Allie Mackay
Allie Mackay has three grand passions: Scotland, all things medieval, and the paranormal. A firm believer in writing what you love, she blends these elements into her fun and sexy Scottish-set paranormals. She does the same with the Scottish medievals she pens under her real name, Sue-Ellen Welfonder. She’s married and makes her home on Florida’s Gulf Coast where her world is ruled by deadlines and the most loved Jack Russell Terrier on the planet.
Angela Knight
New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Angela Knight is the author of the Mageverse series staring a vampire King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. She lives in South Carolina with her handsome husband, a lieutenant with the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office.
Anne Marsh
Anne Marsh is known for deliciously sensual paranormal romance. Her first book in the Hunter’s Mate series, THE HUNT, was described as “unexpectedly and wonderfully enjoyable” and “Lora Leigh goes on the Amazing Race” (Mrs Giggles). She lives in Northern California with her husband, two kids, and four cats.
Carol Stephenson
Award winning author Carol Stephenson lives in southeast Florida with her beloved Shih Tzu. She’s an attorney by day and author by night. She’s best known for her emotionally drawn, hard-driving romances.
Catherine Spangler
National bestselling author Catherine Spangler lives in Texas with her husband and a menagerie of critters. A lifelong student of metaphysical subjects, she loves all things supernatural. Alter your reality with Catherine’s edgy, sexy paranormal romances.
Christina Crooks
Award-winning author Christina Crooks lives with her husband in Portland, Oregon. Her novels have been recommended by Booklist and published by Kensington and Five Star Publishing, and her short fiction has appeared in Hot Blood #13: Dark Passions, Space and Time Magazine, Chimeraworld, Quantum Kiss, and elsewhere.
Cindy Holby
Cindy Holby is an award winning author who lives in the foothills of NC. Since the beginning of her memories, her biggest desire has been to put words to paper. She’s written several historicals and also writes sci/fi romance and urban fantasy under the name Colby Hodge. Add to that her talent for being able to relate to teens and you have Kassy Tayler, who writes young adult.
Cindy lives within the shadow of Pilot Mountain NC with her own romance hero. Together they raised two exceptional sons and share their nest with a long haired doxie named Cody, and two cats, Maddie and Izzy.
CJ Barry
C.J. Barry grew up reading science fiction novels, comic books, and her brother’s Cracked magazines. From that illustrious start, she now brings a unique blend of high adventure and sizzling romance to her award-winning paranormal romances. By day, she works as a technical writer and web manager. By night, she takes care of her family, spoils her cat, co-hosts a writing podcast, and pens the books she was destined to write.
Crystal Jordan
Crystal Jordan is an award-winning paranormal, futuristic, and erotic romance author. A native of California, she has lived and worked all over the United States. Currently, she serves as a librarian at a university in her home state.
Cynthia Cooke
Many years ago, Cynthia Cooke lived a quiet, idyllic life caring for her 18-mo-old daughter. Peace gave way to chaos with the birth of boy/girl twins. Hip-deep in diapers and living in a world of sleep deprivation, Cynthia kept her sanity by escaping into romance novels. Now, many moons later, she is a multi-published, award-winning author who thrives in a reality filled with otherworldly creatures running on edge-of-your seat suspense.
Devyn Quinn
Devyn Quinn lives in the scenic Southwest, which is a whole lot of nothing going nowhere. She is a huge fan of dark gothic music & shoot-’em-up action movies. But reading is her first love and Devyn spends too much time feeding her addiction for celebrity biographies. She especially enjoys reading books on Hollywood before the 1960’s and is crazy about Marilyn Monroe, her legend and her myth.
Dianne Castell
USA Today Dianne Castell lives in Cincinnati where she cooks chicken and meatloaf for her two cats and writes fun, sexy, Southern stories with a touch of mystery and a ton of romance.
Eden Bradley / Eve Berlin
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Best-selling author Eden Bradley lives in Hollywood, California with a much younger man and three moody cats. She loves art, shoes, chocolate, trashy reality television and great books. She’s known for her sensual and often kinky erotic fiction, and has published a number of novels, novellas and short stories.
She is now writing romantic erotic fiction as Eve Berlin exclusively for Berkley Heat. The first ‘Eve’ book debuts in October, 2010.
