Barbara Daly
Dee Davis
Anna DePalo
Thea Devine
Megan Frampton
Barbara Gale
Cathy Greenfeder
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Barbara Daly taught at a school, wrote and hosted public television programs, and worked as a political aide. Marriage to an academic on the move led her to seek out a more mobile career, and she turned to writing. She studied short story and playwriting, but when she took a course in romance writing, she was hooked.
With experiences in six states to draw upon, she admits that her characters so strongly resemble people she has known that she feels obligated to set her stories in imaginary towns. Her children, two invigorating grandsons, and the family pets, supply additional material for her current and future books. Now observing and eavesdropping in New York, she enjoys city life and frequent escapes to the peace and quiet of Vermont with her husband and Cairn terrier.
Dee Davis has a BA in Political Science and History, and a Masters Degree in Public Administration.
Her highly acclaimed first novel, Everything In Its Time, was published in July 2000. Since then, among others, she’s won the Booksellers Best, Golden Leaf, Texas Gold and Prism awards, and been nominated for the National Readers Choice Award, the Holt and two RT Reviewers Choice Awards. To date, she has sold fifteen books and three novellas, including Chain Reaction and A Match Made on Madison.
She’s lived in Austria and traveled in Europe extensively. And although she now lives in Manhattan she still calls Texas home.
Barbara Gale began writing after she discovered that she had read all of Georgette Heyer's books twice. Her career was born when Fawcett Crest bought her very first Regency romance, A Question of Honor, in 1981. Since then, she has written many more Regency romance novels, but in 2001 she switched to writing contemporary romance fiction.
A lifelong resident of New York City, Barbara knows every inch of her hometown, but she and her family escape the city's August heat by traveling upstate for the summer. It was inevitable that many of her books would center on rural living. Thus, her stories take place not only in New York City, but in the State of New York-along the Adirondack Mountain trails and the isolated towns and hamlets that pepper these majestic mountains.
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"The Queen of Erotic Romance" (Romantic Times), Thea Devine, is the author of more than 20 steamy historical romances, and she’s now writing contemporary novels for Pocket. Thea’s also contributed novellas to the USAToday best-selling erotic historical romance anthologies, as well as written a dozen of sexy contemporary and historical romantic novellas for Kensington, Leisure and Harlequin. For 25 years, she was freelance manuscript reader for major mass market publishers and she’s given many workshops on why manuscripts get rejected, based on that experience.
A charter member of RWA/NYC. Thea has been married more than 40 years to the ever-patient and much adored John with whom she has two grown sons. They now live Connecticut. -- And yes, it's her real name.
Megan Frampton’s love affair with books began when he parents moved her to a remote town in New Hampshire where there was only one television station.
And then the TV broke.
She devoured every book of fiction in her well-read parent’s library, eventually majoring in English Literature at Barnard College.
Megan worked in the music industry for 15 years. She now lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and her son. She is a member and past president of the Beau Monde (2004-2005), the Regency chapter of the Romance Writers of America, and a member of the NYC chapter of the RWA as well. Her Signet debut, A SINGLUAL LADY, was recommended in the Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Ultimate Reading List.
The American West and the pioneer days has been a fascination for Catherine Greenfeder since fifth grade when her teacher, Mrs. Seguine, created a "pioneer day" complete with square dancing and venison stew. Her trips to Oklahoma to visit her parents who relocated to Tulsa from New York City sparked an interest in the plight of the Native Americans and those earlier settlers in the frontier states. A fan of romance fiction since high school, Catherine Greenfeder decided to write her first romance novel after careers in publishing and advertising. WILDFLOWERS is the product of several years of research and writing.
Catherine attributes her love of writing to growing up in a household of storytellers, especially her mother who loves to entertain with stories about the past.
Anna discovered she was a writer at heart when she realized most people don’t walk around with a full cast of characters in their heads. She has lived in Italy and England, and learned to speak French, graduated from Harvard, earned graduate degrees in political science and law, forgot how to speak French and married her own dashing hero.
A former intellectual property attorney, Anna lives with her husband and son in New York City. Her books have consistently hit the Waldenbooks bestseller list and Nielsen BookScan's list of Top 100 bestselling romances. Her books have won numerous awards and have been published in over a dozen countries.
Polly Guerin is a consummate romantic and has had a lifelong journey into the world of writing and poetry. After twenty years as a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, during which her books I and II of Creative Fashion Presentations and the Stylist were published, she resigned to pursue her "brilliant writing career." Her other books include The Story of Color and script for two video productions. Currently she divides her time between writing poetry and regularly contributing articles to “Art & Antiques Magazine,” “Haute Doll” and other publications. In the works is a book on the Cooper/Hewitts of Old New York, a romance if you will about two sisters, the granddaughters of Peter Cooper, who were the founders of a museum, which became the Cooper Hewitt in NYC.
Polly Guerin
