish descent and a student of the lore and magic found in the hills of Tennessee. After a twenty-five year career as a college English professor, she traveled to Ireland and worked as a writer and photographer, publishing numerous travel articles and photos for an Irish travel agency. She has been a contributing feature writer for a local newspaper and has published articles in Southern literary magazines. She lives in Alabama with her son and beloved dogs. She loves to speak at conferences, book club meetings, and events to share her connection with angels and the stories behind her books.
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McKenna Dean
McKenna Dean has been an actress, a vet tech, a singer, a teacher, a biologist, and a dog trainer. She’s worked in a genetics lab, at the stockyard, behind the scenes as a props manager, and at a pizza parlor slinging dough. Finally she realized all these jobs were just a preparation for what she really wanted to be: a writer.
She lives on a small farm in North Carolina with her family, as well as the assorted dogs, cats, and various livestock.
She likes putting her characters in hot water to see how strong they are. Like tea bags, only sexier.
McKenna is the creator of the Redclaw Universe, which features paranormal romances set in both contemporary and historical times.
McKenna also writes cozy mysteries under the name M.K. Dean
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Charlayne Elizabeth Denney
Charlayne Elizabeth Denney was born in Amarillo, Texas and lived there until 1991. Now a resident of Houston, she has been a waitress, a DJ, a sports writer, a technical writer, sold knives, swords, and replica weapons, was part-owner of a comic shop, and a perennial student. She has 4 kids, 9 grandkids, 2 Shelties, and a cat who is the inspiration for Baron in "Fangs & Halos."
She married her 3rd and final husband, Bruce, in 1993 after a whirlwind six-month romance, having met him at a Science Fiction convention and her sister telling her to "go out with him" (and him overhearing her). She has written many non-fiction articles, has been published in several magazines, and wrote technical training manuals for Compaq. She reviews for Paranormal Romance Guild and loves vampire novels the most.
The Fangs & Halos Series has been acclaimed with many 5-star reviews and an Honorable Mention for Lilly's Angel from Paranormal Romance Guild.
Lacey Doddrow
acey Doddrow is a writer, youth worker, and community organizer living on the west coast with a menagerie of reptiles. When she's not writing or reading paranormal romance, she's probably cooking, hiking, or goofing around on the internet.
Lacey's books focus on magical shifters, fated mates, and protective heroes, with a focus on characters over 40.
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C.J. Dragon
She was happily introduced to the wonderful world of M/M romance, immediately loving it. CJ began writing M/M romances incorporating them in her science fiction stories and has never looked back.
She lives in North Caroline and is happily married to her wife and soulmate who is a writer as well. CJ is co-parent to Frankie, also known as the Prince of Darkness, who keeps a benevolent paw over all that occurs in the home.
Anna Durbin
Award-winning author Anna Durbin blends romance with the esoteric in her Kings of the Tarot series set in Regency England. Having grown up reading sagas of chivalry and romance, she began crafting her own elaborate stories in her imagination at a young age. It was only natural that she would one day write them down. Enchanted with the Tarot deck since her teens, she enjoys weaving the symbolism of the cards into her storylines.
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Sorchia Dubois
Award-winning author Sorchia Dubois lives in a piney forest with seven cats, two fish, one dog, and one husband. She writes witchy stories about magic, mystery, passion, history, a little whisky, and cats.
A proud member of the Ross clan, Sorchia incorporates all things Celtic (especially Scottish) into her works. She can often be found at Scottish festivals watching kilted men toss large objects for no apparent reason and she enjoys a wee nip of single-malt Scotch from time to time.
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Patricia Esposito
Patricia Esposito lives by the notion Luis Alberto Urrea once expressed: When the world is so dark and bloody, be brave enough to broadcast innocent joy. Dare to be naive. She has written edgy paranormal fiction for most of her life, but always finds beneath it a romantic heart. Her most recent fiction and poetry reflect that enduring quest for love and joy beneath the human struggle.
Patricia has received honorable mentions in Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror collections, is a two-time winner of Rhino’s Reader=Writer award, and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. With a Master’s degree in English, she edits law books and textbooks for income, while trying to keep up with a retired husband and enjoying time with her two adult daughters—that is, when she’s not off exploring the intoxicating realms of the imagination and chasing muses. Beside the Darker Shore is her first full-length work of fiction. She welcomes the chance to meet other writers and readers through her website or Facebook page.
Jamie Fessenden
Jamie Fessenden set out to be a writer in junior high school. He published a couple short pieces in his high school's literary magazine and had another story place in the top 100 in a national contest, but it wasn't until he met his partner, Erich, almost twenty years later, that he began writing again in earnest. With Erich alternately inspiring and goading him, Jamie wrote several screenplays and directed a few of them as micro-budget independent films. He then began writing novels and published his first novella in 2010.
After nine years together, Jamie and Erich have married and purchased a house together in the wilds of Raymond, New Hampshire, where there are no street lights, turkeys and deer wander through their yard, and coyotes serenade them on a nightly basis. Jamie recently left his day job as a tech support analyst to be a full-time writer.
Kim Fielding
Kim Fielding is the bestselling author of numerous m/m romance novels, novellas, and short stories. Like Kim herself, her work is eclectic, spanning genres such as contemporary, fantasy, paranormal, and historical. Her stories are set in alternate worlds, in 15th century Bosnia, in modern-day Oregon. Her heroes are hipster architect werewolves, housekeepers, maimed giants, and conflicted graduate students. They're usually flawed, they often encounter terrible obstacles, but they always find love.
After having migrated back and forth across the western two-thirds of the United States, Kim calls the boring part of California home. She lives there with her husband, her two daughters, and her day job as a university professor, but escapes as often as possible via car, train, plane, or boat. This may explain why her characters often seem to be in transit as well. She dreams of traveling and writing full-time.
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M. Flagg
Always an avid reader, the realm of paranormal fiction became the perfect landing point for M. Flagg. After a successful career as a music teacher and an urban school administrator, she continues to spin stories of passion, love and redemption.
Along with three previously published novels, she has been a contributor in a book on urban music education and has also authored an article for Still Standing, a web-magazine about loss and healing. Her Action Research Project was recognized for Outstanding Writing in 2006 and she was named a Distinguished Music Educator at the Yale Music Symposium in 2010.
A life-long New Jersey resident, M. Flagg is a member of Liberty States Fiction Writers and a Professor in Residence with a local university.
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Rhys Ford
Rhys Ford was born and raised in Hawai'i, then wandered off to see the world. After chewing through a pile of books, a lot of odd food, and a stray boyfriend or two, Rhys eventually landed in San Diego, which is a very nice place but seriously needs more rain.
Rhys admits to sharing the house with three cats of varying degrees of black fur and a ginger cairn terrorist. Rhys is also enslaved to the upkeep a 1979 Pontiac Firebird, a Toshiba laptop, and an overworked red coffee maker.
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EJ Frost
I'm an ex-pat American loving the British country life. I write couples who would burn down the world for each other (and sometimes do) and characters you want as your best friend.
When I'm not writing I'm reading anything that catches my eye, jogging (badly), cooking, and spinning fire poi. Come find me for book talk.
Bring cake.
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DJ Gainer
A nerdy, chaotic-good, gamer geek by trade, DJ calls the Northwest corner of the United States home. She lives with her spouse, teenage minions, and two adorable Yorkies.
When she’s not banging her head against the keyboard or trying to stay focused on her next book, DJ spends her time sewing & crafting with friends, picking out new hair colors, taking long baths, reading, or her personal favorite – gaming (tabletop, rpg’s, tcg’s, & video games – she’s not really picky).
DJ’s stories have been described as medium angst with a heavy dose of fluff. They are full of action, romance, and snark while including a diverse cast of queer, fantastical characters that excel at doing mundane things in new and unique ways. While she believes the plot is paramount and the world must always be saved, you can always count on a happily ever after in any DJ Gainer story.
