J.R. Ward

Jessica Bird is the daughter of W. Gillette Bird, Jr. and Maxine F. Bird. She began writing as a child, penning her thoughts in diaries as well as inventing short stories. The summer before she went to college she wrote her first book , a romance novel. After that, she wrote regularly, but for herself. Bird attended Smith College where she double majored in history and art history, concentrating on medieval period.She then received a law degree from Albany Law School and worked in healthcare administration for many years, including as the Chief of Staff at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

In 2001, Bird married John Neville Blakemore III. Her new husband encouraged her to try to get an agent and market her manuscripts. She found an agent, and in 2002 her first novel, a contemporary romance called Leaping Hearts, was published. Several years later, Bird invented a world populated by vampires and began writing single-title paranormal romance novels under the pen name J.R. Ward. These novels are a series, known as the Black Dagger Brotherhood.

Bird likes to write series novels which incorporate characters from her previous books. She likens the process of creating a series to "meeting friends through other friends". Her heroes are most often alpha males, "the tougher, the cockier, the more arrogant, the better", while the heroines are smart and strong.

The Romance Writers of America awarded her the RITA Award for Best Short Contemporary Romance in 2007 for her novel From the First.[4] She has also been nominated six times for Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards, winning once for Lover Awakened.

Heather W. MacAllister

MacAllister was born in Texas and is married to her high-school sweetheart. She became addicted to romance novels in college, yet still managed to graduate and become a music teacher. She began to write while their children grew. She sold her first novel in December 1989.

She lives with her husband and their children in Texas.

Harper Allen

Allen is of Irish ancestry and works as a court reporter for the judicial system.She is a four-time nominee for a Career Achievement Award by Romantic Times Book Reviews magazine.Her novel Dressed To Slay was named the magazine's choice for Best Silhouette Bombshell of 2006.

She is married and they have numerous pets.

Elizabeth Amber

Elizabeth Amber's interest in Greco-Roman mythology inspired this series. She is an animal lover with two cats (Biscuit and Chelsea), who volunteers at a local no-kill animal shelter. Her other hobbies include cooking, shopping, and spending time with her mom and her sister. She is now an art historian specializing in ancient Greco-Roman artifacts.

Elizabeth Amber wrote this series of erotic historical paranormal romance novels based on her interest in Greco-Roman artifacts celebrating the grape harvest. Satyrs are the carnal followers of the wine god, Bacchus in ancient Roman mythology, and are depicted on many urns and amphorae found in Roman ruins.

In her novels, three half-satyr, half-human brothers own a lavish estate and vineyard in 1800s Tuscany, Italy, where they guard ancient secrets and conduct unusual rituals. When a letter arrives instructing them to seek out three endangered half-faerie brides, they see it as an opportunity to sire heirs. She wrote her first book, Nicholas, and then went to a Romance Writers of America conference to learn where to submit her book. Kensington bought the series. Nicholas has been critically acclaimed by many reviewers and has been mentioned in Publishers Weekly.

Elissa Ambrose

Ambrose was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She obtained a degree in English literature. Divorced from her first husband, they had two adult daughters; Sarah Mlynowski, a novelist, and Aviva Mlynowski. Today, Elissa lives in Phoenix with her second husband, her cat, and her cockatoo. She has one grandchild by Sarah. It unknown if Avivia has any kids.

Ambrose started as a computer programmer, and two decades and countless programs later, she had her own first romance novel published, "Journey of the Heart". She also serves as the fiction editor at Anthology magazine, a literary journal published in Mesa, Arizona.

Charlotte Vale Allen

Charlotte Vale Allen was born in on January 19, 1941 in Toronto and lived in England (UK) from 1961 to 1964 where she worked as a television actress and singer. She returned to Toronto briefly, performing as a singer and in cabaret revues until she emigrated to the United States in 1966.

When she married in 1970 with Walter Bateman Allen Jr., she made her home in Connecticut and she began to write. Her first book, Daddy's Girl, was written in 1971, but was rejected by editors who considered the work too contentious.

Catherine Anderson

Some of Anderson's earliest memories are of hearing her mother type stories on an old typewriter, and then read the finished work aloud. With this inspiration, Anderson began writing her own stories as a child. Feeling that a career as a published writer was out of reach, however, she decided to major in accounting when she attended college so that she could help her husband Sid keep the books at his company. After realizing that numbers did not make her happy, and with her husband's full blessing, Anderson dropped out of college so that she could pursue a writing career.

Anderson's first four published books were category romance, under the Harlequin Intrigue romantic suspense line. Her subsequent single-title works have alternated between contemporary and historical romances.Many of her novels feature a character with a disability, be it physical or mental, and show the reader how those disabilities can be overcome. Animals are also a recurrent theme in her stories, with many books set on or near ranches. Romantic Times Magazine describes her novels as "moving, heartwarming,...celebrat[ing] the ideals of perfect love in an imperfect world. Her characters are complex, often conflicted individuals who triumph over substantial odds." Reader acclaims describe her books as funny, delightful, heartwrenching, beautiful, superb, and of classic proportions.

Her later novels, including SUN KISSED and MORNING LIGHT have reached the top 5 and 10 of the New York Times Bestseller List. She has been nominated nine times for Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards, her book Cherish was a Romantic Times award winner, and she has also been awarded one of their Career Achievement Awards.

Anderson, who is part Shoshone, and her husband, Sid, live on 160 acres (0.65 km2) in Oregon. They have two grown sons. The pair love the wildlife on their pristine mountain ridge and greatly enjoy the solitude of their wilderness lifestyle, which is, Anderson says, a writer's dream. Their estate, heavily guarded by electronic surveillance, is off limits to hunters, providing all wild creatures sanctuary. Their three dogs are allowed to run at large on the property.

In May 2008, Anderson's COMANCHE MOON was reissued and placed on the New York Times bestseller list.