Emilie Richards http://www.emilierichards.com/

Emilie Richards is the author of fifty something books. She has a RITA, a trunkful of finalist ribbons and several career achievement awards from Romantic Times. She was also the recipient of an RWA award for the best romance to portray a significant social issue. Emilie writes fiction for Mira books and a cozy mystery series for Berkley.   #

Terri Ridgell http://www.TARidgell.com

Leaving behind her position as a vice president, Terri’s adventure into the world of writing and publishing has allowed her to meet and become friends with incredible people from all walks of life. In the past five years, she has received an education rivaling her bachelor's degree in science and her environmental biology masters. She knows only too well that any goal worth achieving requires one to grow and change. Being an author has been no exception providing an experience of continual challenge and enjoyment. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Florida Writers Association, Amelia Writer’s Group, Romance Writer’s of America, RWA Mystery and Suspense Kiss of Death, Washington Romance Writers, and is the current President of First Coast Romance Writers in Jacksonville, Florida. Her latest novel, OPERATION: STILETTO is a 2005 RTR Reviewers Choice Award recipient.  #

Melissa Schroeder http://www.melissaschroeder.net

Since her first published book in 2004, Melissa Schroeder has had over 25 short stories, novellas, and novels with 7 different publishers in genres ranging from historical to futuristic, from sensual to erotic. She was nominated in 2005 for an Eppie in the Contemporary Romance Category for her story The Hired Hand, while also hitting number twelve on the international best seller list for ebooks in June of the same year with her contemporary erotic romantic comedy, A Little Harmless Sex. She is married to an AF major and they have two daughters, and one adopted dog daughter. She is happy to finally live somewhere the bugs die in the winter.   #

Kathleen Gilles Seidel http://www.kathleengillesseidel.com/

Kathleen Gilles Seidel has written twelve contemporary romances, the first of which was a launch title for the Harlequin American Romances line. Others have been published by NAL, Pocket, HarperCollins, and Avon. She has won every major romance market award, including two RITAs, but is proudest of Harlequin readers once voting her After All These Years as their all-time favorite Harlequin novel. She has a Ph.D. in English literature from Johns Hopkins and was the second president of WRW, serving for two years. Her first hardcover, A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity, will be published by St. Martin's Press in March 2006.   #

Jane Sevier http://www.janesevier.com

As soon as Jane Sevier was old enough to hold a pencil, she knew she wanted to write. As an award-winning feature writer, she covered fields as varied as artificial intelligence, the arts, the environment, and international affairs and traveled on assignment to such exotic locales as Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Texarkana, Texas. Now her job is writing fiction. Her first manuscript, THE QUETZAL'S TALE, a thriller, has finaled in the British Crime Writers' Debut Dagger, Washington Romance Writers' Marlene, and the Writer's League of Texas competitions. Jane was made in Tennessee but born in France. After a stint in Germany, her family came home to Tennessee when she was three. In her grown-up life, Jane has lived in Nashville, Dallas, Paris (France), and Washington, D.C. She now calls Austin, Texas, home, and she shares her 1920s house with her husband, four children, and four cats.  #

Karen Rose Smith http://www.karenrosesmith.com

Karen Rose Smith has sold over sixty books since 1991. She has won New Jersey's Golden Leaf Award in Short Contemporary Romance, the Desert Rose Golden Quill Award in Traditional Romance, and CataRomance.com's recognition for Best Silhouette Special Edition. Her romances have made both the USA TODAY list and the Waldenbooks Bestseller list for Series Romance. Her latest release, THE BRACELET, for Harlequin's Everlasting Love imprint will be released in August 2007. She is working on a new series for Silhouette Special Edition for 2008. When she is not writing romances, she enjoys creating jewelry with her husband and thinking up new plots while she is designing.   #