Lizzy Gayle
Lizzy Gayle loves paranormal so much, she lives it. She is both an author and a psychic. Between mothering her three kids, attempting to understand her rocket scientist husband, and consistently attempting to declutter her home (that she is convinced is a secret portal to a clutter-creating dimension), she does her best to use her creative gifts and share them with you.
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Godiva Glenn
Godiva Glenn is a nocturnal being, much like vampires and cats. She holds a B.A. in Literature, which more or less means she has spent more hours reading and writing than she would ever care to admit to. Luckily, all that knowledge comes in handy for her creative pursuits. Most of her recent writing endeavors circle around the paranormal/supernatural. Wolves are her preferred sexy shifters, but who knows what the future holds. She resides in the U.S. with dreams of traveling abroad to research locations.
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Debby Grahl
Travel addict, lover of fashion, art, and all things creative, fitness enthusiast and adventurer, spreading positivity and good vibes only! Lifelong learner and bookworm, proud dog parent. Embracing life, one day at a time.
Writing romantic fantasy books that take you on an adventure of self-discovery. Let's unlock the doors to your imagination and embark on a quest to find your creative soul. Inspiring readers to seek inner happiness with a sprinkle of magic and a contagious smile.
Join me on this enchanting journey! I'm also a happiness life Coach with a focus on limiting belief systems.
Peter Gray
Peter Gray was born in Toronto, Canada. He holds a bachelor's degree in History and Education but has always felt the lure of classic English literature. Peter published his first story in 2020; a paranormal romance called "Cursed." His first full length novel "The Tragic Tale of Teddy Woven" was released in the month of September 2020.
As a self-published author, Peter specializes in the genres of Gothic horror, paranormal romance, and historical fiction. His first historical romance novel "Awakening" debuted in the month of March 2021
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Andrew Grey
Andrew grew up in western Michigan with a father who loved to tell stories and a mother who loved to read them. Since then he has lived throughout the country and traveled throughout the world. He has a Master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and works in information systems for a large corporation. Andrew's hobbies include collecting antiques, gardening, and leaving his dirty dishes anywhere but in the sink (particularly when writing). He considers himself blessed with an accepting family, fantastic friends, and the world's most supportive and loving partner. Andrew currently lives in beautiful, historic Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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Beck Grey
Beck is a non-binary writer of sweet, sexy, LGBTQ happily ever afters. Why? Because everyone deserves all the happy! They live in the Northeastern United States with their two adorable dogs.
Weekdays are spent working their day job, but nights and weekends are devoted to writing stories involving hot characters, favorite tropes, and happy endings. Any additional time includes reading, laughing with friends, drinking red wine, and playing D&D. If there’s cake involved at any point it’s a win!
Susan Griscom
Susan writes paranormal and contemporary romance—steamy and sexy are the way they usually turn out. She's a huge fan of superheroes and bad boys confronted with extraordinary forces of nature, powers, and abilities beyond the norm mixed with hot, blow-your-socks-off romance.
She grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania doing a lot of daydreaming. It’s no big surprise that she writes romance stories since many nights as a child; she would lay awake fantasizing about her knight in shining armor.
Her wild imagination sparked her first story at the age of twelve, a story that her sixth-grade teacher adopted for the class play that year. Having never achieved fame and fortune for that play, she attempted life the normal way with other activities, such as working as a food lab technician, bartender, cell phone repair technician, and mom.
Now she lives in Northern California with a gorgeous view of Folsom Lake from her office where she still spends a lot of time daydreaming. She loves to drink wine and fortunately, there are several local wineries close by. Together, she and her modern-day knight have five great superhero kids and nine mini-superhero grandkids, seven grand pups, and a too-intelligent border collie named Xena Warrior Princess who has stolen her heart and keeps her very active.
When she's not writing, she enjoys hanging out with friends and family, drinking wine, dancing, kayaking, paddle boarding, and throwing a green ball for that very smart border collie.
Robert Herold
The supernatural always had the allure of forbidden fruit ever since my mother refused to allow me, as a boy, to watch creature features on late-night TV. She caved-in. (Well, not literally.)
As a child, fresh snow provided the opportunity to walk out onto neighbors' lawns halfway and make paw prints with my fingers as far as I could stretch. I would retrace the paw and boot prints, then fetch the neighbor kids and point out that someone turned into a werewolf on this lawn! (They were skeptical.)
I have pursued many interests over the years, but the supernatural always called to me. You could say I was haunted. Finally, following the siren's call, I began writing Eidola Project Series, about 19th century ghost hunters who become ensnared in deadly investigations of the supernatural. There are three novels so far in the series: The Eidola Project, Moonlight Becomes You, and Totem of Terror. Each of them have won awards, and the entire Eidola Project Series just won first place in the Paranormal Romance Guild's Reviewer's Choice Awards.
I also write stories for the Friday the 13th collection of weird and frightening tales. Witch Ever Way You Go was his first. It is set in 2015 Seattle and is about a murderous coven of modern witches. The Devil Sheds a Tear is a sequel but can be read on its own. These stories are available from Amazon & Kindle Unlimited.
Ultimately, I hope my work gives you the creeps—and I mean that in the best way possible!
K. L. Hiers
K.L. “Kat” Hiers is an embalmer, restorative artist, and queer writer. Licensed in both funeral directing and funeral service, they worked in the death industry for nearly a decade. Their first love was always telling stories, and they have been writing for over twenty years, penning their very first book at just eight years old. Publishers generally do not accept manuscripts in Hello Kitty notebooks, however, but they never gave up.
Following the success of their first novel, Cold Hard Cash, they now enjoy writing professionally, focusing on spinning tales of sultry passion, exotic worlds, and emotional journeys. They love attending horror movie conventions and indulging in cosplay of their favorite characters. They live in Zebulon, NC, with their family, including their children, some of whom
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Linda G. Hill
Linda G. Hill was born and raised an only child in Southern Ontario, Canada. She credits the time she spent alone when she was growing up, reading books and building worlds and characters of her own to keep her company, as the reason she became a writer.
A stay-at-home mom of three beautiful boys, Linda is a graduate of the Writing Program at St. Lawrence College in Brockville, Ontario. Aside from caring for her family, she enjoys traveling the world, eating trout cooked on the barbecue, and, of course, reading.
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Raven Hush
Raven Hush writes paranormal & BDSM romance and exists on a diet of red wine and coffee. When she isn't romancing the monster under her bed, she writes contemporary romance and suspense as USA Today bestselling author Sofia Aves and kidlit under a not-so-super-secret pen name. Raven has worked with Romance Writers of Australia as Marketing and Events Manager and lives at Romance Cafe Publishing in their Marketing and PR department. She is a stay-at-home mum living near Brisbane, Australia with her three crazies and two german shepherds who like to pose whilst wrestling. Raven writes in her own dragon bookish cave and is building an alpaca park.
Margaret Izard
Margaret Izard, raised in the suburbs of Texas, spent her early years through college and adulthood dedicated to dance, theater, and performing. Over the years, she developed a love for great storytelling in different mediums. She does not waste a good story, be it movement, the spoken word, or the written word. She discovered historical romance novels by middle school, which combined her passion for romance and drama, and she has been hooked ever since. She writes exciting plot lines, steamy love scenes and always falls for a strong male with a soft heart. She lives in Houston with her husband and adult triplets and loves to hear from readers.
“All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies.”
Genevieve Jack
USA Today bestselling and multi-award winning author Genevieve Jack writes wild, witty, and wicked-hot paranormal romance and romantic fantasy. She believes there’s magic in every breath we take and probably something supernatural living in most dark basements. You can summon her with coffee, wine, and books, but she sticks around for dogs and chocolate. Her novels feature badass heroines, fiercely loyal heroes, and fantasy elements that will fill you with wonder. Learn more at www.genevievejack.com.
L.A. Kaye
L.A. Kaye (she/her) is a twisted writer who loves wondering what happens when we die, what other kinds of creatures are really out there, and fantasizing about the possibilities! Her alter ego is Sam E. Kraemer, and she doesn't have the stones to imagine the things L.A. Kaye can!
