Julie Olivia
Julie Olivia writes cozy love stories filled with humor, spice, and close friend groups that feel like a warm hug. She is a roller coaster fan, avid romance reader, and rainy day enthusiast.
Julie lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and their very opinionated pets.
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Samm Wilde is a romance author who weaves words into worlds filled with humor and heart.
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Elle Maxwell is an unrepentant metaphor addict, a believer in hard-fought happy endings, and she still refuses to accept the death of the Oxford Comma.
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Ashley R. King is a middle school English teacher whose love of the written word began when her mom took her to the public library, letting her check out stacks of books taller than she was. She’s the least athletic person you’ll ever meet, but that doesn’t decrease her love for her favorite sport, tennis.
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She loves swoony romances and is addicted to sweet tea. When she’s not teaching or writing happily ever afters, she can be found snuggled up with a book, travelling, or quoting obscure lines from her favorite movies and tv shows. She lives in a small town in Georgia with her favorite person in the world—her husband, and their sweet and chatty spoiled cat, Cleo.
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Jillian Lainey
Jillian writes contemporary romance full of emotional depth, complex yet relatable characters, and vulnerable spice. Her love of entertainment and pop culture has inspired her lively and dynamic approach to storytelling, which began in high school when she wrote fan fiction about her favorite artists. Jillian lives in Chicagoland where she enjoys spending time with family and friends, exploring new coffee shops and wineries, and traveling to as many new places as she can.
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Leigh Suznovich
A born and raised Jersey girl, Leigh has always loved reading and writing. Her novels will always have a big food element, dancing, plenty of swoons, and a good hit of spice. When she's not writing, her introverted self can be found snuggled with her husband and three cats, going to the beach, and cooking delicious meals.
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Erin K. Larson-Burnett
Erin K. Larson-Burnett is an avid ink drinker who lives and breathes books. A professional copyeditor and proofreader since 2018, she has worked with authors across genres to polish their stories and help them shine.
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Larson-Burnett's award-winning novels include the mythological fantasy The Bear & the Rose and the first book in a gaslamp fantasy duology, A Madness Unmade, with her third book—a body-horror novella titled Prickle—releasing in November 2025. Her work blends whimsy and wonder with realistic depictions of mental illness, inspired equally by the writers she works with and the books she devours in her free time.
A proud homebody, Erin lives in Katy with her husband—yes, the gamer to her reader—and their two rescued furbabies -
Kayla Martin
Kayla Martin (she/her) lives in Upstate New York with her husband and Neptune—her tuxedo cat and writing assistant. As an avid reader and audiobook lover, Kayla loves to write swoon-worthy stories that will pull at your heartstrings. Using her big family as inspiration, there is no shortage of hijinks and family meddling involved in each character's story. She believes in writing love stories that help you find joy while also exploring different human experiences about sexuality, mental health, and everything in between.
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Nicole Northwood
NICOLE NORTHWOOD writes love stories for adults that are atmospheric, intimate, and alluring. By daylight, she works as a project manager for an international medical company, while by starlight, she writes down all the little adventures taking up space in her head.
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Nicole and her husband share their home in Eastern Canada with a collection of multi-colored cats, a cupboard stuffed with tea, and a lifetime’s worth of books. -
Ila Sikorski
Ila is a hopeless romantic who loves to write small town stories with found family, banter, happy endings, and a dash of spice.
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Born and raised in Massachusetts, an overly emotional pisces, she is a girl mom to the coolest kid ever, married to the boy she had a crush on in high school, and completely obsessed with her cat.
When she’s not writing, you can find her and the family checking every Disney destination off their bucket list, speaking in song lyrics, binging early 2000s tv shows, reading books that make her cry, and sending ridiculously long voice memos to her friends. -
Joshua Garcia
Joshua Garcia is the author of Pentimento (Black Lawrence Press 2024). His poetry has appeared in Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Passages North, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the College of Charleston and has received a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University and an Emerge—Surface—Be Fellowship from The Poetry Project. He lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York.
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Emma Norman
Emma Norman is a Montana-based author who loves warm sunny days and cooking for her family. She is married to the most perfect husband who loves all things outdoors, but also has a soft spot for learning and literature. Emma also has four amazing and rowdy children who are her pride and joy. When she’s not writing her novels, you can catch her homeschooling her kids, reading to her kids, or playing with her kids. Basically it's all kids, all the time, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
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