Dee J. Adams
Dee J. was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. After graduating high school, she moved to Los Angeles to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Once out of school, she got enough acting work to pay the rent and keep her Screen Actors Guild card. She also worked as a Dialogue Coach in sitcoms. (That's code for acting coach and also means she helped the actors learn their lines.) Writing came as a fluke. After a very intense dream she couldn't stop talking about, her husband said, “Just write it down.” She did. Three weeks and fourteen hours a day later, she had a 450 page handwritten novel. That started a whole new career. She is married to the love of her life and has one beautiful daughter. She likes romance, adventure, a little mystery and happy endings. Romance is the perfect genre for her.
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Toni Anderson
Toni is a former marine biologist who conducted her Ph.D. at the Gatty Marine Laboratory in St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland. She was born and raised in the U.K., but now lives in the Canadian prairies. Her stories are set in the stunning locations where she’s been lucky enough to live and work—the blustery east coast of Scotland, the remote isolated mining communities of Northern Labrador, the rugged landscapes of the U.S. and the Red Center of Australia.
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Ana
Barrons
Ana is a New England native transplanted to Washington, D.C., where
she has raised two children and worked as a government writer/analyst
and entrepreneur. She spends her leisure time traveling back to New
England and exploring exotic places around the world with her
photographer husband. Although her heart remains in the White Mountains,
many of her books are set in the nation’s capital, where daily news
stories inspire plots about betrayal, theft, backstabbing, terrorism and
murder. Ana is the author of Wrongfully Accused, a Washington, D.C. based thriller, and two soon-to-be-releases, Son of the Enemy (June 25, 2013) and Betrayed by Trust (July 8, 2013).
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ANNE MARIE BECKER
If Anne Marie had been a little less straight-laced and law-abiding, she might have been a Peeping Tom (er, Peeping Jane?). She’s always been fascinated by people—inside and out—which led to degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Psychology, and Counseling. As a games hostess at Sea World, tutor, waitress, personal and family counselor, and high school counselor, she indulged her curiosity through sanctioned professions. Now, as a stay-at-home mom of three young children, her passion for understanding the human race is satisfied by her roles as mother, wife, daughter, sister, and writer. She writes to reclaim her sanity.
Anne Marie’s manuscripts have won several awards, including the 2009 Golden Heart® for Best Romantic Suspense. Her first novel, Only Fear, is due out September 5, 2011 from Carina Press.
She welcomes attention at:
Website: www.AnneMarieBecker.com
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Ann Bruce
Ann Bruce is the pseudonym for a self-professed computer geek who, in between snowboarding, reading comic books, and wearing out the buttons of her PS3 controller, writes because it's an acceptable means of explaining all the voices in her head.
You want more? Really? Well...
I have wanderlust; I called five countries on three continents home.
I switched majors five times in university...and still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
I had nine jobs and four careers before I turned twenty-five.
I watch mainly cartoons because they have better storylines than sitcoms and reality shows. (Pinky and the Brain trumps American Idol any day!)
One day I want to be a full-time writer. Maybe. Still haven't decided. I hear it doesn't pay very well. Being a superhero, sans cape and tights and decoder ring, is still an option. (Pay sucks for superheroes, too, but I'd have cool toys!)
And I'm easily amused and dis-- Ooh, shiny!
Find me on my web site or on The Not-so-deep Thoughts.
Ann Bruce is the pseudonym for a self-professed computer geek who, in between snowboarding, reading comic books, and wearing out the buttons of her PS3 controller, writes because it's an acceptable means of explaining all the voices in her head.
You want more? Really? Well...
I have wanderlust; I called five countries on three continents home.
I switched majors five times in university...and still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
I had nine jobs and four careers before I turned twenty-five.
I watch mainly cartoons because they have better storylines than sitcoms and reality shows. (Pinky and the Brain trumps American Idol any day!)