Ann Marie Kazutomi
Ann Marie Kazutomi has been enthusiastic about writing ever since high school. After successful careers as a finance director for a car dealership, and owner of her dream business – a tea store where she created personal blends and educated customers about tea – a serious car accident changed her focus and directed her back toward the creative world of fiction writing.
She has a MA in History, and is currently working on a Masters degree in Professional Writing as part of her commitment to writing accurate, authentic fiction set in ancient worlds. Ann Marie currently lives in Colorado with her family.
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Celyn Kendrick
Celyn Kendrick is a non-binary Aspergian who lives with a sheepdog who is plotting death-by-frisbee and thousands of toy robots belonging to the resident hoarder. The icy stares of two creepy mannequins named Keanu and Ashton keep Celyn in check, reminding the author of the reception books will get if half of what's written is published.
Amy Lane
Amy Lane has two kids in college, two gradeschoolers in soccer, two cats, and two Chi-who-whats at large. She lives in a crumbling crapmansion with most of the children and a bemused spouse. She also has too damned much yarn, a penchant for action adventure movies, and a need to know that somewhere in all the pain is a story of Wuv, Twu Wuv, which she continues to believe in to this day!
She writes fantasy, urban fantasy, and m/m romance—and if you accidentally make eye contact, she'll bore you to tears with why those three genres go together. She'll also tell you that sacrifices, large and small, are worth the urge to write.
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Goodreads Salutes Amy Lane:
• 2010 Awards for "Keeping Promise Rock" Awarded by Love Romance Cafe
• Runner Up Award for best contemporary book. Winner of best erotic book.
• Joyfully Reviewed voted Amy Lane's Truth in the Dark one of the 10 Best for 2010
• 2011 DABWAHA Finalist for "Keeping Promise Rock"
Joie Lesin
Minnesota-based author, Joie Lesin is a life-long fiction writer and the author of The Passenger. She has long been fascinated by anything otherworldly including ghosts. She loves to write a good ghost story—especially when it includes a touch of romance.
Originally from Massachusetts, at six years old, Joie moved to her mother’s birthplace, Minnesota. By eight, Joie lost her New England accent, however, it's gradually returning as the years go by. She grew up in Minneapolis but now resides in St. Paul with her husband and their blended family—which includes a rambunctious grand-corgi.
Joie misses the ocean, but she often finds herself walking by one of Minnesota’s many lakes and travels to one of the coasts as often as she can. In fact, she considers California her home away from home. When she’s not writing, reading, or walking, you can find her listening to music. She absolutely loves music—especially live—and songs have sparked most of her story ideas.
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Dee S. Knight
A few years ago, Dee S. Knight began writing, making getting up in the morning fun. During the day, her characters killed people, fell in love, became drunk with power, or sober with responsibility. And they had sex, lots of sex.
After a while, Dee split her personality into thirds. She writes as Anne Krist for sweeter romances, and Jenna Stewart for ménage and shifter stories. All three of her personas are found on the Nomad Authors website (www.nomadauthors.com). Fortunately, Dee’s high school sweetheart is the love of her life and husband to all three ladies! Once a month, look for Dee’s Charity Sunday blog posts, where your comment can support a selected charity.
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Vi Lily
Vi Lily is a new author of clean and funny romance that include paranormal, urban fantasy, time travel and sci-fi novels filled with epic love stories, scary adventures, and lots of funny moments.
She lives in the southwest USA with her own alpha soul mate, as well as a whole household of furbabies. Check out her website to join the mailing list that will keep you up to date on book releases!
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Anna Lowe
USA Today and Amazon best selling author Anna Lowe loves putting the “hero” back into heroine and letting location ignite a passionate romance. She loves dogs, sports, and travel – and letting those inspire her fiction. On any given weekend, you might find her hiking in the mountains or hunched over her laptop, working on her latest story – be that travel romance, adventure romance, or paranormal romance. Either way, the day will end with a chunk of dark chocolate and a good read.
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Susan Mac Nicol
Susan Mac Nicol is a self-confessed bookaholic, an avid watcher of videos of sexy pole dancing men, geek, nerd and in love with her Smartphone. This little treasure is called "the boyfriend" by her long suffering husband, who says if it vibrated, there'd be no need for him. Susan hasn't had the heart to tell him there's an app for that.
In an ideal world, Susan Mac Nicol would be Queen of England and banish all the bad people to the Never Never Lands of Wherever-Who Cares. As that's never going to happen, she contents herself with writing her HEA stories and pretending, that just for a little while, good things happen to good people.
Sue is a PAN member of Romance Writers of America and is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association in the UK. She's also Editorial Manager and proud part owner of LGBT e-zine, Divine Magazine.
Kenzie Mathews
Kenzie Mathews writes erotica, dark fantasy and horror. She's been within the following anthologies: "The Sexy Librarian's Dirty Thirty." "Best Gay Erotica: 2015 & 2017," "Best Lesbian Erotica: 3 editions", " Of Devils and Deviants," and others. She currently has a m/m erotic romance coming out April 1, 2024 with The Wild Rose Press.
When not writing, she loves on her rescued mutts, drinks a lot of coffee, and reads. You can see more of her work at: author central Kenzie Mathews.
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EG Manetti
I write from the world around me, and the world around me is full of color.
Award winning author, EG Manetti has always enjoyed a vivid imagination and occasional scribbling. In 2010 she was struck by the inspiration for The Twelve Systems Chronicles. The draft of a single novel soon became three, and then more. In 2012, after several hundred thousand words, The Cartel: The Apprentice, Volume 1 was published, followed by nine other volumes. The tenth and final volume of The Twelve Systems Chronicles, Thorn Bearer, released September 21, 2021. To date, the three volumes and the series have received Reviewers Choice awards from the Paranormal Romance Guild, and volumes three and five, and seven, and nine were finalists for the prestigious InD’tale RONE Award (Reward for Novel Excellence), and Shield Bearer (Volume 9) received the 2021 RONE for Science Fiction.
A former information technology project manager, EG writes as often as possible, cooks exceptionally, and gardens adequately. She resides in Florida with her beloved (and often confounded) husband and their severely OCD Jack Russell Terrier.
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Diana Marik
Diana Marik is the award-winning author of the romantic urban fantasy series, The Seven Deadly Veils (20221 Recipient of the Passionate Plume for Best Paranormal-Veil of Orion (Speculative). A longtime fan of paranormal romance and urban fantasy, she loves stories with supernatural elements, intriguing mysteries, and spicy romance. A former member of RWA, she grew up in New York City and has her MA in English literature from Hofstra University.
She spent several years as a teacher of English Literature and as a yoga instructor. A history buff, Diana loves discovering museums in whatever city she happens to be visiting. Her favorite spots to visit are in the American Southwest, but she considers New Orleans her home away from home. Is it any wonder she loves gourmet cooking and is addicted to cooking shows.
Penelope Marzec
Penelope Marzec grew up along the Jersey shore, heard stories about Captain Kidd, and dug for his buried treasure. Her adventure resulted in a bad case of poison ivy. Deciding books were better than buried treasure, she discovered romance novels and was soon hooked on happy endings. She became an early childhood educator and found her own hero in an electrical engineer who grew up in Brooklyn, played the accordion, and was immune to poison ivy. Now retired, Penelope either writes her stories or paints seascapes in oils. Sometimes she sings while her husband plays the accordion.
Penelope writes in several subgenres of romance. You can find her online at:
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Meghan Maslow
Mischief, Magic, and Murder . . . That's a Maslow!
If you're looking for comedy, fantasy, or dead bodies in your romances (sometimes all three at once!), I'm your gal. I'm also a. . . gasp!. . . extroverted writer. It seems counterintuitive that as someone who is energized by people, I spend most of my time alone. Yet, that's the case. And I don't mind.
Mostly.
If I get writer's block or start to go a little stir crazy, I head out to a coffee shop, a restaurant, a friend's place--anywhere to fill up my need for human contact. It also helps that I spend a lot of time with the voices in my head. Some of them are really quite opinionated.
