EPCA/CBA & Amazon Best selling author Vickie McDonough grew up wanting to marry a rancher but instead, she married a computer geek who is scared of horses. She lives out her childhood dream by penning romances set in the Old West. Vickie is an award-winning author of more than 50 books and novellas. Her books have won the Booksellers Best Award, OWFI Best Fiction Book Award, Inspirational Reader's Choice Contest, Texas Gold, and the ACFW Noble Theme contest, and she has been a finalist in ACFW's Carol Awards contest eight times and an Award of Merit winner in the Holt Medallion Contest. Vickie is the author of the Texas Boardinghouse Brides series and is a co-author of Texas Trails: A Morgan Family series. Her Pioneer Promises series features a family that runs a stage stop in 1870s Kansas. Whispers on the Prairie, book 1 in this series, was a Romantic Times Recommended Inspirational Book for July 2013. Vickie's latest series, Land Rush Dreams, is set during the Oklahoma land run days. The first book, Gabriel's Atonement, received 4 1/2 stars from Romantic Times and is a Will Roger's Medallion finalist. The second book, Joline's Redemption, and book 3 Sarah's Surrenders are now available. Vickie has recently stepped into independent publishing with her word search book, USA Word Find.

Vickie and her husband live in Oklahoma. They have been married forty-five years and have four grown sons, one daughter-in-law, and a feisty granddaughter. When she's not writing, Vickie enjoys reading, gardening, watching movies, traveling, collecting antiques and doing stained glass projects. To learn more about Vickie's books, visit her website: www.vickiemcdonough.com

Best-selling author Marcia Gruver’s southern-comfortable roots lend touches of humor and threads of faith to her writing. When she’s not pounding a keyboard, you’ll find her clutching a game system controller, riding shotgun on Texas Hill Country treks, or sipping mugs of hot tea on the front porch. Lifelong Texans, Marcia and her husband Lee have five children, thirteen grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren—so far!

Best-selling author of Amish fiction. Also a wife, mother, crafter, coffee addict, football fan, and chocolate aficionado.

Cynthia Hickey has been making up stories since she was a child. How fortunate that she finally found an outlet for her, uh, fictional tellings.

Website at www.cynthiahickey.com

Multi-published and Amazon and ECPA Best-Selling author Cynthia Hickey has sold over a million copies of her works since 2013. She has taught a Continuing Education class at the 2015 American Christian Fiction Writers conference, several small ACFW chapters and RWA chapters. She and her husband run the small press, Winged Publications, which includes some of the CBA’s best well-known authors. She travels between Arizona and Arkansas, depending on the time of year with her husband. She has ten grandchildren who keep her busy and tell everyone they know that “Nana is a writer”.

www.margaret-brownley.com

ABOUT MARGARET:

Margaret is a New York Times bestselling author and two-time Romance Writers of America RITA finalist, with more than 40 novels to her credit. Not bad for someone who flunked 8th grade English. Just don't ask her to diagram a sentence.

Best-selling writer Michelle Ule is an essayist, the author of two novels, six best-selling historical novellas, and a biographer of Biddy Chambers and Lettie Cowman.

An avid student of history, she’s traveled the world and studied World War I in conjunction with writing her WWI coming-of-age novel "A Poppy in Remembrance."

Michelle has written over 1100 blog posts on Chambers, Cowman, WWI, travel, Christianity, and Bible subjects since 2010.

Oh, and she adores irony.

Shannon McNear loves losing herself in local history. A Midwestern farm girl who lived in Charleston, South Carolina, for more than two decades before being transplanted to North Dakota, she's a military wife, mother of 8, and a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and Faith, Hope, & Love Christian Writers. When not cooking, researching, or leaking story from her fingertips, she enjoys being outdoors, basking in the beauty of the northern prairies.

Anna C. Urquhart grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, deep in the heart of Amish country where--after dabbling a few years in Tennessee living--she still resides today. She is a graduate of Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee, with degrees in both English and Psychology. Currently Anna is earning her MFA in Writing from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. Additionally, Anna is a high school English teacher and a mother of three girls. In between grading research papers, meeting grad school deadlines, and potty training her children, she travels as often as she can. She hosts a blog, The Silent Isle, at www.annaurquhart.com; and, while her passion for writing is broad, her first literary love is historical fiction.