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Jewel Amethyst was born and raised on the lovely island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean. Her first full length novel,
A Marriage of Convenience, comes out August 2009. Her holiday romance story,
From SKB with Love is part of an anthology of romance stories
Holiday Brides: Gifts of Love which includes stories by Farrah Rochon and Stefanie Worth due to be released in October 2009. Jewel lives with her husband and kids in Maryland where she enjoys writing fiction. She also has a passion for writing poetry and short stories emphasizing Kittitian culture and language.
Devon Vaughn Archer is the bestselling author of romance, urban, and mainstream fiction. His latest novel is a tale of seduction, passion, betrayal, revenge, and danger, titled
The Secrets of Paradise Bay (Urban Books, 2010). Devon has written a number of contemporary romances for Harlequin's Kimani Press, including
Kissing the Man Next Door and
Christmas Diamonds. He has the distinction of being the first male to write for Harlequin's Arabesque line with the 2006 hit mainstream romance,
Love Once Again. Archer also writes mystery and thriller fiction under the name R. Barri Flowers. Upcoming novels from Devon Vaughn Archer include
The Hitman's Woman (Urban Books, Summer 2011) and
Pleasure Me in Hawaii (Kimani, June 2011).
Do you like passion with your fiction? Hi everyone, I'm Kaz Augustin and I write mostly science-fiction romance, although I also write fantasy and it appears that the contemporary romance bug has recently jumped on my back too! I'm in Malaysia, so you'll probably read my posts and comments twelve hours after everybody else. LOL I'm proud to be part of this dynamic and diverse group and hope you enjoy our posts and our work.
A native of Chicago’s Southside, Phyllis Bourne began her writing career as a crime reporter for the
Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel and the
South Florida Sun-Sentinel. After years of chasing cops and criminals, she left reporting to write about life’s sweeter side.
Her books are about true love and happily-ever-afters. She blogs about looking and feeling great – even on deadline.
William Doonan is an archaeologist and professor of anthropology in Sacramento, CA. He has spent many years conducting excavations in Central and South America. He is also a veteran cruise ship lecturer, traveling the world and speaking on topics as diverse as the Trojan War, piracy in the Adriatic, and the peopling of the Americas.
Doonan is the author of three mystery novels.
Grave Passage and
Mediterranean Grave recount the adventures of an octogenarian detective who solves crimes on cruise ships. His new archaeological mystery
American Caliphate was released by Dark Oak Mysteries in April 2012.
Doonan lives in Sacramento with his wife and two sons. He blogs about undead conquistador mummies at
www.themumiesofblogspace9.com.
Mix knowledge of voodoo, Louisiana politics and forensic social work with the dedication to write fiction while working each day as a clinical social worker, and you get a snapshot of author Lynn Emery. Lynn has been a contributing consultant to the magazine
Today’s Black Woman for three articles about contemporary relationships between black men and women. Lynn is a licensed social worker with a special interest in mental health issues as they affect women. Lynn has sold fourteen novels to four major publishers. BET produced a movie based on her novel
After All. Currently she is marketing a murder mystery. Lynn is a native of Baton Rouge and is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, and Novelists, Inc.
Sunny Frazier is a Navy veteran and a former newspaper reporter until the publication folded. She joined the Fresno County Sheriff's Dept. and worked as a confidential secretary for an undercover narcotics team. After 17 years in law enforcement, she turned her energies to writing the Christy Bristol Astrology Mysteries. Based in the San Joaquin Valley of California, the novels are inspired by real cases and 40 years of casting horoscopes. Frazier is also acquisitions editor for Oak Tree Press.
Charles reads, writes, and blogs from his home in the woods of southern Louisiana. He’s written fantasy, horror, westerns, and a lot of other strange things. One of his weirdest works is a chapbook of vampire haiku called
Wanting the Mouth of a Lover. He also has a nonfiction book out called
Write With Fire which is a collection of essays and how-to articles on writing. Charles’s wife, Lana, is a talented artist in her own right.
KeVin Killiany has been married to Valerie for three decades and the father of Alethea, Anson, and Daya for various shorter periods of time. In addition to being a writer, KeVin has been a teacher, photographer, at-risk intervention counselor, warehouse grunt, associate pastor, paperboy, and community services case manager. KeVin has published two novels set in the MechWarrior universe and two volumes of the
Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers series. He has published short fiction in Star Trek, Doctor Who, BattleTech, and Shadowrun universes. KeVin also writes web content and "fluff" (in-character guides and reference books) for several role-playing, video, and tabletop games. Though his published works to date have been science fiction, KeVin also writes mystery and romance. He and Valerie live in Wilmington, NC.
In 2008, after a career in business and information technology, Carol married two of her passions, reading and children. Inspired by the historic Brimstone Hill in St. Kitts, she began the
Caribbean Adventure Series, the first children's adventure series based in the Caribbean. The first book,
Adventure at Brimstone Hill, was closely followed by
Pirates at Port Royal, based in Jamaica. Since then, Carol's life has taken her from St. Kitts to Ghana, West Africa where she lives with her husband and two children and continues to write about her experiences.
