Karla M. Jay
Karla M. Jay is an award-winning historical fiction author. She loves to travel, garden, and to discover a story that has never been told. Follow her on BookBub! https://www.bookbub.com/authors/karla...
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Jennifer Crusie
Jennifer Crusie is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author of twenty-three novels, one book of literary criticism, miscellaneous articles, essays, novellas, and short stories, and the editor of three essay anthologies.
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She was born in Wapakoneta, a small town in Ohio, and then went on to live in a succession of other small towns in Ohio and New Jersey until her last move to a small town in Pennsylvania. This may have had an impact on her work.
She has a BS in Art Education, an MA in literature, an MFA in fiction, and was ABD on her PhD when she started reading romances as part of her research into the differences between the ways men and women tell stories. Writing a romance sounded like more fun than wri -
Katherine Koch
I’m an artist and writer with a degree in computer science, and a web administrator at an AI company, who writes WWII historical fiction. How much more diverse can you get?
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How did I get to be this way? I was that kid in grade school who could draw photorealistic objects with a pencil when everyone else struggled to scrawl straight lines. And, I LOVED storytelling. Just when I hit college thinking I would pursue a fine arts degree, my parents said, “Yeah, not so fast!”
That’s how I became an artist and writer with a computer science degree. I am also a scholar with a love of learning: I graduated summa cum laude from Kent State University in 2003. I’m a member of Phi Beta Kappa. That was twenty years ago. Today I work as a web administrator a -
Shannon St Hilaire
Shannon St. Hilaire is fascinated by forgotten microcosms and the complex women who lived through them. She spends just about all her time reading and writing stories about them—also, traveling, being roommates with her cat, and dreaming about cottages in forests.
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She is the author of a novella, The Ones Who Stayed, and a novel, To Look Upon the Sun.
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C. K. McAdam
C. K. McAdam writes historical fiction and women's fiction. She holds a Ph.D. in history and literary studies and teaches college. Together with her family, she resides in Texas but hails originally from Germany where she grew up. In her free time, she loves to travel, hike, read historical fiction, play pickleball, spend time with her family, and go on walks with her Corgi Merlin.
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J.C. Jarvis
J.C.Jarvis grew up in Derbyshire, England, and from a very early age was always fascinated with history. As a teenager, he could always be found with his head buried in a book on WW2 or the Tudors. Far and away his favourite subject at school was history.
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Most of his adult career after leaving the British Army was spent in the I.T field, but J.C always harbored ambitions of writing a book. He finally fulfilled his dream when he self-published 4 non-fiction books, and from that moment he was hooked.
He carried the basic premise of the John Howard story in his head for decades. Finally, he plucked up the courage to write it all down.
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Bonnie Suchman
Bonnie is a lawyer who used her legal skills to research the Heppenheimer family. Bonnie has two adult children and lives in Maryland with her husband, Bruce Heppen.
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Gosia Nealon
While Gosia Nealon is a proud New Yorker, she was born and raised in Poland. Her journey to the Big Apple revealed a wealth of cultural differences, but also the values that connect us all. Like the fierce desire to protect family, find love, and ultimately, discover who we are and why we’re here.
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Gosia’s award-winning short stories have always delved into life’s biggest questions, but it was the drama, sacrifice, and tragedy of WWII that led her to pen her debut novel, "The Last Sketch."
Growing up in Poland, Gosia heard many firsthand accounts of the war, told from a perspective rarely captured in mainstream literature. She was compelled to breathe life into Wanda and Finn, two young people falling in love in the midst of the most terrif -
Alex Amit
Alex Amit is a historical fiction writer and author of the novel The Girl Under the Flag.
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After dedicating more than a decade to learning the history of WW2 and armed with a BSc in Psychology, Alex's writing focuses on woman's bravery during those dark days.
Today he is writing his second novel, The Girl in the White Uniform
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When Alex was a child, he would lie in his bed at night, reading history books, imagining himself traveling in a time machine to all those great moments. Many years have passed, and finally, he built his time machine, using his words and imagination. -
Linda Berry
Linda Berry is the author of nine mystery novels. Two reached #1 bestseller status in the Kindle store for psychological thrillers and female sleuths. One reached #2 bestseller status for murder mysteries.
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Linda writes fast-paced, suspenseful murder mysteries — most notably the Sidney Becker Mysteries. Her talent lies in seamlessly blending reality with fiction. She is a master at descriptive writing and evoking emotional responses from her readers. Extensive research and her law enforcement consultants ensure that her stories ring with authenticity.
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Carly Schabowski
Carly Schabowski worked as a journalist in both North Cyprus and Australia before returning to Oxford, where she studied for an MA and then a PhD in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University.
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Carly now teaches at Oxford Brookes University as an associate lecturer in Creative Writing for first and second-year English literature students.
