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Karen Rose Smith is writing mysteries as well as romances now! Her plots, whether in mystery or romance, are all about relationships.

She began writing in her early teens when she listened to music and created stories to accompany the songs. After expressing feelings in poetry, earning a degree in English and French, completing short stories that became too long to find a market, she turned to her fascination with relationships to writing romances and now mysteries. This award-winning best-selling author (USA Today List, Borders Bestseller List, Amazon Romance Bestseller lists, Barnes and Noble Bestseller list) will see her 104th novel released in 2020. She has published with Silhouette, Harlequin, Kensington and Meteor/Kismet. Her awards include two Golden Leaf awards in short contemporary romance, the Golden Quill in traditional romance, two cataromance.com's awards for Best Special Editions and Romance Review's Today's Best series romance award. Jane Bowers of Romance Reviews Today states: "Karen Rose Smith's storyworlds are complete and realistic and lovely places to visit and revisit. She excels at stories that feature couples brought together by infants and children, and she handles her plots and characters with sublime sensitivity."

Karen is well-known for writing emotion-packed novels. An only child, she spent a lot of time in her imagination and with books--Nancy Drew, Zane Gray, The Black Stallion and Anne of Green Gables. She dreamt of brothers and sisters and a big family like her mother and father came from--seven children in her mom's family and ten in her dad's. On weekends she was often surrounded by aunts, uncles and cousins. This is the root of her plotlines that include small communities and family relationships as integral to everyday living. She believes universal emotions unite us all and that is the reason she employs them to propel her plots.

It is no secret that Karen married her college sweetheart and they have been married for 48 years. She believes in the power of commitment and the hope that goes along with the promise of everlasting love. Along with enjoying time with her husband, Karen enjoys cooking, watercolor painting, gardening, shopping, listening to music and keeping her seven rescued cats company or vice versa.

She has been busy indie publishing her SEARCH FOR LOVE series. In addition, she has written the Caprice De Luca mystery series as well as her Daisy's Tea Garden series for Kensington along with romances for Harlequin Special Edition. Readers can follow her on Facebook (Search--KarenRoseSmithBooks) or on Twitter @karenrosesmith. Contact her through her website www.karenrosesmith.com or KarenRoseSmithMysteries.com. She welcomes interaction with her readers on Facebook and Twitter, and would love to chat about plotlines, titles, emotions, heroes, heroines, music, books, gardening, cooking, or anything else readers deem noteworthy!

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Prior to writing romance, Melinda was a junior manager for a Fortune 500 company, which meant when she flew on the private jet she was relegated to the jump seat—otherwise known as the potty. After grabbing her pen (and a parachute) she made the jump to full-time writer. She recently came to grips with the fact that she’s an empty nester and a (very young) grandma, concepts easier to grasp than jet-setting on a potty.

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"Our best friend, our next-door neighbor and ourselves with just a touch of the outrageous." That’s how RT Book Review describes Joanna’s protagonist, Kiki Lowenstein. The truth is that’s a pretty good description of Joanna as well.

Joanna is a New York Times Bestselling, USA Today Bestselling, and Amazon Bestselling author as well as a woman prone to frequent bursts of crafting frenzy, leaving her with burns from her hot glue gun and paint on her clothes. And the mess? Let’s not even go there.

Otherwise, she’s a productive author with more than 80 written projects to her credit. Her non-fiction work includes how to books, a college textbook for public speakers, and books of personal essays (think Chicken Soup for the Soul).

Currently she writes four fiction series: The Kiki Lowenstein Mystery Series (Agatha Award Finalist, contemporary, St. Louis setting, crafting), the Cara Mia Delgatto Mystery Series (contemporary, Florida setting, DIY and recycling), the Jane Eyre Chronicles (Daphne du Maurier Award Winner, 1830s England, based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic), and the Sherlock Holmes Fantasy Thrillers (late 1800s, based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s books).

A former TV talk show host, college teacher, and public relations specialist, Joanna was one of the early Chicken Soup for the Soul contributors. She won a Silver Anvil for her work on the original FarmAid concert to benefit farmers.

In her ongoing quest never to see snow again, Joanna lives with her husband and their Havanese puppy, Jax, on an island off the coast of Florida. You can email her at jcslan@joannaslan.com or visit her website at http://www.JoannaSlan.com

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I'm very excited to have my Maggie Dove mystery series re-released in paperback form. The first book, Maggie Dove, (coming out in July 2021) is about how 62-year-old Maggie Dove solves a murder mystery, and in the process restarts her life. In the second, Maggie Dove's Detective Agency, (coming out in September 2021), Maggie must take on the forces of evil, and a hyperactive six-year-old. In the third, Maggie Dove and the Lost Brides, (coming out in November 2021) she must tackle love, secrets and murder.

