Who We Are

 

	Kay Blake writes sassy, sexy and sweet contemporary and interracial romance. She is from arguably the greatest city in the world. (New York). She is a sarcastic sweetheart who prefers snuggling at home with a good book. She is a wife and a mom to three cubs. Kay indulges in strawberry cheesecake, horror movies, Harry Potter, The Walking Dead, wrestling and of course a happily ever after.
	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, a member the Speakeasy Scribes, and PR Chair for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. She is the author of multiple Regency romance novels, including The Sailing Home Series and La Déesse Noire: The Black Goddess, and will soon release a mainstream historical, Blind Tribute.
	Beverly Diehl writes romance, women’s fiction, and blogs about pop culture. Her memoir Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n Roll and a Tiara: How I Celebrated Life While Kicking Cancer’s Ass will be released in 2017. She lives in Los Angeles with her two cats, Motivation and Creativity.
	Patricia D. Eddy lives in many worlds. Witches, vampires, and shifters inhabit one of them, military men and women fill another, with sexy Doms and strong subs carving out the final slice of her literary universe. She admits to eleven novels (though there are at least five unfinished drafts on her desk right now), all while working a full-time job, running half-marathons, and catering to the every whim of her three cats. Despite this whirlwind, she still finds time to binge watch Doctor Who all of the Netflix Marvel shows, and most recently, The Handmaid's Tale.
	Lauren Greene is a novelist and a flash fiction writer. She has been writing since she was a small child. She mostly enjoys writing Southern Fiction and Literary Fiction. When she’s not writing or procrastinating, she stays busy with her husband and her three children.
	Larry Hogue's writing is all over the place and all over time. He started out in nonfiction, publishing All the Wild and Lonely Places in 2000. After moving to Michigan, he switched to writing fanfiction and original fiction. Now he’s writing a series of novels about an 18th-century cross-dressing highwayman. Adventure, pronoun confusion, and many cups of tea ensue. He's often been called a Social Justice Warrior, but prefers Social Justice Wizard or Social Justice Lawful Neutral Rogue.
	Andra Shine is the name under which Andra Jenkin writes fiction. Resourceful and brave, her characters follow their own paths and have adventures, while she attempts to write them back into line. Andra is a professional writer, teacher and editor, has worked in TV, film and radio. As Andra Jenkin, she co-wrote the non-fiction book Double-Edged Sword with Simonne Butler, Edited No More Mrs Nice Nun, and has drawn for the New Zealand Anthology of Women’s Comics Three Words. Other works include contributions to the third in the Douglas Adams Liff Trilogy, paranormal romance in the Bewitching Desires compilation, and she has performed poetry in Readers and Writers Festivals in New Zealand and Indonesia, with poems appearing on CD with The Literatti.
	Jude Knight's goal is to give you stories to transport you to another time, another place, where you can enjoy adventure and romance, thrill to trials and challenges, uncover secrets and solve mysteries, and delight in a happy ending. She has devoted most of the last forty years to a career in commercial writing and raising a large family (most recently as grandmother-in-residence while a daughter was out of action for three years). She and her own personal romantic hero, with whom she has shared forty+ years, now live with two cats and frequent visitors in a small town in rural New Zealand.
	Quenby Olson lives in Central Pennsylvania where she spends most of her time writing, glaring at baskets of unfolded laundry, and chasing the cat off the kitchen counters. She lives with her husband and three children, who do nothing to dampen her love of classical ballet, geeky crochet, and staying up late to watch old episodes of Doctor Who.
	Jennifer Senhaji writes sweet and spicy romance, and enjoys reading a wide range of genres. Exploring the art of the written word is a passion, and she delights in both page-turning conflict and stomach-flipping chemsitry. Other than English, she speaks Spanish, Moroccan, and a little French. Her dream is to travel the world with her laptop, creating captivating characters and dreamy escapes. She sings constantly, if a bit off-key, to her family’s chagrin. She is also a klutz, and in her own mind, she's hilarious.