Ruby Rana
Ruby Rana is an elder millennial who writes spicy, funny and heartfelt romance about sassy brown girls. She excels in sending messages where autocorrect has gone terribly wrong.
When she's not battling typos, you can find her explaining Midwestern slang to her East Coast-raised husband, being used as a jungle gym by her young children or experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen.
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Elodie Colliard
Elodie Colliard is a Canadian and French romance author. She currently lives in Montreal with her two very needy cats and her romance-worthy partner.
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Holly June Smith
Holly June Smith is a writer and romance addict who is constantly falling in love with fictional heroes and dreaming up new ones.
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Hannah Shield
I write suspenseful romance with pulse-pounding danger, fun & flirty banter, and tons of heart (plus spice!). Both a Californian and a Texan in my past, I now live in the Colorado mountains with my family.
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Mansi Shah
Born in Toronto to Indian immigrants, Mansi Shah is the author of A Good Indian Girl, The Taste of Ginger, and The Direction of the Wind, which center on Gujarati characters and speak to generational differences across the Indian diaspora. Now based in Los Angeles, Mansi left her long-time career as an entertainment attorney in Hollywood to travel the world and write full time. She loves to cook, and food often plays a prominent role in her books. When she's not writing and traveling, you can find her swimming laps or playing tennis.
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Kimberly Page
Kimberly Page is a contemporary romance author who loves writing about strong heroines and the irresistible heroes who fall for them. After a career spent crafting stories for major players in the entertainment industry, she decided it was time to create stories of her own. Drawing from her experiences in Hollywood, she wrote her debut novel Second Act, the first book in The Backlot series, which is set against the backdrop of the entertainment world.
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Athena Hawthorne
Athena Hawthorne is a contemporary romance author whose stories blend lyrical prose with emotional intensity. In her world, love is consuming, characters ache beautifully, and devotion runs deep.
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She writes about obsessive heroes who fall hard—and often first—for the women who undo them. Her heroines are complex, self-possessed, and quietly strong—the kind of women who bring powerful men to their knees—and keep them there.
Athena aims to craft love stories that linger long after the last page, where sensuality meets emotional resonance and every happily ever after is hard-won.
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Nikki Callan
Nikki writes romance, blending heart, heat, humor, and hockey players. She lives for swoon-worthy moments, flawed but lovable characters, and happily ever afters that leave you giggling and kicking your feet. When she’s not crafting her next book boyfriend, she’s diving into her never-ending TBR, hanging out with her dogs, or roping her partner into another DIY project.
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Amanda Marquardt
Amanda Marquardt was born and raised in Texas, with a nomadic spirit. She currently lives in Florida with her husband and children. She began writing at eight years old, dabbling in romance, suspense, and fantasy along the way.
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Rowan Croft
Rowan Croft is an American-born romcom enthusiast now thriving in picturesque Cornwall after finding her own happily ever after in the UK. When she’s not chasing caffeine-fuelled inspiration, she’s busy in the publishing world as a graphic designer, diving into a good book, or simply enjoying day-to-day life alongside her hunky British husband, bubbly daughter, and Milo, her delightfully moody Jack Russell.
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She writes the kind of romance she loves to read—full of quick-witted banter, undeniable chemistry, and just the right amount of chaos. For her, there’s nothing better than a love story that keeps you laughing, swooning, and maybe yelling at the characters to just kiss already.
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Rachel Lewis
Rachel Lewis is a fresh voice in contemporary romance. With charmingly flawed characters and laugh-out-loud dialogue, Lewis' writing effortlessly blends witty banter, delightfully indulgent spice, and heartwarming found families that readers will want to call their own.
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Beyond her own writing, Rachel co-hosts the popular "Welcome to the Smut Show" podcast, where she engages with authors and bookstagrammers about their love of romance novels.
Rachel is a mother of two crazy girls, wife of a crazy husband, and crazy for some 90’s country hits. She is a nostalgic TV watcher, lover of fan-fic, and is always willing to try a new color in her hair. -
Bree Hayden
A lover of romances, it’s not unusual to find Bree Hayden curled up with a book, sobbing her eyes out. On the off chance she’s doing real-life things, she resides in Washington, tries to get birds to whistle along with her, and enjoys baking ancient recipes in the hopes one actually tastes good.
