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Annabeth Albert

Annabeth is a Pacific Northwest writer of contemporary romance, new adult, and young adult fiction. Emotionally complex, sexy, and funny stories are her favorites both to read and to write. Her novels have placed in a variety of contests including The Pacific Northwest Writers Association, The Emerald City Opener, Golden Opportunity, Great Expectations, the Unpublished Beacon Award, and the Linda Howard Contest. She has four completed manuscripts and is currently hard at work on novel number five. Please join her on Twitter, on Facebook, and on my blog to follow her journey to publication, learn what books she’s reading and loving right now, and to join her pursuit of the perfect date-night movie. In her “day job,” she teaches college writing and wrangle two toddlers. No matter what she does, she loves a great story with a happy ending!

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Louisa Bacio

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Publishers: Ravenous Romance

Louisa Bacio published her first erotic thriller SEX UNIVERSITY: Physical Education in June 2010, and since then has published three more, including The Vampire, The Witch & The Werewolf: A New Orleans Threesome and its sequel Chains of Silver. And, she possesses contracts for more! Her relationship with her publisher Ravenous Romance all started with a Call for Submissions.

Her story “Two’s Company” can be found in I Kissed a Girl: A Virgin Lesbian Anthology. Bacio takes on the tale of Lilith in “Lilith: In Her Garden” in the Seducing the Myth anthology.

In addition to writing and editing, Bacio teaches college courses in English, journalism, film studies and popular culture.

J. Leigh Bailey

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J. Leigh Bailey resides near Chicago and is a huge fan of romance in all its forms. A book-a-day reading habit often interferes with her writing, but some habits just aren’t worth breaking. She’s been reading romances since she was ten, and now, more than twenty years later, she’s still at it. Eventually she’ll write the Great American Novel (romance edition) but until then she’s having an absolute blast writing a bunch of short stories from horror to erotica. She fully believes that everyone deserve to fall in love and that happy endings are not only possible, but necessary.

Kim Baldwin

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Publishers: Bold Strokes Books

Kim Baldwin, an Emmy-winning former network news executive, has been making her living as a writer for more than three decades. Her lesbian intrigue and romance solo novels include High Impact, Hunter’s Pursuit, Force of Nature, Whitewater Rendezvous, Flight Risk, Focus of Desire, and Breaking the Ice, which tied for first in the Contemporary fiction category of the RRW’s 2010 RAE awards and won a 2010 Independent Publisher Book Award. She narrated the audiobook version with dogearaudio.
Kim is also co-authoring the Elite Operative Series with Greek writer Xenia Alexiou: Lethal Affairs, Thief of Always, Missing Lynx, Dying to Live, and Demons Are Forever, and she has published short stories in several Bold Strokes Books anthologies.

Kim has received numerous accolades for her work. A Lambda Literary finalist, she also has two Golden Crown Literary Society Awards, six Lesbian Fiction Readers’ Choice Awards, two Honorable Mentions in the LGBT Rainbow Awards, and an Alice B. Readers’ Appreciation Award for her body of work. Her novels have been translated into Dutch, Russian, and Spanish.

J.P. Barnaby

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Publishers: Dreamspinner Press

Erotic fiction is more than just moans, grunts, and physical pleasure. To J.P. Barnaby, erotic fiction consists not only of the mechanics of physical love, but the complex characters and relationships that lead to those all-encompassing feelings of need and longing. Sex without context is merely sex—but sex coupled with attraction, with explosive repercussions—that is good erotic fiction. J.P. authors all different kinds of erotic fiction including gay, straight, male, female, BDSM, sweet, romantic, and dark.

As a bisexual woman, J.P. is a proud member of the GLBT community both online and in her small town on the outskirts of Chicago. A member of Mensa, she is described as brilliant but troubled, sweet but introverted, and talented but deviant. She spends her days writing software and her nights writing erotica, which is, of course, far more interesting. The spare time that she carves out between her career and her novels is spent reading about the concept of love, which, like some of her characters, she has never quite figured out for herself.

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Laura Baumbach

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Publishers: MLR Press, Torquere Books, Loose Id, Aspen Mountain Press

Laura Baumbach is the author of numerous short stories, novellas, novels and screenplays. Her favorite genre to work in is manlove or m/m erotic romances. Manlove is not traditional gay fiction, but erotic romances written specifically for the romantic-minded reader, male or female. She works as an emergency trauma nurse by night and an author by day, with her husband and two sons filling in her free hours.

Among her numerous awards over the years, Laura was the 2007 EPPIE Finalist for best GLBT novel with her book sci-fi adventure DETAILS OF THE HUNT, the first in the Details Series, winner of the 2008 EPPIE for best GLBT novel with her vampire adventure story THE LOST TEMPLE OF KARTTIKEYA and was give Honorable Mention for her collaborative novel MEXICAN HEAT , the first in the Crimes & Cocktails Series, at the San Fransiciso Book Fair. MEXICAN HEAT is also currently a 2009 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Best Gay Romance.

Laura is the owner of ManLoveRomance Press, a small print publishing house that specializes in gay erotic romance, mystery and fiction. (http://www.mlrpress.com) MLR Press was founded in January of 2007. She is also the owner of the promotional co-op for authors of gay romance and fiction, Manloveromance.com. (http://www.manloveromance.com)

Larry Benjamin

Publishers: Carina Press

Larry’s debut novel, What Binds Us, will be released by Carina Press March 19, 2012. His erotic fiction has appeared in the STARBOOKS’ anthologies: Dangerous Boys, Seduced, Big Boys, Little Lies, and Unforgettable. He has just completed work on Damaged Angels, a collection of short stories. .

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Publishers: Carina Press, Loose ID

Dev Bentham lives in Northern Wisconsin with two cats, a dog and one wonderful guy. She’s published short stories, poetry, newspaper articles and academic papers and has worked in nearly every profession from restaurants to retail to open-water diving and now writes m/m romance out of an intense fascination with love, courage and gender. Picture her, during long cold winters, at the kitchen table dreaming of heart-warming romance and hot, passionate love.

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Ally Blue

Ally Blue is acknowledged by the world at large (or at least by her heroes, who tend to suffer a lot) as the Popess of Gay Angst. She has a great big suggestively-shaped hat and rides in a bullet-proof Plexiglas bubble in Christmas parades. Her harem of manwhores does double duty as bodyguards and inspirational entertainment. Her favorite band is Radiohead, her favorite color is lime green and her favorite way to waste a perfectly good Saturday is to watch all three extended version LOTR movies in a row. Her ultimate dream is to one day ditch the evil day job and support the family on manlove alone. She is not a hippie or a brain surgeon, no matter what her kids’ friends say. You can find Ally’s book list on her website.

Leah Braemel

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Growing up in rural Ontario, Leah Braemel learned to lose herself in the make-believe worlds in her books. Once she realized she could write her own stories, charts and maps to keep track of her fantasy worlds littered her bedroom. In her early teens she discovered her love of romances and soon all her stories revolved around giving her heroes and heroines their Happy-Ever-After.

Married to her college sweetheart and the mother of two sons, Leah is the only woman in a houseful of men—even their dog is male. She gained some varied and interesting insights while working with a security firm liaising with Toronto’s Emergency Task Force and bomb squad and later teaching computers to women escaping abusive relationships.

