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Joan Aiken |
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| The late Joan Aiken was a scholar and a prolific author of children’s books and Jane Austen sequels and continuations. She is the author of The Watsons and Emma Watson which completes Jane Austen’s posthumously published fragment The Watsons; Eliza’s Daughter, a sequel to Sense and Sensibility; and Mansfield Park Revisited, a sequel to Mansfield Park. |
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Marsha Altman is an historian, and is an expert on Jane Austen sequels, having read nearly every single one that's been written. She has worked in the publishing industry with a literary agency and is writing a series continuing the story of the Darcys and the Bingleys. She lives in New York. She has published three books with Sourcebooks: The Darcys & the Bingleys, The Plight of the Darcy Brothers, and Mr. Darcy's Great Escape. |
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| Phillipa Ashley studied English Language and Literature at Oxford before becoming a freelance copywriter and journalist. A frequent guest on BBC national, local and independent radio on all matters romantic, she lives with her husband and daughter in Staffordshire, UK. |
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| Sara Angelini is an attorney living in the San Francisco Bay area. After earning an MS in Animal Sciences, she decided against becoming a veterinarian when she realized she only liked her own pets and moved to California with her husband to pursue law school. She is working on her third novel. |
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Cheryl Brooks |
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Cheryl Brooks is a member of the Romance Writers Association and lives in Bloomfield, IN. The Cat Star Chronicles: Slave was her first novel. The sixth novel in The Cat Star Chronicles series, Hero, was released in the Fall of 2010 |
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Rachel Billington |
| Rachel Billington has published thirteen novels, including A Woman’s Age, Loving Attitudes, Bodily Harm and, most recently, Magic and Fate. She has also published two children’s novels and three religious books for younger children, as well as The Great Umbilical, a work of nonfiction about mothers and daughters. Her plays have been performed on radio and television and her varied work as a reviewer and journalist included a regular weekly column, published as “The Family Year.” She is married with four children. |
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Judith Brocklehurst |
Judith Brocklehurst was brought up in England, and it was on visits to the magnificent scenery of Derbyshire that her passion for Jane Austen developed. After emigrating to Canada with her husband and two young daughters, she worked as a teacher, newspaper reporter and columnist. Writing Jane Austen sequels was her greatest pleasure. |
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Laurie Brown teaches writing classes at the college level and has presented seminars at conferences all over the country, including the RWA national conference. She has three published romance novels, and has been a Golden Heart finalist twice and has received the Service Award from the Chicago-North Chapter of RWA. She lives in Glendale Heights, IL.
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Carolyn Brown |
Carolyn Brown is an award-winning author who has published 36 historical and western romance novels for the library market, many of them bestsellers in that market. Born in Texas and raised in southern Oklahoma, Carolyn and her husband now make their home in the town of Davis, Oklahoma. |
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D. A. Bonavia-Hunt |
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Little is known about D. A. Bonavia-Hunt. She lived with her brother, who was a vicar, in the English countryside during the time that she wrote Pemberley Shades, which appears to be her only book.