One day I want to be a full-time writer. Maybe. Still haven't decided. I hear it doesn't pay very well. Being a superhero, sans cape and tights and decoder ring, is still an option. (Pay sucks for superheroes, too, but I'd have cool toys!)
And I'm easily amused and dis-- Ooh, shiny!
Find me on my web site or on The Not-so-deep Thoughts.
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Bobbie Cole
Bobbie Cole once taught English and music, wrote radio jingles, answered phones for doctors (“Urology, can you hold please?” – I kid you not), and held all manner of other jobs, but now she spends her time listening to the voices in her head and trying to make sense of their tales. She has written dozens of short stories, confessions, magazine articles, and books. Her next release with Carina Press is Memories Of You, which debuts in March, 2011!
Bobbie Cole & Lyn Cash
~ laughs & love in every book ~
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Wynter Daniels
Lynne Connolly
Lynne writes for a number of publishers. She writes romantic suspense, paranormal romance, contemporary romance and historical romance. She is the winner of two Eppies (now retitled the EPIC ebook awards) and a goodly number of Recommended Reads etc from review sites.
While these are very gratifying, that isn't why she writes. She wants to bring the stories in her head to life and share them with others, in the hope that they might give her some peace.
She lives in the UK with her family, cat and doll's houses. Creating worlds on paper or in miniature seems to be her specialty!
She lives in the UK with her family, cat and doll's houses. Creating worlds on paper or in miniature seems to be her specialty!
Twitter – @lynneconnolly
Blog - http://goodbadandunread.com/
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Wynter Daniels began making up stories as soon as she could speak. She started working on her first novel in college - a mystery. But she soon realized the collegiate life involved way more than books, so she spent the rest of her time in academia partying.
When the writing bug bit her again years later, she tried her hand at many different romance genres from contemporary to suspense to erotic. She is now published with Ellora’s Cave, Red Sage Publishing and Loose Id and is looking forward to her first release with Carina Press, an erotic romantic suspense. Protective Custody will be released in May of 2011.
Now married with two grown children and two spoiled cats, Wynter writes full time from her home in Florida. She sincerely hopes her stories are as much fun for you to read as they were for her to write. You can find her on the web at: www.WynterDaniels.com, and at www.NaughtyAuthorChicks.Blogspot.com and on Facebook and Twitter as WynterDaniels.
When the writing bug bit her again years later, she tried her hand at many different romance genres from contemporary to suspense to erotic. She is now published with Ellora’s Cave, Red Sage Publishing and Loose Id and is looking forward to her first release with Carina Press, an erotic romantic suspense. Protective Custody will be released in May of 2011.
Now married with two grown children and two spoiled cats, Wynter writes full time from her home in Florida. She sincerely hopes her stories are as much fun for you to read as they were for her to write. You can find her on the web at: www.WynterDaniels.com, and at www.NaughtyAuthorChicks.Blogspot.com and on Facebook and Twitter as WynterDaniels.
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Marcelle Dubé
Marcelle Dubé grew up near Montreal. After trying out a number of different provinces – not to mention Belgium – she settled in the Yukon, where carnivores outnumber people.
Her short fiction has appeared in various anthologies and magazines and she writes across a number of genres. On Her Trail was her first novel. Her second, The Shoeless Kid - A Mendenhall Mystery, was published by Carina Press in May 2011.
You can visit her web site for more information and she occasionally twitters (@MarcelleDube) when the fancy strikes her.
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Angela Henry was once told that her past life careers included spy, researcher, and investigator. She stuck with what she knew because today she's a mystery writing library reference specialist, who loves to people watch and eavesdrop on conversations. She's the author of four mysteries featuring equally nosy amateur sleuth Kendra Clayton. Her first Carina Press novel, The Paris Secret, will be released January 17, 2011. She is also the founder of the award-winning MystNoir website, which promotes African-American mystery writers, and was named a "Hot Site" by USA Today.com. When she's not working, writing, or practicing her stealth, she loves to travel, is connoisseur of B horror movies, and an admitted anime addict. She lives in Ohio and is currently hard at work trying to meet her next deadline.