Ellie James
Debut Young Adult author believes in dreams–and a whole host of other things that cannot be easily explained. Like ghosts. And connections. And…destiny. A native of deep south Louisiana, Ellie has always loved walking the streets–and cemeteries!–of the city that time (and care) forgot. It’s no surprise, then, that her debut trilogy for St.Martin’s Gryphon Books tells the tale of a young psychic in pursuit of the truth about the mother she never knew–and the visions she can neither predict nor halt. Oh, and the hot guys she meets along the way!
Emma Holly
USA Today bestselling author, Emma Holly, loves all sorts of hot romances. She lives in Minnesota, where the winters are long and people will do almost anything to warm up!
Emma Wallace
Emma lives in Scotland surrounded by crazy mutts and a loving family (on second thought, maybe it’s the other way around), and although she loves to write she has a horrible habit of clicking around the internet in the name of *cough* research. Born and bred in a country rich in Celtic mythology, Emma grew up on tales of warriors, witches and magic. So it’s no coincidence she enjoys creating sexy paranormals filled with larger than life characters.
Gail Ranstrom
Heather Waters
Jax Cassidy
Jax Cassidy followed her dreams to Paris, then Hollywood to pursue a film career but managed to fall in love with penning sexy romances and happy endings—finding Mr. Right was just an added bonus. She writes contemporary, paranormal, and multi-ethnic romances and is Co-Founder of Romance Divas, and award winning writer’s website and discussion forum. Jax is also known as one-half of the retired writing team of Cassidy Kent.
Jenna Mills
Best-selling author Jenna Mills grew up surrounded by the evocative plantation ruins, haunting swamps, and timeless legends of south Louisiana, all of which combined to create her love for mystery & romance. Jenna has always been a big fan of that which cannot be easily explained–as well as happily ever after. When not writing stories of deep emotion and page-turning suspense, the author of over 20 books for Harlequin/Silhouette enjoys spending time with her two young children, her husband, and a house full of cats, dogs, and plants.
Jina Bacarr
Jina Bacarr loves adventure in exotic locales, which led her to write the RIO Award-Winning erotic novel, The Blonde Geisha, as well as the award-winning non-fiction book,The Japanese Art of Sex. She worked as the Japanese consultant on KCBS-TV, MSNBC, TechTV’s Wired for Sex, Canada’s The Pleasure Zone, British Sky Broadcasting’s Saucy TV, La Biennale Arts Festival in Venice, Italy, Men’s Health Guide to the Best Sex in the World, Passport to Pleasure, The Vision Board and 69 Sexy Things 2 Do Before You Die for Playboy TV. She’s the author of Naughty Paris, Tokyo Rendezvous (Naughty Bits anthology), Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs and Cleopatra’s Perfume and coming in 2010, The Blonde Samurai.
Jo Carlisle
Jo Davis
Award-winning author Jo Davis currently writes romantic suspense and erotic suspense for New American Library, and is best known for her sexy romantic suspense series, The Firefighters of Station Five. Her debut erotic suspense novel, When Alex Was Bad, received a 4 ½ star Top Pick rating from RT Book Reviews and is in development as a major motion picture. A native Texan, Jo lives near Dallas with her husband and two teenagers.
Julia Sinclair
Karen Kay / Gen Bailey
Praised by reviewers and fans alike for bringing understandings and insights into the everyday facets of the American Indian way of life, KAREN KAY a.k.a. GEN BAILEY maintains that the discovery of her great-great grandmother — a Choctaw Indian — did much to enhance her stories.
She has written seventeen (17) books for such publishing companies as AVON/HarperCollins and Berkley/Penguin/Putnam. Her most recent titles include: THE LAST WARRIOR, BLACK EAGLE and SENECA SURRENDER.
“With the power and passion of romance, I strive to bring to my work an awareness of the vital forces that helped shape the Plains Indian Culture. It is through understanding, after all, that we can, at last, find a common reality.”
Karen is always happy to hear from her readers. You can write to her at: Karen Kay/Gen Bailey — PO Box 29134 — Los Angeles, CA 90029-0134. Or visit her website at www.novels-by-KarenKay.com or www.novels-by-GenBailey.com
Kate Angell
National best-selling author Kate Angell lives in beautiful Naples on the Gulf of Mexico, Florida. She’s an avid reader, sports enthusiast, and animal lover. She’s best known for her Boys of Summer baseball series featuring the Richmond Rogues.
Kathleen Dante
National bestselling author Kathleen Dante is a refugee from the world of trade journalism. Now a full-time writer of paranormal erotic romance, she loves traveling and photography.
Kay Danella
By day, Kay Danella rides the Imagination Express to far-off worlds and distant lands, hanging out with alpha males and the independent females who perplex them. Flame Seeker is her first erotic fantasy.