I love writing gay romance because I'm a sap for a happy ending, and I believe everyone—regardless of orientation—should be able to find books that have them. And if that romance comes with a dash of mischief, magic, or murder, all the better.
I believe that life is for living, kindness is contagious, and a good book makes the world a better place.
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Elizabeth Mason
Elizabeth is a Cali girl who should enjoy the California sun more than she does. She’s content being indoors writing and creating spooky stories with strong leading women and bad boy leading men. With a degree in psychology, Elizabeth is drawn to the complexities of human behavior. The diversity of personalities, interactions, emotions, and relationships reflect in her writing.
When Elizabeth isn’t busy typing away, she enjoys time with her husband, two boys, and her two Weimaraner pups. And thanks to her love for lattes, she enjoys reading paranormal romance late into the night. Her husband and her two boys inspired her to never give up, and thanks to them, she’s proud to announce her debut novel: Love Me To Hell And Back. A haunting tale of self-reflection and forgiveness, even in the darkness of Hell.
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Dorothy McCoy
Greetings, Dear Readers! I have written several books and I can write about law enforcement because I worked as a South Carolina State Constable, taught at the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy, and worked briefly in a Cold Case Squad. Fascinating!
I have been a licensed counselor for almost 20 years; I have spoken at numerous international conferences on psychopaths and narcissists, and written books related to counseling. The material for this series, The Mysterious Secret Guardians, was pulled from my hard-earned knowledge and experience. I enjoy research, a skill I leaned on heavily in crafting my books. The history is accurate, the locations and science described are accurate. Before embarking on this project, I read every book I could find on Winston Churchill, as well as many of the 72 books he wrote. I am a lover of mystery and paranormal stories and this was my chance to write both and what fun it was! I can't stop writing the series because my characters would die! So, more to come!
BTW, Sophie, the ghost Great Dane, helps me with the big words.
I love gardening, hiking, the beach, and stimulating conversation! I would love to hear from you please reach out to me or Sophie. We answer! Hugs, Bones
S.M. McCoy
Stevie Marie is the author of young adult paranormal fantasy, The Divine Series, and The Acatalec Series. Born within the apex of another universe, where magic flows like leaky faucets, and forged from the fires of the Underrealm she dug her way to Earth and reluctantly participates in human society, secretly returning to her home world to relay the stories of her monsters, and the troubled love of her people. When she isn’t writing she’s designing clothing, momming it up with her tiny monsters, or narrating audiobooks in the rainy city of Seattle, Washington
J.E. McDonald
J.E. McDonald was born and raised in Saskatchewan, Canada, The Land of the Living Skies. As a child, she was either searching the clouds for identifiable shapes, or star-gazing way past her bedtime. She cut her teeth watching Star Trek, James Bond movies, and reading the Harlequin novels her mother left in the bathroom—which resulted in an extremely skewed sense of sex education by age eleven. All of these factors contribute to her love of writing rom coms with a paranormal twist, romantic suspense, and far-future romance.
J.E. resides in Saskatchewan with her husband and three daughters, a stay at home mom by day, and an obsessed writer by night.
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Kaylin McFarren
Kaylin McFarren has received more than 60 national literary awards, in addition to a prestigious RWA Golden Heart Award nomination for FLAHERTY'S CROSSING - a book she and her oldest daughter, New York Times/USA Today best-selling author Kristina McMorris, co-wrote in 2008. Prior to embarking on her writing journey and developing the popular THREADS psychological thriller series, she poured her passion for creativity into her work as the director of a fine art gallery in the Pearl District in Portland, Oregon; she also served as a governor-appointed member of the Oregon Arts Commission.
Her award-winning time-travel adventure, HIGH FLYING, asks challenging questions that will linger long after the final twists are revealed. Jumping to the supernatural-horror genre, Kaylin's clever GEHENNA series leads readers into the pit of Hell, through the mechanisms of secret societies, and across the Earth’s crust, ever raising the stakes for her leading duo—a wicked demon and guardian angel presented with shocking revelations.
With each story she writes, this author delivers unexpected twists and turns and keeps her readers on the edge of their seats, leaving them guessing and thoroughly entertained. When she's not traveling or spoiling her two pups and three grandsons, Kaylin enjoys giving back to her community through participation and support of various charitable, medical and educational organizations in the Pacific Northwest, and divides her time between her homes in Portland, Oregon and San Diego, California.
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Tessa McFionn
Tessa McFionn has called Southern California home for most of her life, growing up in San Diego and attending college in Orange County, only to return to San Diego to work as a teacher.
When not writing, she can be found at the movies or at Disneyland with her husband, as well as family, friends or anyone who wants to play at the Happiest Place on Earth.
A proud parent of far too many high school seniors and two still living house plants, she also enjoys hockey, reading and playing Words With Friends to keep her vocabulary sharp.
Casi McLean
USA Today & Amazon Best Selling Author, Casi McLean, pens novels to stir the soul, crossing genres from ethereal captivating shorts with eerie twist endings to believable time slips, ghostly encounters, mystical plots, heart-pounding thrillers, and sensual romantic suspense--all dusted with a sprinkle of magic.
Known for enchanting stories with magical description, McLean entices readers with fascinating hooks to hold them captive in storylines they can't put down. Her romance entwines strong, believable heroines with delicious, hot heroes to tempt the deepest desires, then fans the flames, sweeping readers into their innermost romantic fantasies.
With suspenseful settings and lovable characters you'll devour, you'll see, hear, and feel the magical eeriness of one fateful night. You'll swear time travel could happen, be mystified by other worldly images, and feel the heat of romantic suspense, but most of all you'll want more.
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Lloyd A. Meeker
I’m a mystic, writer, healer, lover, cancer survivor, father, friend. I write (mostly) gay fiction featuring all those paths and more.
Having led what can only be described as a checkered life, I can honestly say I’m grateful for all of it. I’ve been a minister, an office worker, a janitor, a drinker, and a software developer on my way to finishing my first novel in 2004.
But basically I’m just a psychic empath, a little weather-beaten and still learning how to live in the world just the way it is. The thing is, I experience the world as so much more than is generally accepted. That’s the challenge. Writing stories is the best way I’ve found to examine and share the questions, the wonders I engage daily.
My husband and I have been together since 2002, married since 2007. Between us we have four children and five grandchildren. We're based in south Florida, and work hard to keep up with the astonishing life we've created for ourselves.
R.L. Merrill
R.L. Merrill brings you quirky and relatable characters and romance full of Hope, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll. Whether she’s writing about contemporary issues that affect us all or diving deep into the paranormal and supernatural to give readers a shiver, she loves creating compelling stories that will stay with readers long after. You can find her lurking on social media, where she loves connecting with readers, educating America’s youth, raising two brilliant teenagers, trying desperately to get that back piece finished in the tattoo chair, or headbanging at a rock show near her home in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Patti Petrone Miller
Ladies and gentlemen, step right up to "Where the Magic Happens" - a literary circus that'll make your bookshelf do backflips!
Meet Patti, the ringmaster of this wordy wonderland! She's not just an Executive Producer; she's a word-wrangling wizard, conjuring up an animated TV series based on "ELLIOT FINDS A HOME." It's the tail-wagging tale of a thumbs-up pup and his silent sidekick, proving that you don't need words when you've got opposable digits and a heart of gold!
Hold onto your bestseller lists, folks! This Polygon Entertainment superstar has hit the USA TODAY jackpot and Amazon's #1 spot more times than a cat has lives. With 7 dozen books under her belt, she's got more genres than a chameleon has colors. From Urban Fantasy to Horror, she's been spinning yarns longer than your grandma's knitting needles!
H.L. Moore
H. L. Moore is a Australian writer of LGBT+ fiction. She holds a Master of Arts in International Relations (2015) and a Bachelor of Media in Communications and Journalism (2012), both from the University of New South Wales.
She is a Jewish lesbian of Middle Eastern (Egyptian) heritage. She has been writing stories since she was old enough to hold a pen. Her biggest literary influences are Adrian Tchaikovsky, Brandon Sanderson, and C. S. Pacat.