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Kathy Ivan
You can follow Kathy at:
Rita Henuber
Rita grew up running the beaches of a barrier island on Florida’s east coast. An island brat, she spent more time climbing weathered oaks and chasing alligators than playing with the dolls her family gave her. She married a Marine and feels fortunate to have lived many places and traveled to the states and countries she didn’t live. Retired from government service she moved back to that barrier island where she writes contemporary women’s fiction and suspense thrillers weaving her experiences into her stories. Her heroes and heroines are either in the military or government service because she writes what she knows. Her father was in the Coast Guard and immediate family members served in every branch of the service as pilots, grunts, desk jockeys and everything in between. Their ranks were from private to admiral. She’s experienced the highs and lows of military and government life and is grateful for each experience.
Rita reads or listens to two to three books a week. Prefers listening while doing housework so as not to waste time. She has no favorite author she just loves a good story.
Rita’s first book, Under Fire, will be released with Carina Press August 22, 2011.
You can visit Rita at her web home http://ritahenuber.com or at www.rubyslipperedsisterhood.com
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ritahenuber
Twitter http://twitter.com/ritahenuber
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Kathy can't remember a time when books and reading weren't a part of her daily life. She was blessed with a mother who instilled in her a love of reading at a young age. This progressed into a passion for the written word in all forms, which led to her writing. Every day new stories and new ideas roam through her head, the characters chomping at the bit for their turn to be front and center and have their stories told. That love of storytelling translates into her desire to write and share her stories with others.
Her day job is about as uncreative as it gets. She does medical transcription, spending numerous hours each day trying to decipher the mumbled, garbled, often unrecognizable words physicians are dictating in an effort to make a complete and comprehensive patient record. It's almost as bad as trying to read their handwriting!
Born and raised in Miami, Florida, she's lived in various places, from California to Hawaii and back to Florida before finally settling in Texas. Kathy makes her home outside Dallas, Texas. She's a member of Romance Writers of America and Dallas Area Romance Authors (DARA). Desperate Choices is her debut release with Carina Press.
You can follow Kathy at:
TWITTER www.twitter.com/kathyivan
FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/kathyivan
WEBSITE http://www.kathyivan.com/
PERSONAL BLOG http://www.kathyivan.blogspot.com/
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Josh Lanyon
A distinct voice in gay fiction, multi-award-winning author JOSH LANYON has been writing gay mystery, adventure and romance for over a decade. Josh is an Eppie Award winner and a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist.
Links:
Twitter: @JoshLanyon
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Julie Anne Lindsey
I
am
a mother of three, wife to a sane person and Ring Master at the Lindsey
Circus.
Most days you'll find me online, amped up on caffeine & wielding a
book. I
write sweet romance for Honey Creek Books, YA suspense for Merit Press
and am celebrating my debut cozy mystery series with Carina. I
can’t wait to see what’s next.
Clare London
Clare took the pen name London from the city where she lives, loves, and writes. A lone, brave female in a frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home, she waits for the far distant day when she can afford to give up her day job as an accountant. She's written in many genres and across many settings, with novels and short stories published both online and in print. She says she likes variety in her writing while friends say she's just fickle, but as long as both theories spawn good fiction, she's happy. Most of her work features male/male romance and drama with a healthy serving of physical passion, as she enjoys both reading and writing about strong, sympathetic and sexy characters. Clare currently has plenty of other projects in mind: she just has to find out where she left them in that frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home.
Find details of her publications and plenty of free fiction at her website, including an invitation to her mailing list. Visit her today and say hello!
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JB Lynn
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Although fascinated by things dark and twisted, JB is also enamored of tales of love conquering all. These dual interests manifest themselves in her stories as dangerous villains, and the heroines and heroes who must defeat them. In addition to writing and walking, JB has a great love of her husband, dog, coffee, purple ink, spiral notebooks, running gear, hot showers and 80’s music. Given enough time, all of these things will eventually show up in her books.
