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USA Today bestsellers, award winners, poets, and writers finishing a first draft — all in the same room, all writing love stories that look nothing like each other.

Marilyn Barr

Paranormal & Historical Romance

Marilyn loves to write monstrous characters with hearts of gold in page-turning adventures, and her historical, paranormal romances have won numerous awards. When engaging in the real world, you can find her with the Kentuckiana Romance Writers, cheering her son's Special Olympics teams, or dancing around her kitchen in rural Kentucky with her husband, son, and two rescue cats.

Carly Bryant

Contemporary Romance

Carly tells tender, swoon-worthy stories that celebrate love in all its forms. She makes her home in rural Kentucky with her husband, three dogs, dozens of koi, and an ever-expanding library.

S. Cinders

USA Today Bestselling · Multi-Genre

S. Cinders, USA Today Bestselling Author, is known as the Queen of Fairy Tale retellings, including the hit Dark Fairy Tales series featuring Scarecrow: Tales From Oz, which rose to Amazon's top 100 chart. With nearly sixty titles to her name, S. Cinders weaves magic and mischief across a multitude of genres. Come for the steamy romance and stay for the heartfelt happily ever afters.

Marian Gosling

Cozy Mystery · Short Fiction · Poetry

Marian writes short stories of romance, crime, fan fiction, and fantasy, is a published poet, and is debuting her cozy mystery novel, Trudy's Legacy. Marian and her husband live in Louisville, KY, take pride in three adult children, enjoy seven grandchildren, and serve the family's rescued cat and dog.

Jenise Hale

Fantasy · Mystery · Romance

Jenise, bestselling author in fiction in Oklahoma, May 2024, writes action-packed mysteries full of intrigue, magic, and romance. She likes to weave into her fantasy novels the hope for a better future and a promise that good triumphs over evil.

Ember Holt

Spicy Paranormal & Fantasy Romance

Ember loves all things with heat! A glass of wine, a comfy, oversized sweater, and a spicy book next to a fireplace is her ideal night. She writes spicy paranormal and fantasy romance with powerful heroines and protective heroes.

Andrea Jenelle

2× HOLT Winner · Contemporary Romance

Andrea is a 2X HOLT winner who believes in the magic of love to heal invisible wounds. She writes stories from her farm in Eastern Kentucky with sassy, independent heroines and complex, layered heroes who guard their hearts.

Ginger Kidd

Humorous Romance

Ginger writes stories with happy endings, lots of humor, and heroines who prove you don't have to look good in spandex to save the world. She lives outside Louisville, Kentucky, with her husband, children, and a passel of unadoptable foster cats.

Jessica Lindsey

Paranormal & Fantasy

Jessica loves weaving tales about vampires, fantastical creatures, and enchanting worlds. A passionate reader, Jessica draws inspiration from her adventures in both books and nature.

Mangala McNamara

Epic Fantasy Romance

Mangala writes Epic Fantasy with a Helping of Sugar and Spoonful of Spice. She's a former scientist who enjoys bellydance, fencing (the sport), embroidery, and wants to find her own dragon soul-mate (she's set in the human department!).

Annette Miller

Sweet & Spicy Paranormal Romance

Annette writes award-winning sweet and spicy paranormal romance. Not only does she love fantasy, fairy tales, and superheroes, she also loves to craft, watch movies with her family, and listen to music for inspiration in her home in the MidSouth.

J.L. Minyard

Award-Winning Young Adult

J.L. Minyard is the not-so-secret pen name of award-winning young adult author Jessica Minyard. Jessica is an author, poet, ISTJ, Sagittarius, sticker enthusiast, and boy mom who lives and writes from the bluegrass.

Jaime Russell

Romance

Jaime has a passion for stories — whether told in pages or pixels — that comes through in everything she does, and she's excited to share her own with the world. Though Jaime didn't enjoy reading as a child, her world has since transformed. Now, she's rarely without a book in hand, whether it's a paperback or her Kindle, always in search of a new "book boyfriend" to fall for.

Ariella Talix

Super Spicy Contemporary & Historical

Ariella writes super spicy tales with juicy plots and lots of intrigue. About half of her books are MMF romances. She writes contemporary and historical novels about delightful protagonists and hideous villains and enjoys every word that pops out of her brain. Born in Southern California, she is happy now to be living in Indiana with her husband and big, hairy dogs.

Carrie Texas

Romance

Carrie hails from Southern Indiana with her nerdy IT husband and their spoiled, pampered cat. Raised with wolves by an eccentric Native American Medicine Man slash biologist and a bibliophile mother, Carrie had to become a writer or go insane.

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