She is the author of M/M fantasy romance novels Heart Of Dust and Soul Of Ash, Books 1 & 2 of the Death's Embrace series. She has had two short stories published: “The Collector” in the 2014 Future Times Award Collection A Tick Tock Heart, and “Entente” in the 2020 Twisted Stories Award Collection Just Alice.
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Marianne Morea
I love to read almost as much as I love to write. My favorite stories are the ones that transport me... that bring me to places and people that leave me breathless, sparking the fire of my imagination, allowing me to dream in the world of 'what if?'
I've always been a scribbler. From the time I could write, I've been making up stories. So, a few years ago I decided that I needed to do what I love the most. Write. I'm proud to say that while most editors respond to submissions with a blanket form letter, enough responded to my work personally, giving me hope I truly did have talent. I guess they were right, because my debut novella, Hunter's Blood, has been received with wonderful reviews. In the meantime I'm still writing... and when I'm not 'bichok' (butt in a chair hands on keyboard), I'm spending time with my husband and our three kids, traveling to exciting, romantic places (for inspiration, of course) or training for my 2nd degree black belt in traditional Japanese karate.
Christopher D. Morgan
New York Times best selling author Christopher Morgan is an author, blogger, IT Manager, graphics artist, businessman, volunteer and family man living in Melbourne, Australia. Much of his time is spent volunteering for his local community. He creates visual learning resources for primary school children, which are marketed through his company Bounce Learning Kids. He is also involved in local civics and sits on various community & council committees.
Christopher was born in the UK and grew up in England’s South East. At age 20, he moved to The Netherlands, where he married Sandy, his wife of 28 years. Christopher quickly learned Dutch and the couple spent 8 years living in the far South of that country before they moved to Florida in 1996. After spending 7 years in Florida, Christopher and Sandy sold their home and spent the next 2 years backpacking around the world. Christopher has visited around 40 countries to date.
Whilst circumnavigating the globe, Christopher wrote extensively, churning out travel journals. He and Sandy settled back in the UK at the end of their world tour, where their two children were both born. In 2009, the family moved to Melbourne, Australia, where they now live.
FORESTIUM is Christopher’s debut novel and is the first in the PORTALLAS series.
Sherrie Lea Morgan
One of Sherrie’s goals while writing her stories is to encourage readers to see ghosts differently. She loves to add in other paranormal elements along with a twist of mystery suspense in her stories, as well. She lives north of Atlanta, GA with her twin sister, two dogs and one cat. When not working on her current manuscripts, she loves spending time her family. Although said family members refuse to join her in her paranormal movie thrills, they are supportive in her obsession of all things scary.
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Nadine Nightengale
Nadine aka Dini is a traveler at heart. She considers the world her home and practically lives out of her suitcases. When she’s not glaring at a blank page or abusing her poor keyboard, she spends her time reading, watching movies (preferably horror), pretends to work out, and hangs out with friends and family. Poor girl also suffers from a serious Marvel superhero addiction. So, if you run into her at night, wearing black, know she’s secretly dreaming of being the infamous Black Widow.
Her love for writing started in the sixth grade where she annoyed her classmates with a short story featuring Sailor Moon characters, a cemetery, and creepy ghosts. Yes, she’s always been addicted to the dark side. Nadine writes paranormal romance. Her debut novel “Karma” the first book in her paranormal romance series Drag.Me.To.Hell. is published by the Wild Rose Press.
AK Nevermore
AK Nevermore enjoys operating heavy machinery, freebases coffee, and gives up sarcasm for Lent every year.
A Jane-of-all-trades, she’s a certified chef, restores antiques, and dabbles in beekeeping when she’s not reading voraciously or running down the dream in her beat-up camo Chucks.
Unable to ignore the voices in her head, and unwilling to become medicated, she writes Science Fiction and Fantasy full time.
Her literary aspirations have led her to complete several writing courses, a smattering of mentorships, and her work has been long-listed by the Australian Writer’s Centre. She pays the bills editing, taking care of the day-to-day over at DIY MFA’s blog, where she wields a wicked hot pink editing pen and writes a column on SFF. She also belongs to the Authors Guild, is a chapter treasurer for the RWA, teaches creative writing, and on the rare occasion, sleeps.
Her first novel, Flame & Shadow, is currently set to be published by The Wild Rose Press.
Elizabeth Noble
Mystery, action, chills, and thrills spiced with romance and desire. ELIZABETH NOBLE lives by the adage "I can't not write." She doesn't remember a time when she didn’t make up stories and eventually she learned how to put words on a page. Those words turned into books and fan fiction that turned into a genuine love of M/M fiction. A part of every day is spent living in worlds she created that are filled with intrigue and espionage. She has a real love for a good mystery complete with murder and twisty plots as well as all things sci-fi, futuristic, and supernatural.
Ocsana Nox
I am a Southern girl born and raised in Florence, Alabama. I've loved paranormal romance ever since I saw Dark Shadows as a kid. I think I'm particularly geared for the paranormal since I grew up in a haunted house and had family members who grew up around ghosts or had paranormal experiences throughout their lives.
And so, have I. I don't think there's one thing wrong with romances between ghosts, vampires, werewolves, you name your supernatural entity of choice, and humans. Afterall, some of these entities were human at one time except for demons, Chthonic monsters, or aliens. It gets kinky in spots.
I've written a fanfiction novel concerning Dark Shadows that I've posted on Archive of Our Own under Ocsana Nox. People like it and if you are a fan of Dark Shadows, check it out if you're so inclined. When my commercial paranormal novel is done, I hope to get it out to all the readers who like the romance with a vampire coupled with the menace of a villain trope.
Leslie O'Sullivan
Leslie O’Sullivan is the author of “Rockin' Fairy Tales,” an adult romance series of Shakespeare/fairy tale mash ups set against the backdrop of the Hollywood music scene from City Owl Press. Her “Behind the Scenes,” series featuring the off camera romantic entanglements on a TV historical romance comes out in fall of 2022.
She’s a UCLA Bruin with a BA and MFA in Theater Arts and Theatrical Design as well as years on the faculty of their Department of Theater. Leslie’s first-hand experience in the world of TV was as the assistant art director on “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show.” She’s a California girl who loves the beach.
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Abigail Owen
Multi-award-winning author, Abigail Owen, writes adult paranormal romance & upper YA/new adult fantasy romance. She loves plots that move hot and fast, feisty heroines with sass, heroes with heart, a dash of snark, and oodles of HEAs! Other titles include wife, mother, Star Wars geek, ex-competitive skydiver, spreadsheet lover, eMBA, organizational guru, Texan, Aggie, and chocoholic.
Abigail attempted to find a practical career related to her favorite pastime by earning a degree in English Rhetoric (Technical Writing) and an MBA. However, she swiftly discovered that writing without imagination is not nearly as fun as writing with it.
Abigail currently resides in Austin, Texas, with her own swoon-worthy hero, their (mostly) angelic kids, who are growing up way too fast, and two adorable fur babies.
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Linda Palmer (Linda Varner)
Linda Palmer has always had a vivid imagination and loved creating elaborate scenarios when playing with her sisters and friends as a child. She began writing for pleasure in the third grade, mostly poetry, and has letters from her grade school teachers predicting she'd be an author. Her poems eventually became short stories; her short stories became books. And even though a writing career was never actually a dream, it was something she pursued with intent after joining a writer's group. Silhouette Books published Linda's first novel in 1989 and the next twenty over a ten-year period (writing as Linda Varner). In 1999 she took a break to take care of her family, but learned that she couldn't not write and began again, changing her genre to young adult/new adult paranormal romance. She has now written over forty full-length novels as well as numerous novellas and short stories. There are always more in the works.
Linda was a Romance Writers of America finalist twice and won the 2011 and 2012 EPIC eBook awards in the Young Adult category. She was a finalist in that category in 2013, and is a finalist in the 2014 contest. She married her junior high school sweetheart many years ago and lives in Arkansas, USA with her family.
