Featured Authors

Carol Van Den Hende

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CAROL VAN DEN HENDE is an award-winning author who pens stories of resilience and hope. Her Goodbye, Orchid series draws from her Chinese American heritage, and has won 40 literary and design awards, including the American Fiction Award, IAN Outstanding Fiction First Novel Award, and Royal Dragonfly Awards for Cultural Diversity and Disability Awareness.

Buzzfeed, Parade, and Travel+Leisure named Carol’s books a most anticipated read. Woman’s World and Glamour Magazine recommended her “modern, important take on the power of love.” The International Pulpwood Queens selected Goodbye, Orchid, Orchid Blooming and Always Orchid as Books-of-the-Month in 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Carol’s mission is unlocking optimism as a writer, speaker, strategist, Responsible AI Chair, and Board member. One secret to her good fortune? Her humorous hubby and twins, who prove that love really does conquer all.

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Lara London

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Lara London writes short and steamy romance about men who fall first and fall hard, frequently instantly. From small-town mountain men, to OTT possessive billionaires, her books bring the heat and humor in equal measure. She has three kids and is married to her real-life book boyfriend husband who can’t understand why she loves Supernatural and Vampire Diaries, but won’t watch a horror film.

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Shannyn Schroeder

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Shannyn Schroeder is the author of The O’Leary Family series, The
O’Malley Family series, and The Doyle Family series, contemporary
romances centered around large Irish-American families in Chicago. The
Hot & Nerdy series is about nerdy college friends finding love. And her
Daring Divorcees series follows a group of middle-aged divorcees getting
back into the dating scene.

Under the pen name Sloane Steele, the Counterfeit Capers series released
in 2021. This Leverage-inspired heist romance series follows a group of
criminals who come together as a team to right some wrongs. They
accomplish this by stealing art from criminals worse than them and
replacing it with forgeries.

When this editor and former English teacher isn’t hanging her three
mostly-grown kids or drawing from her own Irish heritage for writing,
she watches a ton of TV and loves to bake cookies.

Featured Authors

T.L. Russ

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T L Russ, or Tiff to her readers, is the author of over two dozen spicy contemporary romances. Her books are filled with heart, heat and a whole lot of banter. Each story features a strong, swoon-worthy hero. Think sexy alpha men with soft cinnamon roll centers, who fall fast and hard. Her women are strong, relatable, determined, and maybe just a bit stubborn, but they each have big hearts and are the kind of girls you’d want to hang out with on a Saturday night. One of her favorite parts of crafting stories is creating towns that make you want to move right in. In essence, she writes about men she wants to date, women she wants to be friends with, and families she wants to be a part of. With a T L book you know you are getting diversity, romance, HEA, a little fun, and characters that might make you want to laugh, scream, or curse. Sometimes all at the same time.

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Nicole Craig

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At ten years old, Nicole Craig snuck into a secret box of her mother’s books filled with mysteries and romances. Since that day, she has a book (or five) available at all times. At the age of thirty, her husband encouraged her to try her hand at writing. It only took another twenty-five years of teaching high school and a pandemic to do it, creating the types of books she found in that magical box. Living in southeastern Wisconsin, she is a devout Milwaukee Brewers fan, mother of three furry feline children, and married to The One. After twenty-five years as a high school English teacher, she decided to retire to spin fantastic tales, travel, and live the ultimate fantasy: reading a book a day until the end of time.