Carol Marinelli recently filled in a form asking for her job title. Thrilled to be able to put down her answer, she put writer. Then it asked what Carol did for relaxation and she put down the truth - writing. The third question asked for her hobbies. Well, not wanting to look obsessed she crossed the fingers on her hand and answered swimming but, given that the chlorine in the pool does terrible things to her highlights - I'm sure you can guess the real answer.
USA Today and Wall Street Journal best selling author Janice Lynn has a master's in nursing from Vanderbilt University and works as a nurse practitioner in a family practice.
She lives in the southern United States with her Prince Charming, their children, their Maltese named Halo; and a lot of unnamed dust bunnies that have moved in after she started her writing career. Readers can visit Janice via her website at: www.janicelynn.net
Laura Iding is a nurse by day and an author by night. She wrote her first book as a teenager and has been writing every since. Laura is thrilled to be writing medical romance for Harlequin Mills and Boon.
Susan Carlisle's love affair with books began when she made a bad grade in math.
Not allowed to watch TV until the grade had improved, she filled her time with books. Turning her love of reading into a love for writing romance, she pens hot medicals. She loves castles, traveling, afternoon tea, reads voraciously and hearing from her readers. Join her newsletter at www. SusanCarlisle.com
Wendy S. Marcus is an award-winning author of hot contemporary romance. To learn more about Wendy or her books visit: www.
WendySMarcus.com.
USA Today Bestselling author Lynne Marshall used to worry she had a serious problem with daydreaming, then she discovered she was supposed to write those stories! A late bloomer, she came to fiction writing after her children were nearly grown. Now she battles the empty nest by writing romantic stories about life, love, and happy endings. She's a proud mother and grandmother who loves babies, dogs, books, music, and traveling.
New Zealander Alison Roberts has written more than eighty romance novels for Harlequin Mills and Boon.
She has also worked as a primary school teacher, a cardiology research technician and a paramedic. Currently, she is living her dream of living - and writing - in a gorgeous village in the south of France.
Caroline Anderson's been a nurse, a secretary, a teacher, and has run her own business. Now she's settled on writing. 'I was looking for that elusive something and finally realised it was variety - now I have it in abundance.
Every book brings new horizons, new friends, and in between books I juggle! My husband John and I have two beautiful daughters, Sarah and Hannah, umpteen pets, and several acres of Suffolk that nature tries to reclaim every time we turn our backs!'
Margaret McDonagh can't remember a time when her nose wasn't buried in a book. She read avidly, but always knew that she had to write. In 2005, after twenty years of writing novellas for My Weekly Story Collection and Linford large print, plus serials and magazine short stories for The People's Friend, her manuscript was accepted by Mills & Boon.
She has been writing novels ever since! You can contact Margaret via her website: www.margaretmcdonagh.com
Amy is a multi-award winning, USA Today bestselling author who has written over forty contemporary romances for several Harlequin imprints. She's an Aussie who loves good books, fab food, great wine and frequent travel - preferably all four together.
She lives by the ocean with her husband of twenty-nine years.
To keep up with her latest releases and giveaways, sign up for her newsletter at www.amyandrews.com.au/newsletter.html
Anne Fraser always loved reading and never imagined that one day she would be writing for a living. She started life as a nurse and helpfully, for a writer of medical romances, is married to a hospital doctor! Anne and husband have lived and worked all over the world, including South Africa, Canada and Australia and many of their experiences as well as the settings find their way into her books.
Anne lives in Glasgow with her husband and two children.
Award-winning author Louisa George has been an avid reader her whole life. In between chapters she managed to train as a nurse, marry her doctor hero and have two sons. Now she writes chapters of her own in the medical romance, contemporary romance and women's fiction genres. Louisa's books have variously been nominated for the coveted RITA Award, and the NZ Koru Award and have been translated into twelve languages.
She lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
Kate Hardy has been a bookworm since she was a toddler. When she isn't writing Kate enjoys reading, theatre, live music, ballet and the gym. She lives with her husband, student children and their spaniel in Norwich, England. You can contact her via her website: www.katehardy.com
A voracious reader from the age of four, Maggie Kingsley decided that she wanted to be a writer when she was eight.
That dream stayed with her until she was 18, when she decided that people like her - ordinary people - didn't write books, and so she trained to be a teacher instead. But it was only after working in various other jobs that her family nagged and dared and finally persuaded her to take up her pen. And the rest, as they say, is history!
Sarah Morgan is a USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling author of contemporary romance and women's fiction.
She has sold more than 21 million copies of her books and her trademark humour and warmth have gained her fans across the globe. Sarah lives with her family near London, England, where the rain frequently keeps her trapped in her office. Visit her at www.sarahmorgan.com
Scarlet Wilson wrote her first story aged eight and has never stopped. She's worked in the health service for 20 years, trained as a nurse and a health visitor.
Scarlet now works in public health and lives on the West Coast of Scotland with her fiance and their two sons. Writing medical romances and contemporary romances is a dream come true for her.
Cursed with a poor sense of direction and a propensity to read, Annie Claydon spent much of her childhood lost in books. A degree in English Literature followed by a career in computing didn't lead directly to her perfect job-writing romance for Mills & Boon-but she has no regrets in taking the scenic route.
She lives in London: a city where getting lost can be a joy.