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Hanna Park
I began my writing career in the pre-dawn of a winter morning while my husband snored like a train. We could call my husband the catalyst. If it weren’t for him, I would never have gone to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee, feed the cat, and sit on the loveseat in front of the fire. It was there, in those moments of wondrous quiet, that I did something I had never thought possible. I opened my laptop, and while the coffee went cold, I wrote a story. My husband had no idea that these sojourns to the loveseat in front of the fire would become a daily occurrence, that writing would become an obsession, but the cat knew. She knows everything.
I write stories that make you laugh, make you cry, and make you love. Thank you, friends, for reading!
In the beginning, there was an empty page.
I am a writer who lives in Muskoka, Canada, with a husband who snores, a hungry cat, and an almost perfect canine––he’s an adorable little shit.
Sherry Perkins
Sherry Perkins has worked as a licensed practical nurse for more than thirty-five years and has experience in psychiatric/addictions nursing, nursing-care coordination, and risk management. She earned a BS in health sciences from Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina, and has spoken at public health functions on topics such as addiction prevention and treatment, prevention of teenage opioid deaths, and connecting patients who are resistant to treatment with appropriate services.
A mother of four, Perkins lives with extended family on the Delmarva Peninsula, where she enjoys collecting shells and sea glass; reading mysteries, science fiction, and fantasy; doing organic gardening; and following the Dave Matthews Band around the East Coast. At the End of the Rainbow is the first in a series of books inspired by a visit to Northern Ireland and a yearning to return there one day.
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Jack L. Pyke
Jack blames her dark writing influences on living close to one of England’s finest forests. Having grown up hearing a history of kidnappings, murders, strange sightings, and sexual exploits her neck of the woods is renowned for, Jack takes that into her writing, having also learned that human coping strategies for intense situations can sometimes make the best of people have disastrously bad moments. Redeeming those flaws is Jack’s drive.
CJ Ravenna
CJ Ravenna loves to tell stories where the ordinary meets the extraordinary. Her books often feature an explosion or two, possessive and protective werewolves who adore their mates, steamy and swoony romance, and of course a happy ending.
Emma Leigh Reed
Emma Leigh Reed, originally from New Hampshire, now resides in Tennessee. She has fond memories of the Maine coastline and incorporates the ocean into all her books. She has three grown children and is enjoying her empty nest.
Her life has been touched and changed by her son's autism - she views life through a very different lens than before he was born.
Growing up as an avid reader, it was only natural for Emma Leigh to turn to creating the stories for others to enjoy. Emma Leigh continues to learn through her children's strength and abilities that pushes her to go outside her comfort zone on a regular basis. She is the author of romantic suspense, women’s fiction and has co-authored children’s books.
Rebecca Rivard
Rebecca Rivard is a USA Today bestselling author of sexy, twisty paranormal romance. As a teenager she read way-too many romances, little realizing she was actually preparing for a career. She now spends her days with shifters, fae and vampires.
Her Fada Shapeshifter Series was voted “Best Shifter Series of 2018” in the Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewer’s Choice Awards, and Saving Jace was chosen “Best Shifter Book.” Her Vampire Syndicate Series has also finaled in PRG's Reviewer's Choice Awards, and her novel Charming Marjani won FF&P's PRISM Award for Best Urban Fantasy Romance.
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Lily Riley
Lily Riley is a romance novelist currently focused on historical paranormal books that feature a little bit of cheek and a lot of steam.
Her debut novel, The Assassin and the Libertine, publishing under the Mystic Owl imprint of City Owl Press, is the first of Les Dames Dangereuses series, which feature formidable women finding love in tempestuous pre-revolutionary France.
When Lily isn’t writing about dreamy supernatural beings in 18th century France, she enjoys sipping wine, eating cake, and dancing naked by the light of the full moon.
Anne Rollins
Anne Rollins is the pen name of an English professor who lives in Northern California with her family, her pets, and an enormous collection of books. She is a fan of Diana Wynne Jones and Jane Austen, two authors whose writing influenced her Regency fantasy romances.
Ella Rose
Ella Rose identifies as a threat and as such her pronouns are (try/me). A lover of all things folklore, spicy stories, and happy endings, she writes steamy Paranormal Romance. Her debut novel, Stealing the Selkie’s Heart, drops July 2022, and her selkie short stories can be found in Dark Rose Press’s Worlds Apart and Dragon Soul Press’s Beyond Atlantis anthologies. She is also a member of the Romance Writers of America (RWA).
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Mary Rundle
A few years ago, I wrote my first book, Dire Warning. Readers loved it and I was on my way to chronicle the Blackwood Pack, seven brothers who are gay wolf shifters in search of their fated mates—stories about love at first sight with twists and turns, angst and humor, romance and adventure and, of course, happy endings. Since then, the pack has expanded, allowing more stories to be told and different paranormals to be included. The series has become, as one reader described it…an “Epic Saga.”
I live in the Northeast and love the beautiful change of seasons, my husband, and our quirky calico cat, though not necessarily in that order. I read a lot (good for the mind) and love gardening (good for the soul). And I’m always happy to hear from my readers and can be reached through Facebook, my private Facebook Group, Twitter, Instagram, or my website.
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E.J. Russell
E.J. Russell–grace, mother of three, recovering actor–writes romance and mystery in a rainbow of flavors. Count on high snark, low angst and happy endings.
Reality? Eh, not so much.
E.J. lives in rural Oregon, enjoys visits from her wonderful adult children, and indulges in good books, red wine, and the occasional hyperbole.
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Anika Savoy
Anika Savoy was bitten by the writing bug as a young child. In her teen years, she read romance novels by authors like Barbara Taylor Bradford and Taylor Caldwell, and vowed to one day write page-turning historical romance.
Anika graduated with Distinction from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec where she majored in English literature and won several creative writing awards. She thereafter graduated with Dean’s Honors from University of Cincinnati, College of Law and practiced law for 20 years. Her interest in all things historical and paranormal is reflected in her award-winning Ungilded Series, published by Inkspell Publishing, in which turn-of-the-century heroines face and overcome supernatural obstacles in pursuit of a happily- ever-after ending.
She also writes best-selling nonfiction under the name Anne K. Howard. Visit Anika's website: www.anikasavoyauthor.com and check out her blog discussing issues facing working class women during the Gilded Age.
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Elizabeth Schechter
Elizabeth Schechter has been called one of the top erotica and alternative sexuality writers in the world. Her writing credits include the award-winning steampunk erotic romance House of Sable Locks, the Celtic fantasy Princes of Air, and the dystopian fantasy Rebel Mage trilogy. Her shorter work has appeared in anthologies edited by D.L King (Carnal Machines), Laura Antoniou (No Safewords 1 and 2), and Cecilia Tan (Jingle Balls; Like a Prince). She was born in New York at some point in the past. She is officially old enough to know better, but refuses to grow up. She lives in Central Florida with her husband and son.
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Jan Sikes
Jan Sikes is an award-winning Texas author who has been called a wordsmith by her peers. She openly admits that she never set out in life to be an author. But she had a story to tell. Not just any story, but a true story that rivals any fiction creation.
You simply can’t make this stuff up. It all happened. She chose to create fictitious characters to tell the story through, and they bring the intricately woven tale to life in an entertaining way. She released a series of music CDs to accompany the four biographical fiction books and then published a book of poetry and art to complete the story circle.
And now that the story is told, this author can’t find a way to put down the pen. She continues to write fiction and has published numerous award-winning short stories with a series of paranormal romance novels waiting in the wings. She is a member of the RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB (RRBC), serves as Vice-President of the RAVE WRITER’S INT’L SOCIETY OF AUTHOR (RWISA), sits on the RWISA Executive Council and is an active member of Author’s Marketing, Org, Writer’s League of Texas, and the Romance Writers of America.
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S. E. Smith
S.E. Smith is a New York Times, USA TODAY, International, and Award-Winning Bestselling author of science fiction, romance, fantasy, paranormal, and contemporary works for adults, young adults, and children. She enjoys writing a wide variety of genres that pull her readers into worlds that take them away.
