2009 Golden Heart winner for Series Contemporary, Kim Law spends her days in the world of information technology and her nights and weekends penning sexy contemporaries.  She lives in middle Tennessee with her husband, two dogs, and two cats that make a game out of leaving hairballs on only her stuff.  She’s served multiple terms as Treasurer and Retreat Coordinator of her local chapter, Music City Romance Writers, and is currently taking a shot at being President.  To find out more, visit Kim online at www.kimlaw.com, or at the multi-author blog, www.rubyslipperedsisterhood.com.

New York Times bestselling author Gretchen Stull was feverishly writing her Master’s thesis (on zombies!) when her mother shoved a paranormal romance novel into her hands. The book came with strict instructions to take a break from research and read something for fun. A mere 416 pages later, Gretchen was hooked. She finished her thesis, collected her degree, moved to Nashville, and promptly traded academic and nonfiction writing for the wonderful world of genre fiction. Gretchen has held a variety of jobs, from film critic to public speaking instructor to door-to-door knife salesperson, but writing has always been her passion. She now writes paranormal romance and steampunk. Please visit her blog atgretchenstull.blogspot.com.

Tina is a full time college student at Middle Tennessee State University where she is pursuing a degree in English with a focus on Writing. She’s been married for twenty-one years and has lived in ten states and one foreign country.  Some of her work experience has included being a chandler (one who makes candles), a customer service administrator (where her main duty was business correspondence), an operator for an answering service, and a receptionist at a phone company.  Tina has been interested in writing ever since she was a young girl. She read a book by Julie Garwood several years ago and has been hooked on romance ever since. She reads whenever she can and is working on her first novel. She writes paranormal romance laced with humor.

Carolyn Rosewood read her first romance novel at the age of nineteen and was hooked. She writes erotic romance. Please visit her website for links to her books and short stories, as well as contests and updates. http://carolynrosewood.com/

Rae Ann Parker is a clinical social worker only working with fictional characters now.  She presents writing workshops on social work-y topics like birth order and blogs with the SCBWI-Midsouth blog team at regional conferences. 

Rae Ann writes young adult fiction. 

Please visit her website at www.raeannparker.com.

In a small town in South Arkansas, Charlotte grew up surrounded by dozens of aunts, uncles & cousins. As a teenager, she spent hours on the banks of Bradshaw’s Pond with pen and paper in one hand and a fishing pole in the other, stealing a little solitude and making up stories about life in the big city.

As an adult surrounded by kids and grandkids of her own, Charlotte still carries pen and paper wherever she goes, but her stories have changed from big city lights to historical romance and small town life. Visit her blog at  www.mywritersattic.blogspot.com.

Jody Wallace writes paranormal romance as herself (Samhain Publishing) and spicy romance as Ellie Marvel (Red Sage Publishing, Samhain Publishing). She went to school a long time because she couldn’t find a job and ended up with a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing. Her resume includes college English instructor, technical documents editor, market analyst, web designer, meanest mom ever, and general all around pain in the butt. She currently lives in Tennessee, and she’s active in her home chapter of MCRW. One of her many alter egos at MCRW is “The Grammar Wench”, which should give you an indication of her character. She can usually be conned into coordinating MCRW’s annual writing contest and likes to conduct training sessions for contest judges or aspiring critiquers. She also likes cats. A lot. You can find her online at www.jodywallace.com and her much more famous cat online at www.meankitty.com.

Adventuring is in Monica McCabe’s blood. She has explored places like Alaska, Canada, Hawaii, Montana, Mexico, and St. Lucia. She’s climbed glaciers and ancient Mayan pyramids, dived shipwrecks and reef caves, camped in Sasquatch country, and drove across the USA three times. Currently she’s working on gathering as many official stamps in her National Park Passport as she can. When not traveling she’s writing romantic adventure and young adult books, pens articles as Adventure Girl, enjoys research way too much, and secretly wishes to ditch the day job and write full-time, except then she couldn’t afford all that travel.