image 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.