Wendy Corsi Staub
Kathleen O’Reilly
Maya Rodale
Lisa Ann Verge
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Isabo Kelly
Kathleen O'Reilly wrote her first romance at the age of eleven, which to her undying embarrassment was read aloud to her class. After taking over twenty years to recover from the profound distress, she is now proud to announce her new career - a romance author. Kathleen lives in New York with her husband and their two children who outwit her daily.
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Wendy Corsi Staub is the New York Times bestselling author of more than seventy published books. Her latest thriller, DON'T SCREAM, spent five weeks on the New York Times, USA Today, and Barnes and Noble Top Ten bestseller lists in May 2007. Under contract with five publishers, she will release fourteen books in the eighteen month period leading up to fall 2008. Her new young adult hardcover paranormal suspense series, LILY DALE, has been optioned for television. As Wendy Markham, she writes chick lit, romantic comedy, time travel, and paranormal. She is the recipient of two RWA Rita Awards, two Washington Irving fiction prizes, a Romantic Times Critics Choice nomination, a Waldenbooks Top 100 Fiction listing, five RT BookReviews Magazine Top Picks, and the RWA-NYC Golden Apple Lifetime Achievement award.
Award-winning novelist, Hope Tarr, is the author of ten historical and contemporary romance fiction novels, most recently STROKES OF MIDNIGHT (Harlequin Blaze, December, 2007), set mainly in Manhattan. When not busy writing, Hope indulges her passions for running, historic preservation, and feline rescue. Read excerpts from the books and enter her monthly contest online at www.hopetarr.com.
Lisa Ann Verge was studying for her Ph.D. in organic chemistry when she started writing her first novel, a historical romance set in revolutionary France. That novel was snapped up by Avon, and released in 1988 as DEFIANT ANGEL. Since then, she’s written twelve historical and contemporary novels, collected rave reviews, been published in fifteen languages, and was nominated for a RITA for The FAERY BRIDE, a “beauty and the beast” tale set in ancient Ireland. Busy now with three children, she’s writing mainstream women’s fiction and tinkering with another idea for a historical.
Maya Rodale’s debut novel THE HEIR AND THE SPARE, is the first in her Negligent Chaperone series. Set in London during the Regency era, it features an American Heiress unwittingly courted by identical twin brothers. The hero falls in love with her when she falls into his arms, while his twin lusts after her fortune. She is spared from marrying the wrong man by her
meddlesome, and deliberately negligent, chaperone. The second book in the series, due in October 2008, makes a hero out of the villainous twin.
Award winning author Isabo Kelly has a gypsy soul, which she's indulged wholeheartedly over the last sixteen years, living in Las Vegas, Hawaii, Germany, Ireland and New York. There's no telling were she might end up next (though Italy keeps coming up in conversation). After finishing her Ph.D. in Zoology in Ireland, Isabo buckled down to concentrate on writing.
She's published numerous science fiction, fantasy and paranormal romance novels, short stories and novellas. To learn more about Isabo's books, visit her at www.isabokelly.com.
Patt’s writing career began when her first Editor, Nathasha Brook-Harris, invited Patt to write for the Dorchester Media “True Confession” line of magazines, where she enjoyed having published over a hundred stories for their complete magazine line.
Patt’s first novel, RING DANCER’S DESTINY was released in October 2007 with Cerridwen Press, followed by FIREBRAND a collaboration with her writing partner Kathye Quick. Patt is also author of BABY PAPERS and contributor to C.N. Nesbit’s A DREAM DEFERRED A JOY ACHIEVED anthology - both works will be released in December 2007.
Patt Milhailoff
Shirley Hailstock
Jacqueline Hawley
Leanna Renee Hieber
Jacqueline S. Hawley, a Contemporary Romance author, is a member of Romance Writers of America, and performs erotic poetry the first Friday of each month at the Afrikan Poetry Theatre in Jamaica, New York. She enjoys art, mythical creatures and comic books.
Leanna grew up in rural Ohio and began her first novel at age 11. While she’d never claim that manuscript was any good, she will admit that it was her first true love and set her working on novels ever since.
Choosing to pursue a degree in theatre performance, Leanna continued working on stories in the midst of arduous rehearsal and performance schedules. Hopping around the country performing in the theatre circuit, her first publications came in the form of short plays and essays for Dramatics Magazine. Her short plays won awards and garnered productions. This gave her the confidence to pursue a publishing contract.
Shirley Hailstock is the author of over twenty novels and novellas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Holt Medallion, the Barclay Gold Award and the Waldenbooks Best-selling Romance Award. She holds a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York City Chapter of RWA.
Shirley’s books have appeared on Blackboard, the Library Journal, and the Top 100 Romances of the 20th Century Lists. Shirley is a past president of Romance Writers of America.
Tracy Kelleher
After graduating from Yale University and attending Cornell University graduate school, Tracy Kelleher soon discovered that academic life was not for her, and migrated to the Big Apple, where she worked at an advertising agency. Fast-forward through marriage, two children, and freelance writing for newspapers and magazines. Eventually, she became a staff newspaper reporter, then the communications director for a non-profit organization.
Tracy sold her first romance to Kensington while she was a reporter. Harlequin Temptation bought her second and Tracy decided to write fiction full-time. She currently lives in New Jersey and is hard at work on her next novel.
E.J. Rand
I always wanted to write and minored in creative writing at business school (Wharton) - care to guess which my parents preferred? Then wives, children, and careers came along. After a tour as a USN destroyer officer, i became an officer with a New York Stock Exchange Company. But the spark burned: After retirement I wrote my first book, SAY GOODBYE.
Toni Carroll Terman
Toni moved to New York City as a teenager and found herself working at the famous Copacabana and Latin Quarter working with Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, etc. She has acted in movies, recorded musical selections and co-authored some wonderfully entertaining and helpful books with her husband Dr. Philip Terman including COPACABANA SEXCAPADES and LAUGH YOUR FAT OFF.