Formerly self-published, Marissa Monteilh (Mon-tay) signed a two-book deal with HarperCollins in 2001, and since then has gone on to write seven mainstream and two erotica titles. Currently with Hachette Books, she is a strong advocate of self-publishing, and mentors writers who choose to publish their own titles. Writing erotica books under her pseudonym, Pynk, Marissa focuses on subjects that promote “guilt free,” responsible sex for liberated women, and encourages readers to be “Sex-See,” which is a regular segment included in her erotica books, along with a sex dictionary and lead character commentary. Most of Marissa’s blog posts will focus on writing and on sex-related issues for women.
Eugenia O'Neal is from the Virgin Islands, a tiny, British territory in the Caribbean. Her first book, the non-fiction From the Fields to the Legislature: A History of Women in the Virgin Islands, was published by Greenwood Press in 2001. Since then she has published the novels Just an Affair, Dido's Prize and Jessamine. Her next novel, The Water of Sunlight, will be out in October.
Shauna Roberts’ first novel,
Like Mayflies in a Stream, will debut in October 2009. In this historical novel set in ancient Mesopotamia, a priestess of Inanna struggles to keep the precarious flame of civilization burning in the world's first city.
Roberts has also published fantasy, science fiction, and romance short stories and is attending the 2009 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop.
She has been a freelance biomedical writer and copy editor since 1990. Her consumer-health columns and book have won several awards.
Roberts grew up in Beavercreek, Ohio, and currently lives in Southern California. She enjoys herb gardening, quilting, playing medieval and Renaissance music, and bellydancing.
Farrah Rochon, award-winning author of the popular Holmes Brothers series, hails from a small town just west of New Orleans. Currently residing in Austin, Texas, Farrah is the author of three contemporary romances,
Deliver Me, Release Me, and
Rescue Me, and two holiday novellas,
A Change of Heart in
The Holiday Inn anthology, and the upcoming
No Ordinary Gift in the
Holiday Brides anthology, all published under Dorchester Publishing’s Leisure Imprint.
Farrah recently signed a two-book deal with Harlequin’s Kimani Romance.
Playing With Fire, the first book in her new series centered around the fictional New York Sabers professional football team, is slated for release in September 2010.
Liane, who hails from Trinidad, used to teach high school but ran away from all that in 2000. The years since have been more adventurous than she bargained for but through it all writing has been her anchor. She regularly gets into arguments with her foreign friends: "They think I live in paradise, and I always have to set them right on that score. But you know what? They're right. I do. I live in a 'space' where beauty jumps out at me at every turn, and this setting played a major role in my first novel,
Café au Lait. Landscape, seascape, flora, fauna – I’m beset by them in my fiction and in my life, as evidenced just last week by our latest serpent visitor!" Ms. Spicer also writes mainstream, literary and speculative fiction under a variety of pen names.
Terence Taylor is an award-winning children's television writer, whose work has appeared on PBS, Nickelodeon, and Disney, among many others. After a career of comforting young kids, he's now equally dedicated to scaring their parents. His short horror stories have been published in all three
Dark Dreams anthologies. He lives quietly in Brooklyn and laughs a lot between acts of literary carnage.
Karen Owens is the author of six romance novels and one novella. In addition to writing, Karen works as a reference librarian at the Mount Clemens Public Library and teaches freshman essay writing at Wayne State University. Her 2004 novel,
Circles of Love received a 4-1/2 Gold review from Romantic Times Book Club, the highest honor an author can receive and was nominated Best Multicultural Novel for 2004. She also received a nomination for Best Hero from the Romantic Slam Jam Emma Awards.
Love Changes Everything received 4-1/2 stars from Romantic Times Book Club and was top pick for November 2005.
Currently she works as a part time instructor at Wayne State University's Interdisciplinary Studies Program, teaching writing communications skills to undergraduate students. As a devoted supporter of the Detroit Writers Guild Annual Conferences, she conducts workshops on characterization and rejection letters and provides manuscript critiquing. Gary her husband of 20 years is her biggest fan.
Dayton Ward is a science fiction author primarily known for his
Star Trek novels and short stories, which began with publication in the
Strange New Worlds anthology series. He published stories in each of the first three
Strange New Worlds volumes, making him the first author to render himself ineligible under the rules of that series. As such, future authors who achieved the same feat were said to have earned a "Wardy."
In addition to his
Star Trek books, he has written numerous articles related to
Star Trek in
Star Trek Communicator and
Star Trek Magazine. He has also published a number of short stories in various magazines and collections.
As soon as she put fingers to keyboard to crank out her first novel, award-winning author, writer and former journalist Stefanie Worth realized that normalcy didn’t fit into her plot. Contemporary, yes. Passionate, moreso. But ready yourself for twists and turns that whisk you from ordinary to otherworldy, from “what if” to “why not?”
Stefanie’s debut novel,
Where Souls Collide, won the Science Fiction category of the 2008 African American Literary Awards. Her follow-up work, a novella titled
Can You Believe, appeared in
The Holiday Inn anthology, and another novella,
HeavenSent.com is slated to appear in the
Holiday Brides anthology (October 2008). She is currently at work on her next novel, to be released in 2011.