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Sybil G. Brinton |
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Little is known of Sybil G. Brinton. It is believed that Ms. Brinton was born in England in the 1870s and was in her late thirties when her book was published. |
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Linda Berdoll |
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Linda Berdoll is a self-described "Texas farm wife" whose interest in all things Austen was piqued by the BBC/A&E mini-series of Pride and Prejudice. She and her husband live on a pecan farm in Del Valle, Texas. Although she admits that she eloped in a manner similar to Lydia Bennet's, to her great fortune it was with Darcy, not Wickham. |
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Diana Birchall |
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Diana Birchall is a story analyst at Warner Bros. Studios. She has written several Jane Austen sequels; Mrs. Darcy’s Dilemma is the first to be published. She has also written a biography of Winnifred Eaton, her grandmother and the first Asian-American novelist. She lives in Santa Monica, California with her husband and son. |
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Rebecca Ann Collins |
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Rebecca Ann Collins is the pen name of a lady in Australia who loves Jane Austen’s work so much that she has written a series of 10 sequels to Pride and Prejudice, following Austen’s beloved characters, introducing new ones and bringing the characters into a new historical era. |
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Olivia Cunning |
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Raised on hard rock music, award-winning author Olivia Cunning has been known to travel over a thousand miles to see a favorite band in concert. She discovered her second love, steamy romance novels, as a teen—first, voraciously reading them and then penning her own. She lives in Hastings, Nebraska. |
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Beth Cornelison |
Georgia native Beth Cornelison worked in public relations before pursuing her love of writing fiction. She has published five category romances, winning numerous honors for her work, including RWA's coveted Golden Heart. Cornelison is active in her local RWA chapter and presents writing workshops across the country. She lives in West Monroe, Louisiana. |
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Kendra Leigh Castle |
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Kendra Leigh Castle went to college in Northern New York then joined her US Navy fighter pilot husband in moving around the country. This series reflects her North Country roots and her avid interest in all things paranormal. Kendra is currently loving the jet noise in Virginia Beach, Virginia with her husband and three children. |
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Ashlyn Chase |
A multi-published eBook author, Ashlyn Chase specializes in characters who reinvent themselves, having reinvented herself numerous times. She has worked as a psychiatric nurse, and for the Red Cross, and has a degree in behavioral sciences. She lives with her true-life hero husband in beautiful New Hampshire. |
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Lydia Dare |
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Lydia Dare is an active member of the Heart of Carolina Romance Writers, where she sits on the board of directors. She lives in a house filled with boys and an animal or two (or 10) near Raleigh, North Carolina. |
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Holly Denham |
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Holly Denham is the pen name for Bill Surie the owner of a placement service for receptionists and secretaries in London. He started the Holly's Inbox website as a place to serialize his first novel. The website became an overnight sensation and his second novel is now in the works. |
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Mary Margret Daughtridge |
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Mary Margret Daughtridge a Southerner born and bred, has been a grade school teacher, speech therapist, family educator, biofeedback therapist, and Transpersonal Hypnotherapist. She has been a member since 2002 of Heart of Carolina Romance Writers, Romance Writers of America, and Romancing the Military Soul, an online writing group, and she is a sought-after judge in writing contests.
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Jane Dawkins |
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Born in Palestine, Jane Dawkins grew up in Wilton, a small country town in Wiltshire, neighboring county to Jane Austen’s Hampshire. Dawkins now resides in Key West, Florida with her husband, several cats and a dog. She has been a Jane Austen fan most of her life. |
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Marie Force |
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Marie Force has worked as a reporter, editor and writer for the last 20 years, serving most recently as the communications director for a national membership organization. A lifelong reader of romance, she lives with her husband and two children in her home state of Rhode Island and had to become a football fan when the muse delivered Ryan to her doorstep! Line of Scrimmage is her first novel. Her second book, Love at First Flight, was released in Spring 2009. |
Monica Fairview |
| As a literature professor, Monica Fairview enjoyed teaching students to love reading. But after years of postponing the urge, she finally realized what she really wanted was to write books herself. She has lived in Illinois, Los Angeles, Seattle, Texas, Colorado, Oregon and Boston as a student and professor, but now lives in London. |
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Judi Fennell |
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Judi Fennell |
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Amanda Forester |
Amanda Forester holds a PhD in psychology and worked for many years in academia before discovering that writing historical romance novels was way more fun. She lives with her husband and two energetic children in the Pacific Northwest outside Tacoma,Washington. |
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Mara Goodman-Davies |
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Mara Goodman-Davies is a former stand-up comedienne turned international public relations/media placement consultant. She is the author of When Harry Hit the Hamptons, and is often quoted in Redbook, Cosmopolitan and others. Mara splits her time between New York, the Berkshires and her hometown of Palm Beach, Florida. |
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Marie Gray |