The Ringmaster’s Daughter is Carly’s debut novel and will be published by Bookouture in July 2020, with her second novel, The Watchmaker of Dachau coming out later that year. These texts are both true, epic, moving historical novels centred around survival, human suffering, and the finding of love within the backdrop of the desperate and uncertain times of 1940s Europe -
Marion Kummerow
Marion Kummerow was born and raised in Germany, before she set out to "discover the world" and lived in various countries. In 1999 she returned to Germany and settled down in Munich where she's now living with her family.
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After dipping her toes with non-fiction books, she finally tackled the project dear to her heart. UNRELENTING is the story about her grandparents, who belonged to the German resistance and fought against the Nazi regime.
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Roberta Kagan
I’m an American writer of Jewish and Romany decent. I write Historical Fiction and Historical Romance, most of which is set during the holocaust. Although I never discount the horrors of the time period, the main focus of my work is on ordinary people who prove to be strong heroic characters in unfathomable circumstances.
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Steve N. Lee
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Steve has three passions: anti-heroes, animals, and travel. To date, he's visited 60 countries and has adopted five homeless cats, but he's yet to prowl the streets in the dead of night to beat up bad guys (though he still daydreams about doing so, but who doesn't?).
In pursuit of adventure, he's cage-dived with great white sharks, sparred with a monk at a Shaolin temple, and explored exotic locales such as Machu Picchu, Pompeii, and the Great Wall of China.
Fortunately, his passions fuel his fiction. He loves to pepper his action-packed thrillers with the exotic places he's explored and the unusual encounters he's experienced, while his dog stories glow with the love and companionship that will warm the heart of any animal lover.
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Pamela Norsworthy
A 2025 Georgia Author of the Year nominee for her debut novel, WAR BONDS, Pamela's second book, THE FLORENTINE ENTANGLEMENT, will be published by Black Rose Writing in January 2026. A novel of the Cold War, it interweaves the infamous downing of the U-2 spyplane over the Soviet Union with the complicated marriage of the CIA officer responsible for the failed mission. She is now at work on a novel set on the cusp of the 1973 Chilean coup that toppled Salvador Allende.
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After a career in television and corporate communications, Pamela turned to fiction writing to share her love of history and politics and to explore how decisions made by the powerful can prove cataclysmic for everyday people caught in the crossfire. A graduate of the University -
W.D. Wetherell
Walter D. Wetherell is the author of eleven previous works of fiction and nonfiction. He has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two O. Henry Awards, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and, most recently, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Strauss Living Award. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire, with his wife and two children. His latest novel is A Century of November.
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Cynthia Hamilton
Cynthia Hamilton started writing 2000 as a means of coping with a debilitating illness. Writing gave her lifeline and a way to channel her overly-active imagination. Late-stage Lyme disease turned out to be a blessing in disguise, giving her a career she never imagined for herself, one that constantly inspires her.
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Cynthia writes in a variety of genres: mysteries/general fiction/memoir. She is currently working on the 9th book in the Madeline Dawkins Mystery Series, and is still finding tremendous inspiration from her protagonist.
FINDING RUTH, the book she wrote to understand her mother's life from her POV, was the 1st Place Winner in the Firebird Book Awards in the Women's Fiction and Relationships categories.
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Katherine Koch
I’m an artist and writer with a degree in computer science, and a web administrator at an AI company, who writes WWII historical fiction. How much more diverse can you get?
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How did I get to be this way? I was that kid in grade school who could draw photorealistic objects with a pencil when everyone else struggled to scrawl straight lines. And, I LOVED storytelling. Just when I hit college thinking I would pursue a fine arts degree, my parents said, “Yeah, not so fast!”
That’s how I became an artist and writer with a computer science degree. I am also a scholar with a love of learning: I graduated summa cum laude from Kent State University in 2003. I’m a member of Phi Beta Kappa. That was twenty years ago. Today I work as a web administrator a -
Mae Bunseng Taing
Mae Bunseng Taing is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. His story and that of his family inspired the documentary Ghost Mountain, released in 2019 and directed by his son, James, and Virginia Dean. Mae Bunseng lives in Connecticut with his wife, where they raised their children and where he has run a full-time home painting business for more than thirty years. This is his first book.
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Dora Ilieva
I am a Bulgarian-Canadian author. My first novel is "The Devil's Gorge" - a tale of mystery, love and betrayal. I grew up in Sofia, Bulgaria and moved to Canada with my family when I was twenty-eight. Reading is what I love best. I often read several books at a time. My time is split between reading, writing, family and work. Travelling, watching crime shows and observing people are also things that I like. My second book, the short story collection "Faces", deals with the all too human problems city dwellers encounter on a daily basis. In August, 2016, I published my third book "The Master" which takes the reader on a roller-coaster journey in search of an artefact that could change the fate of the world.
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Steve N. Lee
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Steve has three passions: anti-heroes, animals, and travel. To date, he's visited 60 countries and has adopted five homeless cats, but he's yet to prowl the streets in the dead of night to beat up bad guys (though he still daydreams about doing so, but who doesn't?).