Lilli Feisty
Lilli Feisty writes super-hot contemporary romance novels, sometimes with a few whips and chains thrown in for good measure. Ms. Feisty currently resides in Northern Nevada. When she’s not writing you might find her conducting “research” at brothels, staring out windows, or making Martinis.
Lorie O’Clare
Award-winning romance author, Lorie O’Clare, writes full time from her home in Kansas. Guaranteed stimulation for the imagination. Everything from paranormal, steamy contemporaries, and erotic thrillers.
Marty Ambrose
Marty Ambrose pens her Mango Bay Mystery Series from an island in Southwest Florida. She’s married and tends a mango grove when not teaching creative writing at a local state college.
Meljean Brook
Meljean Brook is the New York Times bestselling author of the Guardians paranormal romance series, and the Iron Seas steampunk romance series. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Nancy Haddock
National Bestselling author Nancy Haddock lives a blissful block from the beach in northeast Florida. She loves history and things that go bump in the night, and sprinkles both in her surfer-girl vampire books.
Patricia Sargeant
Award-winning author Patricia Sargeant writes romantic suspense and contemporary romances. Her romantic suspense feature ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Her contemporary romances reveal characters overcoming their inner demons. Patricia lives in Ohio with her husband.
Red Garnier
Red Garnier has been making up stories in her head since she was a child. Now she’s found her passion in penning erotically charged, soul-stirring romances featuring the kind of dark, tortured heroes we all adore. She is married with two children and, though she travels frequently, likes to call Texas home.
Regina Hart
Regina Hart shares her love of sports in her basketball-inspired contemporary romances. Born in New York, Regina lives in Ohio with her husband.
R.G. Alexander
R.G. Alexander has lived all over the country, studied archaeology and mythology, been a nurse and a vocalist, and now, a writer. She is happily married to a talented chef who is her best friend, her research assistant, and the love of her life.
Robin T. Popp
A love of science fiction, mythology and ghost stories is the driving force behind the imagination and story ideas of USA Today best-selling author Robin T. Popp. Married with three children, her hobbies include reading, shooting guns and researching her genealogy. She gets up most days at 4 AM to write for a couple of hours before heading off to her day job as Manager of Contracting for a Fortune 20 corporation. She lives, works and writes in Houston, Texas.
Sable Grace
Being told she’s often in two places at once is nothing new for Sable Grace. Best friends Heather Waters and Laura Barone juggle raising their families in Florida and keeping Sable Grace comfortably bouncing in the realm of Urban Fantasy for Avon.
Samantha Graves
Samantha Graves brings her unique blend of high adventure, sizzling romance, mystery and humor to contemporary romantic suspense from Grand Central Publishing. Her motto is: Sometimes, you can’t wait for the adventure to come to you. Sometimes, you have to make own.
Sandra Hyatt
USA Today bestseller Sandra Hyatt escaped the corporate world to write ‘powerful, passionate and provocative’ contemporary romances for Silhouette Desire. She loves to travel and currently lives in New Zealand where she balances writing with raising her family.
Sarah McCarty
Saskia Walker
National bestselling author Saskia Walker writes award-winning, cross genre erotic fiction. Saskia grew up traveling the world and her writing reflects many of the places and cultures she experienced along the way. Now happily settled with the man of her dreams, she lives close to the inspirational Yorkshire Moors in the north of England, where romance, history and mystery prevail.
Sharon de Vita
Sharon DeVita is a USA Today best selling, award winning author of over 30 books of fiction and non-fiction. A former Adjunct Professor of Literature and Communication, Sharon’s books are known for their heart and humor. She and her husband reside in the Southwest.
Sue-Ellen Welfonder
USA Today bestselling author, Sue-Ellen Welfonder is most defined by her passion for Scotland. She also loves medieval history and the paranormal. She puts her pen where her heart is, writing Scottish medievals with a touch of Highland magic. A former flight attendant, she’s proud of her Hebridean ancestry, spent fifteen years in Europe, and still visits Scotland as often as she can. She’s devoted to her Jack Russell Terrier, enjoys living quietly, and shares her desk with her alter-ego, Allie Mackay, who writes Scottish-set time travels and ghost romances. Sue-Ellen is married and resides on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Tess Mallory
Tess Mallory lives with her husband near their three children in the Texas Hill Country. She’s known for writing Time Travel romances featuring quirky heroines and heroes, and lots of humor.