Carole Bellacera http://www.CaroleBellacera.com

Carole Bellacera's work has appeared in magazines such as Woman's World, The Star, Endless Vacation and The Washington Post. She is the author of four acclaimed novels published by Tor/Forge Books, the most recent titled Understudy. Her new novel, Chocolate on a Stick, a quirky book about an elderly Appalachian couple on the run from a nursing home in a red Corvette, will be released in trade paperback by Baycrest Books in September 2005. Carole’s first novel, Border Crossings, a hardcover published by Forge Books in May of 1999, was a 2000 RITA Award nominee for Best Romantic Suspense and Best First Book, a nominee for the 2000 Virginia Literary Award in Fiction. It was also a 2000 finalist in the Golden Quill award and in the Aspen Gold Award and won 1st Place in the Volusia County 2000 Laurel Wreath Award. Her work has appeared in various anthologies such as Kay Allenbaugh's Chocolate for a Woman's Heart, Chocolate for a Couples' Heart, and Chicken Soup for Couples.