Jessica Joyce
Jessica Joyce lives happily-ever-ongoing with her husband and son in the Bay Area. When she’s not writing character-driven, realistic and relatable tales of millennials who are just Doing Their Best while falling in love, you can find her listening to one of her dozens of chaotically curated Spotify playlists, trying out a new skincare face mask, crying over cute animal TikToks, or watching the 2005 version of Pride & Prejudice.
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Writing grew out of my love for reading. I have personally found that the only story I can get more deeply lost in than one I am reading is one that I am writing myself.
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Kate Clayborn is the critically acclaimed author of six novels. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Bookpage, and more. By day she works in education, and by night (and sometimes, by very early morning) she writes contemporary romances about smart, strong, modern heroines who face the world alongside true friends and complicated families. She resides in Virginia with her husband and their dog.
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B.K. Borison
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Devon Daniels
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Sarah Hogle
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Heather Lyons
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Ashley Shepherd
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Her horror-tinged YA speculative thriller debut Natural Selection is forthcoming from Delacorte/PRH in summer 2026.
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Julie Soto
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Mhairi McFarlane
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Abby Jimenez
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Cara Bastone
Hi, I’m Cara!
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I’m a full time writer living and writing in Brooklyn with my husband, son, and an almost-goldendoodle. My goal with my work is to find the swoon in ordinary love stories.
I’ve been a fan of the romance genre since I found a grocery bag filled with my grandmother’s old Harlequin Romances when I was in high school. I’m a fangirl for pretzel sticks, long walks through Prospect Park, and love stories featuring men who aren’t crippled by their own masculinity. -
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Falon Ballard
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B.K. Borison
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Hannah Bonam-Young
Hannah is an Amazon bestselling romance author from Ontario, Canada. She lives with her childhood-friend-turned-husband Ben, two kids, and bulldog near Niagara Falls on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples.
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Hannah writes romances featuring a cast of diverse, disabled, marginalized, and LGBTQIA+ folks wherein swoon-worthy storylines blend with the beautiful, messy, and challenging realities of life.
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Katie Naymon
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Laura Hankin
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Ivy Owens
Ivy Owens is the pseudonym of Lauren Billings, one of the coauthors of longtime writing partners Christina Lauren.
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Ivy Owens has been writing for fun her entire life.
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Alison Rose Greenberg
Alison Rose Greenberg (she/her) is a screenwriter who lives in Atlanta, but is quick to say she was born in New York City. While attending The University of Southern California, Alison took her first screenwriting class and fell head over heels. A journey from screenwriting led to marketing jobs, before coming full-circle back to her first love. Alison speaks fluent rom-com, lives for 90’s WB dramas, cries to Taylor Swift, and is a proud single mom to her two incredible kids and one poorly-trained dog.
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Taylor Torres
Taylor Torres is a twenty something year old living in New York City with her incredible husband and vivacious daughter. When she’s not hiding behind a book, she’s daydreaming about sweeping romances and heartrending one-liners. That’s usually when the writing comes in. She loves seeking inspiration from the people around her and the stories they live to tell.
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Lynessa Layne
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Kristyn J. Miller
KRISTYN J. MILLER gravitates toward telling stories with lush settings, upbeat humor, and complicated, flawed heroines. Outside of fiction writing, Kristyn earned her M.A. in history and museum studies at the University of New Hampshire. She spends her free time wandering peat bogs, antiquing, and sampling craft beers. After growing up in Southern California, she moved to rural New England, where she lives in an old colonial house with her husband and son.
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Portia Elan
Portia Elan studied history at Stanford University and earned an MFA from the University of Victoria before returning to California, where she has worked as a waitress, bookseller, teacher, and public librarian. She was a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and an abundance of cats.
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Rochelle Bilow
Rochelle Bilow is a food and romance writer who previously worked as the social media manager at Bon Appétit and Cooking Light magazines. A graduate of The French Culinary Institute, she has also worked as a line cook, a baker, and a wine spokesperson. Her first book, The Call of the Farm, a swoony farming memoir, was published in 2014. Raised in Syracuse, New York, Rochelle now lives in northern Vermont.
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Nina Lan
Nina Lan est née en 1985 et a grandi à Lyon. Passionnée par l’Asie et la littérature, elle hésite tant qu’elle valide deux masters, en Lettres Modernes et en LLCE chinois. Elle devient alors professeure de français, ce qui lui permet de partager avec ses élèves le goût des mots et de la lecture.
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Ses hobbies sont compulsifs et fluctuants, des langues au dessin, des neurosciences à la Corée. Toutefois, lorsqu’elle découvre en 2017 sa capacité à écrire des romans, elle n’a plus d’autre idée en tête. Elle oscille entre romance et fantasy, deux genres qui lui permettent d’exprimer sa joie de vivre et ses idées débordantes. -
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Shannon has been a romance reader since she was a little ten-year-old. Problematic? Maybe. The Tyler series circa early 90s really made an impact. Now she writes the same stories that shaped her.
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Jennifer Gannett
Jennifer Gannett is an author. Finally. She wrote many things prior to I Would for You, including, but not limited to: short stories, mostly about dogs until her parents broke down and got her one, poems for every holiday and birthday because her elementary school budget was limited and most likely spent at Scholastic Book Fairs, and later love letters to boys, which she never signed for fear of being implicated. She mainly writes at hockey rinks and horse shows -- which would explain why some characters have horse names -- loving both locations equally, but horse shows are typically warmer. She lives outside of Boston with her husband, three children, and two quirky, sweet, black dogs (both are quirky, only one is sweet).
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