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Suzy is the Calgary Bestselling, Award-Winning Author of The Fountain, and The West Woods, Books 1 and 2 of The Fountain Series, published by Evil Alter Ego Press. This fantastical Young Adult Series has received two Aurora Nominations for Best Young Adult Novel, as well as a Readers’ Favorite Book Award Bronze Medal for Best Young Adult Romance, and Five Stars from both Readers’ Favorite and San Francisco Review of Books. Suzy lives in Calgary, Canada with her husband and three children and is an involved member in the writing community. Currently, she is the Program Manager, Young Adult/Children’s Programming for When Words Collide (WWC), a literary festival held in Calgary each August, and teaches creative writing at Alexandra Writing Centre Society (AWCS) in Marda Loop. Suzy is also a member of the Young Alberta Book Society (YABS) and the founder of WriteIt! creative writing programs in schools, building young writers. Information about Suzy can be found at: https://suzyvadori.wordpress.com/

 

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New York Times and USA Todaybestselling author Tracy Wolff wrote her first short story—something with a rainbow and a prince—in second grade, around the same time she forayed into the wonderful world of girls lit with her first Judy Blume novel. By ten she’d read everything in the young adult and classics sections of her local bookstore, so in desperation her mom started her on romance novels. And from the first page of the first book, Tracy knew she’d found her life-long love. A one-time English professor with over fifty novels to her name, she now devotes most of her time to writing romance and dreaming up heroes. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her family.

Edward Willett is the award-winning author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction for readers of all ages. Besides Worldshaper, other recent novels include the stand-alone science fiction novel The Cityborn (DAW Books), the fivebook Shards of Excalibur YA fantasy series for Coteau Books, the Masks of Aygrima fantasy trilogy (written as E.C. Blake for DAW), and the Peregrine Rising science fiction duology for Bundoran Press. In 2002 Willett won the Regina Book Award for best book by a Regina author at the Saskatchewan Book Awards, and in 2009 won the Aurora Award (honoring the best in Canadian science fiction and fantasy) for Best Long-Form Work in English for Marseguro. He has been shortlisted for Saskatchewan Book Awards and Aurora Awards multiple times. His nonfiction runs the gamut from local history to science books for children and adults to biographies of people as diverse as Jimi Hendrix and the Ayatollah Khomeini. In addition to writing, he’s a professional actor and singer, who has performed in numerous plays, musicals, and operas. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, with his wife, Margaret Anne Hodges, P.Eng., their teenaged daughter, Alice, and their black Siberian cat, Shadowpaw.

His main website is www.edwardwillett.com, and he can be found on Twitter @ewillett and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/edward.willett

And for more about host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com

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Meg Tilly may be best known for her acclaimed Golden Globe-winning lead performance in the movie Agnes of God. Other screen credits include The Big Chill, Valmont, and more recently, Bomb Girls, and Netflix’s movie War Machine, starring Brad Pitt. After publishing six standout young adult and literary women’s fiction novels, the award-winning author/actress decided to write the kind of books she loves to read–romance novels. Tilly has three grown children and resides with her husband in the Pacific Northwest. She is currently at work writing the next Solace Island novel.

You can find out more about Meg and her books at her website: https://megtillyauthor.com/

And for more about host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com

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Writing was not San Antonio teacher Emily Mims’ first love-in fact, she wrote her firstnovel on a dare. 

After reading a book that "was just terrible", her husband dared her to do better. 

So she did.

Now, this retired teacher is the author of over twenty books and three different series including her Hill Country Series and Smokey Mountain Series. 

She lives in Texas with her husband of forty plus years and their dogs. 

Her most recent release, Rescued, is an eight author anthology about rescue dogs. Proceeds go to Project Freedom Ride, an organization that flies dogs from kill-shelters to their forever homes.

To get hold of Emily, you can find her at her website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Her books are available on Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes and Noble.

Nina Crespo lives in Florida where she indulges in her favorite passions — the beach, a good glass of wine, date night with her own real-life hero and dancing.

Her lifelong addiction to romance began in her teens while on a “borrowing spree” in her older sister’s bedroom where she discovered her first romance novel.

Let Nina’s sensual contemporary stories and steamy paranormal tales feed your own addiction for love, romance, and happily ever after.

Find out more about Nina and sign up for her newsletter on her website: https://ninacrespo.com

And for more about host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com

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Julie Kagawa, the New York Times bestselling author of the Iron Fey and Blood of Eden series was born in Sacramento, California. But nothing exciting really happened to her there. So, at the age of nine she and her family moved to Hawaii, which she soon discovered was inhabited by large carnivorous insects, colonies of house geckos, and frequent hurricanes. She spent much of her time in the ocean, when she wasn't getting chased out of it by reef sharks, jellyfish, and the odd eel.

When not swimming for her life, Julie immersed herself in books, often to the chagrin of her schoolteachers, who would find she hid novels behind her Math textbooks during class. 

Julie now writes full-time and lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where the frequency of shark attacks are at an all time low. She lives with her husband, an obnoxious cat, an Australian Shepherd who is too smart for his own good, and a hyper-active Papillion.

Find more at http://juliekagawa.com/ and be sure to follow her on Twitter:  http://twitter.com/jkagawa

And for more about host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com

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West Texan, Suanne Schafer is a retired family-practice physician whose only child has fledged the nest.

Suanne completed the Stanford Univeristy Creative Writing Certificate program. Her short works have been featured in print & on-line magazines (Bête Noire & Brain, Child) & anthologies: (Night Lights & Licked).

Her debut women’s fiction novel, A Different Kind of Fire, explores the life of Ruby Schmidt, a nineteenth century artist who escapes—and returns—to West Texas.

Suanne’s next book explores the heartbreak and healing of an American physician caught up in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

You can follow her here on her website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Amazon, Authors 18, & Goodreads.

Carly Bloom began her writing career as a family humor columnist and blogger, a pursuit she abandoned when her children grew old enough to literally die from embarrassment. To save their delicate lives, Carly turned to penning steamy, contemporary romance. The kind with bare chests on the covers.

Carly and her husband raise their mortified brood of offspring on a cattle ranch in South Texas. Also? Carly is vegan. The cows love her.

You can find Carly on her website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 

Her books are on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, and IndieBound.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Felicity Hayes-McCoy has always been a working author. She's created works that include fiction and non fiction books as well as original TV dramas and contributions to TV series.

In addition, she's penned radio scripts, screenplays, and work in digital media.

She relocated to London after studying English and Irish language and literature at Univeristy College Dublin and began her career as first, an actress and then a writer.

Her book, Summer at the Garden Cafe, was released in September 2018 and reviewers state it's a charming and excellent read. 

You can find Felicity at her website, Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads.

Her books are availbe on Amazon, iTunes, Books a Million, Barnes and Noble, Indiebound, iBooks, and Google Play.