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Holly June Smith
Holly June Smith is a writer and romance addict who is constantly falling in love with fictional heroes and dreaming up new ones.
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Stephanie Alves
Stephanie Alves is an avid reader and writer of smutty, contemporary romance books. She was born in England, but was raised by her loud Portuguese parents. She can speak both languages fluently, though she tends to mix both languages when speaking. She loves to write romantic comedies with happy endings, witty banter and sizzling chemistry that will make you blush. When she’s not writing, she can be found either reading, or watching rom coms with her two adorable dogs cuddled up beside her.
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Annabelle McCormack
Annabelle McCormack writes historical romantic fiction and contemporary romance packed with sprawling adventures, epic love, and soulmates who just can’t stay away from each other (even when the world is falling apart). If there’s a sweeping love story with high stakes and deep emotions, she’s probably writing it—or at least dreaming about it while chasing down her next cup of coffee.
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When she’s not wrangling words, she’s wrangling five home-schooled kids, a couple of dogs, and an unreasonable amount of books in Maryland. If life had more hours (and less laundry), she’d be traveling, painting, or becoming a professional pastry chef. For now, she’s content with baking, reading, lifting heavy things at the gym, and plotting her next great esca -
Kat Singleton
Kat Singleton is a bestselling contemporary romance author best known for writing Black Ties and White Lies. She specializes in writing elite banter and angst mixed with a heavy dose of spice. Kat strives to write an authentically raw love story for her characters and feels that no book is complete without some emotional turmoil before a happily ever after.
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She lives in Kansas with her husband, her two kids, and her two doodles. In her spare time, you can find her surviving off iced coffee and sneaking in a few pages of her current read.
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Sarah Smith
Sarah Smith is a copywriter-turned-author who wants to make the world a lovelier place, one kissing story at a time. Her love of romance began when she was eight and she discovered her auntie's stash of romance novels. She's been hooked ever since. When she's not writing, you can find her hiking, eating chocolate, and perfecting her lumpia recipe. She is also one half of the romance writing duo Sarah Skye. Sarah also writes tearjerker fiction under the name Sarah Echavarre
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Cala Riley
Cala Riley, better known as Cala and Riley, are a pair of friends with a deep seated love of books and writing. Both Cala and Riley are happily married and each have children, Cala with the four-legged kind while Riley has a mixture of both two-legged and four. While they live apart, that does not affect their connection. They are the true definition of family. What started as an idea that quickly turned into a full-length book and a bond that will never end.
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J.R. Boles
JR Boles is the bestselling author of the Shadow Knight, Singer’s Call, and the Bringer Trilogy. She was born and raised in Kansas City, where she now lives with her husband, fearless daughters, and two rescue pups. JR is a coffee-obsessed voracious reader.
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Melissa Whitney
With a name like Melissa Whitney she had two choices become a Real Housewife or a romance author. Sorry Andy Cohen, she's chose romance!
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A Jane Austen fangirl, Melissa hails from Western New York, but currently lives in Southern California with her husband and rescue pugs. When she's not brewing the perfect cup of tea, hunting for a delicious pastry, or traveling with her husband, she's writing swoony and steamy romance novels.
Melissa explores themes of disability, mental health, trauma, grief/loss, and family in her emotionally heartfelt and comedic stories. She often says, "Life isn't a romcom nor a high drama. It's somewhere in-between and so are my stories." As a legally blind woman and trauma survivor, Melissa taps into her own lived ex -
Claudia Ambrose
Claudia Ambrose has loved writing for as long as she can remember. BUILD YOU UP is her debut novel. When she's not writing, she lives in Virginia with her husband and far too many cats.
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Rowan Croft
Rowan Croft is an American-born romcom enthusiast now thriving in picturesque Cornwall after finding her own happily ever after in the UK. When she’s not chasing caffeine-fuelled inspiration, she’s busy in the publishing world as a graphic designer, diving into a good book, or simply enjoying day-to-day life alongside her hunky British husband, bubbly daughter, and Milo, her delightfully moody Jack Russell.
