Maud Casey is an Associate Professor of English and teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Maryland. She has received international fellowships from the Fundacion Valparaiso and the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, and is the recipient…
Courtney Miller Santo has dual degrees in Journalism and Russian Studies at Washington and Lee University. She teaches creative writing at the University of Memphis. Her debut novel THE ROOTS OF THE OLIVE TREE was published by William Morrow. Visit her here. …
Heather Marie worked as a hairstylist and makeup artist for several years before turning to her passion, writing. Her debut, THE GATEWAY THROUGH WHICH THEY CAME, was published by Curiosity Quills. Visit her here. NAW- Tell us about your book, The…
Lynne Raimondo is the author of two novels, Dante’s Wood (Seventh Street Books, 2013) a Library Journal Mystery Debut of the Month, and Dante’s Poison (Seventh Street Books 2014), both featuring Mark Angelotti, a blind, psychologically troubled forensic psychiatrist. Before…
Nicola Cornick is a USA Today bestselling author and writes Regency historicals for HQN Books and MIRA. She studied History at London and Oxford and was awarded a distinction for her dissertation on historical heroes. Romantic Times has described her writing…
Mark Lawrence is married with four children. His day job is as a research scientist in the field of artificial intelligence. His first novel, The Prince of Thorns was published to critical acclaim and became a bestseller. Visit him here. NAW-…
Best-selling author, Liz Fielding, has more than 15 million books in print. Nominated seven times for RWA’s prestigious RITA award, she won with The Best Man & The Bridesmaid in 2001 and The Marriage Miracle in 2006. A Family of…
Louise Allen’s passion is The Regency. With a degree in geography and archaeology she loves to try and ‘read’ the landscape and the buildings in it for clues about the past. She has penned over forty historical romances plus novellas and short…
Olive Senior was born and brought up in Jamaica and educated in Jamaica and Canada. She is a graduate of Montego Bay High School and Carleton University, Ottawa. She started her career as a journalist with the Daily Gleaner and later entered the world…
Melinda Hammond was born in Bristol. She left school at sixteen to work in companies as varied as stockbrokers, marine engineers, biscuit manufacturers and even a quarrying company, but never lost her love of history. Her first historical novel, Fortune’s Lady, was published…
Rebecca Makkai is a Chicago-based writer. Her first novel, The Borrower, is a Booklist Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an O Magazine selection, and one of Chicago Magazine‘s choices for best fiction of 2011. Her second novel The Hundred-Year House, was published by Viking/Penguin,…
Mishi Saran was born in India and spent the first ten years of her life in New Delhi. Since then, she has lived in Switzerland, Indonesia, the United States, China, Hong Kong and Korea. She is the author of the…