Published since 2002, Kate Bridges is an award-winning author and USA TODAY bestseller. Her fifteen books have been translated into nine languages, sold in eleven countries worldwide, and studied in several colleges in their commercial fiction courses. Kate enjoys writing sexy historical novels set in the Canadian and American West. She was raised in rural Canada, and her stories reflect her love for wide-open spaces, country sunshine and the Rocky Mountains.
Prior to being a full-time writer, Kate worked as a pediatric intensive care nurse. She often includes medical situations in her novels. Later in her education, Kate studied architecture and then worked as a researcher on a television design program.
Kate also writes comedy screenplays–an exciting new venture for her. She lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter, enjoys the outdoors, traveling, and recreational flying with her family.
Check out her award-winning Mountie series set during the Klondike Gold Rush.
www.katebridges.com
Linda considers herself a “writer in training.” She has been her whole life and it started with reading. Many nights, long after the house grew dark and everyone else was asleep, Linda would lie beneath her covers and read by flashlight until she either reached the end of the book or her eyes got too heavy to see the words. Although she now resides in North Texas, she grew up in New Mexico where she discovered a love for storytelling, history, and anything pertaining to the Old West. Cowboys fascinate her. The rugged cowboy, his lady, and the struggles they endure in carving out a home in the untamed land make wonderful stories.
Published novels: Knight on the Texas Plains, The Cowboy Who Came Calling , Redemption
Upcoming anthology –GIVE ME A TEXAN – Kensington Publishing, releases Feb. 2008
Features stories by Linda, Jodi Thomas, Phyliss Miranda, and DeWanna Pace
Visit Linda’s website: www.LindaBroday.com
or visit: www.MySpace.com/lindabroday
“If they’re sassing each other and falling in love while running for their lives, then I’m happy.”
Mary Connealy writes books that bring humor to the Wild West. Her first two, PETTICOAT RANCH (Barbour Publishing) and GOLDEN DAYS (Heartsong Presents), was released in 2007. Her next book, CALICO CANYON, a sequel to Petticoat Ranch, will be released in August, 2008.
She has signed to write exclusively for Barbour Publishing through 2011and will write nine books for release over the next three years, beginning with Calico Canyon, then GINGHAM MOUNTAIN in spring 2009.
Following that series, she will write another series of humorous romances set in Montana. She also has a cozy mystery, OF MICE . . . AND MURDER, scheduled for release in Christmas, 2008.
Mary lives in northeastern Nebraska, is a teacher married to a farmer, and has four beautiful daughters.
To learn more about Mary and her books, visit www.MaryConnealy.com
Pam read her very first romance novel way back in the 70’s, and she’s still reading them today. Even better, she loves to write them, too. Her childhood was spent in the ranch country of western Nebraska where she became fascinated with the Old West and the cowboys who lived it.
She published four western historical romances with Dorchester Publishing for their Leisure Books line and joined Harlequin Historical with her fifth book. KIDNAPPED BY THE COWBOY–sequel to UNTAMED COWBOY–is her eleventh book and latest release (June, 2008); a Christmas anthology will be coming in October, 2009, with another western slated for Spring, 2010.
Pam still resides in Nebraska with her husband (who is not a cowboy) and their growing family–four daughters, two sons-in-law and two grandchildren.
Contact Pam via email from her website, www.pamcrooks.com
Author of fourteen Historical Indian romances for such prestigious publishers as Berkley and AVON/HarperCollins, Karen Kay has been praised by reviewers and fans alike for bringing insights into the everyday life of the American Indian way of life.
Karen Kay, whose great-grandmother was a Choctaw Indian, is honored to be able to write about the Native American culture.
“With the power and passion of romance, I strive to bring to my work an awareness of the vital and powerful forces that helped shape the Plains Indian culture. It is my hope that through communication, we might come to understand one another better. And in our world today, this just might be an indispensable commodity.”
Visit Karen’s website at: http://www.novels-by-karenkay.com
Stacey Kayne is a new voice in western historical romance. Her debut novel MUSTANG WILD,( first book in her ‘Wild’ trilogy), was released in March 2007 from Harlequin Historical—as well as a second book in a second series, BRIDE OF SHADOW CANYON.
