Jessica Brockmole is the author of the internationally bestselling Letters from Skye (Ballantine, 2013), an epistolary love story spanning an ocean and two wars. Named one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Books of 2013, Letters From Skye has been published in twenty-one countries. She is also the author of the forthcoming novel At the Edge of Summer (Ballantine, 2016) and a novella in the World War I anthology Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War (William Morrow & Co, 2016).
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Shelly Chalmers
Shelly Chalmers’ favorite first book was Cinderella, so once she could form letters, naturally she turned to romance where everyone “loved” each other—though mostly because she didn’t yet know how to spell “like.” Since then, she’s earned her bachelor’s degree in English and French, but never lost her love of romances and happily-ever-afters. She was an RWA Golden Heart® finalist in 2014, and her first published series features a humorous look at the four horsewomen of the apocalypse. Her stories run the gamut from Regency shifters to space opera, but all include a touch of magic, a sense of humor, and a dab of geek. She makes her home in Western Canada, where when not writing, reading, or crafting, she wrangles a husband, two daughters, and two nutball cats. You can find her at shellychalmers.com
KJ Charles
KJ Charles is a writer and freelance editor. She lives in London with her husband, two kids, an out-of-control garden and a cat with murder management issues.
Kathy Flann
Kathy Flann’s fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, The North American Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, New Stories from the South, and other publications. A short story collection entitled Get a Grip won the George Garrett Award and was released by Texas Review Press in the fall of 2015. It was named a top book of the year by Baltimore Magazine and Baltimore City Paper. A previous collection, Smoky Ordinary, won the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award and was published by Snake Nation Press. For five years, she taught creative writing at the University of Cumbria in England, where she created mini-courses for the BBC’s Get Writing website and served on the board of the National Association of Writers in Education. She has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Bulgaria, and Le Moulin à Nef in France. She is an associate professor at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.
Phoebe Fox
Phoebe Fox has been a contributor and regular columnist for a number of national, regional, and local publications, including writing about relationships for the Huffington Post, Elite Daily, and She Knows. She has been a movie, theater, and book reviewer; a screenwriter; and is a close observer of relationships in the wild. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two excellent dogs.
Alexis Hall
Alexis Hall was born in the early 1980s and still thinks the 21st century is the future. To this day, he feels cheated that he lived through a fin de siècle but inexplicably failed to drink a single glass of absinthe, dance with a single courtesan, or stay in a single garret.
He did the Oxbridge thing sometime in the 2000s and failed to learn anything of substance. He has had many jobs, including ice cream maker, fortune teller, lab technician, and professional gambler. He was fired from most of them.
He can neither cook nor sing, but he can handle a seventeenth century smallsword, punts from the proper end, and knows how to hotwire a car.
Mairi Kilaine
Mairi Kilaine writes primarily women’s fiction and YA,with a special focus on science fiction, fantasy, and all things geeky. A proud member of the 2015 Pitch Wars Mentee class, she is the author of Miss B’s Christmas Mix, a geeky band director romance, which is featured in the holiday-themed anthology Christmas Nookies.
When she isn’t writing, Mairi enjoys fangirling, dancing badly, singing loudly, and breakfast foods prepared by other people. She shares a tiny overpriced apartment with her large family and ancient dog in the East Bay. Shout “Lafayette!” and she will rap Guns and Ships with precision.
Maria Mankin
Maria has written six non-fiction books with The Pilgrim Press, most recently A Child Laughs: Prayers of Justice and Hope, and has contributed essays to several anthologies. She has an award from Women On Writing for flash fiction, and was one of ten international authors involved in Circ, an innovative collaborative thriller published by Pigeon Park Press. From 2011 to 2018, her review blog Books J’Adore attracted over 25,000 followers. She has spoken at women’s retreats, written essays on parenting, and is currently working on a book of poetry inspired by the Psalms, as well as the sequel to the murder mystery that brought her and her writing partner, Maren Tirabassi, to Handspun.
Having called Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and California home, she now enjoys living in Colorado with her husband and sons
V.S. McGrath
V.S. McGrath is the author of the fantasy Western series The Devil’s Revolver. She also writes romance under the penname Vicki Essex. She enjoys Netflix and sleep more and more with each passing day. She chooses Marvel over DC, salty snacks over sweet ones, and would rather fight a hundred duck-sized horses than one horse-sized duck (though she’d probably herd those tiny horses together and cuddle them rather than hurt them. Or sell them. Probably that.) She lives in Toronto, Canada, with her husband and an Irrational Biped.
Tamara Morgan
Tamara Morgan is a contemporary romance and cozy mystery author. She began her reading (and writing) career as an English literature major and ended as a lover of genre fiction in all forms. When she’s not rolling around with her two Akitas, she can be found hiking, biking, or with her nose buried in a book. For fast-paced action romance, try Tamara Morgan. For heartwarming stories of love and puppies, check out Lucy Gilmore. And if witty, cunning whodunits with a paranormal twist are more your style, visit Tamara Berry.