Leah Hazard
Leah Hazard grew up in the United States and graduated from Harvard University before moving to the United Kingdom to pursue a career in journalism and the arts. The birth of her first child promoted her to change direction; she is now a midwife and continues to promote positive change in the maternity services.
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Anne Harper
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Cheryl Paradis
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Lily Chu
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The Stand-In, The Comeback, and The Takedown are released in audio as Audible Originals, and are performed by Phillipa Soo. Lily’s critically acclaimed books have spent multiple weeks at number one in Audible Top Plus Listens in the All and the Romance categories, and have been named in Audible’s Best of the year lists.
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Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer. He previously worked for many years as a junior doctor. His first book "This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor" was a Sunday Times number one bestseller for over a year and has sold over two million copies. It has been translated into 37 languages and is winner of four National Book Awards, including Book of the Year, and will be a major new comedy drama for the BBC.
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His second book "Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas" was an instant Sunday Times number one bestseller and sold over 500,000 copies in its first few weeks.
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Hester Browne
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Jennifer Bonds
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Jennifer Blake
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Jennifer Blake has been called a “pioneer of the romance genre”, and an “icon of the romance industry.” A New York Times and international best selling author since 1977, she is a charter member of Romance Writers of America, member of the RWA Hall of Fame, and recipient of the RWA Lifetime Achievement Rita. She holds numerous other honors, including two “Maggies”, two Holt Medallions, multiple Reviewer’s Choice Awards, the Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times BookReviews Magazine, and the Frank Waters Award for literary excellence. She has written over 60 books with translations in 20 languages and more than 30 million copies in print worldwide.
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Roxie Noir
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Adeline Knight
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Jennifer Shirk
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Her award-winning romances have topped Amazon charts in both holiday and series romance, making her stories a go-to escape for readers who want all the laughs and feels—without the steam.
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Leeanne Slade
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Brynn Kelly
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Heather Grace Stewart
Picture this: an eight-year-old freckle-faced blonde girl, perched in a rickety treehouse, surrounded by a fortress of Archie comics and armed with a bag of Jujubes. That's where the writing bug bit me, and let me tell you, it's been a wild ride ever since. Fast forward to my drama class days, where I ran lines with no other than a young Matthew Perry—yes, Chandler Bing himself. Could I BE any luckier?
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Summer Dowell
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Lauren H. Mae
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Liz Maverick
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Molly Harper
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Kylie Scott
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Portia MacIntosh
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From disastrous dates to destination weddings, Portia’s romcoms are the perfect way to escape from day to day life, visiting sunny beaches in the summer and snowy villages at Christmas time. Whether it’s southern Italy or the Yorkshire coast, Portia’s stories are the holiday you’re craving, conveniently packed in between the pages.
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A.J. Pine
A teen librarian by day and a romance writer by night, A.J. Pine can’t seem to escape the world of fiction, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. She’s the author of the If Only series (Entangled Embrace), the Only You series (Berkley/Intermix), the Kingston Ale House series (Entangled Select), and the Crossroads Ranch series (Forever Romance). When she finds that 25th hour in the day, she might indulge in a tiny bit of TV where she nourishes her undying love of vampires, superheroes, and a certain high-functioning sociopath detective. She hails from the far off galaxy of the Chicago suburbs.
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Katy Weitz
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Lucy Parker
Lucy Parker lives in New Zealand, where she feels lucky every day to look out at mountains, lakes, and vineyards. She has a degree in Art History, loves museums and art galleries, and doodles unrecognizable flowers when she has writer’s block.
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When she’s not writing, working or sleeping, she happily tackles the towering pile of to-be-read books that never gets any smaller. Thankfully, there’s always another story waiting.
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Brynn Kelly
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She's a RITA® winner and an RT Book Reviews Reviewer's Choice Awards nominee.
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Lily Chu
Lily Chu loves ordering the second-cheapest wine, wearing perfume all the time, and staying up far too late with a good book.
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The Stand-In, The Comeback, and The Takedown are released in audio as Audible Originals, and are performed by Phillipa Soo. Lily’s critically acclaimed books have spent multiple weeks at number one in Audible Top Plus Listens in the All and the Romance categories, and have been named in Audible’s Best of the year lists.