In addition to that, I have short stories coming out over the next few months in two big anthologies The first one is in Malice Domestic: Murder Most Diabolical (with Walter Mosley as the editor). The second one I can't talk about, but it's epic.

When I'm not writing, I teach writing for Gotham Writers in Manhattan. I'm also on the faculty of the New York Pitch Conference.

I live in a lovely little village in the Hudson Valley. I'm fortunate to have a very devoted husband, two spoiled cockapoos and two hostile cats. My three grown children are doing amazing things. Please visit me at www.susanjbreen.com

Elizabeth Rose is the author of over 100 books and counting. She writes medieval, historical, contemporary, paranormal/fantasy, and western romance. She is an award winning, bestselling author and an amazon all-star. Her books appear as ebooks, print, and audiobooks as well.

Her favorite characters in her works include dark, dangerous and tortured heroes, and feisty, independent heroines who know how to wield a sword. She loves writing 14th century medievals, and is known for her many medieval series.

Elizabeth started writing romance back in 1996 and had her first book traditionally published in 2000.

She loves anything paranormal and is inspired by spending time in nature. Elizabeth has a secret garden that serves as her outdoor office where she writes in her hammock in the summer. This same secret garden inspired her series, Secrets of the Heart.

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Krista Ames is a USA Today and International best-selling author of Romance. She was born and raised in Indiana, and now resides in Northern Michigan with the love of her life and their 4 children.

She pursues her writing career when she's not chasing kids, cooking or doing laundry.

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Lynn Kinnaman has loved reading and wanted to be a writer since she was a child, and her dream came true when she got her first paid assignment as a reporter for an outdoor news magazine in her early 20's. Her love of words led her to writing for newspapers and magazines, travel guides, cookbooks, websites and product packaging, as well as authoring several books.

She's the founder and editor of SW Montana Magazine (SWMTmag.com) and owns Works by Design, LLC, (worksbydesign.com) a website design and content creation company. She hosts the Get Published Conference for Writers every year in Bozeman Montana.

She's been a book project manager, communications consultant, marketing director and advertising copywriter. Today she publishes independently and continues writing daily.

She lives in Montana with her dog, where her life, her family and friends provide endless inspiration for fiction and nonfiction.

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Author, poet, and journalist BV Lawson’s award-winning writings have appeared in dozens of publications and anthologies, and her novels have been downloaded in 40+ countries and translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.

BV Lawson’s short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, honored by Derringer, Golden Fedora, Gemini Magazine and Dillydoun Flash Fiction Contest Awards, and BV was also a contributor to the Anthony Award-winning Blood on the Bayou. BV’s poetry has appeared in Noir Riot, International Poetry Forum, Midwest Poetry Review, and more. BV’s Scott Drayco crime novels have also been named Best Mystery in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, chosen as a Featured Library Journal Pick, and been a finalist for Shamus, Silver Falchion, Daphne, and Foreword Book Reviews Awards.

BV currently lives in Virginia with her husband and enjoys flying above the Chesapeake Bay in a little Cessna. Visit her website at bvlawson.com. No ticket required.

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I was born in Montana, raised in Colorado, educated in Texas, and lived in suburban Chicago for years and now even more years in suburban Boston where I became a Red Sox fan, a Patriots fan, and a writer. An information systems nerd for years, I'm a survivor of Dilbert-like projects and other high-tech horrors. In my writing, I liked to show technology’s humor and quirkiness. But tech changed faster than I could write about it, so I switched genres. My latest novel, SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS, is set in suburban Los Angeles in 1928. It's historical women's fiction, and I had my mothers photos, scrapbooks and letters to bring the 1920s to life for me and my readers.

USA Today and Amazon bestselling and award-winning author Lois Winston writes mystery, romance, romantic suspense, chick lit, women’s fiction, children’s chapter books, and nonfiction under her own name and her Emma Carlyle pen name. Kirkus Reviews dubbed her critically acclaimed Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series, “North Jersey’s more mature answer to Stephanie Plum.” In addition, Lois is a former literary agent and an award-winning craft and needlework designer who often draws much of her source material for both her characters and plots from her experiences in the crafts industry.

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Flo Fitzpatrick was born in Washington D.C., then became a world traveler while still in diapers. An Army brat, Flo lived in Virginia, Georgia and a castle in France, all before she hit five.

Her first authored work (age four) was science-fiction piece, "The Bug on the Wall." It consisted of two sentences. "There was a bug. It was on the wall."