After a conversation with her eldest son about how he needed to follow his dreams, Leah decided to follow her own advice and make her dreams of getting published come true. She was thrilled when her first sizzling romance, Private Property, was published by Samhain Publishing in 2009. In January 2010, the reviewers at The Romance Studio nominated Private Property for a CAPA award for “Best Erotic Romance.” Leah was also nominated in the “Best Erotic Romance Author” category. Reviewers have since awarded her books numerous Top Pick and Recommended Reads designations along with another CAPA nomination for Deliberate Deceptions as “Best Contemporary Romance of 2011.”

Brockmann, Suzanne

Suzanne Brockmann

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Since her explosion onto the publishing scene more than ten years ago, Suzanne Brockmann has written fifty books, and is now widely recognized as one of the leading voices in romantic suspense. Her work has earned her repeated appearances on the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists, as well as numerous awards, including Romance Writers of America’s #1 Favorite Book of the Year (three years running), two RITA Awards, and many Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Awards.

Married to author Ed Gaffney, Suz divides her time between Sarasota, Florida; Boston, Massachusetts and New York City. They have two grown children, Melanie, who is a personal trainer, and Jason, who is an actor and tap dancer, and two miniature schnauzers, C.K. Dexter-Haven and Little Joe, both of whom (unlike Mel and Jason) still live at home.

Suz is a proud member of PFLAG – Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. She is also a card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign, and MassEquality. A firm believer in civil rights for all people, she has fought hard to bring equal marriage rights to all citizens of her home state, Massachusetts.

Suz also recently produced her first independent feature-length movie, a romantic comedy called THE PERFECT WEDDING, that she co-wrote with her husband Ed and her son Jason. The film is currently in post-production. Find out more at the film’s website or Facebook.

Brukz, Lara

Lara Brukz

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Publishers: Dreamspinner Press

Lara Brukz is a sassy, smart mouthed Southern redhead who thinks about sex all the time. Lara didn’t dream of growing up to read mountains of books, let alone write. Numbers were always her thing. Then she needed some extreme excitement in her vanilla life. She started reading m/m romance and couldn’t put them down. Her best friend provided the motivation that brought her writing career to life. Now she writes romance beyond limits and loves every tap of the key. Lara still resides in the same small southern Arkansas town she grew up in. By day she juggles with numbers and by night she fiddles with words and all things male. That includes her luscious husband.

Buchanan, Jade

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Publishers: Changeling Press, MLR Press, Samhain Publishing, Total E-Bound

Jade’s writing is as eclectic as her reading tastes, with over thirty erotic romance tales currently published. She’s been known to accept writing challenges from friends and family just to see their reactions and Jade is also a firm believer that love and romance are universal concepts, no matter a person’s gender identity or sexual orientation.

Burn, KC

KC Burn

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Publishers: Loose Id, Carina Press

I’ve been writing for what feels like my whole life. I’m a sucker for a happy ending (get your mind out of the gutters!) so it’s been romance almost all the way. Recently moved from Canada to Florida with my husband and cats, and shortly thereafter discovered a love of writing gay romance – the hotter the better. Who knew?

Writing is always fun, despite the hard work, but writing about my guys is more fun than I’ve had in a long time. Love between consenting adults is a beautiful thing, and should be celebrated, regardless of sexual orientation.

Calmes, Mary

Mary Calmes

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Publishers: Dreamspinner Press

Mary Calmes currently lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, with her husband and two children and hopes to eventually move off the rock to a place where her children can experience fall and even winter. She graduated from the University of the Pacific (ironic) in Stockton, California, with a bachelor’s degree in English literature. Due to the fact that it is English lit and not English grammar, do not ask her to point out a clause for you, as it will so not happen. She loves writing, becoming immersed in the process, and falling into the work. She can even tell you what her characters smell like. She also buys way too many books on Amazon.

Carreras, Alex

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Carrington, Ellis

Ellis Carrington

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Ellis Carrington is a woman who loves men who love men, and has been ever since her rebellious teen years when she jacked a copy of The New Joy of Gay Sex from her local public library and said to herself, “Now THAT is hawt!” She’s a wild child who hates to color in the lines, but who lives and loves passionately. Ellis can be found in and around the Washington D.C. area, swilling Starbucks with her real or imaginary buddies. Her greatest loves are good friends, good music, and of course reading M/M romance.

Cartwright, J.M.

J.M. Cartwright

Publishers: Torquere, Goodreads

JM Cartwright is a polished professional who works all the time. Well, maybe not all the time… but paying the mortgage and buying dog food keeps JM pretty busy.” Makes me sound kinda stuffy, doesn’t it? :>) I’m a Midwesterner by birth – lived briefly in the Pacific Northwest – and I dream of the Appalachians and someday sitting on a veranda looking over one hundred acres of paradise. Writing stories about lovers butting heads, making each other crazy, laughing and loving is what I like to do.

Christopher, Bren

Bren Christopher

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Bren Christopher has lived in Florida most of her life and has a hard time imagining living anywhere it gets below freezing and actually stays there, even during the day. Fortunately, she has a husband and a couple of cuddly cats to keep her warm at night. Not to mention the steamy romances she’s always enjoyed reading so much that sometimes the stories would continue in her head long after the book was finished.

Bren has been an avid reader since she was a kid, but it wasn’t until she discovered erotic romance that the characters who had been content to reside in her imagination started insisting they needed a wider audience. Matt and Jamie of Friday Night Jamie were the first, but others quickly followed. She’s had a lot of fun helping her folks come to life, and hopes you have just as much fun getting to know them.

Ciletti, Maria

Maria V. Ciletti

Maria V, Ciletti is a registered nurse working as a medical administrator. Her first novel, The Choice, was published by Haworth Press in 2007. The sequel to The Choice, Clinical Distance, was published in 2009 by Intaglio Publication. Her latest novel, Collide was published by Intaglio in June 2010. She is currently working on Entangled, her fourth lesbian romance, slated for release in November 2011. Her work has also been featured in many anthologies published by Bella and Allyson. She lives in Niles, Ohio with her partner, Rose.

Cullinan, Heidi

Heidi Cullinan

Publishers: Dreamspinner Press, Loose Id, Samhain Publishing

Heidi Cullinan has always loved a good love story, provided it has a happy ending. She enjoys writing across many genres but loves above all to write happy, romantic endings for LGBT characters because there just aren’t enough of those stories out there. When Heidi isn’t writing, she enjoys cooking, reading, knitting, listening to music, and watching television with her family. Heidi also volunteers frequently for her state’s LGBT rights group, One Iowa, and is proud to be from the first Midwestern state to legalize same-sex marriage.

Denim, Amy

Amy Denim

A read-a-holic who re-discovered romance a few years ago, Amy lives and breathes her e-book reader. She’s also addicted to the library and spends most of her days there reading and writing. Always a lover of a happy ending she’s sorely disappointed when books don’t have one. To make sure stories have sexy heroes, strong, independent heroines and a happily ever after she writes them herself. She loves free books to blog about on Amy Denim’s 365 days, 365 free e-books and can’t help sharing pictures of tasty heroes on Read, Write, Rock On.

Donovan, Taylor V.

Taylor V. Donovan

Publishers: MLR Press

Taylor V. Donovan is a compulsive reader and author of m/m romantic suspense. She is optimistically cynical about the world; lover of history, museums and all things 80s. She is crazy about fashion, passionate about civil rights and equality for all and shamelessly indulges in mind-numbing reality television.

