Kathryn Parker

My name is Kathryn Parker, better known as Kay. My husband and I are retired and have three grown children. Our last human child will leave the nest this fall. Our four legged child, a Black Lab, is too busy running the house and sleeping on the furniture to go anywhere. I write romantic mystery/suspense, and have belonged to WRW for four years now, helping out with snacks or taping at meetings. I've come in first in two contests, the long contemporary NEORWA and the Molly, for a manuscript I will soon send out.  #

Lori Pepio http://www.loripepio.com

Lori Pepio's Scottish Medieval Romance Highland Honor has been heralded as "timeless and captivating." Her other short works in fiction have received prominent recognition in Affaire de Coeur magazine, The Author's Mansion FLAMES: Round Robin for Charity, Preditors & Editors, and yournovel.com. A member of WRW since 2001, Lori has volunteered in a number of capacities, her favorite of which was coordinator of our Historical Days in 2003 and 2004.   #

Diane Perkins http://www.dianeperkins.us

Diane Perkins has been a member of WRW since 1995 and has served as Vice President, Marlene Coordinator, Membership Chair, and Elections Chair, as well as serving on the refreshment committee and the taping committee. In 2001 and 2002 Kathy Caskie named her "The Contest Empress" because of the number of contest finals and wins she racked up. In 2002, Diane took first and third in the Marlene, first and third in the Fabulous Five, and first and second in the Fool for Love, as well as winning the Royal Ascot. She was a Golden Heart finalist in 2001 and 2003 for her Regency Historical manuscript, Unmasked. In 2003, the Mills & Boon editor who judged Unmasked for the Golden Heart, bought the book. The manuscript Diane was once told "would never sell" went on to win the 2003 Golden Heart for best Long Historical manuscript. It was released by Mills & Boon in July 2004 as The Mysterious Miss M, written under the name Diane Gaston, and quickly became a hard-to-find title. Shortly after selling that first book, Diane received a two book contract from Warner. Her first Warner Forever, The Improper Wife (November 2004), was nominated for a Romantic Times BOOKclub Reviewers Choice Award for Best First Historical of 2004 and was a finalist in Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence contest. Diane is now writing full-time.  #

Yvonne Pinney

Yvonne used to be a member of WRW waaaaay back in the day. She worked on the Update for 3 years, back when it was still printed on real paper. During that time she wrote a medieval historical which—thankfully—never saw the light of day and she started a long contemporary book that won the WRW Marlene contest. Then life intervened and she let go of the writing and the group. But the writing never let go of her. Eventually she was lured back to WRW by a very good friend and it was as if she'd never left. She wound up working on a redesign of the website and ended up handling the website for several years, before handing it over to trusty and heaven-sent assistant, Nicky P. Yvonne writes (and rewrites and rewrites) contemporary women's fiction, often with a paranormal bent.   #

Jo-Ann Power http://www.jo-annpower.com

A member of WRW since 1983, Jo-Ann Power has her 17th novel on the stands in September 2006, a mystery from St. Martin's Press, Missing Member! An award-winning author known for her success in "weaving suspense, politics and romance" (Publishers Weekly), Jo-Ann has written gothics, mainstream, historical mysteries and historical romance. She was a life-long resident of the Washington metropolitan area until she became a Texan in 1996. Combining her love of writing with her 9 to 5 job, Jo-Ann owns Power Promotions, a public relations company serving publishers and authors. She is delighted to return to bookshelves with her new mystery series after a true sabbatical of 7 years!  #

Lynn Reynolds http://www.lynnreynolds.com

Lynn Reynolds is a writer, wife, and mom-not necessarily in that order. A city girl currently trapped in Green Acres, Lynn works as a freelance reporter and publicist in real life. Her feature articles have appeared in major daily and weekly newspapers and her short stories and poetry have been published in a few obscure literary magazines you've never heard of. In previous lives, she's been a child model, an actress, a stagehand, a secretary, a seller of ladies' lingerie and-in a brief fit of practicality, a computer programmer. Her first romantic suspense novel, Thirty-Nine Again, is scheduled to be released by The Wild Rose Press in 2009. Thirty-Nine Again was a finalist in the WRW's 2007 Marlene Awards. Lynn writes romance novels because she genuinely believes in Happily Ever After.  #