When she was eight, she went full-tilt boogie and wrote three chapters for what was intended to be a complete novel entitled, "The Skinner Family Goes to Ireland." The plot consisted of the Skinner family heading to Ireland to visit their Aunt Donna who lived on a potato farm and owned a swimming pool. Flo's older brothers, twins, were somewhat skeptical that the Skinners would make it to Ireland via train from New York City across the Atlantic. Her next book (age nine) was more realistic. "The Mystery of the Greenhouse" was written while she was living in El Paso, so the greenhouse setting might have been a buffer against all the tumbleweeds. Sadly, this masterpiece was lost somewhere in transition and travel over the years.

Flo earned a B.F. A. in Dance and an M.A. in Theatre, then spent her years after college shuttling back and forth from Texas to New York performing, teaching and choreographing. During her career in theatre, Flo has played nice ladies (Nellie-South Pacific), not-so-nice ladies (Lily St. Regis-Annie) and dead ladies who weren't very ladylike (three murdered hookers in melodrama Jack the Ripper) The last, she claims, was tough. She spent the first ten minutes of the show "dead", lying on the floor trying not to breathe - or wince from paper wads thrown by enthusiastic audiences. One of her favorite theatrical experiences was playing a variety of characters (bag ladies and Cyndi Lauper-styled tourists) for the Japanese language show NY-Go! which aired on Manhattan cable stations.

Flo's second novel with Kensington, "Hot Stuff", was the recipient of the Four and Half Star Gold review from RT Reviews and nominated for Best Romantic Suspense of 2005 and has been optioned for film.

Flo moved to Alabama in 2013 and has since had five mysteries and two romances published.

Still a performer, Flo sings with The Usual Suspects - and swears that was the name long before they ever invited a mystery writer to sing a note with them! Covid has messed up practices and performances for the last year but Flo's hopeful everyone will be vaccinated and healthy and ready to roll by fall !

Baker of brownies and tormenter of characters, Alice Loweecey recently celebrated her thirtieth year outside the convent. She grew up watching Hammer horror films and Scooby-Doo mysteries, which explains a whole lot. When she's not creating trouble for her sleuth Giulia Driscoll or inspiring nightmares as her alter-ego Kate Morgan, she can be found growing her own vegetables (in summer) and cooking with them (the rest of the year).

Josie Riviera is a USA TODAY bestselling author of contemporary, inspirational, and historical sweet romances that read like Hallmark movies. She lives in the Charlotte, NC, area with her wonderfully supportive husband. They share their home with an adorable shih tzu, who constantly needs grooming, and live in an old house forever needing renovations.

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After an established career writing historical fiction for adults and young adults about women of the nineteenth-century American West, Texas author Judy Alter turned her attention to contemporary cozy mysteries and wrote three series: Kelly O’Connell Mysteries, Blue Plate Café Mysteries, and Oak Grove Mysteries.

Her most recent mysteries are Saving Irene and Irene in Danger, the first two titles in her Irene in Chicago Culinary Mysteroes set in Chicago's historic Hyde Park neighborhood, the neighborhood of Judy's childhood to which she was delighted to return if only in fiction. One reader called Saving Irene, "a nicely convoluted murder mystery and a glorification of America's diverse cuisines, played out against the attractions of a lovingly drawn Chicago."

Her most recent western titles are The Most Land, the Best Cattle: The Waggoners of Texas and The Second Battle of the Alamo. Judy’s western fiction has been recognized with awards from the Western Writers of America, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the National Cowboy Museum and Hall of Fame. She has been honored with the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement by WWA and inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame at the Fort Worth Public Library. She was named One of 100 Women, Living and Dead, Who Have Left Their Mark on Texas by the Dallas Morning News, and named an Outstanding Woman of Fort Worth in the Arts, 1988, by the Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women

Judy is a member Sisters in Crime and the online Guppy chapter as well as Story Circle Network and Women Writing the West. She is a past president of Western Writers of America and an active member of the Texas Institute of Letters.

Retired after almost thirty years with TCU Press, twenty of them as director, Judy lives in a small cottage—just right for one and a dog—in Fort Worth, Texas with her Bordoodle Sophie. She is the mother of four and the grandmother of seven. Her hobby is cooking, and she’s learning how to cook in a postage-stamp kitchen without a stove. In fact, she wrote a cookbook about it: Gourmet on a Hot Plate.

Claudia Lefeve was born and raised so far down the Texas Gulf Coast she has to pull out a map to show people it's nowhere near Houston. Now living in Northern Virginia, she is taking a temporary hiatus from a civilian career in law enforcement in order to write full-time. She lives with her husband and three dogs.

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Award-winning author, Jennifer Faye pens fun, heartwarming contemporary romances. With more than a million books sold, she is internationally published with books translated into more than a dozen languages and her work has been optioned for film. She is a two-time winner of the RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award, the CataRomance Reviewers' Choice Award, named a TOP PICK author, and been nominated for numerous other awards.

