AUTHORS

 M. Allen was born and raised a sassy Jersey girl. Her love for creative writing and for all things romance inspired her to write her own series. When she’s not writing, she’s usually tending to her 3 dogs, 6 chickens, and 2 goats at her farmhouse in central Jersey. She is a passionate supporter of coffee and dark chocolate, and she always enjoys cozying up to watch a Nancy Meyers film. She loves relieving stress by immersing herself in various genres of novels. You can currently find her lost in a towering to-be-read pile. 

Estelle Pettersen is an Australian author and former journalist whose romance stories explore empowerment, freedom, and finding one’s strength. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Journalism and Psychology, from the University of Queensland, Australia. Her second degree is an MBA from Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She is a member of Romance Writers of Australia and is passionate about history, languages, cultures, traveling, food, and wine. She is happily married and living in Norway these days.

Ann Watters was born into the military, with her father raising Ann to always believe in herself and always follow her dreams.  From the United States, and throughout the world, Ann’s parents opened her eyes to many traditions, leaving Ann to write of vampires from many cultures.  Ann loves to spend time with her family and furry babies when she is not busy researching and writing and almost always shares her writing desk with the black cat she adoringly calls Apollo.  She has been fascinated with vampires since she picked up Bram Stoker’s novel, and later Anne Rice.  Now, living in the foothills of Colorado, Ann spends a lot of her time looking to The Rockies as she writes romances and brings legends to life.

  The Wild West was always a big interest, as both my father and my grandfather were always reading Westerns, and there were ‘cowboy books,’ as they called them, laying around for me to read. Then I was given Western annuals for birthdays and Christmas, which also helped push my interest. Horse riding became a passion. It’s such a joy to ride through open places and just enjoy being there.

What I love doing is writing, especially about wild open places of America and the people who lived there in the 1800s. There is now a plethora of new Western books being written, as interest has surged recently. It is a fascinating era and one in which there is always something more to learn about and enjoy.

I also have a great interest in nature too and enjoy being outdoors and in wild places. I have also played guitar semi-professionally for many years.

I live with my wife, Glennys, and a Lhasa Apso dog.

    Lisa M. Prysock resides with her husband of more than twenty-four years in beautiful, rural Kentucky, near horse farms and four-board fences. She enjoys sharing her faith and Christian inspiration in her novels amidst heartwarming drama, suspense, and usually a generous dose of humor. 

Armed with babysitter earnings, she purchased her first manual typewriter at age twelve. She began plunking out stories. Within a few years, she won an award for her first chapter story and some poetry. Later on, as her children began to fly the coop, Lisa became the author of more than thirty books in a variety of Christian Romance genres, winning the Lighthouse Award for her debut novel, To Find a Duchess. 

Some of Lisa's bestselling titles include The Shoemaker, Lydia's Lot, Geneva, Marry Me Katie and No Place Like Home from the Whispers in Wyoming series, and Lottie's True Love and Belle of the Ball from the Brides of Pelican Rapids series.

You'll often find her in the garden, sketching or reading a book, listening to her favorite contemporary Christian music artists, hanging out with the kids at church, or exploring the bookstore. 

Laura Strickland shares a small country homestead on the Niagara Frontier with her husband and beloved rescue dog, Tinker. Her early love of reading led her to begin writing Fiction in third grade, and she’s been developing her craft ever since. Writing across many Romance genres, she’s won awards for everything from her Scottish Historicals to her groundbreaking Buffalo Steampunk Adventures, but has a special place in her heart for Western Romance. Deeply interested in animal welfare, she been blessed to have mothered a number of adopted dogs. Her writing mantra is Lore, Legend, Love.

Born and raised in Texas, Kara had to make the state the setting for her first series. From the food to the fun, like floating the rivers, it is the fire in her blood that inspires her. Kara's family and friends take center stage in her books. Her sisters and best friends are her heroines, and her husband created her favorite hero. Love and family are the point of her stories, and she seeks to entertain, relieve stress, and inspire people. Books can take one on a journey that one can relive over and over. Kara is extremely grateful to those authors who did that very thing for her. For more information, please visit www.karaoneal.com.