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K.L. Slater
Kim is the number one bestselling author of sixteen psychological crime thrillers. She has sold over two million copies of her books worldwide. She has also written four Carnegie-nominated Young Adult novels as Kim Slater for Macmillan Children’s Books. Kim has an MA in Creative Writing and lives with her husband in a small Nottinghamshire village.
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Publishers: Bookouture, Sphere, Grand Central, Audible
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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.
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Aaron Tracy
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Tracy has since written and produced a range of acclaimed audio dramas, including 10 Days (2021), an underdog NBA story starring Glen Powell; Murder in Bermuda (2023), a courtroom drama starring Mary-Louise Parker; Summer Breeze (2025), a comedic revenge tale starring Kelly Ripa; and The Commuter (2025), a domestic thriller starri -
Leeanne Slade
Leeanne Slade is the internationally bestselling author of romantic novels The Rebound, Told You So, and The Glitch.
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Her books were voted as Audible's Best of the Year in both 2023 and 2024. The Glitch is currently in development to be adapted into a feature film with Searchlight Pictures.
Before becoming a full-time author, she worked in advertising for some of the UK’s most iconic radio brands.
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Adeline Knight
I write audio-only feel good romance fiction, and love to craft stories that will make you smile and remember that humans are loveable (in spite of it all!). My novels explore what it looks and feels like when things actually work out for two people in matters of the heart...not about things falling apart. And I'll always try to sneak an Aussie into the story line :)
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Briana J Newstead
Born and raised in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, Briana J. Newstead moved to London at the age of nineteen in search of bold experiences, rich cultures, and a life beyond the ordinary. An author of emotional, character-driven love stories, her written work focuses on the complexities of human relationships and is strongly influenced by her passion for music and travel. Her debut novel, Twice in a Lifetime, explores the enduring pull of first love and the courage it takes to begin again.
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Abi Sabina
Abi Sabina writes sweet closed door romance full of swoon, sass, and humor. She traded in the big city life for small town living when she moved to Spain.
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She hasn't wrangled herself a country boy yet, but she writes books based on charming heroes and small town charm. (And maybe throw in the city setting every so often.)
She loves coffee, country music, and the mountains. Her goal is to write stories that make you feel, smile, and cheer on love.
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Joslyn Westbrook
Wife. Mom. Foodie. Fashion Junkie. Rom-Com Lover.
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Author of sexy rom-coms and feel-good contemporary romance, Joslyn Westbrook's novels feature sassy, classy, badassy heroines and the alpha-broody, breath-hitching heroes who sweep them off their feet. When she's not writing, Joslyn can be found binge-watching Netflix, cooking, shopping, and spending time with her husband and children at home in sunny California. -
Erin Clark
Erin Clark is an award winning non-fiction writer, world traveller, paragliding pilot and world record holder for wheelchair parapole. She ignites the disabled narrative in glamorous vignettes as an International Sex Icon on instagram (erinunleashes).
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Harry Brignull
Since 2010, Harry Brignull has dedicated his career to understanding and exposing the manipulative and deceptive techniques that are employed to exploit users online. He is credited with coining a number of the terms that are now popularly used in this research area, and is the founder of the website deceptive.design (formerly darkpatterns.org). He has worked as an expert witness on a number of cases about deceptive patterns, including Nichols v. Noom Inc. (Case 1:20-cv-03677), Arena v. Intuit Inc. (Case 3:19-cv-02546) and FTC v. Publishers Clearing House LLC (Case 2:23-cv-04735). Harry is also an accomplished user experience director, having worked for organisations that include Smart Pension, Spotify, Pearson, HMRC, and the Telegraph news
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David Canter
Professor of Psychology, university of Huddersfield.