Now living her dream, she resides with her very patient husband and two spoiled cats. When she's not plotting out her next romance, you can find her curled up with a mug of tea and a book.

BLUESTAR ISLAND

Love Blooms

Harvest Dance

A Lighthouse Café Christmas

Rising Star

Summer by the Beach

Brass Anchor Inn

Summer Refresh

A Seaside Bookshop Christmas

SEABREEZE WEDDING CHAPEL

The Bride's Dream Wedding (Prequel)

The Bride's Pink Shoes

The Bride's Christmas Dress

The Runaway Bride's Vow

WHISTLE STOP ROMANCE SERIES:

A Moment to Love

A Moment to Dance

A Moment on the Lips

A Moment to Cherish

A Moment at Christmas

Michelle Markey Butler is a Lecturer in the College of Information Studies and the Honors College at the University of Maryland, where she teaches medieval literature, Tolkien, and contemporary fantasy. Her academic research focuses on literary criticism on the web and medieval to early modern drama. She will someday finish that book about the transition from direct address to soliloquy.

She is the author of SF/F stories, a medieval-inspired historical fantasy, HOMEGOING (Pink Narcissus Press, 2014), and a historical novel about Vikings in 9th century Ireland (with Jess Barry), THE LAST ABBOT OF LINN DUACHAILL (S&H Publishing, 2015).

Unwilling to waste good material, particularly when she worked so hard for it, she blogs about parenting at http://heirraising.wordpress.com. You can read which of her children won the Grossocity Olympics and why.

Pro-tip: Not near meal time.

Native Coloradoan Kaye Spencer (also known by her other names, Debra Hall Ownbey , D.H. Ownbey, and A.L. Debran) writes romances from her home in a small, rural town located in the heart of the infamous Dust Bowl area of the 1930s. While drawn to cowboys and the Old West, all genres and time periods are within her story-crafting realm.

Reading Louis L'Amour's westerns, listening to Marty Robbins' gunfighter ballads, watching the classic television westerns, and growing up on a cattle ranch all inspired her love of the American Old West--truths and myths alike. Kaye's favorite movie line is from 'Quigley Down Under'. When Quigley outdraws Marston in a gunfight, Quigley says, "I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it."

Retired from a long career in public education, Kaye is enjoying being a full-time writer and spoiler of grandchildren. Kaye is also afflicted with ACD (Accumulative Cat Disorder) for which there is no known cure. Visit Kaye's website and blog at kayespencer.com.

Heather Redmond is an author of commercial fiction and also writes as Heather Hiestand. First published in mystery, she took a long detour through romance before returning. Though her last British-born ancestor departed London in the 1920s, she is a committed anglophile, Dickens devotee, and lover of all things nineteenth century.

She has lived in Illinois, California, and Texas, and now resides in a small town in Washington State with her husband and son. The author of many novels, novellas, and short stories, she has achieved best-seller status at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Apple Books. Her 2018 Heather Redmond debut, A Tale of Two Murders, reached #1 in Historical Mysteries at Amazon as well as being in the Top 100 on Amazon, Barnes & Noble (Top 20), and Apple Books (Top 40). It is also a multi-week Barnes & Noble Hardcover Mystery Bestseller and a Historical Mystery bestseller on Kobo Books.

Her two current mystery series are “A Dickens of a Crime” and “the Journaling mysteries.” She writes for Kensington and Severn House.

She is the 2020-21 President of the Columbia River Chapter of Sisters in Crime (SinC).

Who is this award-winning writer of ecomysteries?

Kathy McIntosh is a reformed hi-tech marketer and former columnist on words and writing. She grew up in the San Fernando Valley near L.A. and spent 30 years in Idaho, so she’s familiar with both urban and rural kookiness. She and her husband moved to Tucson, Arizona, to escape the snow, and fell in love with the Sonoran Desert and their new community. A foodie haven!

Her first novel, MUSTARD'S LAST STAND, introduced a slew of endearing oddballs, many of whom resurfaced in FOUL WIND, the second in the Havoc in Hancock series. In those novels, Kathy used humor to navigate her readers through the wilds of North Idaho.

In Murder, Sonoran Style, An Adventure Calls Mystery, Kathy transferred her passion for animals, vegetables and minerals to the Sonoran desert. But she didn't leave her sense of humor in Idaho in this ecomystery about the death of a developer in the desert and the team of ecotourism guides who solve his murder.

In Murder, Cottonwood Style, the Adventure Calls chef finds herself in hot water when she discovers the body of a crusty former client.

Kathy enjoys exploring new cuisines and places, hiking, reading, and photography.

