Lynda Bailey lives in Reno, NV with her husband, Pat, her son, Will, two dogs, Cerveza and Athena, and her cat, Groucho. After graduating in 1980 with a bachelor in technical theatre from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, IA, Lynda moved to Reno and got a job working on Don Arden’s huge stage show, Hello Hollywood Hello. This is where she met her husband Pat. Their “cute meet” story wasn’t so much cute as it was painful – for Lynda. They were bouldering (a milder form of rock climbing) with some friends near Pyramid Lake when she … Read more »

Hey all,

Today I’m hanging with Cynthia Eden for her Deadly Days of Summer Contest. We’re talking about ENTWINED and I’m giving away a book! So hop on over to Cynthia’s blog to join in the fun.

And I keep meaning to post this but have been distracted by all the fab GH spotlights. Anyhoo…here’s the widget for my July 27th release, book 2 in the Eternal Guardians Series – ENTWINED! I’m thinking a contest is in order (I haven’t done one in a while), so if you’d like to win a $25 gift card to the bookstore … Read more »

Heather Snow is a historical romance writer with a degree in Chemistry who found she much preferred creating chemistry on the page, rather than in the lab.  She is forever trying to wrangle her left and right brain to work together (some days with more success than others!), but if her two sides had to duke it out, left would win every time—which can be a creative challenge.  Luckily, she loves challenges…she just goes about solving them analytically.

In addition to finaling in the Golden Heart, Sweet Enemy won the 2010 Chicago North Fire and Ice in the Historical Category, … Read more »

Elisa Beatty loves moving between contrary worlds: raised on the East Coast in a deeply “historic” Revolutionary-War-era town, she now lives on the West Coast, just north of uber-progressive Berkeley, California. Her parents were scientists, but she fell in love with the arts, especially theater and writing. She went on to do doctoral studies in literature, specializing in Shakespeare and gender studies, but is fascinated by popular fiction—her bookshelves have Dostoevsky, Donne, Woolf and Foucault rubbing shoulders with scads of romances.  An English teacher by trade, she spends whatever free time she can grab (including SUMMER!!) writing Regencies.

In addition … Read more »

Gabrielle Luthy spent her teen years on a mango plantation in Central Queensland, Australia. While her brother quickly got his driver’s permit so he could go play in the closest big smoke (60,000 people), she was content to stay home and write tales of people playing in other big smokes (San Francisco was a favorite, and remains so). She moved to Melbourne for the career opportunities and the coffee before heading off to Paris (where the coffee sucks). After five years of working for the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, she’s back in Melbourne, sharing an apartment with 2 … Read more »

Lizbeth Selvig is living her dream life in Webster, Minnesota (40 miles Southwest of Minneapolis) with her husband of 35 years, a hyperactive Border Collie, a huge yard but no riding lawn mower, and her very own office now that her children are grown and the bedrooms cleared of My Little Ponies and Magic The Gathering posters.

She doesn’t have to work outside the home at this point in her life but, somehow, she’s never bored and rarely spends a full day at home. A paying job, which would provide welcome discretionary cash for conferences and travel, would definitely take … Read more »

Today I’m thrilled to introduce you to my fellow Rose City Romance Writer, Mary Oldham. I always knew Mary was special, but after reading her bio, now I know why. She’s a Beaver!!!

(Ahem…for those of you who didn’t go to school in Oregon…Oregon State University = the Beavers. I’ll shut up now and let Mary have the floor…)

A fourth generation Oregonian, Mary grew up in Eugene, but has made her home in Portland for the last nineteen years.  In 1991, she earned a Bachelor of Science from Oregon State University, majoring in Business with a Marketing Concentration … Read more »

Shea Berkley has seduced men, fought vampires, boxed Irish mobsters, invaded siren waters, ran a covert military mission in the jungles of South America, killed evil thingies that go bump in the night and far more on her journey as a storyteller. The world of make-believe is her preferred hang out, but when she’s forced to associate with reality, she has been known to speak to writers’ groups and mentor those interested in honing their writing craft. As a reward for her hours and hours of fun, she has finaled multiple times in several writing contests including 3 times in … Read more »

I’ve been sitting on this news for a while now and it’s been KILLING me! Anyone who knows me knows I hate not being able to share good news, especially when it happens to someone I love.

My critique partner

JOAN SWAN

sold to Kensington Brava!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am published because of Joan, so I knew it was only a matter of time until she sold as well. And I am so so SO excited for her, I can’t even put my enthusiasm into words. Her book – a romantic suspense with paranormal elements – will knock your socks off. It’s … Read more »

So now that TEMPTED – book 3 in the Eternal Guardians series – is done and turned in, I feel like I can breathe a little and get back to a semi-normal blogging schedule (not that I ever follow a schedule, but you know what I mean). I really REALLY love where TEMPTED ended up. It builds on things that happen in ENTWINED (July 27th, 2010) and is going to be a great lead in to book 4 (which, right now I’m calling UNLEASHED, but when I have an official title, I’ll let you know). Anyway, I’m pretty sure I … Read more »