JC Fairbanks began writing after a passionate dream made it impossible to think about anything else. In the dream, she got to know dozens of people whose stories were begging to be told. Intensely romantic, and deliciously steamy, her stories embody the fun, smart, and sassy world she wants to live in. JC is living her happily-ever-after by the San Francisco Bay, but you may spot her splashing in the waves anywhere saltwater is found. 

Nora Nolan is the pen name of a gray-haired grandmother who always wanted to write, but didn't get around to it until 2019. She's written several Old West romances with a good bit of spice and a hint of kink, always with a healthy dose of humor and characters you're bound to love. Nora and the love of her life live in Arkansas. Between them, they have two nearly perfect sons, two wonderful daughters-in-law, and three grands without whom the sun might not shine. They're currently dogless, but that might change at any time. She misses having a doggie around the house!

Suzanne Baginskie and her husband, Al, left New Jersey and relocated to the west central coast of Florida. She’s been writing ever since her mother gifted her a five-year diary for her eighth birthday. Unknowingly, her mother’s inspirational nudge helped the writer inside her emerge.

She recently retired from a law firm as a paralegal-office manager. Now she writes daily, spinning tales of romantic suspense that pair tantalizing mystery with compelling romance. She starts each day with a four-mile walk and meditates on her current writing project. A voracious reader, she supports her local library association as a friend. She loves traveling, especially on cruise ships. Most sea days on board, you’ll find her plotting stories outside on the deck, gazing at the ocean. Currently, she is working on her series.

Kat Carrington is an Indiana girl with deep country roots. She retired to South Carolina with her husband of twenty-seven years and discovered that her passion for reading had deepened into a passion for creating her own stories. Just as she always liked to read a wide variety of different types of books, she also likes to create a wide variety of stories on her own. What they all have in common is romance, sometimes sweet and steamy and other times dark and rough, but always with a happy ending.

Kat is a proud mother and grandmother, which made her simple country lifestyle a rich adventure. When she writes about dogs, gardening, cooking, or horseback riding, those experiences come from her own family life. Now she pours the richness of those relationships into her characters. She has written eleven books, and you can find her spinning tales over her laptop any day of the week.

Peggy Jaeger is a contemporary romance writer who writes Romantic Comedies about strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can’t live without them. If she can make you cry on one page and bring you out of tears, rolling with laughter the next, she’s done her job as a writer.

Family and food play huge roles in Peggy’s stories because she believes there is nothing that holds a family structure together like sharing a meal… or two… or ten. Dotted with humor and characters that are as real as they are loving, she brings all topics of daily life into her stories: life, death, sibling rivalry, illness and the desire for everyone to find their own happily ever after. Growing up the only child of divorced parents, she longed for sisters, brothers and a family that vowed to stick together no matter what came their way. Through her books, she’s created the families she wanted as that lonely child.

When she’s not writing, Peggy is usually painting, crafting, scrapbooking or decoupaging old steamer trunks she finds at rummage stores and garage sales.

As a lifelong diarist, she caught the blogging bug early on, and you can visit her at peggyjaeger.com where she blogs daily about life, writing, and stuff that makes her go “What??!"

Though born in the Bronx, Suzanne is a “Jersey Girl” through and through. Supported by an encouraging family, wonderful friends and colleagues, and a fierce writing group, she leads a double life—that of a writer and an English teacher to junior high students. When not conjuring up stories from romances to horror and everything in-between or living vicariously through her characters, (they have more exciting lives) you can find her relaxing at the Jersey shore, spending time with friends, or bingeing Netflix. She lives for the day that she’ll be reading and enjoying her students’ novels.

Gretchen Lovett is a wife, a daughter and a mother, born in Delaware and transplanted to North Carolina.  She spent her twenties and thirties working as a secretary in several different nonprofits. While she still enjoys helping a few wonderful organizations secure grant funding, her passion is narrative writing.  As a ghostwriter (someone who is paid to produce content for clients) she has written both fiction and nonfiction.  The Creative Billionaire series is her first published under her own name.