Raised in a 150-year old farmhouse in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Jayne honed her story-telling skills at a tender age, convincing herself and others her home was haunted. She wove epic sagas of buried treasure guarded by spirits of slain pirates and of the soul of a crazed aunt locked in the attic pacing the floorboards for all eternity.

Urged by her parents to forge a career in something that would enable her to be independent, Jayne dutifully went off and earned a B.S. in Accountancy from Miami University. She then began her professional career as a CIA (not the “secret agent” thing, but a Certified Internal Auditor).

But Jayne's parents didn't’t foresee her marriage to a naval officer. Nineteen movees in conjunction with his career did not offer Jayne the stability she needed to be a successful CIA, and when the box filled with her pinstripe suits was lost in a move it seemed like a sign that it was time to make a career switch. So Jayne started thinking about what kind of job could be packed up and schlepped across the country at a moment’s notice and somehow combine her passion for reading (and secretly writing) mysteries.

Jayne , her husband (now retired from the military) and their two rescue dogs Tiller and Scout have settled in a cottage by the Chesapeake Bay. Based on the advice of "write what you know", she now pens cozy mysteries with beach settings.

Melissa Keir has always wanted to be an author when she wasn't hoping for a career as a race car driver. Her love of books was instilled by her mother and grandparents who were avid readers. She'd often sneak books away from them so that she could fantasize about those strong alpha males and plucky heroines. In middle school and high school, Melissa used to write sappy love poems and shared them with her friends and still has those poems today! In college her writing changed to sarcastic musings on life as well as poems with a modern twist on fairy tales and won awards for her writing. You can find many of these musings along with her latest releases on her website and blog.

Melissa doesn't believe in down time. She's always keeping busy. Melissa is a wife and mother, an elementary school teacher, a radio show-movie reviewer, owner for a publishing company as well as an author. Her home blends two families and is a lot like the Brady Bunch, without Alice- a large grocery bill, tons of dirty dishes and a mound of laundry. She loves to write stories that feature happy endings and is often seen plotting her next story.

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Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada home of the World Famous Calgary Stampede, I've moved from the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, closer to where I was born. I now live just south of Calgary in Medicine Hat, Alberta Lost the orchards and fruit but we have spectacular veggies here. I continue to write romantic suspense and medical thrillers in my new home. My background in nursing helps with the medical thrillers. I've written most of my life. I used to do those locked room plots many years ago. Now I spend my time plotting perfect murders and then helping my antagonist solve them. I strongly believe that good triumphs over evil and love conquers all. Please check out my books and if you'd like to leave a review - I thank you.

Ashlyn Chase describes herself as an Almond Joy bar. A little nutty, a little flaky, but basically sweet, wanting only to give her readers a satisfying experience.

She holds a degree in behavioral sciences, worked as a psychiatric RN for 15 years and spent a few more years working for the American Red Cross.

Most authors, whether they know it or not, have a theme—something that unifies their whole backlist. Ashlyn’s identified theme has to do with characters who reinvent themselves. After all, she has reinvented herself many times. She is a multi-published, award-winning author of humorous paranormal and contemporary romances, represented by the Seymour Agency.

She lives in beautiful coastal Florida with her true-life superhero husband who looks like Hugh Jackman, if you squint.

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Award winning author, Skye Taylor, lives in St Augustine, Florida where she divides her time between writing novels, walking the beach with her Golden Retriever puppy, Jessi, volunteering at the JAX USO and trying to keep her to-be-read pile from taking over the house. She considers life an adventure and in a world of people who ask why, she has decided to ask "why not?" She spent two years in the South Pacific with the Peace Corps (2002-2004) and she started jumping out of perfectly good airplanes in her fifties. She loves to travel and has visited twenty-seven states and fourteen countries on four continents and the South Pacific. She's a mom and grandmother with five grown children and fifteen grandchildren. She's a member of Florida Writers Association, Sisters in Crime, Women's Fiction Writers Association, and Romance Writers of America. Visit her website at: www.skye-writer.com.

New Jersey native turned Florida resident, Linda moved to Vero Beach in 1996. She writes the Beach Tea Shop Mysteries, a cozy mystery series set in an area suspiciously like Vero Beach. She is a contributor and co-editor with Joanna Campbell Slan of the Happy Homicides cozy mystery anthology series.

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A R Kennedy lives in Long Beach, New York, with her two pups. She works hard to put food on the floor for them. As her favorite T-shirt says, ‘I work so my dog can have a better life'. She’s an avid traveler. But don’t worry. While she’s away, her parents dote on their grand-puppies even more than she does. Her writing is a combination of her love of travel, animals, and the journey we all take to find ourselves.