In pursuit of adventure, he's cage-dived with great white sharks, sparred with a monk at a Shaolin temple, and explored exotic locales such as Machu Picchu, Pompeii, and the Great Wall of China.
Fortunately, his passions fuel his fiction. He loves to pepper his action-packed thrillers with the exotic places he's explored and the unusual encounters he's experienced, while his dog stories glow with the love and companionship that will warm the heart of any animal lover.
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Ellen Butler
Ellen Butler is bestselling novelist writing critically acclaimed suspense and award winning romance novels. Coming in May- the first Karina Cardinal Mystery, about a intelligent D.C. lobbyist with a sharp wit, and a curiosity to rival Jessica Fletcher into. Karina’s inquisitiveness pulls her into one adventure after another occasionally putting herself or those she loves into danger. Ellen is also the author of bestselling historical suspense, The Brass Compass about a beautiful American spy whose cover is blown behind enemy lines. She flees into the night, and on her own, she must live by her wits to evade capture and make it to the safety of the Allied forces. Ellen's award winning romances are from the Love, California Style series whic
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Connie Chappell
Connie Chappell is a bestselling author of literary fiction and literary mystery. A Springfield, Ohio, native, she devotes as much free time as possible to anything out-of-doors. Flowerbeds, golf, walking, and bicycle riding are particular favorites.
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In her Wrenn Grayson Mystery Series, Wrenn is a historian and archivist in her hometown of Havens, Ohio. Best Thrillers claims Wrenn’s one-of-a-kind investigative process will have readers flipping pages in her fast-paced mysteries. Chappell take readers into the world of small-town Ohio with its unique combination of local charm and unexpected intrigue. Blending history and modern-day sleuthing, these novels provide a delightfully witty cast of new and returning characters.
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Jenny Kalahar
Jenny Kalahar is the author of fifteen books and has been published in several anthologies, in literary journals, and in her humor column in Tails Magazine. She is the editor of Last Stanza Poetry Journal. She and Patrick previously owned bookshops in Michigan and Ohio, and now sell books via the internet. Jenny is the publisher for the Poetry Society of Indiana and the founder and leader of Last Stanza Poetry Association. She was nominated for the Indiana state Poet Laureate position, a Best of the Net, and twice for a Pushcart Prize in poetry. When not writing, reading, or working with old books, she loves expeditions through flea markets and playing piano and percussion.
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Shannon St Hilaire
Shannon St. Hilaire is fascinated by forgotten microcosms and the complex women who lived through them. She spends just about all her time reading and writing stories about them—also, traveling, being roommates with her cat, and dreaming about cottages in forests.
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She is the author of a novella, The Ones Who Stayed, and a novel, To Look Upon the Sun.
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Debrianna Obara
Debrianna Obara is a writer and former advertising professional. Through her work with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, she came across a few brief references to Blok 42 or “The Puff” — the brothel of Auschwitz. An informed student of Polish language, history and literature, she had never heard of the brothel and soon discovered there is precious little information about the women who “worked” there. Only one account was published by a first-hand survivor, in German and anonymously, and it was never translated into other languages.
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Debrianna earned a degree in journalism at the University of Florida, with a minor in Slavistics. She was an exchange student and later a language instructor at Adam Mickiewicz University. The middle daughter of -
E.C. Murray
Born and bred in New England, I headed west - Ohio, Oregon, France, and finally Washington state. I spent many years working with people with developmental disabilities, married, raised my daughter, and returned to school to study writing. My memoir, set in the mountains of southern France, is "A Long Way from Paris," was named a "Kirkus Best Books of 2014."
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Switching genres, I wrote the enthralling mystery, An Unfamiliar Guest, which readers have loved for its twists and turns. Additionally, I wrote two "tiny books non-fiction books"Life Kind of Sucks"unique art and short quips with good ideas of what to do on those "bad hair days, and "Writers Unblocked" with tops by some of Seattle's best authors. I publish a Website for aspiring and acc -
Vicki Reed
Vicki Reed hails from the "Horse Capitol of the World", Lexington, Ky, where she lives with her husband and son. With a degree in Law Enforcement and a Masters in Criminal Justice, she has spent decades in the child welfare and juvenile justice fields. She combined her love for horse, nature, and kids in trouble to create her first novel, The Car Thief. Car Thief went on to win 2 national/international awards.
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Her newest novel, Sleight of Hand, was released in March 2025. This book follows a troubled teen in foster care and the adults who rally to turn his life around. -
Joseph H. Randolph
Joseph H. Randolph is a Canadian author. In his book A Full Moon in August, the author has created a uniquely told story of a young man’s journey across Canada in the year 1981. This is a novella about a twenty-one-year-old, named Thomas, who has had little exposure to many of life’s wonders and challenges before stepping onto that train.
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