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T.M. Smith
A master's degree in English and a doctorate in administration led me to education. After retiring from my career as a teacher and principal, I settled in to write something more creative than lesson plans on split infinitives and inner-school memos on noise in the hallway.
My first novel was the romantic mystery comedy romp AFFECTION FOR CRIME. I am now living with vampires, demons, ylves, mages, and other magical beings who keep me awake at night with their tales of love and adventure. Taking great interest in their lives, I began a paranormal romance series with alpha males who aren't always nice and females who have no problem keeping them in line. THE FIREBRAND is the first book in the Blood Coven Series. Get on my mailing list to find dates and times for upcoming books in the series at http://eepurl.com/h8rQVL.
Here are more orts, scraps, and fragments from my life. (Thank you, Virginia Wolf and Shakespeare.) I moved from sunny Las Vegas to the less-than-sunny Pacific Northwest. Here I have adventures with my daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters who also moved to the area. I also enjoy my membership at Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN), a local organization that supports the arts and offers classes and events in eleven different studios. It was at BARN where my critique group began. With equal time given to in-depth comments on each other's works, snarky remarks, and laughter, we have now been together over five years.
Meredith Spies
Meredith(they/them/theirs) likes to write about spooky stuff and kissing. And sometimes spooky stuff kissing. Originally from Texas, they live elsewhere now with their family and two cats who think they are gods (in fact, they're pretty sure of it). Meredith writes queer-centered romances in various subgenres including paranormal, speculative fiction/alternate universe, contemporary, and historical. They firmly believe in happily ever afters and that there is no reason anyone should wear socks with open toe shoes.
K. Sterling
K. Sterling writes like a demon and is mother to Alex, Zoe, Stella, and numerous gay superheroes. She’s also a history nerd, a Lord of the Rings fan, and a former counterintelligence agent. She has self-published dozens of M/M romance novels including the popular Boys of Lake Cliff series and Happily Ever Alfie. K. Sterling is known for fast-paced romantic thrillers and touching gay romcoms. There might be goosebumps and some gore but there’s always true love and lots of laughter. <
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Tena Stetler
Tena Stetler is a paranormal romance and cozy mystery author with an over-active imagination. She wrote her first vampire romance as a tween, to the chagrin of her mother and the delight of her friends. With the Rocky Mountains outside her window, Tena sits at her computer surrounded by a wide array of paranormal creatures telling her their tales. Colorado is her home; shared with her husband of many moons, a brilliant Chow Chow, a spoiled parrot and a forty-year-old box turtle. Any evening, you can find her curled up in front of a crackling fire with a good book, a mug of hot chocolate and a big bowl of popcorn. Her books tell tales of magical kick-ass women and mystical alpha males that dare to love them. Well,okay there are a few companion animals to round out the tales.
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T.M. Sulsona
T. M. Sulsona resides in New Jersey with her husband and family and writes her specialized form of paranormal/fantasy romance in the evenings when no one is looking. Alpha shifters who exude sexual prowess lurk in every corner. Drawing on myths and forgotten legends, T. M.'s characters are different and unusual - no vamps or weres here! All her books come under the collective heading of Stories from the Mist.
When not dwelling in the mists of her mind, she can be found gaming online, crocheting or making homemade soap. The author draws inspiration from the likes of JR Ward, Lara Adrian, Nalini Singh and Karen Marie Moning. T.M.'s books have been nominated twice for PRG's Reviewer's Choice awards, and her novel, "The Colubrii: Awakening" won 2012 Paranormal Romance Guild's Reviewer's Choice Honorable Mention.
If you are looking for something different in the world of the paranormal, look no further. Go ahead. Enter the mist...and be consumed.
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Linda Thomas-Sundstrom
Linda Thomas-Sundstrom is an award-winning author of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and fantasy novels and novellas, writing for Kensington Brava, Amazon Montlake, HarperCollins/Harlequin Nocturne and Desire, and GothicScapes, with more than 35 published stories in the supernatural realms.
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Mary Patterson Thornburg
Mary Patterson Thornburg's dream was always to write fantasy stories and novels, but what with one thing and another she didn't get started until she and her husband moved west in 1998. When she'd finished her first story and it was published, she took off running and never looked back. She is currently in Montana, writing as fast as she can.
Toni V. Sweeney
Toni V. Sweeney was born in the time space between the War Between the States and the Gulf War. She has lived 30 years in the South, a score in the Middle West, and a decade on the Pacific Coast and now she's trying for her second 30 on the Great Plains. An accomplished artist as well as writer, she has a degree in Fine Art and a diploma in Graphic Art and also produces videos. Since the publication of her first novel in 1989, Toni divides her time between writing SF/Fantasy under her own name and romances often set in the South under her pseudonym Icy Snow Blackstone. Toni also reviews books for TwoLips Reviews and recently was asked to join the review staff of the New York Journal of Books. She has been associated with the South Coast Writer's Association, the Pink Fuzzy Slipper Writers, several dozen writers' loops, myspace, Facebook, and YouTube. Her 34th novel was recently published.
Mary Patterson Thornburg
Mary (aka Miki) Patterson Thornburg was born in California, grew up in Washington State, moved to Montana when she was eighteen, and spent many years in Indiana, where she studied and then taught at Ball State University. Her dream was always to write fiction, but she didn't get started until she and her husband moved back to Montana. Since then, she's had stories in Cicada, Zahir, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Strange, Weird, and Wonderful, among other places. Two of her short stories earned honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (2006, 2008). "Niam's Tale," in the July/August 2010 Cicada, won the coveted SCBWI 2011 Magazine Merit Honor Certificate. Her first novel, A Glimmer of Guile, was published by Uncial Press in 2014. Her second book for Uncial, The Kura, came out in 2015. She’s had several “Novel Bytes” (novella-length stories) published by Uncial and has self-published several others, along with a few short stories. A collection of fourteen tales, In the Skull Palace and Other Stories, was published in 2021, and a short novel, Luke Blackmon’s Rose, is due to be released by Uncial Press in March 2023.
What kind of fiction does Thornburg write? Well, she’s searched for a way to identify it. Almost always, her stories are a few steps away from the real world. Or sometimes a few miles, or a few parsecs. But only a couple of times has she slid into classic fantasy, and then she quickly slid out again. Her friend the writer D. L. Russell has this to say about her fiction: “Thornburg writes within that zone of interest between excellent speculative fiction and world building, rich in Humanity…” (a testimonial she often rereads to cheer herself up). She used to call her work science-fantasy, but nobody seemed to know what that meant. So now she describes it in the words of her point-of-view character in Luke Blackmon’s Rose: “This is the kind of weird stuff I write about. Not science fiction – I can’t do that, or at least I can’t do it with real science, just with made-up science. Okay, fake science. It’s a kind of tool, I guess. A metaphor. But fantasy, of a sort. I love it and it fascinates me.”
She guesses she’s invented a new genre: Fake science fiction. Almost always with a bit, or more than a bit, of real romance.
Hadley Thorne
Realism, myth, magic, and sci-fi collide in a gripping urban fantasy saga, Tapestry of Worlds by author and podcast creator Hadley Thorne. Thorne expertly ties in supernatural and mythical elements with relevant current events, including the Covid-19 pandemic. It is her greatest pleasure to bring some light into others’ darkness by introducing them to wyrd concepts, theories, myths, and legends. When she is not writing, you can find Hadley gardening, spending time with her fur kids, family of choice, or working on the Wyrd Realities Podcast.
Maggie Toussaint
Southern author Maggie Toussaint writes mystery, suspense, and futuristic fiction. Her work won two Silver Falchion Awards, the Readers’ Choice Award, and the EPIC Award. She is a two-time finalist for Georgia Author of the Year. Under her name and her pen name of Rigel Carson, she’s published twenty novels as well as several short stories and novellas. The latest book in her paranormal mystery series, Dreamed It, released June 1, 2019. Maggie serves on the board of Southeast Mystery Writers of America and is Vice-President for Low Country Sisters In Crime. She lives in coastal Georgia where live oaks and heritage cast long shadows. Visit her at www.maggietoussaint.com.