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Marie Gray writes erotic fiction and song lyrics, has been lead singer for several rock bands and works for a family publishing company. She has appeared on major television and radio shows, and hosts a monthly erotic fiction segment on Canadian television. She lives in Montreal, Quebec. |
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Shana Galen |
Shana Galen is a three-time Rita Award finalist (RWA's most prestigious award for published romance fiction). Shana teaches 7th grade English and lives in Houston, Texas. |
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Amanda Grange |
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Amanda Grange is a popular author of historical fiction in the U.K. She specializes in creative interpretations of classic novels and historic events, including Jane Austen's novels and the Titanic shipwreck. Her novels include Lord Deverill's Secret, Mr. Knightley's Diary and Titanic Affair. She lives in England. |
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Amelia Grey |
Amelia Grey won the Booksellers Best Award and Aspen Gold Award, the Romantic Times Award for Love and Laughter, the prestigious Maggie Award and the Affaire de Coeur Award. She has been happily married to her high school sweetheart for over twenty-five years. She lives in Panama City Beach, Florida. |
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Georgette Heyer |
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Georgette Heyer’s historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers. She wrote over 50 books, including Regency romances, mysteries and historical fiction. She was known as the Queen of Regency romance, and was legendary for her research, historical accuracy and her extraordinary plots and characterizations. More information about Georgette Heyer can be found here. |
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Wayne Josephson |
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Wayne Josephson received his BA from Emory University and his MBA from Wharton. After twenty years on Wall Street, he decided to pursue his long-delayed desire to write, becoming a successful screenwriter. Emma and the Vampires is his first novel. He resides with his wife and three children in Charlottesville, Virginia. |
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Laura Kinsale |
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Laura Kinsale, a former petroleum engineer, is the New York Times bestselling author of Flowers from the Storm, The Prince of Midnight, and Seize the Fire. She and her husband divide their time between Santa Fe and Dallas. |
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Kathryne Kennedy |
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Kathryne Kennedy is the author of the Relics of Merlin series, and is acclaimed for her world-building. She has also published nearly a dozen short stories in the SFF/Romance genre, receiving Honorable Mention twice in the "Writers of the Future" contest. She lives with her husband and two sons in Glendale, Arizona |
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Robin Kaye |
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Robin Kaye grew up in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge next door to her Sicilian grandparents. Living with an extended family that’s a cross between Gilligan’s Island and The Sopranos explains both her comedic timing and the cast of quirky characters in her books. She now lives with her husband and three children in Mt. Airy, Maryland. |
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Joanne Kennedy |
Joanne Kennedy has worked in bookstores all her life in positions from bookseller to buyer. A member of Romance Writers of America and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, she won first place in the Colorado Gold Writing Contest and second in the Heart of the Rockies contest in 2007. Joanne lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming. |
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Lisa Beth Kovetz |
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Lisa Beth Kovetz is an award-winning writer, producer, playwright and stand-up comic. Her company, Flying South Productions, produces children's media and short films. Kovetz's play “David's Balls” appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has been translated into Romanian for the Pearl of the Carpathians Theater Festival. She lives in Los Angeles, California. |
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Karleen Koen |
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Karleen Koen is interested in history, particularly women's place in it. Love and hate, gender issues, and spiritual quests are themes she explores in her fiction. She lives in Houston and is also the author of Dark Angels and Now Face to Face.
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Sharon Lathan |
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Sharon Lathan is a native Californian currently residing amid corn, cotton, and cows in the sunny San Joaquin Valley. She divides her time as homemaker nurturing a husband and two children, plus the cat, dog, and fish; while also working as a Registered Nurse in a Neonatal ICU. Somewhere in there she finds time to write! |
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Emery Lee |
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Malena Lott |
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Malena Lott writes humorous and heartfelt mainstream women’s fiction and romance novels. She has national speaking experience and is a brand consultant, and understands the importance of branding and marketing. Dating da Vinci is Malena Lott’s second novel. Lott is a married mother of three and resides in Edmond, Oklahoma. |
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Kara Louise |
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Originally from Los Angeles, Kara Louise now resides just outside Wichita, Kansas with her husband. She began writing in 2001 and has written 6 novels based on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." In addition to writing, she works at her church doing the publications. She has a married son who lives in St. Louis, Missouri. |
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Jill Mansell |
Jill Mansell is a UK bestselling author, with over 4 million copies sold. She has written nearly 20 romances with multi-generational appeal. She worked for many years at the Burden Neurological Hospital, Bristol, and now writes full time. She lives with her partner and their children in Bristol, England. |
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is an award-winning author. Her romance novels have been finalists in Gather.com's First Chapters and First Chapters Romance contests, as well as the third American Title contest. She spends family vacations at the Jersey Shore, the setting for some of her paranormal romance series.
Emery Lee