When she is not making a living in the busiest city in the world or telling the stories of gorgeous men hot for one another, Taylor can be found raising her two daughters and two terribly misbehaved furry babies in the mountains she calls home.

Douglas, Kate

Kate Douglas

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Publisher: Kensington Publishing

In January 2006, Kensington Publishing launched their Aphrodisia imprint of erotic romance with Kate Douglas’s ground-breaking Wolf Tales, a sexy paranormal series that follows a lost race of shapeshifters as they rediscover their heritage and bring new members into their packs. Kate has continued as the imprint’s lead author, with her fifteenth title in the ongoing series (which alternates with novellas in the Sexy Beast anthologies) due to release June 28. The series is currently contracted to run through July 2011 and hopefully beyond, depending on reader interest. She has just completed DemonFire, the first book in her Demon Slayers series of four paranormal romances, which will be published as part of Kensington’s Zebra imprint. The first is slated for mass market release in March 2010.

Kate and her husband of thirty-seven years have two adult children and five grandchildren. They live in the beautiful mountains of Lake County, California, north of the Napa Valley wine country. You can find Kate on Facebook and MySpace. Sign up for Kate’s newsletter and a chance to win signed copies of her books at KateDouglas-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Kate loves to hear from her readers and responds to all email sent to: kate@katedouglas.com.

Ellis, Madelynne

Madelynne Ellis

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Finn, Christy

Christy Finn

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Christy Finn has been in pursuit of publication since 2006. Though she is not yet published in romantic fiction, she did spend three years blogging about hockey. This eventually earned her a guest blogger post on the New York Times “Hockey Night in Blogdom” feature and a short articled published in a Canadian in-flight magazine. After she gave up sports blogging to pursue fiction writing, Christy managed to complete her first contemporary romance featuring (what else?) a hockey player. That manuscript eventually had the honor of being named as a finalist in an publisher-run contest in 2009.

When she’s not working, playing with her dog or busy with graduate studies, Christy is furiously working out the kinks in her current project: a young adult paranormal romance.

Forte, PG

PG Forte

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I wrote my first serialized story when I was still in my teens. The sexy, adventure tales were very popular at my oh-so-proper, all girls, Catholic High School, where they helped to liven up otherwise dull classes. Even if my teachers didn’t always think so.
Originally a Jersey Girl, I currently reside in California with my husband and soulmate, our two young adult kids and a random assortment of animal companions.

Frantz, Sarah

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Sarah S. G. Frantz is an Assistant Professor of Literature at Fayetteville State University, NC, and the founder and president of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance, an academic organization dedicated to fostering and promoting the scholarly exploration of all popular representations of romantic love. Sarah received her Ph.D. in Romantic-era British women novelists from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and uses her theoretical focus on how female authors construct their male characters to analyze modern popular romance fiction, as well as Jane Austen. Sarah is the co-editor with Eric Selinger of New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction (McFarland, 2010) and has authored of numerous academic articles on both Austen and popular romance fiction. She reviews m/m romance and BDSM romance for Dear Author and is a contributing writer to Teach Me Tonight and Romancing the Blog.

Freeman, Kerry

Kerry Freeman

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Kerry is working on her first novel, a contemporary M/M romance set in the South. She lives in the Southeastern U.S. with her husband. A tomboy from way back, she usually cheers when the stupid, helpless girl is killed in a horror movie. She has a weakness for YA novels, fan fiction, yaoi, and Glee.

Gardner, Kimberly

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Girard, Marie-eve

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M-E Girard is a registered nurse who moonlights as a fiction writer. A Young Adult Fiction buff, M-E spends most of her time telling tales of teenage angst and happenings of high school halls, with a focus on LGBT realities. She is currently working on her first novel and regularly participates in short story competitions. Her short stories—The Welkin and Limbo—are set to be published in a Canadian anthology in June 2011. M-E lives just outside of Toronto, in Ajax, Ontario, with her partner-in-crime Melissa and their almost-human puppy, Nereese.

Gordon, Christie

Christie Gordon

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Grant, KT

KT Grant

Publishers: Decadent Publishing, Noble Romance Publishing, Ravenous Romance, Phase Books

KT Grant is a self-proclaimed eccentric redhead who not only loves to read a wide variety of romances, but also loves writing it. Under her alter-ego, she is a well-known book reviewer and blogger who doesn’t shy away from voicing her opinion. A proud native of New Jersey, KT is multi-published and known for writing “out of the box” romances. KT has been mentioned in the Guardian.UK, Publisher’s Weekly’s Beyond the Book and at Bookseller.com. KT is a top ten best-selling author at Amazon, as well as being a multiple All Romance Ebooks best seller and a Night Owl Reviews Top Author Pick..

Grant, Storm

Storm Grant

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Storm Grant is a writer of short and long tales, her work spanning both genres and genders. Storm’s stories offer titillation and merriment, and in a few cases, horror. In the last few years, she’s published with MLR, Torquere, Phaze, Blood Bound Books, eXessica, Amber Quill, and Riptide Publishing.

Storm is a board member of the Toronto chapter of the RWA, a member of the FF&P chapter, and a founding member of the Rainbow Romance Writers chapter. Her business degree has seen much use over the three decades she’s spent working in marketing and administration. She lives in Toronto, Canada, with her husband and a miscellany of rescued pets and a rather messy house.

Gregg, Kari

Kari Gregg

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Kari Gregg lives in the mountains of Wild and Wonderful West Virginia with her Wonderful husband and three very Wild children. Once Kari discovered the fabulous play land of erotic romances at RWA’s National Conference in 2009, the die was cast. Finally! A market for the smoking hot stories she loves!

When Kari’s not writing, she enjoys reading, coffee, zombie flicks, coffee, naked mud-wrestling (not really), and . . . coffee!

Grey, Andrew

Andrew Grey

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Andrew grew up in western Michigan with a father who loved to tell stories and a mother who loved to read them. Since then he has lived throughout the country and traveled throughout the world. He has a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and works in information systems for a large corporation. Andrew’s hobbies include collecting antiques, gardening, and leaving his dirty dishes anywhere but in the sink (particularly when writing) He considers himself blessed with an accepting family, fantastic friends, and the world’s most supportive and loving partner. Andrew currently lives in beautiful, historic Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Gruber, Danny

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Haimowitz, Rachel

Rachel Haimowitz

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Publishers: Riptide Publishing

Rachel is an M/M erotic romance author, a freelance writer and editor, and co-owner and Managing Editor of Riptide Publishing. She’s also a sadist with a pesky conscience, shamelessly silly, and quite proudly pervish. Fortunately, all those things make writing a lot more fun for her . . . if not so much for her characters.

Haircrow, Red

Red Haircrow

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Publishers: Dreamspinner Press, StarBooks Press, JMS Books and Flying With Red Haircrow

Red Haircrow is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, private chef, reviewer and former law enforcement officer of Native American descent whose hometown is Berlin. Red is also completing a degree in Psychology, and operates the indie publishing label “Flying With Red Haircrow”, which opened on 31 October 2010.

Both traditionally and independently published, Red chooses to inject realism in their work and happily ever after is not always in the mix though love and strong characters always are. Like life, there is always a bittersweet mixture of laughter and tears, and Red imbues their writing with the passionate love and depth of emotion they’ve experienced. If you want giddy fluff, camp, or heavy sex content, you’d probably prefer another writer.