R. Franklin James grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and flourished in a career of public policy and political advocacy. She was appointed to Deputy Mayor for the City of Los Angeles at the time of the worst earthquake in the city’s history.

Her starred Hollis Morgan Mystery Series, beginning with The Fallen Angels Book Club, was published by Camel Press. In 2020 the series was optioned for a movie by a Canadian film studio. She went on to write The Appraiser the first book in her Remy Loh Bishop Mysteries and in April 2021, the first book in her Johanna Hudson Mysteries will be released. James resides in northern California with her husband and a yard full of hummingbirds.

Gemma Juliana loves writing, crafting worlds, plotting intrigues, and putting her characters through the wringer.

For many years she scribbled notes and started stories, but they always ended up on the back burner while 'life happened.' One day some characters she had created confronted her and demanded that she breathe life into them so they could finally tell their stories.

Thus, several novellas were launched in 2013, and more magnetic heroes and sizzling heroines in a variety of genres are added as they share their stories with Gemma.

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Regan Walker is an award-winning, #1 Amazon bestselling author of Regency, Georgian and Medieval novels that are historically authentic.

Among the awards she has won are the Gold Medal in the Readers Choice Book Awards, the Gold Medal in the Illumination Awards, 1st place in the Chaucer Awards, the International Book Award for Romance Fiction, the San Diego Book Award for Best Historical Romance, the President's Book Awards of The Florida Authors & Publishers Association, the RONE Award for Best Medieval Novel (twice) and the Kindle Book Award.

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Originally from Lyon in France, Marie has lived in the Rossendale Valley in Lancashire for the past few years. She writes both contemporary and historical romance. Her novels include best selling contemporary romantic suspense novels LITTLE PINK TAXI and ESCAPE TO THE LITTLE CHATEAU, which was shortlisted for the 2021 RNA Jackie Collins Romantic Suspense Awards, as well as A PARIS FAIRY TALE and BLUEBELL'S CHRISTMAS MAGIC. Her historical novels are full of romance and adventure and are set in France, Scotland and North Africa. HAPPY DREAMS AT MERMAID COVE is her latest contemporary romance. Marie also contributes to the best selling Miss Moonshine's Emporium anthologies together with eight author friends from Authors on the Edge.

Kay Kendall writes the Austin Starr mystery series. The first two books capture the spirit and turbulence of the 1960s. "Desolation Row" (2013) and "Rainy Day Women" (2015) show Austin as a young Texas bride, forced to the frontlines of societal change by her draft-resisting husband. Austin copes by turning amateur sleuth. The latter mystery won two Silver Falchion Awards in 2016 at Killer Nashville. You might see a clue that suggests she more than adores the music of Bob Dylan.

"After You've Gone" (February 2019) is a prequel featuring Austin Starr’s grandmother who comes of age during the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition. This amateur sleuth searches for the killer of her uncle—who just happens to be a famous rumrunner in Texas. Kay’s work in progress, "Tangled Up In Blue" (Dylan again!), brings Austin and her grandmother together in 1970 to solve a family member’s murder in Vienna that involves Russian spies. In all her fiction, Kay shows how patterns of human nature repeat down the decades, no matter what historical age one reads about.

Before Kay Kendall began to write books, she was an award-winning international public relations executive, working in the US, Canada, the Soviet Union, and Europe. Ask her about working in Moscow during the Cold War—and turning down a job with the CIA in order to attend grad school at Harvard. Because of her degrees in Russian history, Kay often brings Cold War elements into her tales. She takes great pains in her books to get historical settings and details right—no anachronisms allowed.

Kay is president of the Southwest Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America and is a member of the national board of MWA. She and her Canadian husband live in Texas and have rescued abandoned pet rabbits for 20 years. They have a tolerant spaniel who co-habits with the three bunnies that currently reside with them. Over the years they have rescued 14 rabbits.

"Award-winning author Kathryn Jane's books will keep you up at night...propping your eyes open with toothpicks so you can find out what happens next!"

Kat's sense of humor, and love of a good mystery mix with her compassion for all living creatures, and shine through in all she does.

Her stories are gifts from the heart and will transport you away from the here and now to plunk you smack dab in the middle of an imaginary world. And she'll make you laugh too, while winding your way toward a guaranteed happy ending.

Living in the Pacific Northwest, Kat is blessed by being surrounded by everything she loves--the Pacific Ocean, the color turquoise, her aging but charming prince and his sappy dog, and of course, Miss Mavis, a grateful but opinionated feline who somehow ended up homeless in her senior years.

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Author Renée Reynolds grew up all over the world in a family whose motto is you can never learn too much, travel too much, or talk too much. She owns an impressive stack of degrees that she ignores to instead write about what she cannot do: go back in time to dance at balls and flirt with lords and scoundrels.

