Born and bred in the American South, Paula Graves knows that Southerners don't hide their crazy people. They showcase them. Eccentric people make for the best stories, and Southerners love their stories. The need to tell stories has been a driving force in Paula's life from a very young age.
As a child, her favorite books were Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries and Harlequin Romances. When she realized there were books that featured both romance and mystery, she knew she'd found her calling. Now Paula writes for Harlequin Intrigue, where she gets to play both matchmaker and murderer and get paid for it.
[Note: Paula is also a founding member of Southern Magic.]
For more information about Paula and her books, go to one of the following.
http://www.paulagraves.com/
http://spinstersandlunatics.blogspot.com/
MARY FREEMAN
I am a writer of dark Urban Fantasy and YA. I write in the midst of work and family. I have been a member of RWA since 2007. I am also a proud member of Southern Magic, Heart of Dixie, and Georgia Romance Writer chapters.
For more about what I write, please go to my website: www.mvfreeman.com.
Favorite quote: “Never, never, never give up.” By Winston Churchill
HEATHER LEONARD
Heather Leonard, a recovering labor and employment lawyer by day, writes urban fantasy and romantic mysteries in her ever so sparse free time. If she were a super-hero (and she wants to be - capes are sooo in this year), her superpowers would be the ability to find the best bottle of cheap champagne and answer all questions relating to Star Wars trivia. Her weaknesses would be the inability to resist good champagne and Star Wars trivia challenges. She also likes to talk about herself in the third person, as this bio indicates.
LEXI GEORGE (JEANIE THERKELSEN)
Lexi George lives in Alabama with her husband and two daughters in a town so small the dogs have to import their fleas. Lexi is an attorney by day and a romance writer by night . . . and on weekends, lunch hours, and holidays. She writes fantasy and paranormal romance and is an active member of the RWA and Southern Magic, the Birmingham chapter of the RWA.
Lexi writes stories about alpha male heroes and the sassy, hardheaded heroines that rock their world. Her books are peopled with quirky or just plain outrageous characters. Writing is not a hobby for her, it is an obsession. Or, as her husband says, “The dang woman is consumed.”
Her debut novel, Demon Hunting in Dixie, is scheduled for release by Kensington Books as part of their Brava line in May of 2011. The Bride Wore Demon Dust, a novella, comes out in the Fall of 2011 as part of a Halloween anthology from Kensington entitled So I Married A Demon Hunter.
Lexi is hard at work on book two of the demon series, Demon Hunting in the Deep South.
RASHDA KHAN
Rashda Khan is a West Texas-based food enthusiast and writer. She teaches culinary classes and writes The Family Table column for her local newspaper. She also day dreams of hunky paranormal heroes, magic and mischief and writes them down as stories. Other than that, she's raising a family of two children, two cats, two dogs and a husband.
Also, I tried to use the publish on a specific date and time option, but it hadn't posted. Not sure what I did wrong...
CHRIS BAILEY
LISA DUNICK
Lisa Dunick is a recovering academic who recently moved to Birmingham, Alabama. After spending almost a decade reading, studying, writing about, and teaching in universities across the mid-west, her new motto is, those who can't teach, do. She now works as a freelance writer and editor when she's not pounding away at her newest manuscript, a supernatural romantic suspense.
You can follow her adventures in living, dining, and writing in the South at http://www.northernaggressions.com/
CARLA SWAFFORD
Carla Swafford lives in Alabama and
is married to her high school sweetheart. A third generation storyteller, she
loves every shade of romance and the many paths taken to find that special
someone.
For information about me and my The Circle series books go to http://www.carlaswafford.com/. PAMELA BOLTON-HOLIFIELD w/a LOUSIA CORNELL
There are those who say romance novels are fairy tales written for grown women. I happen to like fairytales. One of my favorite Broadway musicals, Cinderella, is based on a fairytale.
Through the pages of romance novels, I have played pall mall with the Bridgertons. I have had tea with the very high-in-the-instep Bedwyns. I’ve plotted with the Desperate Duchesses and giggled with the Wallflowers.
I have loved it all so much that I decided to try my hand at writing some “fairytales” of my own.
I have wanted to be a writer since I was nine years old. A career as an opera singer - a tale of adventure in itself - and the twists and turns of life have taught me that fate and love are the two most powerful forces in the universe.
I've sung opera in Salzburg. I've lived in a small English village. I've been a teacher, a veterinary technician, and a funeral home coordinator. Now I manage a bakery. I create confections to help people celebrate those moments in life that bring us all joy.
Through it all I've seen my share of villains and ogres, frogs and princes, heroes and heroines. This much I know to be true. None of life's characters are ever what they seem. Everyone is something more, and something less. Love is the one thing that lays our souls bare to each other. Love creates the only real beauty in the world.
For a long time, reading fairytales was enough for me. Then I had to write them, because there are stories in my head that simply must be told.
2008 Golden Heart Finalist
2009 Golden Heart Finalist
2007 Royal Ascot Winner
2008 Royal Ascot Winner
2009 Royal Ascot Winner
2008 Daphne du Maurier Winner
2009 Daphne du Maurier Winner
SUZANNE JOHNSON
Urban fantasy author Suzanne Johnson grew up in rural Northwest Alabama, halfway between the Bear Bryant Museum and Elvis' birthplace. That, plus living in New Orleans for fifteen years, has give her a highly refined sense of the absurd and an ingrained love of SEC football and fried gator on a stick. She grew up reading Stephen King and the gothic romances of Susan Howatch, which is why she only writes romance in which at least one of the participants is not human.
Her debut novel, Royal Street, will be released on April 10, 2012, by Tor Books, and will begin an urban fantasy series set in New Orleans during and immediately after Hurricane Katrina. Although the book uses many of Suzanne’s own Katrina experiences, she regrets to say that she is not really a wizard. The second book in the series, River Road, will be released in fall 2012, and Suzanne recently signed a contract for a third, as-yet-unwritten, book tentatively titled Elysian Fields.By day, Suzanne is an editor at Auburn University despite being an alum of the University of Alabama, which she thinks makes her bilingual since she loves them both. She lives in Auburn with two dogs named after professional wrestlers—a long story she is not inclined to share.
http://www.suzanne-johnson.com
http://suzanne-johnson.blogspot.com
Twitter: @Suzanne_Johnson