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David Victor Canter (born 5 January 1944) is a psychologist. He began his career as an architectural psychologist studying the interactions between people and buildings, publishing and providing consultancy on the designs of offices, schools, prisons, housing and other building forms as well as exploring how people made sense of the large scale environment, notably cities. He set up the Journal of Environmental Psychology in 1980. His work in architecture led to studies of human reactions in fires and other emergencies. He pioneered Investigative Psychology in Britain. He helped police in 1985 on the Railway Rapist case. He was the Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey for te -
Briana J Newstead
Born and raised in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, Briana J. Newstead moved to London at the age of nineteen in search of bold experiences, rich cultures, and a life beyond the ordinary. An author of emotional, character-driven love stories, her written work focuses on the complexities of human relationships and is strongly influenced by her passion for music and travel. Her debut novel, Twice in a Lifetime, explores the enduring pull of first love and the courage it takes to begin again.
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Donna Joy Usher
Hi there, I’m Donna Joy Usher. I started writing my first novel when I was seven. With no idea about plot or character development (I mean I was only seven) my storyline quickly disintegrated into a muddled jumble of boring dialogue between two horses. Disillusioned, I gave up writing stories for quite a while after that. Instead, I concentrated on my studies, eventually graduating as a dentist.
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After many years of ‘drilling and filling’ I turned to writing in an effort to escape the seriousness of my day job. During that time I created my first book, The Seven Steps to Closure, and discovered that I love nothing more than making other people laugh. Well that, and my husband and two miniature schnauzers, Chloe and Xena.
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Fabio Ciconte
Fabio Ciconte è direttore dell’associazione ambientalista Terra! e portavoce della campagna Filiera Sporca, contro il caporalato e lo sfruttamento del lavoro in agricoltura, di cui ha curato i rapporti di ricerca. Impegnato da anni in battaglie ambientali e sociali, ha realizzato diverse inchieste giornalistiche sulle filiere agroalimentari per “Internazionale” e redatto pubblicazioni e studi per enti pubblici e privati.
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Componente del comitato scientifico della Fondazione “Osservatorio sulla criminalità in agricoltura e sul sistema agroalimentare”, guidata dal procuratore Giancarlo Caselli.
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Katie Simon
Katie Simon's writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vogue, BuzzFeed, Tin House, and elsewhere, including the anthology The Anatomy of Silence. Her first nonfiction book, Tell Me What You Like: An Honest Discussion of Sex and Intimacy After Sexual Assault, is out July 29th. Katie studied creative writing at New York University, University of East Anglia, and Columbia University. She lives in Texas with her dog, Babka. @katiewsimon
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Anna Kent
Anna Kent has helped women birth babies in war zones, caring for the most vulnerable people in the most vulnerable places in the world.
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At 26 years old, when working for MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres), in a conflict zone she attended a birth in a tropical storm, by the light of a headtorch. Later, she would be responsible for the female health of 30,000 stateless Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. But returning to the UK to work for the NHS, Anna soon learned that even at home, the right to a safe birth was impossible to take for granted.
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Melissa Hope Ditmore
I’m a freelance consultant specializing in issues of gender, development, health and human rights, particularly as they relate to marginalized populations such as sex workers, migrants and people who use drugs. My past and current clients include the Asia Development Bank, AIDS Fonds Netherlands, and the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center. I have extensive experience of working on projects both in the United States and in Asia and Africa.
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Kelli Ireland
Kelli Ireland spent a decade as a name on a door in corporate America. Unexpectedly liberated by Fate's sense of humor, she chose to carpe the diem and pursue her passion for writing. A fan of happily-ever-afters, she found she loved being the Puppet Master for the most unlikely couples. Seeing them through the best and worst of each other while helping them survive the joys and disasters of falling in love? Best. Thing. Ever.
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Katharine Manning
Katharine Manning has over 25 years’ experience training and consulting on trauma and victimization. As a senior attorney advisor with the Justice Department, for 15 years she counseled on victim rights in high-profile cases like the Boston Marathon bombing, the Pulse nightclub and South Carolina church shootings, the Charlottesville violence, Bernie Madoff, and the case against Olympic Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar. Now President of Blackbird, Manning helps organizations prepare for and respond to the challenges they face involving members of the public and employees in trauma. She has trained thousands of individuals on compliance with their responsibilities to victims, and she teaches a course on victim rights at American Universit
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