Renée found her happily ever after in Texas, where she resides with her family and a menagerie of pets. They've added to the family motto: you can never read too much, too often, or too late at night.

You can also catch up with Renée on Twitter @eenayray and her blog at www.obstinateheadstronggirl.wordpress.com.

Reggi Allder writes compelling romantic suspense and small-town contemporary novels. “Reggi will hold you on the edge of your seat as you follow her real-to-life characters. Grab one of her books. You won’t be disappointed.” NL Reviews “The book was so good I didn’t want it to end.”

Whatever their situations, her characters are determined to overcome obstacles and control their future. Reggi has lived in both rural towns and large cities and appreciates the pros and cons of both. The experience is helpful when writing her books.

She has two series as well as other novels. Dangerous Web is the first in the Dangerous Series. The Sierra Creek Series starts with Her Country Heart. Whether in a series or not, each book is a complete standalone read. She has also contributed to two cookbooks and has written children's stories.

When not writing, she likes to take long walks, often stopping to take photos of whatever catches her eye. She is a film buff and an animal lover. Reggi raised a puppy for Guide Dogs for the Blind and has done foster care for the Humane Society. She now has a rescue dog who barks too much and a purebred dog who doesn’t, but she loves them both. Her hobbies are sometimes reflected in her novels by way of her character’s interests.

She studied creative writing and screenwriting at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

She enjoys hearing from readers. It makes her day!

Laurel S. Peterson is a community college English professor who has written a column for Gannett Suburban Newspapers on local history and serves on the editorial board of the literary journal Inkwell. She has two poetry chapbooks, That’s the Way the Music Sounds (Finishing Line Press) and Talking to the Mirror (Last Automat Press), and a full length collection, Do You Expect Your Art to Answer? (Futurecycle Press). Her poetry collection Daughter of Sky will be released by Futurecyle in 2022. She has also written two mystery novels, Shadow Notes (Woodhall Press 2021) The Fallen (Woodhall Press 2021)and She served as the town of Norwalk, Connecticut’s, Poet Laureate from April 2016 – April 2019.

A member of Crime Writers of Canada, Sisters in Crime, and Women's Fiction Writers Association, Joanne writes paranormal romances, cozy mysteries, and inspirational literature from her home base of Guelph, Ontario.

Maureen Bonatch is a novelist, healthcare content writer, and nurse leader. Maureen’s first novella was a paranormal romance published when blogs were a newfangled thing. Her urban fantasy books features magic, dark undertones—and sometimes ghosts—in a contemporary world.

She also writes paranormal cozy mystery as M.L. Bonatch. While she’s not busy writing or doing nurse-things, she’s being a mom to her twin daughters, bicycling in the beautiful woods of PA with her hubby, doing the bidding of a feisty Shih Tzu, and dancing as much as possible. She believes music can be paired with every mood, laughter is contagious, and that caffeine and wine are essential for survival.

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Cynthia Luhrs spends her time out on the deck, looking into the woods, imagining what if. She writes women's fiction, historical time travel romance, family sagas, paranormal romance, and thrillers. Readers say her books are light-hearted reads to escape with for a few hours.

She lives in North Carolina, has always been a reader, and is overly fond of sparkly flip flops and pretty pens.

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LISA ALBER is the author of the County Clare mystery series, which has been described as atmospheric, complex, and with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing. The first novel, "Kilmoon," was a Rosebud Award finalist for best debut novel. The second novel, "Whispers in the Mist," is now available. Lisa is busy writing the third (and fourth!) novels in the series.

Lisa worked with New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George in several workshops, which culminated in receiving an Elizabeth George Foundation writing grant. Ms. George also invited Lisa to write a short story for the Two of the Deadliest (HarperCollins) anthology, including her in a special section for up-and-coming newcomers.

Before devoting herself to the fiction life, Lisa worked in Ecuador, Brazil, and New York City. Her various career choices included international finance, journalism, book publishing, and technical writing, with a minor stint as cocktail waitress.

Ever distractible, you may find Lisa puttering around the yard, fooling around online, or drinking red wine with her friends. Lisa lives in the Pacific Northwest with a tiny dog and a chubby cat. She’s a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.

Please visit Lisa at www.lisaalber.com. She likes making new friends -- come say "hi" at her Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/lisaalberauthor.