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She writes the kind of romance she loves to read—full of quick-witted banter, undeniable chemistry, and just the right amount of chaos. For her, there’s nothing better than a love story that keeps you laughing, swooning, and maybe yelling at the characters to just kiss already.
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Alexandria Mae
Alexandria Mae is a new romance author who loves all the steamy romances with the happily ever after they all deserve.
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She promises that all her books will have HEAs, even after all the trauma she makes her characters deal with. After reading so many romances, she has finally decided to take the leap and write her own. When she is not writing, you can find her reading romance books or cuddling her pup. -
Nikki Callan
Nikki writes romance, blending heart, heat, humor, and hockey players. She lives for swoon-worthy moments, flawed but lovable characters, and happily ever afters that leave you giggling and kicking your feet. When she’s not crafting her next book boyfriend, she’s diving into her never-ending TBR, hanging out with her dogs, or roping her partner into another DIY project.
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Amanda Marquardt
Amanda Marquardt was born and raised in Texas, with a nomadic spirit. She currently lives in Florida with her husband and children. She began writing at eight years old, dabbling in romance, suspense, and fantasy along the way.
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Elodie Colliard
Elodie Colliard is a Canadian and French romance author. She currently lives in Montreal with her two very needy cats and her romance-worthy partner.
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An avid reader (and dreamer) since childhood, she never gets tired of watching people fall in love. After all, she's a Cancer through and through, and emotions are her specialty.
When she’s not immersed in reading or working her other full-time job in politics, you can find Elodie crocheting, cuddling with her cats or behind her keyboard, creating the heartfelt, empowering love stories everyone can dream of. -
Alaina Rose
Alaina lives in Michigan with her spouse and grumpy cat, Gary. She self-publishes angsty & sexy romance novels.
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L.V. Oaks
L.V. Oaks in an actor and writer from Italy. When she's not recording self-tapes or re-enacting the dialogues in any book she's reading with much more drama than necessary, she can be found rewatching her comfort shows or petting her dogs.
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Anna P.
Since she was a child, Anna has lived in a world of imagination—teaching in a classroom to being an astronaut, she’s done it all.
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Anna has a Masters in Creative Writing, and a love for music and writing got her jobs with Rolling Stone India and Sony Music. After a couple of years of selling her soul to advertising, she’s finally following her dream of writing books.
Currently living in South India, she rocks out to Foo Fighters and reads 300 romance novels a year. She works as a copy consultant and book editor, while sipping on copious amounts of black tea. -
Jessie Elizabeth
Jessie Elizabeth lives in Scotland, where the winters are cold and, well, the summers are kinda cold too. She’s spent the majority of her life working to support her traveling addiction and reading books that’ve made her heart happy. She lives with her husband, whom she met after he slid into her Instagram DM’s back in 2016. They had their first date in China and have never looked back.
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Gissane Sophia
Gissane Sophia is a hopeless romantic who ceaselessly champions that vulnerability is a strength. She's a fan of complex characters, found families, her bright, brilliant family and friends, coffee, forests, and all things autumn. When she isn't dabbling in writing romance novels, she's reading them. And when she's doing neither, she's devouring fiction through TV and film, working full-time as an entertainment editor and writer.
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J.R. Boles
JR Boles is the bestselling author of the Shadow Knight, Singer’s Call, and the Bringer Trilogy. She was born and raised in Kansas City, where she now lives with her husband, fearless daughters, and two rescue pups. JR is a coffee-obsessed voracious reader.
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Sara Tallary
Sara Tallary lives in eastern Pennsylvania with her husband, two kids, and dog. When she isn’t spending her days writing or brainstorming new ideas for stories, she’s homeschooling her kids, cuddling up with her gorgeous Malinois pup, and binge-watching TV shows with her husband or playing Mario Kart (and winning, hah!). Though she tries to stay on a healthy diet, she has a love for sweets, is constantly adding books to her TBR, and loves a good laugh.
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Kate Cole
Since meeting Mr. Darcy in English 101, Kate Cole hasn’t managed to shake her obsession with all things happily ever after. A sucker for romance, this Canadian bibliophile is a buttoned-up bureaucrat in the street, spicy romcom writer in her desk seat. When she isn’t reading or writing, she’s also a wife and mom in suburbia who can’t get enough of Duran Duran or pedicures that match her current reads.
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