Harner, Laura

Laura Harner

Publishers: Cobblestone Press, Hot Corner Press

Laura likes it hot, which helps explain why she ended up Arizona after living in such diverse places as Japan, New Orleans, Maine, and Florida. She once enjoyed hobbies such as gardening and travel. Now the characters in her head compel her to tell their stories to her readers, so she writes. She shares her home with her husband and youngest son, a dog and a cat.

Harper, Lou

Lou Harper

Publishers: Loose Id, Amber Quill Press, Cleis Press

Under a prickly, cynical surface Lou Harper is an incorrigible romantic. Her love affair with the written word started at a tender age. There was never a time when stories weren’t romping around in her head. She is currently embroiled in a ruinous romance with adjectives. In her free time Lou stalks deviant words and feral narratives.

Lou’s favorite animal is the hedgehog. She likes nature, books, movies, photography, and good food. She has a temper and mood swings.

Lou has misspent most of her life in parts of Europe and the US, but is now firmly settled in Los Angeles and worships the sun. However, she thinks the ocean smells funny. Lou is a loner, a misfit, and a happy drunk.

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Harris, Daisy

Daisy Harris

Publishers: Siren Publishing, Ravenous Romance, Ellora’s Cave

Retired party girl and science fiction enthusiast, Daisy Harris spends most of her time writing sexy romance and plotting the fall of Western civilization. Her books can be found on Amazon, Nook, and wherever else fine erotic romance is sold.

Ms. Harris lives in Seattle, where she tortures her husband by making it rain. She enjoys watching bridges cause traffic, watching football games cause traffic, and blithely wearing wool socks with sandals.

She has two little girls who’ve challenged Ms. Harris’ feminist tendencies by insisting that pink clothes and high heels are appropriate for every occasion, including rock climbing and camping trips. She patiently waits for the day when one or both of them declares themselves vegetarian, tomboyish, or in any way like her. Ms. Harris may be waiting a long time.

Daisy writes M/M and M/F romance about merpeople, dragons, gods, zombies, and college boys. And she’s never missed an episode of the Walking Dead.

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Hart, Liliana

Liliana Hart

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Publishers: Bodysways Publishing

Liliana began reading romance novels with all her new found free time, and when she ran out of things to read, she decided to write her own novels. The result was a 150,000 word thriller–a dazzling adventure–where the heroine was a thirty-year-old virgin assassin (Yes, you read that right). She couldn’t imagine why people weren’t knocking down her door to read it, but she persevered and began writing a second book. She finally got the hang of things, and eventually learned that losing one’s virginity wasn’t all that romantic after all. All of her books involve some kind of suspense (she just can’t help herself), laughter, and a lot of steamy sex.

Since the failure of her first attempt, Liliana’s books have won awards such as: The Daphne Du Maurier, The Suzannah, The Linda Howard Award of Excellence, The Maggie, and many others. Her affiliations include Romance Writers of America and Mystery Writers of America. Liliana loves to cook, and is addicted to reading, Internet Boggle, kickboxing, and Bones. She lives in a big, rambling house in Texas with a couple of cats to keep her company. She loves to get emails from readers.

Harte, Treva

Treva Harte

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Publishers: Loose Id, Changeling Press, Liquid Silver Books

Treva Harte lives near a city with many, many attorneys. Thanks to Loose Id and her writing, she can be a recovering attorney and now spends her time writing, editing, raising adolescents, taking care of an elderly mother and dealing with a hyperactive husband (who says he’s just very energetic). She is also co-owner and Editor-in-Chief of the e-publishing company Loose Id.

She and her husband both like writing in whatever time they have left, so they often fight over—sorry, since he is still a practicing attorney they NEGOTIATE—keyboard time. No wonder Treva’s particular brand of sensual romance is a bit offbeat and usually mixed with fantasy.

Treva is multi-published with several e-publishers in print and e-book, a member of RWA and PAN, and winner of the CAPA 2003 award in the “Erotic Fantasy Romance” category.

Hecht, Stephani

Stephani Hecht

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Stephani Hecht is a happily married mother of two. Born and raised in Michigan, she loves all things about the state, from the frigid winters to the Detroit Red Wings hockey team. You can usually find her snuggled up to her laptop, creating her next book.

What I’m up to:

When I’m not running around like crazy, trying to get my kids to their various activities, I’m currently working on numerous projects. I have several books coming out with eXtasy Books in both The Lost Shifter Series and Drone Vampire Chronicles, which is exciting since I love writing my about my shifters and vampires. In addition to all that, I have the AACT Anthology coming out with Total-E-Bound. I look forward to a wonderful and full year.

Henderson, Patty

Patty G. Henderson

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Patty G. Henderson is a Florida native and still lives in beautiful, palm tree-lined South Tampa. She got hooked on Gothic literature after being introduced to Edgar Allan Poe (well, not literally) in junior high school.

She just wrote and published her first lesbian Gothic Historical Romance, THE SECRET OF LIGHTHOUSE POINTE. Her love for the old Gothic Romance paperbacks of the 60s and 70s, with the frightened heroine fleeing a dark, towering castle on the covers, led her to pen an homage to the genre, except in her book, the heroine ends up in the arms of a tall, dark and beautiful woman instead of man. She is busy penning another lesbian Historical Gothic Romance, CASTLE OF DARK SHADOWS and hopes to write many more lesbian Gothic Romances.

Patty has also written the very popular Brenda Strange Supernatural Mystery series. There are four books in the series. She’s also written a vampire novel and several horror anthologies as well. She loves a good mystery and supernatural tale, especially ghosts and haunted house stories.

When she’s not writing or thinking of plot lines in her head, she loves spending time with her family and friends, coffee shops, fine wines and being out in the weekend evenings under the soothing power of the moon. She enjoys the power of thunderstorms with rolling thunder and the quiet beauty of cemeteries. Cats have been constant companions since she can remember and fondly recalls each one with love for all the joy they brought. Patty is also an artist, creating custom book covers for many lesbian indie authors and mainstream authors as well via her own graphic arts business, Boulevard Photografica. Patty’s books are published by Blanca Rosa Publishing, her own indie imprint.

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Herendeen, Ann

Ann Herendeen

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Publishers: HarperCollins

A native New Yorker and lifelong resident of Brooklyn, Ann Herendeen writes from the “third perspective,” the woman who prefers a bisexual husband and an m/m/f menage. Her first two novels were published as Harper Paperbacks: Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander (2008) is a Regency romance with a bisexual hero; Pride/Prejudice (2010) tells the hidden bisexual story within Jane Austen’s classic novel and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction.

Under the name Lady Amalie Aranyi, Ann is currently working on a series of e-books set in a sword-and sorcery world: ECLIPSIS or ”Lady Amalie’s memoirs,” a family saga centered around an m/m/f love story.

Herron, Rachael

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Jet, Patrice

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Jewel, Carolyn

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Carolyn Jewel was born on a moonless night. That darkness was seared into her soul and she became an award winning author of historical and paranormal romance. She has a very dusty car and a Master’s degree in English that proves useful at the oddest times. An avid fan of fine chocolate, finer heroines, Bollywood films, and heroism in all forms, she has three cats and a dog. Also a son. One of the cats is his..

