Cecelia Dowdy http://www.ceceliadowdy.com

Cecelia Dowdy has been a member of WRW for several years, and has served on the WRW board as a former Unpublished Author Liaison. She has been an avid reader since she learned to string letters together to form words. Her third Christian romance novel, tentatively entitled John's Quest, is set to be released in March 2008. She also loves to bake delicious desserts during her spare time. Traveling is another favorite hobby, and she's been to various countries around the world. Currently, she is married with one child and works full time as an accountant.  #

Ellen Dye http://www.ellendye.com

At the age of nine, Ellen Dye decided she was going to be a writer when she found her aunt Nettie's trunk of True Confession magazines and spent untold hours reading the lot, a bag of Munchos potato chips and a frosty RC cola at her side. Then she promptly became lost in the pesky business of growing up and forgot all about it. Many years later she spotted a confession magazine on the grocery store shelf and began tapping out her own stories, which she had the thrill of seeing published. Now she spends her days creating Happily-Ever-Afters for The Wild Rose Press.   #

Judi Fadeley

Judi S. Fadeley was born in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, the youngest of three children. After a college career that afforded her three advanced degrees in English, library science, and communications, she married and settled in her hometown. Judi has always been a writer. She began writing and continued writing through high school and college, but it was not until she was a secondary honors English teacher when a class challenged her to write a novel that she began thinking of writing as a career. She is currently working on an historical romance trilogy on the Rothirforde family. Judi has been a member of RWA since 2001, and joined the Washington Romance Writers in 2002. Beginning in 2003, she has worked with WRW Update, first as associate editor and now as editor. She is a founding member of Celtic Hearts Romance Writers (CHRW) where she holds the treasurer's position. She is also a member of several on-line writing groups. She lives in her hometown, along with her husband, and two loving German shepherds.   #

Patricia Gaffney http://www.PatriciaGaffney.com

Patricia Gaffney joined Washington Romance Writers in 1987. She won RWA's Golden Heart Award in 1988 for her first novel, Sweet Treason (1989), a historical romance. A six-time Rita Award finalist, Pat moved from romance to women's fiction in 1999 with her breakout novel, The Saving Graces. Since then her books regularly appear on national bestseller lists, including New York Times and USA Today. In 2002, Pat was thrilled to be the recipient of WRW's Lifetime Achievement Award. Her newest book is Mad Dash, a 2007 release. She lives in southern Pennsylvania with her husband Jon and their two dogs, Finney and Jolene.  #

Jenny Gardiner http://www.jennygardiner.net

Jenny Gardiner’s work has been found in Ladies Home Journal, the Washington Post and on NPR’s Day to Day. She likes to say she honed her fiction writing skills while working as a publicist for a US Senator. Other jobs have included: an orthodontic assistant (learning quite readily that she was not cut out for a career in polyester), a waitress (probably her highest-paying job), a TV reporter, a pre-obituary writer, and a photographer (claim to fame: being hired to shoot Prince Charles–with a camera, silly!). Her debut novel, Sleeping with Ward Cleaver, won Dorchester Publishing/RT's American Title III contest, and this and three other novels she's written have won or finaled in several RWA chapter contests. She lives in Virginia with her husband, three kids, two dogs, one cat and a gregarious parrot. In her free time she studies Italian, dreams of traveling to exotic locales, and feels very guilty for rarely attempting to clean the house.  #

Darelene Gardner http://www.darlenegardner.com

Darlene Gardner worked as a newspaper sportswriter for years before realizing she'd rather make up quotes than hope some athlete would say something interesting. Since then, she’s sold nineteen books, most of them romantic comedies, to three different publishers: Harlequin/Silhouette, Dorchester Love Spell and Avalon. Within the Harlequin/Silhouette family, she's written for Temptation, Duets and Intimate Moments and will be writing for Superromance. Darlene, a Penn State graduate, lives in Burke with her journalist husband and two children.   #