Helena Fairfax is a freelance editor and author. She is addicted to reading and will read the cornflakes packet if there is nothing else to hand. Helena writes romantic novels in which women take the centre stage. She is also the author of a history of the lives of women in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Readers can keep in touch via Helena's website www.helenafairfax.com, where she blogs about books and editing, or else subscribe to Helena's newsletter for book news, photos of her beloved Yorkshire moors, gossip, and the occasional free stuff. Use this link to subscribe: https://t.co/8WkjaK3b3B

C.A. Rowland has always loved traveling and exploring new places, from neighborhood empty houses to foreign lands that draw her. Ms. Rowland writes historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and an amateur sleuth mystery novel series set in Savannah, Georgia. She comes by her interest in ghosts, myths, legends and the paranormal naturally, having spent hours in cemeteries with her grandmother. You can keep up with Ms. Rowland’s upcoming fiction and travel adventures at www.carowland.com.

C.A. is a member of Sisters in Crime (SinC) and its online chapter, the Guppies. She is also a member of Riverside Writers and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

Judy Baker/Anna Sugg lives in the beautiful western state of Utah. Though she's a southerner at heart, she loves the surrounding mountains and the desert valleys. When not writing the stories that fill her head, she enjoys RVing with her family, stargazing through one of her many telescopes, digging in her wildflower garden, and golfing, or just swinging on the patio while plotting her next story. She's also an avid fan of coffee and the ocean. You can find out more about Judy on her web site, blog, twitter and Facebook. Judy would love to hear from you.

Mariana Gabrielle is a pen name for Mari Christie, who is not romantic--at all. Therefore, her starry-eyed alter ego lives vicariously through characters who believe in their own happy-ever-afters. And believe they must, as Mariana loves her heroes and heroines, but truly dotes on her villains, and almost all of her characters' hearts have been bruised, broken, and scarred long before they reach the pages of her books.

She is a professional writer, editor, and designer with almost twenty-five years’ experience, and has written multiple Regency romances, including The Sailing Home Series and La Déesse Noire: The Black Goddess.

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Known for crafting characters that stay with you long after the last page has turned, Madeline Archer is an award-winning author and dilettante who loves great conversation and delights in discovering interesting things to weave into stories. Madeline also writes 18+ romance under the pen name Rose Anderson. She lives with her family and small menagerie amid oak groves and prairie in the rolling glacial hills of America’s upper Midwest.

Visit Calliope's Writing Tablet for my links page, free reads, and musings on a variety of topics: http://calliopeswritingtablet.com/

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Find Rose Anderson on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Rose-Anderson/e/B004XDGWL6/

J.M. Maurer started working as a registered nurse in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit where she cared for critically ill children, transported them from outlying hospitals, and even picked up overtime hours treating patients of all ages while inside a hyperbaric chamber. She loves to write about strong characters and their struggles in life.

When not writing, you can find her spending time with family and friends, exploring the outdoors, or attempting most any sport. She resides in Chicago with her husband and son.

To find out more about J.M. Maurer, visit her website at www.jmmaurer.com or sign up for her newsletter to learn about upcoming releases.

She loves to hear from readers. You can email her at jmmaurerauthor@gmail.com or find her on Social Media.

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A former journalist and magazine editor, Judy Penz Sheluk is the bestselling author of two mystery series: The Glass Dolphin Mysteries and the Marketville Mysteries. Her short crime fiction appears in several collections, including the Superior Shores Press Anthologies, which she also edited. Her books have been published in several languages.

Judy is a member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Crime Writers of Canada, where she served as Chair on the Board of Directors. www.judypenzsheluk.com

MM Jaye's mom claims that she spoke her first word at the age of six. Months. As a kid she would record fairy tales in her own voice, play them back and then re-record adjusting the pitch and tempo. Later, she used her voice to inspire young adults and teach them the art of translation. But there came a time when life took a turn for the worse, and her voice temporarily died out. That's when she turned to writing.

Fate Captured is the first book in her Greek Tycoons series, set on the Greek island where her husband proposed. MM Jaye lives in Athens, Greece, with her husband, daughter and Kindle.

MM Jaye loves interacting with readers, so go ahead and connect:

Blog: http://mmjayewrites.com

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Claire A Murray writes mystery/crime, fantasy, and science fiction. With more than a dozen published short stories, she wonders why she didn't begin writing them sooner. "I had about 20 unpublished shorts in different stages of completion and realized I truly enjoy the challenge of the short story format."

In 2023, Claire released a collection of new and previously published stories in, Play the Hand You're Dealt: A Crime/Mystery Short Story Collection. She has a suspense fantasy and trilogy in progress, both set on Earth-like planets in middle age societal structures, and is completing the sequel to an unreleased amateur sleuth novel.

Claire is a member of Sisters in Crime (SinC) and several chapters, Mystery Writers of America, and the Short Mystery Fiction Society. In 2020 she moved from New England to Arizona where she writes full time and paints for inspiration and distraction.

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