Growing up on a farm in the Midwest gives Nicole a unique perspective into small-town life, the setting of her first series. She studied literature at university, and after graduating lived in the Southwest, the Nevada desert, and on the West Coast. She has traveled to Canada, Israel, and throughout Mexico, and hopes to see more of the world in the future. Recently, she moved back to her rural home where she writes books that capture readers’ hearts. Nicole is passionate about the environment, loves coffee, wine, and everything sweet. Her sidekick is a tiny Yorkie that’s one pound of ornery plus three pounds of cuteness, named Gigi.

A voracious reader her whole life, author Susan Payne loves the written word.  When reading more than fifty books per month wasn’t enough, she decided to allow her mind to take flight and write all the many stories that kept intruding in her life.  She blended her love of history and her love of words to create over eighty stories.  All historical and centering on a couple finding love and a happy ever after together.

Toni V. Sweeney has lived 30 years in the South, a score in the Middle West, and a decade on the Pacific Coast and now she’s trying for her second 30 on the Great Plains. 

Since the publication of her first novel in 1989, Toni divides her time between writing under her own name and various pseudonyms. She is also on the review staff of the New York Journal of Books, and in 2016, was named a Professional Reader by netgalley.com.

Currently, Toni has written 78 novels (one for every year of her life so far), many of which have seen publication. This includes several series.

Corlet (pronounced Cor-lay) lives in sunny Colorado with her husband, daughter, and dogs. Corlet loves to spend time outdoors, running, and kickboxing. She works as a nurse but finds lots of time for writing in her free time.  Her lifetime goal is to write in as many countries as possible. She got the idea to write Bee's Flowers series when she contemplated the different reasons people purchase flowers. She is currently working on the third full-length installment of the series and can't wait to share it with readers. Corlet has had a lifelong love affair with books and reading, and it has been a dream of hers to work with a publishing company. She also has a to-be-read list that gets longer every year.

After 14 years in Texas, Linda returned home to her roots in the red clay of South Carolina.  She has two wonderful sons: a scientist and an artist—opposite polarities. For many years, she bred, trained and showed the magnificent Andalusian horse. So, she’s seen a lot of this country from the windshield of a truck towing a horse trailer.

She enjoys events with her sports car club, reading, music, anything horsy, symphony, and theater. She adores formal gowns and is always on the lookout for formal occasions (fewer and fewer in our casual world.) She loves, loves, loves the piano, but unfortunately does not play. Shopping on-line is an almost addiction. She retired from a career as a legal assistant to stay busier in retirement. Her job now is her passion: writing.

USA Today bestselling author Liz Flaherty started writing in the fourth grade when her Aunt Gladys allowed her to use her portable Royal typewriter. The truth was that her aunt would have let her do anything to get her out of her hair, but the typewriter and the stories it could produce caught on, and Liz never again had a day without a what if… in it.

A long-time newspaper stringer and columnist, she was also an inveterate reader of romantic fiction—one of those who thought I could do that and set about proving she could. Twenty or so books later, she’s happily writing sweet romance with a touch of inspirational. She’s working on the Fallen Soldier series for Magnolia Blossom now, still mumbling what if… and drinking a liberal amount of coffee while she figures it out. 

She and Duane, her husband of at least forever, live in a farmhouse in central Indiana, sharing grown children, spoiled cats, and their grandkids, the Magnificent Seven. (Don’t get her started on them—you’ll be here all day.) To find out more about her, stop by http://lizflaherty.net/ or sign up for her newsletter at http://eepurl.com/df7dhP.

Parker Love was born in Kansas and currently lives in Illinois with their husband, child and mother. As a nonbinary trans, asexual, biromantic person and romance lover, Parker has always wanted to contribute to queer fiction in the genre they love best. 

Parker is a strong advocate for the entire rainbow of the LGBTQ+ community and supports other authors in many ways. 

When Parker isn’t writing or spending time with their family and friends, they enjoy reading, walking their dogs, and crochet.