Our Authors

Catherine Asaro grew up in El Cerrito, California, just north of Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics and MA in Physics, both from Harvard, and a BS with Highest Honors in Chemistry from UCLA. She served full-time as a physics professor until 1990, when she established Molecudyne Research. In recent years, she has turned her attention toward educating the next generation of mathematicians and scientists. Catherine’s stories blend hard science fiction, romance, fantasy, and space adventure. Books in her critically acclaimed Skolian Empire series have won the Nebula, Romantic Times Book Club, and many other awards.

Christi Barth spent years performing in musicals, singing about love and giving people a happy ending in every performance. Then as a wedding planner she spent every day immersed in romance. Now – she writes it! After winning 1st place in the 2008 Heart to Heart contest, and 1st place in the 2009 Emily contest, she is thrilled to be able to share CAROLINA HEAT with the world. She lives in Maryland with the absolutely best husband in the world (sorry ladies, its true!).

Robin Kaye

Robin Kaye, a 2007 Golden Heart Winner, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and 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, minus the desert isle and illegal activities, explains both her comedic timing and the cast of quirky characters in her books.

She’s lived in half a dozen states from Idaho to Florida, but the romance of Brooklyn has never left her heart. She currently resides in Maryland with her husband, three children, two dogs, and a three-legged cat with attitude.

Christie Kelley was born and raised in upstate New York. As a child, she always had a vivid imagination and the bad dreams that go along with it, or perhaps the dreams were caused by the five brothers and three sisters she lived with. After seventeen years working for financial institutions in software development, she took a leap of faith and started her first book. Seven years later, her first book Every Night I’m Yours was bought by Zebra books. She lives in Maryland with her husband and two future romance heroes.

Best-selling author Loree Lough has 70 books, 62 short stories, and over 2,500 articles in print. Dubbed “edgy, heart-tugging adventures” by reviewers, her stories have earned dozen of “Readers’ Choice” and industry awards.

A frequent guest speaker for writers’ organizations, government agencies, book clubs, college and high school writing programs, and more, Loree has encouraged thousands with her comedic approach to ‘learned-the-hard-way’ lessons about the craft, and 600 (and counting!) of her former students are now published authors. Loree and her husband live near Baltimore with a formerly-abused, now-spoiled Pointer whose numerous vet visits inspired the nickname ‘Cash’.

Kathy Love writes for both Zebra (her Stepp Sisters trilogy-Getting What You Want, Wanting What You Get, and Wanting Something More) and Brava (Fangs for the Memories, Fangs but No Fangs, I Only Have Fangs for You, and My Sister is a Werewolf.) Kathy lives in Maryland with her beautiful daughter, Emily.

Cynthia Mason hails from Baltimore, Maryland. She works full-time as an Information Analyst. Writing is a hobby she does in her spare time. Family Forever: Trusting (James and Patricia) is her second novel. She hopes her readers will enjoy this novel as much as the first novel. She is currently at work on her next. Readers can send their comments to Cynthia at Post Office Box 711, Owings Mills, Maryland 21117 or syndiray210@aol.com.

Janet Mullany was born in England but now lives near Washington, DC. She’s worked as an archaeologist, performing arts administrator, waitress, bookseller, and as an editor/proofreader for a small press. Her debut book was Dedication, the only Signet Regency to have two bondage scenes, followed by The Rules of Gentility (HarperCollins 2007), which was acquired by Little Black Dress (UK) for whom she wrote more Regency chicklit. Her career as a writer who does terrible things to Jane Austen began in 2010 with the publication of Jane and the Damned (HarperCollins) about Austen as a vampire, followed by Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion, about the vampire invasion of Chawton (William Morrow, 2011).
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Mary Jo Putney was born in Upstate New York with a reading addiction, a condition for which there is no known cure. With degrees in English Literature and Industrial Design from Syracuse University, she worked as a graphic designer before discovering writing. A nine-time finalist for the RWA® RITA, she has won RITAs for Dancing on the Wind and The Rake and the Reformer and is on the RWA® Honor Roll for bestselling authors. She has been awarded two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards, four NJRW Golden Leaf awards, plus the NJRW career achievement award for historical romance. Though most of her books have been historical, she has also published contemporary romances.

Lisa Ruff grew up in Idaho. She moved to Seattle after college and met the man of her dreams. She wrote her first romance there, but the manuscript never got polished. She stuffed it in a drawer where it languished while Lisa and her husband sailed to the Caribbean. There, they spent five years cruising, writing and leading an adventurous life. After returning to land, Lisa finally revised “Man of the Year” and sent it out. Within a year, she had a contract from Harlequin. She and her husband are cruising on a sailboat again somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.

Lauren Sharman who was voted BEST ROMANCE AUTHOR in the 2006 Annual Preditors & Editors Reader’s Poll, has been creating characters and writing short stories since she was a little girl. But it was her love of reading that finally inspired her to write novels. Lauren is now the Baltimore Relationship Advice Examiner at Examiner.com. Her column can be found at www.examiner.com/x-3240-Baltimore-Relationship-Advice-Examiner and will feature one article every other day, where she will address a wide range of topics, including friendship, love, kids, etc. Email questions to AskLaurenAdvice@gmail.com. Lauren and her husband live on three acres of land with their two amazing kids, and share a passion for classic cars, music, steamed crabs, and spending time with their friends. She is an active member of both the Maryland Romance Writers and RWA®, and is an RWA PRO.

Cheri Valmont finally decided that if she was ever going to make her dream of becoming an author come true, she would have to just get right down and do it. In 2003, after another move with her military husband, she started work on a full length historical novel set in Regency England, still a work in progress. In the meantime, one morning she woke with the “muse” knocking on her brain, with the idea for Sweet Summer Rain, which was published in March 2006 from Whiskey Creek Press’s Torrid division, followed by two sequels.

Jennifer Vido first made a splash in the publishing pool with her nationally distributed author interview and book review column called Jen’s Jewels. As a national exercise and aquatics trainer and spokesperson for The Arthritis Foundation, she hosts an annual fundraising author dinner to benefit kids with arthritis. Currently, she lives in the Baltimore area with her husband and two sons.

Penelope has written since she could hold a pencil in her hand. After raising three children and starting several stories only to put them in a “for later” pile, she continued to work piecemeal at writing, until one day the time was right. She does the nuts and bolts of the writing, while her daughter does the ideas and research. Then they stir it all up together into heart-warming stories of family life in the past.

Through the lives of strong people from various historical periods, they prove that Family Matters.

Since watching Gone With the Wind as a child, Diane Wylie has had an avid interest in the American Civil War. This interest comes to bear in her acclaimed novel, Secrets and Sacrifices, short story, A Soldier to Love in the LOVE Anthology, and her upcoming releases, Jenny’s Passion (Nov. 2008) and Lila’s Vow (March 2009). Diane makes her home in Maryland with her husband, Ed, a former racecar driver, and two wonderful children. During the day she is an award-winning technical writer for a scientific instrument company in Delaware.

Ever since she can remember, Rebecca York (aka Ruth Glick) has loved making up stories full of adventure, romance and suspense. As a child she corralled her friends into adventure games or acted out romantic suspense stories with a cast of dolls.

A USA Today best-selling novelist, Ruth is the author of over one hundred books She has authored or co-authored more than 65 romantic suspense novels and 20 romances, many with paranormal elements. Her many awards include two RITA finalist books, two Lifetime Achievement Awards from Romantic Times, four NJRW Golden Leaf Awards and the Barclay Gold Award.