Specializing in the adventurous wild west, Stacey brings her love of the past to vivid life. With a passion for history and flair for storytelling, she strives to weave fact and fiction into a wild ride that can capture the heart.
Stacey lives on a ranch near the Sierra Nevada Mountains with her high school sweetheart turned husband of eighteen years and their two sons.
Visit her website at www.staceykayne.com.
Elizabeth Lane is a Westerner by birth and upbringing. A descendant of pioneers who settled the West, she grew up in a small town, in a family of people who loved the outdoors. Western romance is a natural for her.
But she can and does write other things. Her earliest books were historical sagas set in Mexico and China. Then the market changed and eventually she found a new home at Harlequin Historicals.
Elizabeth’s first Western, which she still considers one of her best, was CAPTURE THE WIND, published in 1985 by Pinnacle Books under the pen name of Lisa Lancaster. Her second was WIND RIVER, published by Harlequin Historicals in 1989. Most, though not all, of the books she’s written since have been Westerns, all of them for Harlequin.
Her novels have finaled for the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice award and the 2006 Holt Medalion. Her recent Western, WYOMING WILDFIRE, was named a Best Historical of 2006 by CataRomance.
THE STRANGER, published in July 2007, has received excellent reviews. Her next release (January 2008) will be an “Americana” novel set on Long Island in the early days of aviation. But there will be more Westerns ahead. For Elizabeth, writing a Western novel is like coming home.
Visit her website at: http://www.elizabethlaneauthor.com
Patricia Potter is a bestselling and award winning author of forty-five books. She has more than three million books in print. She writes both romantic suspense and historical romance.
Her western romances have won numerous awards, including Romantic Times Best Hero of the Year for Seize the Fire, its Career Achievement Award for Western Historical Romance and its Storyteller of the Year Award. Her book, “Notorious,” was named Favorite Book of The Year from Booksellers Who Care.
She is a six time RITA finalist and recipient of several Georgia Romance Writers Maggie Awards. A number of her books have made the USA Today, Waldenbooks and Barnes & Noble Bestseller Lists.
Prior to writing fiction, she was a reporter with the Atlanta Journal, an editor with a suburban Atlanta newspaper and president of an Atlanta public relations firm. She is a past president of the 9,500-member Romance Writers of America. She has also served as president of Georgia Romance Writers and is currently president of River City Romance Writers.
Visit her website at: www.patriciapotter.com
Charlene Sands loves cowboys! She writes them often in her Silhouette Desires and in her Harlequin Historical romances set in the American West. She’s a true romantic at heart, having married her high school sweetheart!
She’s a member of the Orange County Chapter of RWA where she heads up the Ask an Author Program. To date, she’s written 21 books and is the recipient of the National Readers’ Choice Award, the Cataromance Reviewer’s Choice Award, and her books have been nominated for the CAPA Award and the Colorado Award of Excellence. Look for her K.I.S.S. hero - Romantic Times Magazine’s Knight in Shining Silver in March’s TAMING THE TEXAN, and in May she offers SPRINGVILLE WIFE in the Western Weddings Anthology. This summer, her Suite Secrets Series begins with FIVE STAR COWBOY, and in November, DO NOT DISTURB UNTIL CHRISTMAS.
Bold, rugged, heart-stopping heroes and always REAL GOOD MEN.
She invites you to stop by for a chat, blog or enter her contests at: www.charlenesands.com.
Real people. Real Emotion.
Cheryl St.John delivers every time.
Cheryl St.John‘s first crush was Little Joe Cartwright. Cheryl is the author of more than thirty Harlequin and Silhouette books. Her first book, RAIN SHADOW was nominated for RWA’s RITA for Best First Book, by Romantic Times for Best Western Historical, and by Affaire de Coeur readers as Best American Historical Romance. In 2005 HIS SECONDHAND WIFE, earned another RITA nod. LAND OF DREAMS, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, and PRAIRIE WIFE each won RT’s Reviewers Choice Awards. Many of her Special Editions made Waldenbooks Top Ten and BIG SKY BRIDES anthology climbed to #35 on the NYT list. In describing her stories of second chances and redemption, readers and reviewers use words like, “emotional punch, hometown feel, core values, believable characters and real life situations.”
Today she’s glad Little Joe wasn’t available: There are so many cowboys to choose from.
Blog with Cheryl at: http://cherylstjohn.blogspot.com/
