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.
Cindy is an aspiring author who writes sweet contemporary and romantic mystery with a paranormal twist. She is currently seeking publication for her first manuscript. During the day, Cindy is a research administrator at Penn State University. She lives on a dairy farm in Central PA with her high-school-sweetheart husband, is the mother of three children, and has two precious grandsons. Beginning in January 2009, she became the new CPRW Secretary and previously served as Pro Liaison.
Aspiring author, Ava Quinn, lives in Pennsylvania where she spends her days trying to fit in time to write whenever and wherever she can. She’s been known to call her answering machine while driving to record an idea or a bit of dialogue that she doesn’t want to forget.
She was born in the seventies, which means in most of her childhood pictures she’s wearing bellbottoms. It also means she was a teenager in the eighties. Big hair and blue eyeshadow were a staple of her life for a while. Thankfully, that didn’t last. Learn more about her by visiting her website.
Susan Gourley works a full time job as a high school teacher, but her true love is writing. Her dream is to retire from teaching, move to a sunny state and write full time. Her romance novels are published under her pen name, Susan Kelley. Her fantasy novels are published under her real name. She reads all types of genre fiction and literary novels and her taste in music is as varied.
Four children keep her busy in their country home. Like her, they all love to read and support her career as does her loving husband of many years. Sometimes she fears her six bedroom house is going to collapse under the weight of all the books. Besides reading, Susan loves jigsaw puzzles, running and cross-stitch. The summer months find her ankle deep in planting and other landscaping escapades with a little pool time on the side. Learn more about her at her website.
Victoria Smith wrote her first romance at the age of nine and promptly hid the story from her older brothers to avoid being teased mercilessly. Her mother recently found and gave her the folded notebook paper and, if you’re lucky, one day she’ll reveal who the hero in that story was. Now, she writes dark paranormal, romantic suspense and women’s fiction – always with a happy, or at least satisfying, ending.
An active member of Central Pennsylvania Romance Writers, Victoria lives in Central Pennsylvania with her high school sweetheart, four children, an oversized mutt who thinks she’s a lapdog, an overweight cat who tries to make visitors believe he’s never fed, and an ever changing menagerie of critters. Visit her blog here.
Karen Rose Smith
“Karen Rose Smith always writes romances that touch the heart. They are quick reads with characters that we the readers can relate to.” Kathy Andrico, www.kathysreviewcorner.com
Award-winning author Karen Rose Smith was born in Pennsylvania. Although she was an only child, she remembers the bonds of an extended family. She and her parents lived with her grandfather and aunt until she was five when her parents built a house next door. Since her father came from a family of ten and her mother, a family of seven, there were always aunts, uncles and cousins visiting on weekends. Family is a strong theme in her books and she suspects her childhood memories are the reason.
As a teenager, music became as important to Karen as reading. The Beatles were her favorite group. But she and her cousin took their first sojourn into writing by collaborating on a script for the MONKEES television program. They sent that script to every concert venue where the group appeared that summer!
In college, Karen began writing poetry and also met her husband-to-be. They both began married life as teachers, but when their son was born, Karen decided to try her hand at a home decorating business.
She returned to teaching for a while but changes in her life led her to writing romance fiction. Now she writes full-time. She has sold 70 novels since 1991. She has recently sold three more books in her THE BABY EXPERTS Series. The series will run through 2010. LULLABY FOR TWO (Book 1 in the series for Silhouette Special Edition) will be released in March. She has written for Meteor/Kismet, Kensington and Harlequin/Silhouette. A winner of New Jersey’s Golden Leaf Award in Short Contemporary Romance as well as the Phoenix Desert Rose Chapter’s Golden Quill for Traditional Romance, she has also been honored with cataromance.com Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Silhouette Special Edition, and Romance Reviews Today’s award for BEST SERIES ROMANCE. Her romances have made both the USA TODAY list and the Waldenbooks Bestseller list for Series Romance.
Married to her college sweetheart since 1971, believing in the power of love and commitment, she envisions herself writing relationship novels for a long time to come! Readers can e-mail Karen through her website at www.karenrosesmith.com or write to her at P.O. Box 1545, Hanover, PA 17331. Readers can read an excerpt from LULLABY FOR TWO and find out more about the rest of the series on her website.
Misty Simon loves to tell stories, especially the ones she types on her computer. Sharing her quirky sense of humor through her full-figured heroines is a dream come true and she hopes readers take something away with them from every story. Misty lives in Central Pennsylvania with her husband and daughter, Noelle, where she is hard at work on her next book. She loves to hear from readers and you can check out her website Or email her directly.
Martha Lanham is the quintessential Yankee, brought up in the “Northeast Kingdom” of Vermont and educated at Bates College in Maine. January 2005 marked a welcomed departure from these eight to five economic endeavors to concentrate on writing at home, or more selectively, traveling with her husband, Paul. Martha has been a virgin, a bridesmaid, a bride, and a mother, but considers this foray into writing the closest she has come to being a debutante, however perverse its timing. She plans to revive history in fiction, with a little help from romance. Martha has two adult sons, Trevor and Kipp, who are out on their own. However, Trevor’s black lab, Mojo, is currently on loan and available for viewing, underfoot, at the Lanham residence which abuts the Enola cemetery, a block from the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.
Jacki King is a feisty Nashville native who relocated to Central PA for Cupid, and who writes sexy, sassy stories, otherwise known as “chick lit gone wild.” If you don’t laugh out loud at least once during a Jacki King story, check your pulse! From the tale of a smart, business-savvy saleswoman of “adult” novelties (She Who Laughs Last) , to a fiery gypsy trying to outsmart the Devil himself (The Gypsy Chick), Jacki King takes you on a journey that always entertains. Learn more about her by visiting her website.
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Megan Hart began her writing career in grammar school when she plagiarized a short story by Ray Bradbury. She soon realized that making up her own stories was better than copying other people’s, and she’s been writing ever since.
Megan’s goal is to continue writing spicy, thrilling love stories with a twist. Her dream is to have a movie made of every one of her novels, starring herself as the heroine and Keanu Reeves as the hero. Megan lives in the deep, dark woods with her husband and two monsters…er…children. Learn more about her by visiting her website or her her blog.
