Scribbling Women and the Real-Life Romance Heroes Who Love Them

Hope Tarr is the award-winning author of twenty-five romance novels including OPERATION CINDERELLA, optioned as a feature film by Twentieth Century Fox. Hope is also a co-founder and current curator of Lady Jane’s Salon®, New York City’s only monthly romance series now in its eighth year with six satellites nationwide. She lives in Manhattan with her real-life romance hero and their rescue cats. Visit her online at www.HopeTarr.com, www.LadyJaneSalonNYC.com, www.Facebook.com/HopeC.Tarr, and www.Twitter.com/HopeTarr.

A sixth-generation native Texan, New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a double major in English and history and an emphasis on Shakespearean studies. Deanna’s novel Silent in the Grave won both a RITA® and Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award. Her Lady Julia Grey series has been nominated for an Agatha, three Daphne du Mauriers, a Last Laugh, four additional RITAs, and two Dilys Winns, among other awards. Her latest novel, A Spear of Summer Grass, chronicles the adventures of a scandalous flapper in 1920s Kenya. Deanna makes her home in Virginia where she lives with her husband and daughter. Visit Deanna online at www.DeannaRaybourn.com.

Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick are storytellers, teachers, and partners in the truest sense.
Together, they write historical romance as May McGoldrick and contemporary suspense thrillers as Jan Coffey. These prolific and popular authors have been the recipients of numerous awards for their work. Visit their website at www.NikooandJim.com.

J. Kenner (aka Julie Kenner and J.K. Beck) is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of more than forty novels, novellas and short stories in a variety of genres. Praised by Publishers Weekly as an author with a “flair for dialogue and eccentric characterizations,” J.K. writes a range of stories including super sexy romances, paranormal romance, chick lit suspense and paranormal mommy lit. Visit her website at www.JulieKenner.com.