Maureen Miller
As a programmer in an industry that demanded constant travel, Maureen sought escape by making use of her laptop and writing exotic tales. Listening to the airport speaker rattle off another flight delay, Maureen rattled off another romantic suspense novel.
Her first romantic suspense, Widow's Tale was a Golden Heart finalist. Coming this May, Carina Press will be releasing her latest romantic thriller, Endless Night.
Generally, when you read one of Maureen's books you can count on needing mittens and a wool hat. She tends to write blustery ones!
Follow Maureen at:
WEBSITE: http://www.maureenamiller.com/
FACEBOOK: Facebook Fan Page
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Julie Moffett
Julie Moffett is a bestselling author and writes in the genres of historical romance, paranormal romance and mystery. She has won numerous awards, including the prestigious PRISM Award for Best Romantic Time-Travel and Best of the Best Paranormal Books of 2002. She has also garnered several nominations for the Daphne du Maurier Award and the Holt Medallion. Julie is a military brat (Air Force) and has traveled extensively. Her more exciting exploits include attending high school in Okinawa, Japan; backpacking around Europe and Scandinavia for several months; a year-long college graduate study in Warsaw, Poland; and a wonderful trip to Scotland and Ireland where she fell in love with castles, kilts and brogues. Julie has a B.A. in political science and Russian language from Colorado College and an M.A. in international affairs from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She worked as a journalist for the international radio station Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Washington, D.C., for eleven years, publishing hundreds of articles before “retiring” to be a stay-at-home mom and full-time writer. Julie speaks Russian and Polish and has two sons.
She enjoys interacting with readers at her website, http://www.juliemoffett.com/, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Julie-Moffett-%20Author/123804877633091 or Twitter at: http://twitter.com/JMoffettAuthor.
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Caridad Piñeiro® is a multi-published and award-winning author whose love of the written word developed when her fifth grade teacher assigned a project – to write a book that would be placed in a class lending library. She has been hooked on writing ever since.
Shelley Munro
Shelley Munro is tall and curvaceous with blue eyes and a smile that turns masculine heads everywhere she goes. She’s a university tutor and an explorer/treasure hunter during her vacations. Skilled with weapons and combat, she is currently in talks with a producer about a television series based on her world adventures.
Shelley is also a writer blessed with a vivid imagination and lives with her very own hero in New Zealand. She writes mainly erotic romance in the contemporary, paranormal and historical genres for publishers Carina Press, Ellora’s Cave, and Samhain Publishing.
Links:
Website – http://www.shelleymunro.com
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/shelleymunro
Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/shelleymunro
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Janis Patterson
Janis Susan May Patterson is a seventh-generation Texan and a third-generation wordsmith who writes mysteries as Janis Patterson, romances as Janis Susan May, children’s books as Janis Susan Patterson and scholarly works as J.S.M. Patterson. She has sold eighteen or so novels and ghostwritten perhaps twice that many books.
*** Janis Susan May Patterson is a seventh-generation Texan and a third-generation wordsmith who writes mysteries as Janis Patterson, romances as Janis Susan May, children’s books as Janis Susan Patterson and scholarly works as J.S.M. Patterson. She has sold eighteen or so novels and ghostwritten perhaps twice that many books.
Formerly an actress and singer, a talent agent and Supervisor of Accessioning for a bio-genetic DNA testing lab, Janis Susan has also been editor-in-chief of two multi-magazine publishing groups. She founded and was the original editor of The Newsletter of the North Texas Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt, which for the nine years of her reign was the international organization’s only monthly publication. Long interested in Egyptology, she was one of the founders of the North Texas chapter and was the closing speaker for the ARCE International Conference in Boston in 2005.