Kallmaker, Karin

Karin Kallmaker

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Karin Kallmaker’s lesbian fiction novels include the Goldie and Lammy award-winning 18th & Castro, Just Like That, Maybe Next Time and Sugar and span lesbian romance, lesbian erotica and lesbian science-fiction/fantasy. Translations include Spanish, French, German and Czech. More than five dozen short stories have appeared in anthologies from publishers like Alyson, Circlet, Cleis, Bold Strokes, Yellow Rose and Haworth. Her writing career began with the venerable Naiad Press, continues with Bella Books and spans more than two dozen novels in print. In 2008, she joined Bella Books as the press’s first Editorial Director. You can connect with Karin at her website, the Bella Books Author-Reader Forum or at Facebook. Her body of work can be found at Bella Books.

Katt, AC

AC Katt

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Publishers: Torquere Books, Eternal Press

AC Katt was born in New York City’s Greenwich Village. She remembers sitting at the fountain in Washington Square Park listening to the folk music while they passed the hat. At nine, her parents dragged her to New Jersey where she grew up, married and raised four children and became a voracious reader of romantic fiction. At one time she owned over two thousand novels, until she and her husband took themselves and the cat to New Mexico for their health and its great beauty.

Now, most of AC’s books are electronic (although she still keeps six bookcases of hardcovers), so she never has to give away another book. AC is new to both GLBT and to writing being, as she claims, a late bloomer, however, she claims to have found her niche writing GLBT romance. In October of 2008 she published her first piece, a short story for Torquere Press’s Wedding Sipz Blitz by the name of A Permanent Arrangement. Her first novel, The Sarran Plague, an Erotic Science Fiction Menage a Trois, was released from Eternal Press on April 7, 2008 to great reviews. She hangs out at ACKatt.com; where she keeps her journal — This is a very opinionated kitty and at ACKattauthor.com where you may find snippets of her releases and some from works in progress. There is a special website for her novel, The Sarran Plague, called TheSarrans.com which gives a reader some of the background and history of the planet Sarran and her Sci Fi novel.

In the works is a live chat — More Than Erotica, where AC and Guests will discuss the genre and the realities portrayed in its pages.

Kersten, Shayla

Shayla Kersten

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By day, multi-published Shayla Kersten is a mild-mannered accountant. By night, she’s a writer of sexy romances. Torn between genres, Shayla writes erotic stories about hot heroes and their sexy women, as well as hot men and their passionate heroes.

A native of Arkansas, Shayla spent four years in the Army as a missile specialist, stationed in Germany and Oklahoma. After her enlistment was up, she spent eleven years in New York City taking a bite out of the Big Apple. Even her love of theatre and the nightlife of the big city couldn’t cure terminal homesickness for the Natural State. In 1995, she returned to her roots in Arkansas.

Shayla divides her time between her mother, her spoiled rotten cats and dogs, her evil day job and her obsession—writing.

Killiri, Sineth

Sineth Killiri

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Publishers: Amber Allure

Sineth Killiri is single, has one son and lives in the beautiful state of Alabama. When not working as an online retailer, her days are spent writing love stories for mature audiences. Sineth is a pseudonym for romance author, Brenda Williamson, who is a member of The Author’s Guild, Romance Writers of America, several of its sub-chapters, and Novels Inc. For more information about Sineth, please visit her website.

Kompes, Gregory A.

Gregory A. Kompes

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Publishers: Career Press

Gregory is the author of 50 Fabulous Gay-Friendly Places to Live (Career Press, 2005), as well as the co-founder of the Patchwork Path book series, co-host of the Writer’s Pen and Grill, a social evening for writers held monthly in Las Vegas, Nevada, and co-founder of Laudably Tarnished: A Poetry Workshop.

Gregory holds a BA in English Literature from Columbia University, New York, a Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning, and an MS Ed. from California State University, East Bay.

Kraft, Adriana

Adriana Kraft

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Adriana Kraft is the pen name for a happily married pair of hopeless romantics who love to read and write hot sex about bi women and the loves in their lives. Our specialty is bisexual heroines. Our stories lift up the dilemmas faced by women who deeply want it both ways but won’t be denied the right to commitment, true love and a happy ending, sometimes with more than one special partner. While that may sound serious, it also permits us to get into swinging, voyeurism and ménage, great opportunities for being playful. It’s rather challenging at times to describe all the possible entanglements.

Lain, Tara

Tara Lain

Publishers: Loose Id, Amber Quill Press (Amber Allure), Etopia Press

Tara Lain never met a beautiful boy she didn’t love – at least on paper. A writer of erotic romance, mostly ménage and male/male, Tara loves all her characters, but especially her handsome heroes. A lifelong writer of serious non-fiction, Tara only fell in love with EROM in 2009 and, through perseverance and lots of workshops, had the first novel she ever wrote published in January of 2011. Then she capped off the year by being voted Best Author of 2011 in the LRC Awards and had her Genetic Attraction Series named runner-up for Best Series of 2011! A very good year. After an exotic life of travel all over the world and work in television, education and advertising, Tara settled in Southern California with her soul-mate husband and opened her own small marketing business. She paints, collages, and started practicing yoga “way before it was fashionable”. Passionate about diversity, justice, inclusion and new ideas, she says on her tombstone it will read, “Yes”.

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Lamont, Lyndi

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Lane, Amy

Amy Lane

Publishers: Dreamspinner Press, Torquere Books, iUniverse, Riptide Publishing

Amy Lane has four kids, two cats, a loving spouse and a retirement investment in high quality hippie-colored yarn. She also has a head full of characters who will not shut up, and a backlist roster to prove it! She believes in karma, knitting, fresh flowers, warm hugs,Twu Wuv, and that romance literally makes the world go around. You can find her at www.greenshill.com or www.writerslane.blogspot.com where you will find she’s bad at pictures, worse at typos, and pretty good at blathering on and on and on.

Langley, JL

JL Langley

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Publishers: Samhain Publishing, Loose Id, MLR Press

JL is a full-time writer, with over ten novels to her credit. Among her hobbies she includes reading, practicing her marksmanship (she happens to be a great shot), gardening, working out (although she despises cardio), searching for the perfect chocolate dessert (so far as she can tell ALL chocolate is perfect, but it requires more research) and arguing with her husband over who the air compressor and nail gun really belongs to (they belong to JL, although she might be willing to trade him for his new chainsaw).

Lawson, Erica

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Lorenz, Lynn

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Lundoff, Catherine

Catherine Lundoff

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Catherine Lundoff is the two-time Goldie Award-winning author of “Night’s Kiss” (Lethe Press, 2009) and “Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing” (Lethe Press, 2007) as well as over 70 published stories in various genres. She is also the editor of “Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories” (Lethe Press, 2008) and is the co-editor, with JoSelle Vanderhooft, of “Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic” (Drollerie Press, 2011). In her other lives, she’s a professional computer geek and teaches writing classes at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. She is owned by two cats and is the proud spouse of her fabulous wife.

Lyons, Phoenix

Phoenix Lyons

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Madison, LD

LD Madison

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Publishers: Loose Id, Torquere Press

LD Madison, a Miami native currently living in Boston, is obsessed with dark chocolate, hot lattes, balmy beaches, and passionate love affairs.

LD has been writing erotic romance for several years, and is a member Rainbow Romance Writers (GLBT) and Passionate Ink.

Caught by Surprise is LD’s first novella with Loose Id, but has several short stories under contract with Torquere Press and Cleis Press.

