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Suanne Schaefer & Jennifer Klepper will join us today talking about, Authors '18, a place where Adult & New Adult authors debute their first novel in 2018.

Authors '18 covers upcoming books, writers bios, & must read lists of everything from mystery/thrillers to seasonal reads & giveaways.

They can be found at www.authors18.com & on Facebook.

Suanne Schafer, a retired family-practice physician, originally planned to write romances, but decided Women's Fiction was far more her forte. She completed the Stanford University Creative Writing Certificate program. Her short works have been featured in mutiple print and on-line magazines. Her debut women’s fiction novel, A Different Kind of Fire, explores the life of Ruby Schmidt, a 19th-century artist who escapes & returns to West Texas.

Suanne’s next book come out in 2019. It explores the heartbreak & healing of an American physician caught up in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Jennifer Klepper, a Midwest native, made stops in Dallas, Charlottesville, & Boston before settling for good in Maryland. She attended Southern Methodist University & the University of Virginia School of Law, her law degree guided her through the worlds of corporate law, tech startups, & court advocacy for foster children. When she’s not writing, she’s crossing things off a never ending to-do list & hoping to catch that next sunset. Jennifer lives near Annapolis with her husband and two kids.

Her debut novel UNBROKEN THREADS will be published summer 2018 by Red Adept Publishing.

After writing her first romance novel on a dare, Emily Mims was hooked.

She sold her second finished book and a dozen more followed.

To date, she has thirty four romance novels including The Smokey Blues and Texas Hill Country series.

Emily Mims combined her writing career with a career in public education until leaving the classroom to write full time. 

She now spends her days with her husband Charles and playing piano, organ, dulcimer, and ukulele, visiting her six grandchildren, and writing amazing romance novels.

Emily says, “I love to write romances because I believe in them.  Romance happened to me and it can happen to any woman-if she’ll just let it.”

Growing up the daughter of two gifted writers, she knew eventually she'd want to follow in their footsteps. While she's written short stories her whole life, it wasn't until after her kids were born that she decided to shoot for the moon and write her first romance novel.

She hasn't looked back since!

At present, she has almost a dozen books in print and her most recent book, Falling for the Ranger, of the Men of Marietta series is out now. 

Her next book, Christmas at the Graft, will be out November 1st from Tule Publishing.

Find her on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/kaylienewell

With over 300,000 downloads from readers around the world, Rich Amooi writes about romance...from a guy's perspective.

This former radio personality now writes fun, quirky, and always romantic comedies full-time with titles like An Eclair to Remember, Coffee, Tea, or Me, and his latest, Bored of the Rings (April 2017).

And just like his stories, Rich has found his happily ever after...with a kiss monster imported from Spain named Silvi.

Rich believes in public displays of affection, silliness, infinite possibilities, donuts, gratitude, laughter, and happily ever after.

And for the month of October, all proceeds from his book, Mr. Crotchety, will be donated for breast cancer research.

You can find him on his website, Facebook, and Twitter.

After three years and three manuscripts Kathy Garbera sold her first book to Harlequin (then Silhouette) Desire.  THE BACHELOR NEXT DOOR was well-reviewed and she was named a Woman to Watch by the editors at Silhouette. 

Sixty-five books later and she's still got plenty of stories to tell. 

She loves happy-endings and even though her first marriage ended in divorce She didn’t let that sour her on romance or on the thought of finding her true love.

After living in Orlando, Chicago, Dallas, San Diego, she now calls Midlands of the UK with my children and husband home.  She loves the new sights that she discovers every time she steps outside her door.

Her newest book, Billionaire's Baby Bind (Harlequin) will be out October 1.

Sinclair Jayne has loved reading romance novels since she discovered Barbara Cartland historical romances when she was in sixth grade. By seventh grade, she was haunting the library shelves looking to fall in love over and over again with the heroes born from the imaginations of her favorite authors.

After teaching writing classes and workshops to adults and teens for many years in Seattle and Portland, she returned to her first love of reading romances and became an editor for Tule Publishing last year.

Sinclair lives in Oregon’s wine country where she and her family own a small vineyard of Pinot Noir and where she dreams of being able to write at a desk like Jane Austen instead of in parking lots waiting for her kids to finish one of their 12,000 extracurricular activities.

Her next novel, Halloween at the Graff, is on pre-order now and will be released September 25th.

USA Today bestselling author, Suzanne Ferrell discovered romance novels in her aunt’s hidden stash one summer as a teenager. From that moment on she knew two things: she loved romance stories and someday she’d be writing her own.

Her love for romances has only grown over the years and as the author of 13 novels and an Amazon best-seller for both her series, the Edgars Family Novels and the Westen series, Suzanne’s books have been finalists in the National Reader’s Choice Awards–SEIZED (2013) and VANISHED (2014). Suzanne was also a double finalist in the Romance Writers of America’s 2006 Golden Heart with her manuscripts, KIDNAPPED (Long Contemporary Category) and HUNTED (Romantic Suspense). She has also won The Beacon Unpublished and the CTRWA’s contests in the erotica categories with her book, The Surrender Of Lacy Morgan.

Currently working on more books for her Edgars Family series (KIDNAPPED, HUNTED, SEIZED, VANISHED and Capitol Danger) and the Westen Series(Close To Home, Close To The Edge, Close To The Fire, Close To Christmas, and Close To The Mistletoe), Suzanne hopes to bring readers more passionate and suspenseful books to fill your reading moments.

Suzanne’s sexy stories, whether they are her on the edge of your seat romantic suspense or the heartwarming small town stories, will keep you thinking about her characters long after their Happy Ever After is achieved.

When she isn't writing, she's a superstar labor and delivery nurse, loves Pinterest, and 70's and 80's rock and roll.

To find Suzanne, check out her on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Romance Bandits.

Food, water, and shelter. That's the first things people think of after a natural disaster, but the help doesn't stop there. Communities not only have to rebuild homes, but schools, businesses, and libraries.With recent devastation of Hurricane Harvey and now Irma, this is how you can help rebuild libraries. 

B. Alan Bourgeois of the Texas Association of Authors talks to us about how authors are helping rebuild libraries here in Texas and how you can help in your local communities.

Don't think you can help? Of course you can! You can donate through their website or donate gently used books.

For more information check out their website at: https://txauthors.com/index.php/hurricane-harvey or contact them at per email.

Food, water, and shelter. That's the first things people think of after a natural disaster, but the help doesn't stop there. Communities not only have to rebuild homes, but schools, businesses, and libraries.

B. Alan Bourgeois of the Texas Association of Authors talks to us about how authors are helping rebuild libraries here in Texas and how you can help in your local communities.

Don't think you can help? Of course you can! You can donate through their website or donate gently used books.

For more information check out their website at: https://txauthors.com/index.php/hurricane-harvey or contact them at per email.

When J.T. Bock was a child, she wanted to be James Bond or Indiana Jones or a vampire hunter or Wonder Woman. Whatever brought her the most action, adventure and romance while play acting on her stage—otherwise known as her grandmother’s basement. Now J.T. has assembled her own team of action heroes, supernatural creatures and maniacal villains and set them on adventures far from her basement to exotic lands and alternate dimensions.

From a secret location outside of Washington, DC, J.T. conjures these pulse-pounding tales to share with those kindred readers looking for an exciting escape. Her alternate identity enjoys spending time with her workaholic husband and their sidekick rescue dog, traveling to interesting locales (San Diego Comic-Con), and enjoying life to the fullest with an amazing group of family and friends and a good glass of wine.

Her Ultra Security Series is available on Amazon.

You can follow her on her website and Twitter.