Meet Our Authors
Sandy Blair
Award winning author Sandy Blair has slept in castles, knelt in cathedrals where kings and queens have been crowned, dined with peerage, climbed the great pyramids, lost her husband in an Egyptian ruin (she still denies being the one lost,) and fallen (gracefully) off a cruise ship. A Texas resident, she writes Highland romances with a paranormal twist.
Teresa Bodwell
Teresa Bodwell lives in Montana where the mountains, rivers and sweeping plains inspire her stories of rugged characters. Tough heroines and courageous heroes who struggle for survival, for family and for love.
She served in the U.S. Army where she helped make the world safe for John Phillip Sousa marches. After leaving the service, she received a BA from UCLA and went on to law school at the University of Oregon. As an attorney she has learned that life can be unfair and a happy outcome is not always possible. She enjoys writing stories where happy endings are guaranteed.
Cynthia Clement
Cynthia Clement, a life long reader, writes historical romances set in the Regency. A firm believer in love and second chances, she married her high school sweetheart when they met after years of being apart. Twenty years later, they live in Northern Ontario with their young son and two dachshunds.
Kristina Cook
Before turning her hand to historical romance, Kristina Cook wrote grant proposals for some of New York City’s top cultural institutions.With a degree in history and a love of romantic fiction, this new career is a natural fit. Kristina lives just north of New York City with her husband and two daughters.
Laura Drewry
Laura combines her belief in true love with her fascination of the old west to create stories of determination, hardship and, above all else, true love and happy endings. She presently lives in Canada’s arctic with her own true love and their three children.
Lori Devoti
Lori Devoti worked for three different newspapers in two different states before deciding to stay home with her children and begin writing fiction. The author of urban fantasy, contemporary romance and paranormal romance, Lori has been a finalist for many awards including the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award. She lives near Madison, Wisconsin with her husband and children as well as two dogs.
Flo Fitzpatrick
Flo Fitzpatrick is a performer and choreographer who holds a BFA in Dance and a Masters in Theatre. Her books are a medley of romantic comedy and mystery splashed with paranormal. Flo is currently working on an amateur sleuth series and awaiting word of whether her second book, Hot Stuff will make it to the big screen.
Jackie Ivie
Jackie Ivie lives with her family in Alaska, where she combines being a wife, mother, and manager for the US
Postal Service with a massive love of writing historical romances. She is the author of Lady of the Knight, a Scottish medieval published in December 2004 by Zebra, and Tender is the Knight, published in December 2005.
Sophia Johnson
Sophia Johnson (aka June Ulrich) writes intense medieval romances with Alpha heroes and strong warrior women. When you open the cover of Risk Everything (June, 2005), you enter a doorway into the eleventh century Scottish Highlands. Her writing will send your imagination soaring with a sensual romp through the ages.
Pamela LaBud
Caroline Linden
Caroline Linden earned a math degree and worked as a programmer in the insurance industry before realizing that writing romance novels is much more interesting and exciting than writing code. She threw away her actuarial textbooks, unchained her Inner Vixen, and never looked back. She lives in New England with her family.
Kathleen Long
After a career spent spinning words for clients ranging from corporate CEOs to talking fruits and vegetables, Kathleen Long now spins romantic comedies for Zebra Books and romantic suspense for Harlequin Intrigue. She divides her time between suburban Philadelphia and the New Jersey seashore where she can often be found hands on keyboard, bare toes in sand. After all, life doesn’t get much better than that.
Kathy Love
Sally MacKenzie
USA Today bestselling author Sally MacKenzie writes funny, hot Regency-set historicals for Kensington’s Zebra line. Five Naked books and a Naked novella are on bookstore shelves with more to come, and the Naked nobles have been translated into Czech, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. Sally graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame (in the first class of women). She’s a Cornell Law School dropout, former federal regulation writer, current swim league president, and mother of four mostly grown sons. A native of Washington, D. C., she still lives in suburban Maryland with her husband and whichever sons are stopping back in the nest.
Irene Peterson
Living in New Jersey has left its mark on Irene. The state has everything anyone could possibly want, but the crowning glory is the fabulous Jersey shore. This is what has inspired Irene since childhood. She’s a true Jersey girl with that attitude…and it has to show in her writing. Experience in the military, as a truck driver, waitress, English teacher, wife, mother and part- time psychic enable her to truly write what she knows.
www.IrenePeterson.com
Barbara Plum
Barbara Plum has acted in melodrama, taught adolescent boys (not too different from melodrama), created programs for a public library, and developed marketing materials for IBM in artificial intelligence and multimedia technologies. These experiences, plus living in Kansas, California, Mexico, Bolivia, and Argentina provide rich ideas for writing zany contemporary romances.
www.BarbaraPlum.com
Paula Reed
Paula Reed lives in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado with her husband and two children. She earned her BA in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder and teaches high school English.
She began writing in the late 1980’s, just before she had her first child, but the project was put on hold in the course of teaching and raising kids. After a tragic shooting incident at the school where she teaches, she sought a few hours of escape each day by finally finishing that book. What began as a lark became a means of healing.
She has three romance novels: Into His Arms, For Her Love, and Nobody’s Saint. Her new historical novel, Hester, is due for release in 2010.
Kate Rothwell
Kate Rothwell grew up in Washington, D.C. and lives in Connecticut with her husband and three boys. She has worked as a garage service manager/parts runner, an artists’ model, a bartender in a Boston Irish bar, a reporter, a feature writer, a craft instructions writer, and an editor of a kids’ magazine.
www.KateRothwell.com
Eve Silver
Bestselling, award-winning author Eve Silver writes dark contemporary paranormals and historical suspense. As Eve Kenin she writes speculative romance. Her work has garnered starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Awards, and was listed by Library Journal among its Best Books 2007. Contact Eve through her website at
Jessica Trapp
Jessica Trapp writes romances striking for their sensuality and strong conflicts between her heroes and heroines. Her debut novel Master of Pleasure (Zebra, June 2005) finaled in over 25 national fiction-writing contests. Jessica believes a dynamic romance is one where two opposing characters are transformed into two people who share love and passion. Visit her website at http://www.jessicatrapp.com/
Date: June 20, 2007