For the latest news, visit ldmadison.livejournal.com.

March, Ava

Ava March

Publishers: Loose Id, Samhain Publishing

Ava March is an author of regency-set gay historical erotic romances. She loves writing in the regency time period, where proper decorum is of the utmost importance, but where anything can happen behind closed doors. She has a daughter and is married to a wonderful man who doesn’t mind in the slightest that she spends her evenings writing naughty books.

Maxfield, ZA

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Z. A. Maxfield started writing in 2007 on a dare from her children and never looked back. Pathologically disorganized, and perennially optimistic, she writes as much as she can, reads as much as she dares, and enjoys her time with family and friends. If anyone asks her how a wife and mother of four manages to find time for a writing career, she’ll answer, “It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you give up housework.”

Her published books include Crossing Borders, Epic award finalist St. Nacho’s, Drawn Together, Physical Therapy, Blue Fire, Fugitive Color, and Jacob’s Ladder from Loose Id, The Long Way Home, from Aspen Mountain Press, ePistols at Dawn from Samhain Publishing, and Notturno, Stirring Up Trouble, and Vigil from MLR Press. Readers can visit her website at: http://www.zamaxfield.com.

McMurray, Kate

Kate McMurray

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Publishers: Dreamspinner Press, Loose Id

In addition to writing romance novels, Kate is a nonfiction editor. Also, she is crafty (mostly knitting and sewing, but she also wields power tools), she plays the violin, and she dabbles in various other pursuits. She’s maybe a tiny bit obsessed with baseball. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with a presumptuous cat.

Meeker, Lloyd

Lloyd Meeker

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Publishers: MLR Press

Born and raised in a religious commune in the mountain west, Lloyd Meeker began his formal training as an energy healer at the age of ten. As an adult he served for a long time as a minister and teacher in that community before striking out on an individual path of mystical discovery. His academic career has been sporadic and eclectic, ranging from English literature, history, theatre, music, and classical archaeology to computer science.

Previous published works include two volumes of poetry and an erotic swords-and-sorcery adventure novel, The Darkness of Castle Tiralur. His essay, “Gate-Keepers” appeared in the anthology Second Person Queer, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009, Labonte and Schimel, eds.

Since 2009 he has served as a judge in the Queer Foundation’s annual High School Seniors English Essay Contest (queerfoundation.org), which promotes effective writing by, about, and/or for queer youth. Meeker celebrates life with his husband Robert in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he is at work on his next novel.

Michaels, Tere

Tere Michaels

Publishers: Loose Id, MLR Press, Ellora’s Cave

Tere Michaels began her writing career at the age of four when her mother explained that people made their living by making up stories – and they got paid. She got out her crayons and paper and never looked back. Many pages and crayons later – she eventually graduated to typewriters and then computers – Tere has article clips from major magazines, a thousand ideas still left to write and a family in the suburbs. She’s exceedingly pleased every time someone reads her stories and cries, laughs or just feels happy.

Morgan, V.S.

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Mykles, Jet

Jet Mykles

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Publishers: Loose Id, MLR Press, Aspen Mountain Press

An ardent fan of fantasy and science fiction sagas, Jet prefers to live in a world of imagination where dragons are real, elves are commonplace, vampires are just people with special diets and lycanthropes live next door. In her own mind, she’s the spunky heroine who gets the best of everyone and always attracts the lean, muscular lads.

In real life, Jet lives in southern California with her boyfriend, his daughter and father and too many cats. She has a bachelor’s degree in acting, but her loathing of auditions has kept her out of the limelight. So she turned to computers and currently works in product management for a software company, because even in real life, she can’t help but want to create something out of nothing.

Newman, Miriam

Miriam Newman

Fantasy poetry driven by myths and legends has been Miriam’s passion for as long as she can remember. She was published in poetry before catching the romance writing bug. She brings that background to her writing along with a lifelong addiction to horses, an 18 year career in various areas of psychiatric social services and many trips to Ireland, where she nurtures her muse. Her published works range from contemporary fantasy romance to fantasy historical, futuristic, science fiction and historical romance. Currently she lives in rural Pennsylvania with a “motley crew” of rescue animals. You can view her books at www.miriamnewman.com.
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O’Dare, Deirdre

Deirdre O’Dare

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Deirdre celebrates her Celtic heritage, Irish and Welsh, by turning a gift for gab into romantic tales full of imagination, mysticism and adventure. Discovering the wonder of words early in childhood, Deirdre always wanted to be an author and worked toward this dream most of her life. Since everything she wrote turned into a love story, she decided to make romance her niche but many of her stories have at least a hint of the paranormal woven through them and often the ambience of the American southwest, her home and favorite region.

Owens, Zahra

Zahra Owens

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Publishers: Dreamspinner Press

Zahra Owens was born in Europe just before Woodstock and the moon landing and was given a much less pronounceable name by her non-English-speaking parents. Being an Aquarian meant she would never quite conform, and people learned to expect the unexpected.

She started writing fairy tales in first grade; the same year she came into contact with her first group of English-speaking friends, a group which would eventually grow to include people from all over the world. On the outside she was a typical only child, accustomed to being with adults most of the time. On the inside, she sought ways to channel her wild imagination.

During the daytime she earns a living as a computer analyst, but it’s her former career as an intensive care nurse that tends to seep into her fiction. Maybe this has to do with her weak spot for flawed characters and imperfect bodies, or maybe it’s just her sadistic streak coming through. You be the judge.

Zahra is the author of five novels to date and her short stories run way into the double digits. She hopes to write more of both in the coming year.

Palmer, Alyssa Linn

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Publishers: Bandit Creek Books

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Parker, Sloan

Sloan Parker

Publisher: Loose Id

Sloan Parker writes erotic, romantic stories of love and passion. She loves to create complex characters, imperfect people who are growing as individuals, living as true to themselves as they can, and of course, falling in love. She wrote her first book, complete with hand-drawn illustrations, in the second grade and has never looked back. Sloan believes that in fiction—and in love—anything is possible. You can read more about Sloan at www.sloanparker.com.

Pegau, Cathy

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Powell, VK

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Publisher: Bold Strokes Books

Radclyffe is a retired surgeon and full time award-winning author-publisher with over thirty novels and anthologies in print. Seven of her works have been Lambda Literary finalists including the Lambda Literary winners In Deep Waters 2, Erotic Interludes 2, and the romance Distant Shores, Silent Thunder. In addition to editing Best Lesbian Romance 2009 and 2010 (Cleis Press), she has edited Erotic Interludes 2-5 and Romantic Interludes 1 and 2 with Stacia Seaman (BSB), published two solo erotica collections (Change of Pace and Radical Encounters), and has selections in multiple anthologies including Best Lesbian Erotica 2006, 7, 8, and 9; First Timers, After Midnight, Caught Looking, Ultimate Undies, Naughty Spanking Stories 2, Hide and Seek, A is for Amour, H is for Hardcore, L is for Leather, Rubber Sex, Tasting Him, and Lesbian Cowboys. She is the recipient of the 2003 and 2004 Alice B. Readers’ award for her body of work and is also the president of Bold Strokes Books, one of the world’s largest independent LGBTQ publishing companies.

Robbins, Lynn

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Russell, E.J.

