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Sylvia Baumgarten
Sylvia Baumgarten is a multi-published (14 books) Historical Romance writer, having
published her first book in 1982. Her first book, "Marielle", by Ena Halliday, launched
Pocket Books' Tapestry line in that year. She subsequently wrote for Warner Popular
Library and Harlequin Historicals as Louisa Rawlings, and Kensington/Zebra (as Sylvia
Halliday) in a hard-cover/soft-cover arrangement, garnering two RITA nominations from
the Romance Writers of America and several nominations and awards from Romantic
Times Magazine through the course of her career.
Dr. Annabelle Charbit
www.ridiculouslife.net
Dr Annabelle R Charbit grew up in London, UK, and has been writing since 2006, when
her comedy play, Sound Advice, was performed by CP Theatre Productions in Londo
In 2007, she was published in The London Paper and in the British Neuroscience
Association’s Summer Bulletin. In 2010 she wrote for TheFrisky.com, an online
magazine who commissioned her after noticing her humorous blog, Crazy in a Crazy
World.
Dr Charbit holds a PhD in Neuroscience from University College London and has been
researching migraine headache at UCSF in San Francisco, about which she has published
in scientific journals. The inspiration behind A Life Lived Ridiculously stemmed from Dr
Charbit’s research work as a neuroscientist, which motivated her to write a story from the
point of view of people suffering from distorted thinking.
A Life Lived Ridiculously is Dr. Charbit's first novel.
Lisa Dale
www.LisaDaleBooks.com
Dale writes contemporary women’s fiction/romance. She worked at a New York literary
agency before earning her MFA. A former assistant editor of The Literary Review and
nominee for Best New American Voices and the Pushcart Prize, her writing appears in
many literary magazines, such as Fourth Genre, Flyway, Fugue, Sou’wester, The
Southeast Review, The MacGuffin, Many Mountains Moving, and more. Her first novel,
Simple Wishes, debuted with Grand Central Publishing, and a second book, It Happened
One Night, is due in November 2009. To join Lisa’s mailing list (and get free stuff) visit
her website. Or drop by her blog, for “thoughts on reading, writing, and living the
curious life.”
Barbara Daly
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
www.deedavis.com
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.
Ann DePalo
www.annadepalo.com
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.
Thea Devine
www.theadevine.com
"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.
Lisbeth Eng
www.lisbetheng.com
Lisbeth Eng is a native New Yorker whose love of literature, history and romance led her
on the rewarding path to romance writing. An English major in college, Lisbeth has also
studied Italian, German and French. Besides writing, world travel is her passion, and
trips to Italy and Germany have lent authenticity to her European-set World War II
romance novel. Lisbeth currently lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a stone’s
throw from Central Park and Lincoln Center, and loves the fascinating pace of life in the
Big Apple.
Her debut novel, IN THE ARMS OF THE ENEMY, is now available from The Wild Rose Press
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