Writing for Avalon Romance, Cheri Jetton crafted tender, character driven stories she said "could be shared with your twelve-year-old niece or your eighty-two-year-old grandmother."   While she still likes stories with the soft touch, she's trying her hand at the edgier suspense category.  We'll be sure to let you know when one gets snapped up by a savvy editor.

Best known for her riveting romantic thrillers, Colleen Thompson writes stories that show us that sometimes, love can kill. After writing seven historicals as Gwyneth Atlee, Colleen's RITA-nominated contemporary debut, Fatal Error, launched Dorchester Publishing's new line of fast-paced, steamy romantic suspense.

Kerrelyn Sparks is the USAToday Bestselling author of vampire comedy thrillers.  Her Love at Stake series began with How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire.

Sharon Mignerey's romance and romantic suspense novels are known for having high emotional intensity and tight plots.  She is currently published by Steeple Hill's Love Inspired Suspense.

 

P.J. Mellor grew up on the beaches of the Great Lakes before moving to Colorado...and almost no beaches.  Which is one of the reasons she now lives in the Deep South (where there are two seasons:  summer and not summer.)

Besides writing, witty, fast paced, stories with plenty of sexual tension, she enjoys reading, sewing, swimming, and assassinating flowering plants.  Her personal goals are to keep her checkbook balanced, make the NYT Bestseller list, and return to her original weight--five pounds, thirteen ounces.

Over the past ten years, Jan Hudson's books have routinely appeared on romance best seller lists and have been translated into many foreign languages. Winner of both the RITA and the Golden Heart awards from the Romance Writers of America as well as several other national and regional honors, she writes the kind of fast-paced stories she likes to read: those laced with humor, fantasy, and adventure, with bold characters who reach beyond the mundane and celebrate life. Formerly a licensed psychologist (non-practicing) and a college psychology teacher, Jan has conducted a number of seminars. Besides being a crackerjack hypnotist, she's considered an expert on dreams.

 

Kim Lenox writes sexy, emotional historicals set in whatever time period strikes her fancy.

 

Patricia Kay is the WaldenBooks and USA Today bestselling author of forty-five novels of romance and women's fiction.  She is a former RITA nominee for her first mainstream single title contemporary romance and currently writes for Silhouette Special Edition and Harlequin NeXT.  Her latest release is WISH COME TRUE (3/07) for Harlequin NeXT.

 

Teri Thackston has been making up stories almost since she could talk. Today she writes hot romantic suspense and historical romance for Cerridwen Press, but hopes to soon expand into "romantica".

 

Joan Reeves writes romance novels laced with humor, featuring smart women with an attitude, a southern drawl, and problems with the obstinate sex - men. Smart, macho, yet vulnerable, heroes and strong heroines prove, at least in her books, that love may not make the world go round, but it sure makes the ride more enjoyable!

 

 

 

 

Christie Craig’s books are sexy, suspenseful and seriously funny. Her fun and flirty romps have the perfect blend of suspense and romance and are spiced with the right amount of humor.  Her first Dorchester release:  DIVORCED, DESPERATE & DELICIOUS will hit the shelves in December 2007.

 

 

 

TJ Bennett writes Dark and Daring Romance.  Her historicals have been termed "outside-the-box" and her paranormal romances are a little dark and edgy, yet laced with a subtle thread of humor throughout. TJ's debuts in April 2008 with her first novel, The Legacy, a Medallion Press release. 

 

Carla Williard w/a Carla Rossi has written everything from Christmas Pageants and school newsletters, to poetry, stage plays, and Christian music. After another thousand pages of humorous essays about friends and family, she completed a novel. When she’s not squirreled away in her office with her writing partner – a Main Coon cat – she’s at her desk as a school secretary or adding piano, bass and vocals to her church’s worship band.

Kimberly Frost combines magic, mystery, and mayhem with romantic elements in her humorous paranormal series for Berkley. Would-Be Witch, the first in her Southern Witch series was released February 3, 2009. The sequel, Barely Bewitched, will be released in September 2009.

Anna Kathryn Lanier started writing novels while still in high school. After putting her writing on hold for nearly two decades to raise her daughters, she picked up the pen again. After completing two historical novels, she joined RWA in 2004 which opened a new world for her. She has several published works under two different pen names, Anna Kathryn Lanier and M. J. Sager.

Award winning, Ciara Gold writes paranormal futuristic romances that will take you to another world. She also writes historical western romances with characters that come alive with her prose.

Accolades include best selling author for Champagne Books in 2006, author of the year for Champagne Books in 2007 and a 2008 Eppie win for her sci-fi futuristic, A Noble Sacrifice.

 

 

 

Kimberly Ivey's award winning short stories, nonfiction articles and poetry have appeared in hundreds of publications throughout the United States and Canada. By day--when the kiddies are at school--this mild mannered mother of three lives out her wildest dreams, writing historical, and paranormal novels and novellas. By night she lives a relatively normal life, teaching creative writing for a southeast Texas college.

Terri Dunham writes under the name Terri Molina. A native Texan, born and raised in Southeast Texas, she writes multicultural romantic suspense, blending in the flavor of the Southwest with her Mexican heritage. After years of living a nomadic life with her Coast Guard spouse, she now resides in Southeast Arizona (but still keeps her NWHouston membership) with her husband, four children and a dog. When she’s not writing she enjoys reading, singing karaoke with the kids and spending time with family and friends.

Best-selling author John Foxjohn epitomizes the phrase; “been there—done that.” Born and raised in the rural East Texas town of Nacogdoches, he quit high school and joined the Army at seventeen. Viet Nam veteran, army Airborne Ranger, policeman and homicide detective, retired teacher and coach, and now, a multi-published author.

 

 

Rhonda Morrow

Jo Anne Banker

Nancy Bowden

Janet Clementz-Garza

Terri Dunham

Lisa Gibson

Tessy Grillo

Jennifer Bray-Weber

Jan Nash

Robin Haseltine

Judythe Morgan

Ruth Kenjura

Linda Krzywicki

Melissa Ohnoutka

Jo Ann Payne

Will Simon

Peggy Swire