A.R. Vagnetti
A.R. Vagnetti is an American writer who grew up in the scalding Tucson desert. Her debut novel, Forgotten Storm, is the first book in her Storm Series and won the Top 20 Best Indie Books of 2019.
She does her best writing while camping, traveling, and on the beautiful shores of Lake Huron where she is now blessed to spend her summers away from the Arizona heat.
A.R. loves to transport readers into a fantastical world of paranormal romance where bold Alpha males will sacrifice anything for the strong, deeply scared, kickass females they love.
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Augustina Van Hoven
Augustina Van Hoven was born in The Netherlands and currently resides in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and pets. She is an avid reader of romance, science fiction and fantasy. When she’s not writing she likes to work in her garden or in the winter months crochet and knit on her knitting machines.
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Jennifer Ivy Walker
Enthralled with legends of medieval knights and ladies, dark fairy tales and fantasies about Druids, wizards and magic, Jennifer Ivy Walker always dreamed of becoming a writer. She fell in love with French in junior high school, continuing her study of the language throughout college, eventually becoming a high school teacher and college professor of French.
As a high school teacher, she took her students every year to the annual French competition, where they performed a play she had written, "Yseult la Belle et Tristan la Bête"--an imaginative blend of the medieval French legend of "Tristan et Yseult" and the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast", enhanced with fantasy elements of a Celtic fairy and a wicked witch.
Her debut novel, "The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven"--the first of a trilogy-- is a blend of her love for medieval legends, the romantic French language, and paranormal fantasy. It is a retelling of the medieval French romance of "Tristan et Yseult", interwoven with Arthurian myth, dark fairy tales from the enchanted Forest of Brocéliande, and otherworldly elements such as Avalonian Elves, Druids, forest fairies and magic.
Explore her realm of Medieval French Fantasy. She hopes her novels will enchant you.
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Eric Allen Westfall
Eric is an American Midwesterner, and as Lady Glenhaven might say, “He’s old enough to have sailed with Noah.” In the real world he writes for a living, with some who would claim what he writes is fiction. His partner of thirty years—who died unexpectedly in 1995—encouraged him to try to get published, but it took him until 2013 to get started. Since then: 11 novels and novellas, 1 poetry collection, 2 short story collections, and 3 short stories.
“God willin’ and the crick don’t rise,” 2019 will bring two fairy tales novels/novellas (Eric never has the slightest idea how long anything will be until it’s done). First, The Tinderbox, starring our heroes Charlie, and Prince Caspian the Charming, plus a wicked witch, three magical dogs, and of course a tinderbox. Second, 3 Boars & A Wolf Walk Into A Bar (you know the source for this one). Hopefully 2020 will include The Truth About Them Damn Goats (as told by the troll), and either The Serpent Mark (Another England, 1816) or Strathairn’s Warrior (Another England 2016).
Real life, though, is a pain in the (anatomical site of your choice)...so no guarantees.
Rochelle Wilcox
Rochelle Wilcox was born and raised in Las Vegas, where she learned at an early age the value of fantasy and escape. Raised by a single mom -- one of the first women trained to deal poker in the early 70's -- Rochelle spent more time in casinos than most adults. She and her husband decided to leave the desert behind and raise their sons in Northern California, where they spend as much time on the water as they can.
Despite her lifelong passion for story-telling, Rochelle's path took her to law school and then to a practice focused on media law and appeals. But her love of writing wasn't sated with briefs bound by legal principles and a fealty to facts. And so she started to tell the story that had been playing in her mind for years, based on the Norse mythology she loved as a child and built around her favorite character -- the Norse God of Love, Freyr.
In Lost Long (Book I of the Freyr Chronicles), Freyr finds Lia, the woman who brings him to life after centuries of walking earth alone. Desperate to save Lia's life from members of his family determined to take it, Freyr and Lia travel across the earth, to the realm of giants deep below, and then to the mythical land of Asgard to convince Freyr's family to abandon the vengeance that drives them. In Book II of the Series, Wandering (coming September 1st), they will look for refuge in the most dangerous part of Africa, while Freyr and Lia learn more about each other and explore a love that Freyr's family would crush if they could. Book III, Alive Again, will take them to Iceland as they work to end the conflict in their family before Ragnarok descends upon them in Book IV. Along the way, Freyr will learn of Lia’s importance not just to him, but to all of humanity.
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Jenn Windrow
Jenn Windrow loves characters who have a pinch of spunk, a dash of attitude, and a large dollop of sex appeal. Top it all off with a huge heaping helping of snark, and you’ve got the ingredients for the kind of fast paced stories she loves to read and write. Home is a suburb of it’s-so-hot-my-shoes-have-melted-to-the-pavement Phoenix. Where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and a slew of animals that seem to keep following her home, at least that’s what she claims.
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I've been an avid reader for years. To my husband's dismay, I have bookshelves full of books, rooms full of books, boxes full of books. My cars have books in them. I just can't seem to get rid of them after I read them. You just never know when you will want to read it again, right?
About two years ago, my husband gave me the dream gift, a Kindle. It was love at first sight and my first foray into the world of ebooks. To say the least, I am a technologically challenged person but when a reader, such as I, is told that you can have the book you want to read in seconds, I'm going to do whatever it takes to learn how to use it as quickly as possible.
While I still have books everywhere, I no longer take ten or twelve books with me when I go on vacation. The only thing I need is my Kindle. It never leaves my purse.
My genre of choice is romance with a paranormal twist. My authors of choice are Diana Palmer, Iris Johansen, Catherine Coulter, Jill Gregory and of course, the queen, Nora Roberts. I am also very partial to Michael Connelly, who is not a romance author but damn that man can write!
In my life prior to becoming an author, I was a Legal Assistant/Office Manager for a wonderful local estate planning attorney (no criminals that I know of). Prior to that, I also worked my way up the ladder in a large corporation, from payroll clerk to supervising nine employees in operational accounting.
When my children, Shandelle and Pilar, were small, I took a few years off to be a full-time mom and help my husband with his accounting work for his auto repair shop.
After, Michael, my husband, sold his business, he changed professions and started working for a national construction company.
Michael and I raised two beautiful, strong women so that's who I write about. The women in my books are strong individuals that have moments of weakness and frailty to work through.
Cynthia Woolf
Cynthia Woolf was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in the mountains west of Golden. She spent her early years running wild around the mountain side with her friends.
Their closest neighbor was one quarter of a mile away, so her little brother was her playmate and her best friend. That fierce friendship lasted until his death in 2006.
Cynthia was and is an avid reader. Her mother was a librarian and brought new books home each week. This is where young Cynthia first got the storytelling bug. She wrote her first story at the age of ten. A romance about a little boy she liked at the time.
She worked her way through college and went to work full time straight after graduation and there was little time to write. Then in 1990 she and two friends started a round robin, writing a story about pirates. She found that she missed the writing and kept on with other stories. In 1992 she joined Colorado Romance Writers and Romance Writers of America. Unfortunately, the loss of her job demanded she not renew her memberships and her writing stagnated for many years.
In 2001, she saw an ad in the paper for a writers conference being put on by CRW and decided she'd attend. One of her favorite authors, Catherine Coulter, was the keynote speaker. Cynthia was lucky enough to have a seat at Ms. Coulter's table at the luncheon and after talking with her, decided she needed to get back to her writing. She rejoined both CRW and RWA that day and hasn't looked back.
Cynthia credits her wonderfully supportive husband Jim and the great friends she's made at CRW for saving her sanity and allowing her to explore her creativity.
K. Reagan Zell
I live at the Jersey shore with my husband, 2 St. Danes, and 4 cats. During the Covid lockdown and much time on my hands, I began to research my family tree and found some very interesting relatives to say the least. Managing to trace back to the 14th century, I had the idea for a paranormal/fantasy romance fictional story line and that is how the 9-Ebook Beguiled West Series was born. I am fortunate enough to have found that my true passion is writing fiction with universal psychological elements. PRG, RWA, RWF, ALLi, IAN, and A2SRWA member.