Stories for Amanda

USA Today Bestselling author

I'm a single mother who grew up and was educated in the Midwestern United States and began writing to network for a business venture. Imagine my shock when I fell in love with my characters and they wouldn't shut up in my head! When readers began accumulating on my writing blog and leaving such amazing reviews, it became a driving force and focus in my life!

I have one daughter, two Golden Retrievers and one Black Lab! I'm extremely eclectic when it comes to the fine arts...I love literature, theater, film, dance, art. I adore cooking and entertaining for my friends and family....oh, and did I mention I stay up all night, putting words on a page?

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New York Times Best Selling author Michelle A. Valentine is a Central Ohio nurse turned author of erotic romance of novels ROCK THE HEART (2012), ROCK THE BAND (2013) and ROCK MY BED (2013). Her love of hard-rock music, tattoos and sexy musicians inspired her BLACK FALCON series.

I'm a wife, mother and avid a lover of all types of books, but romances are my main favs. My husband likes to say reading is my obsession but I just say it's my passion... there's a difference.

I decided to take the leap from just reading romance to writing it and by debut novel, Picking up the Pieces will be released this summer.

From a rock music journalist to a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author for The Pact, Where Sea Meets Sky, The Artists Trilogy series, and over 20 other books, Karina Halle has seen a lot of the world. Luckily, all the years of dabbling in different careers and traversing the globe has given her the perfect background for her stories. Whether it's writing horror romance, romantic suspense or contemporary romance, Karina manages to combine very real people and relationships with very edgy circumstances. When she's not writing about flawed characters or chilling situations, you can find her on Salt Spring Island, BC, drinking wine in her 1920's farmhouse with her husband and their adopted pitbull.

USA Today bestselling author Nina Lane writes hot, sexy romances and spicy erotica. Originally from California, she holds a PhD in Art History and an MA in Library and Information Studies, which means she loves both research and organization. She also enjoys traveling and thinks St. Petersburg, Russia is a city everyone should visit at least once.

Nina's books include the bestselling Spiral of Bliss contemporary erotic romance series, AROUSE, ALLURE, and AWAKEN, and the smutty, dark, and twisted THE EROTIC DARK and THE EROTIC LIGHT.

Fantastical realm dweller Madeline Sheehan is the USA Today bestselling author of the Undeniable series and Shut Up and Kiss Me. More of her published works include: The Holy Trinity series, and the Thicker Than Blood series (Thicker Than Blood and Beneath Blood and Bone).

A Social Distortion enthusiast, and fan of anything deemed socially inappropriate, Madeline was homegrown in New York, where she can still be found engaging in food fights and video game marathons with her husband and son.

Karen Avivi is never bored. If the weather is nice, it's almost impossible for her to stay inside. Karen has tried surfing, skydiving, scuba diving, stunt classes, archery, winter camping, orienteering, mountaineering, mountain biking, and she even attempted a bike ramp once but it didn't end well. If she's not reading or writing, she's usually planning a new adventure.

I wrote my first novel, "Kimberly and the Seventh Grade Disaster", when I was thirteen years old. Good thing it never saw the light of day.

In the years since, I continued writing stories, earned a degree in creative writing from Concordia University, read a lot of books (some over and over, like Catcher in the Rye), watched a lot of movies, got married and became a stepmom. The Pool Theory is my first novel that strangers are allowed to read.

To read more about the book: www.thepooltheory.com
To read more about me: www.alexanazzaro.com

RAINE HAS BEEN READING ROMANCE NOVELS since she picked up that first Barbara Cartland paperback at the tender age of thirteen. She thinks it was The Flame is Love from 1975. And it's a safe bet she'll never stop reading romance novels because now she writes them too. Granted, Raine's stories are edgy enough to turn Ms. Cartland in her grave, but to her way of thinking, a tall, dark, and handsome hero never goes out of fashion. Never! Writing sexy romance stories pretty much fills her days now... for which she keeps pinching herself to make sure she's not dreaming. #Truth

Raine has a prince of a husband and two brilliant sons... and two very bouncy but beloved Italian greyhounds to pull her back into the real world if the writing takes her too far away. Her sons know she likes to write stories but have never asked to read any. (Thank God.) The greyhounds are likely to be in her lap while she writes the stories—both dogs at the same time.

She loves to hear from readers and chat about the characters in her books.
You can connect with Raine on Facebook at Raine Miller Romance Readers. She pops in to visit the group most days because it's a super fun place where romance awesomeness abounds all the day long.