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Seaman, Stacia

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STACIA SEAMAN has edited numerous award-winning titles, and with co-editor Radclyffe won a Lambda Literary Award for Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments; an Independent Publishers Awards silver medal and a Golden Crown Literary Award for Erotic Interludes 4: Extreme Passions; an Independent Publishers Awards gold medal and a Golden Crown Literary award for Erotic Interludes 5: Road Games; and the 2010 Rainbow Award of Excellence in the Short/Novella category for Romantic Interludes 2: Secrets. She has short stories in several anthologies. Most recently, she has essays in Visible: A Femmethology (Homofactus Press, 2009) and Second Person Queer (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009).

Sexton, Marie

Marie Sexton

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Publishers: Dreamspinner Press

Marie Sexton was always good at the technical aspects of writing but never had any ideas for stories. After graduating from Colorado State University, she worked for eleven years at an OB/GYN clinic. She quit the clinic at about the same time she started reading M/M romances. At some point in the ensuing months the static in her head cleared and her first story, Promises, was born.

Marie lives in Colorado. She’s a fan of just about anything that involves muscular young men piling on top of each other. In particular, she loves the Denver Broncos and enjoys going to the games with her husband. Matt and Jared often tag along. Marie has one daughter, two cats, and one dog, all of whom seem bent on destroying what remains of her sanity. She loves them anyway.

Skelton, Joel

Joel Skelton

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Joel Skelton lives with his partner in the thriving Minnesota arts community commonly referred to as the Twin Cities. Writing is the latest destination in the author’s tour of the arts. When he’s not writing, scamming on a character, creating a chapter outline, or editing a portion of his manuscript on the bus in and out of the city, he’s playing law firm—a wacky, highly entertaining way to put food on the table.

Slayde, Andy

Andy Slayde

Publishers: Torquere Press

Andy Slayde lives in rural upstate New York with her zoo; Ali Wilde lives half a world away in not-so-rural suburban Adelaide, Australia with hers. Due to lack of money, they haven’t met and spend days and nights talking and plotting over MSN Messenger. They have been writing together for six years because they have nothing better they want to do. As a result, Andy doesn’t know what time zone she is in or whether to say ‘trash can’ or ‘rubbish bin.’

It has been muttered that they both need to get out more.

Smith, Amberly

Amberly Smith

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Amberly lives in the Northwest with her husband, two children, mother-in-law, and a cat named Cat. She has a bachelor’s in communications and works for a telecommunications company. She likes to read in bed, lurk in bookstores, and cuddle on the couch with her kids to watch TV, just to hear the beautiful sound of their laughter. Her husband is a computer addict who she lures away from the latest PC game with promises of a good story, sex, or food that she hasn’t made.

Snow, B.

B. Snow

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Publishers: Dreamspinner Press, Alyson Books

Aspiring (but lazy) writer of M/M romance. Published works: “What I Learned From My Roommate” in Alyson Books’ “Dorm Porn 2″ anthology, and “From A Simmer To A Burn” in Dreamspinner Press’ “Cross Bones” anthology. Currently working on about six different things in between letting the cats in and out.

Speedwell, Rowan

Rowan Speedwell

Publishers: Dreamspinner Press, Amber Allure

An unrepentant biblioholic, Rowan Speedwell spends half her time pretending to be a law librarian, half her time pretending to be a database manager, half her time pretending to be a fifteenth-century Aragonese noblewoman, half her time… wait a minute… hmm. Well, one thing she doesn’t pretend to be is good at math. She is good at pretending, though.

In her copious spare time (hah) she does needlework, calligraphy and illumination, and makes jewelry. She has a master’s degree in history from the University of Chicago, is a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, and lives in a Chicago suburb with the obligatory Writer’s Cat and way too many books.

Steele, Jaxx

Jaxx Steele

Publishers: Phaze, Dreamspinners, Red Rose Publishing, Freya’s Bower, Red Eclipse Writers

I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, but I escaped and I now live in Indiana. My dream is to buy a house near the beach and write all day and make enough money to live off of. I spend most of my time working a nine to five and traveling when I can to new and wondrous places that I can incorporate in my stories. I do have love in my life thanks to my life partner, Hou, and our cat, Judo graciously lets us live with him in his house. So, all in all, I have a full and happy life.

Sternglantz, Ruth

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Suede, Damon

Damon Suede

Publishers: Dreamspinner Press & Riptide Publishing

Damon Suede grew up out-n-proud deep in the anus of right-wing America, and escaped as soon as it was legal. He has lived all over: Houston, New York, London, Prague, with a few long stretches in New Orleans and Vienna. Along the way, he’s earned his crust as a model, a messenger, a promoter, a programmer, a sculptor, a singer, a stripper, a bookkeeper, a bartender, a techie, a teacher, a director… but writing has ever been his bread and butter. He has been happily partnered for nearly a decade with the most loving, handsome, shrewd, hilarious, noble man to walk this planet.

Though new to M/M, Damon has been a full-time writer for print, stage, and screen for two decades, which is both more and less glamorous than you might imagine. He has won some awards, but counts his blessings more often: his amazing friends, his demented family, his beautiful husband, his loyal fans, and his silly, stern, seductive Muse who keeps whispering in his ear, year after year.

Tait, Janet

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Janet Tait writes about dysfunctional magical families, zombie love, spellcasting secret agents, and other curiosities of life in these modern times. Story length ranges from a pithy 140 characters to a leisurely 100,000 words.

Her fiction has been published in Thaumatrope, Tweet the Meat, and Live and Let Undead. Her personal essays have been published in A Year in Ink, Cerise, and Genius Hour.

Janet has been a guest at Comic-Con International and a program participant at several Westercons, ConDor, and Conjecture. She won an Inkpot Award for her contributions to comics fandom and was a judge for the Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards.

Born in Great Falls, Montana, her family soon settled in San Diego, California. She followed the classic writer’s pattern of “I-really-want-to-be-a-writer-but-I’m-supposed-to-be-practical,” and graduated with a degree in political science from UC Riverside. After moving back to San Diego she worked at the University of California, San Diego for many years, eventually running the main campus website and the library system’s software engineering department. A gentle dissatisfaction with her career led to an MBA with a focus in marketing from UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business. A job change to market intelligence analyst and a move to telecommunications giant Qualcomm soon followed.

After the wildfires of October 2007 destroyed her home and all of her belongings, she decided to follow her first love and write full-time. She lives in San Diego, CA with her husband.

Taite, Carsen

Carsen Taite

Publishers: Bold Strokes Books

Carsen Taite works by day (and sometimes night) as a criminal defense attorney in Dallas, Texas. Her goal as an author is to spin plot lines as interesting as the cases she encounters in her practice. She is the author of five previously released novels, truelesbianlove.com, It Should be a Crime (a Lambda Literary Award finalist and recipient of a Lavender Certificate award from the Alice B. Readers), Do Not Disturb, Nothing but the Truth, and The Best Defense. Her sixth novel, Slingshot, which, like some of her prior works contains a heavy dose of crime, is scheduled to be released in June 2012. She is currently working on her 7th novel, Beyond Innocence, which is to be released in late 2012.

Tenino, Anne

Anne Tenino

Publishers: Dreamspinner Press & Riptide Publishing

Raised on a steady media diet of Monty Python, classical music and the visual arts, Anne Tenino rocked the mental health world when she was the first patient diagnosed with Compulsive Romantic Disorder. Since that day, with her trusty psychiatrist by her side, Anne has taken on conquering the M/M world through therapeutic writing. Finding out who those guys having sex in her head are and what to do with them has been extremely liberating.