Janis Susan married for the first time when most of her contemporaries were becoming grandmothers. Her husband, a handsome Naval Reserve Captain several years younger than she, even proposed in a moonlit garden in Egypt. Janis Susan and her husband live in Texas with three rescued furbabies – two neurotic cats and a terribly spoiled little dog.
Twitter : @JanisSusanMay
Caridad Piñeiro
Caridad Piñeiro® is a multi-published and award-winning author whose love of the written word developed when her fifth grade teacher assigned a project – to write a book that would be placed in a class lending library. She has been hooked on writing ever since.
Caridad was born in Havana, Cuba, and settled in the New York Metropolitan area. She attended Villanova University on a Presidential Scholarship and graduated magna cum laude. Caridad earned her juris doctor from St. John’s University and became the first female partner of Abelman, Frayne & Schwab, an intellectual property firm in midtown Manhattan.
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Wendy Soliman
Wendy was brought up on the Isle of Wight in southern England. She now divides her time between Andorra and West Florida. She lives with her husband Andre and a rescued dog of indeterminate pedigree named Jake Bentley after the hunky hero in one of her books. She writes both historical and contemporary romance and has just embarked upon a series of marine crime mysteries for Carina Press, inspired by her upbringing in the sailing capital of England.
Website: http://www.wendysoliman.com
Twitter: @wendyswriter
Facebook: http://on.fb.me/e7nnhv
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Carol Stephenson
What attorney’s light burns late at night? It’s award winning author Carol Stephenson’s. Originally a Midwesterner, she learned to love books at an early age because of her parents' nightly reading ritual.
What attorney’s light burns late at night? It’s award winning author Carol Stephenson’s. Originally a Midwesterner, she learned to love books at an early age because of her parents' nightly reading ritual.
Best known for her emotionally drawn, hard-driving romances, Carol now lives in southeast Florida with her beloved Shih Tzu. As her five basic soul food groups are romances, movies, photography, travel and a good cup of tea, into her nonexistent spare time Carol crams travel with her trusty 35 mm camera in one hand and tea bags in the other. Points of interest include Alaska, Canada, the Grand Canyon, Great Britain, Italy, Napa Valley, and Nova Scotia. She’s also on a trivia team that competes weekly all in good fun.
Also find review and release information on Carol Stephenson’s books at Facebook Fan Page.
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J. Wachowski
J. Wachowski is a writer. This means she’s had lots of other jobs that pay cash money. She’s been a teacher, a children’s librarian, a television producer, a nanny, a reporter and an actress.
She lives in the Midwest, where the winters build character, with her family who are all characters.
In Plain View is her first published book.
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Elise Warner
Elise Warner has written for the Travel Section of The Washington Post, and the magazines Rock & Gem and The Gold Prospector. Remembering her poodle, Jackie, she wrote about a Musical troupe touring with dogs published in the Anthology Good Dogs Doing Good; a short story, Stage Door Johnny, won second prize in the American Kennel Club Magazine contest. Historical articles have appeared in American Spirit, Pennsylvania, The Elks and The Villager. An avid fan of mysteries, she’s written for Mystery Time, RTP and citywriters.com Elise’s debut novel, Scene Stealer, a cozy mystery was published as an eBook by Carina Press, and Audible.com published an audio version. The cozy mystery features Miss Augusta Weidenmaier.
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Shirley Wells
Shirley was born and raised in the Cotswolds, spent a year living in Cyprus and 12 years on the Orkney island of Hoy.She's now settled in Lancashire, where the Pennines provide the inspiration and setting for her popular mystery novels. She and her husband share their home with an ever-changing selection of deranged pets, who often insist on cameo roles in Shirley's novels.
When she isn't writing, Shirley loves reading (anything and everything), listening to live music, watching TV, eating chocolate and drinking whisky—though not necessarily at the same time. She's also a season ticket holder at Burnley Football Club and can often be seen in the biting wind and pouring rain cheering on her favourite team.
Details of her books can be found on her website. You can also find her wasting time on Facebook and Twitter. Oh, and she talks about anything and everything on her blog.