Anne’s husband finds it liberating as well, although in a somewhat different way. He has accepted her need for “research”, and looks forward to the benefits said research affords him. He thinks it’s kind of cool she manages to write, as well. Her two daughters are mildly confused by Anne’s need to twist Ken dolls into odd positions. They were raised to be open-minded children, however, and other than occasionally stealing Ken1′s strap-on, they let Mom do her thing without interference.

Anne’s thing is writing gay romance and erotica.

Wondering what Anne does in her spare time? Mostly she lies on the couch, eats bonbons and shirks housework.

Check out what Anne’s up to now by visiting her site.

Thomas, Tarra

Tarra Thomas

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Tarra Thomas, publishing as T.T. Thomas, writes in a variety of genres.

In March 2012 the author released a full-length historical romance, The Blondness of Honey. The book is in eBook and Print formats. The Blondness of Honey is the story of two women who fall in love in 1893 as the decade and the century of Victorianism transitions to turn-of-the-century advances that would change the world, and women’s place in it, forever. Although such alliances were not unheard of at the time, there were no real templates for women who loved women, except for the so-called bohemian salons and artist colonies in Paris and Rome. The title of the book is from a poem by Renee Vivien (Pauline Tarn), lover of Natalie Barney, among others..

T.T. Thomas’ first published book, a novella, is an eBook, Two Weeks At Gay Banana Hot Springs, released in August 2011. Her second offering, also in eBook formats is a collection of short stories titled Sex On A Regular Basis, released in August 2011 and contains the four shorts that are also published separately: The Guy In Frankie’s Hatbox, My Second Stupid Suicide, Ronald Debby and Bread and Butter. The short stories are available as individual eBooks.

Later in 2012, Thomas will publish The Girl With Two Hearts, a lesbian steam punk novel set in the century cross-over years 1898 through 1918. In this novel, fantasy and the future meet in a collision of mystery, intrigue and romance set against the backdrop of the rapidly industrializing world and the stirrings of female independence and curiosity that propel the culture of women who love women out of the shadows and into the light.

All of Thomas’ novels and stories are available on Amazon and other on-line booksellers.

Tarra lives in Southern California with her partner Karyn. Her website is: http://www.ttthomas.com

Turner, Pamela

Pamela Turner

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Tyne, Bryl

Bryl Tyne

Publishers: Noble Romance Publishing, STARbooks Press, Ravenous Romance, Riptide Publishing, Amber Allure, Dreamspinner Press, Untreed Reads, Changeling Press,

BRYL R. TYNE is a wrangler by nature and a writer by choice. Balancing as many pronouns as hats, somewhere between the evil day job, editing, and helping a benevolent Sugar Daddy raise the last of seven kids, Bryl writes. Homoerotic Romance is a favorite, but many of Bryl’s stories cross genres. Comedy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Mystery, Sci-fi, even Westerns, Bryl writes them all.

Valentine, Lex

Lex Valentine

Publishers: Pink Petal Books, MLR Press, Liquid Silver Books, Ellora’s Cave

Born and raised on California’s Central Coast, Lex moved to Southern California in 1992. She lives in a canyon at the edge of Orange County with her daughter Nikki, her long haired tattooed husband Rott, and a bunch of cats she calls “babies.” She loves loud rock and alternative music, builds her own computers, and has a propensity for having very weird vivid dreams about Nikki Sixx.

Lex works full-time at a 100+ year old cemetery as the network administrator, collects giraffes because of a character written by her friend Jen Morgan, regularly drools over supermodel Marcus Schenkenberg and loves hanging out with author-pal Z.A. Maxfield, who never lets Lex be a wallflower.

Lex was a blogger before she was an author and has been online in some capacity since 1994. The domain she’s had since 1995 has become her graphics site Winterheart Design. She blogs at Sunlight Sucks and her author website as well as group blog Flirty Author Bitches. She is also one of several gay romance authors involved in the Lords of Aether serial story project. She writes across genres from contemporary to urban fantasy in both gay and bi-sexual romance.

Vaughn, R.A.

R.A. Vaughn

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Publishers: Lyrical Press

R.A. Vaughn is fascinated by the paranormal and she loves a good romance as well, which probably explains why these two elements perpetually crop up in her writing. At a young age, she began penning fairy tales and fables, but it wasn’t until she read her first romance novel, in her freshman year of high school, that she discovered her true calling. The perpetual student, she took fiction writing classes and steeped herself in tales of love conquering all before attempting to write her own story. But, as she wrote she knew something was missing. Again, she found her inspiration in a book, one filled with suspense, romance, and witches. From that moment, she began to spin tales of psychics, vampires, and other extraordinary characters.

When not writing, R.A. spends her time reading, getting caught up in a video game, watching reruns of Ghost Hunters, and attending karate class.

Wadsworth, Deanna

Deanna Wadsworth

Publishers: Decadent Publishing,

Deanna Wadsworth leads a pretty vanilla life in Northwest Ohio. She loves to spend time laughing with the best friend, and husband of 13 years, in their basement bar or at the sandbar in the middle of the muddy Maumee River. Her three dogs and margaritas are usually somewhere in the mix too! She loves all the taboo and bizarre things in life and somehow these things manage to worm their way into her writing.

Welsh, Missy

Missy Welsh

Publishers: Loose Id, MLR Press

Missy has been writing since she was twelve and has a Master of Arts in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University that was a gift she gave herself for making it through a Bachelor of Arts in English. The stories she writes vary from historical to futuristic, but romance has always been the main theme for her. Missy craves a good love story and demands a happy ending in what she reads and what she writes.

Williams, Raylee

Raylee Williams

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Raylee is all about the big L-O-V-E. No matter what race, gender, age, or era (as her web site indicates) she believes all couples who respect themselves and each other deserve a story. The developing romance between two people drives each of her plots. Her favourite genre is M/M romance, but she also enjoys everything in-between. As Raylee sums it up, “I don’t care if the novel is about two women, two men, a man and a woman, two teenagers, or a Martian and Plutonian meeting on Jupiter; if the story contains two compelling characters, I’ll read it.”

Yarnall, Beth

Beth Yarnall

Beth Yarnall writes romantic suspense, mysteries and the occasional hilarious blog post. A story teller since her playground days, Beth remembers her friends asking her to make up stories for them hanging out on the swing set. It’s little wonder she prefers writing stories in which people die as she was often chosen tell the story of how the person ‘died’ in the slumber party game Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board. In middle school she discovered romance novels, which inspired her to write a spoof of soap operas for the school’s newspaper. She hasn’t stopped writing since.

For a number of years, Beth made her living as a hairstylist and makeup artist and co-owned a salon with her very best friend. Her past salon life often find its way into her stories. In 2008 Beth was pleased to place third in the Yellow Rose chapter of RWA unpublished authors contest. In 2010 Beth was chosen as a finalist in OCCRWA’s Orange Rose contest for unpublished authors. She lives deep in the heart of ‘The O.C.’ California with her husband and two sons.

‘Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.’ ~ Mae West

Young, Amanda

Amanda Young

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Publishers: Amber Quill, Lethe Press, Loose Id, and Samhain Publishing

Amanda Young is a multi-published erotic romance author. Since she tends to write whatever strikes her whimsy, all of her novels fall into various subgenres.