AUTHORS

JM Dragon: Born in England and now a New Zealand citizen, living in the beautiful Canterbury countryside, JM Dragon loves to garden, travel and has a love of animals. Her animals, many of them strays, even the odd chicken, have proved a new focus in her life. Sharing her life with her family, two cats, two alpacas and over forty bantam chickens in differing breeds; she's found a totally different focus in her life than when she lived in England. Her writing is a long cherished release for the characters that invade her mind on many an occasion.

Always having written stories from a child, she found the internet a place she could share her creative world with other readers. Having stumbled across venues on the net for her writing, she found new subjects to explore. She currently loves the creative, readership and friendship genre she has comfortably taken residence in for the last twelve years. A keen reader of sci-fi, crime/mystery, classic and romance of course. JM Dragon is here to stay and loves to experiment with story lines-who knows what she will tease us with next.

Contact Julie at jm1dragon@yahoo.com

S. Anne Gardner: With a vast array of varied life experiences S. Anne has a wide array of story ideas that she often weaves into riviting storylines that takes the reader on some unexpected rides. She has lived all over the world and is now permanently living on the East Coast of the Unit ed States although she does still like to travel. She has a love that fills her heart and children who fill her life. She works in the field of finance and is a published author. Her published works include Por Amor, For the Love of a Woman, An Affair of Love and Compensation. She enjoys sailing, horseback riding, art, traveling, reading, and writing. Her family, her friends, and her music fill her life in a world that is her own.

Contact S. Anne at sanneol7@aol.com and join her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/sanne.gardner

Dannie Marsden: Let me introduce myself, I am Dannie, a butch-identified writer. I am committed to a beautiful woman, have three wonderful children and one adorable granddaughter.

I started writing about ten years ago and of course, my stories are centered on, what else...beautiful lesbian women. I try to write about strong women with vulnerabilities and soft caring who compliment, understand and support them. I hope I convey the many levels women have and the beauty of each level.

Contact Dannie at dannie@danniemarsden.com and visit her website at http://www.dannimarsden.com 

Erin O'Reilly: First challenged by a friend to write a story, Erin has since written numermous online and publish works. Her story, Deception,was a GCLS Finalist in 2008. That book also garnered the Sapphic Readers Award in 2009. Story creation involving strong characters always seems to dictate the story and invade her mind at all hours. It always amazes her when the characters she is developing suddenly take on a life of their own and lead the story down a completely different path. She thinks that, when all is done, the characters make an impact on the storylines, and the story is better for it.

Contact Erin at erinoreilly@affinityrainbowpublications.com

KB Belmar: Born and raised in Missouri, has been living in the Austin, TX area for the past 5 years with her youngest daughter. She is also the mother of another daughter who has given her three beautiful grandchildren. While growing up, KB had never really liked to read but had written a few short stories when she was a teen. It wasn’t until 2006 when she started reading fanfiction online that she started to enjoy reading. KB dreams of living in a beach home someday where she hopes the sights and sounds of the ocean will inspire many stories to write.

Del Robertson:  Del Robertson: To those who know her best, Del is an unapologetic jokester. Her wicked sense of humor can be found throughout her numerous award-winning stories on the net. As a military brat, Del has lived all over the world and has been exposed to many different people and cultures. It is from these past travels that she draws the characters that populate her stories. Del currently resides in Texas.

Contact Del at delrobertson@ymail.com

TJ Vertigo:  TJ Vertigo: TJ was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and is 47 years old. Fronted an all girl rock band, did my time in Corporate America, but found my dream job working in animal care for the last 13 years. I love my dogs like they came from my vagina. Love to travel. Cancer survivor. I'm a good thing in a small package. :)

Contact TJ at tjvertigo5@gmail.com

A.C. Henley: A.C. has passed but her work as an author and the love that she had for those she cherished in her life lives on. Bridgette (A.C.) loved to read and discuss works with other authors into the wee hours of the morning. Her greatest passion was being an Artisan baker and worked at the Paris Bakery in Paris, Texas. She also liked photography and had a great eye as to what was the best picture to shoot. She was greatly loved by her family and friends and is greatly missed. Although A. C. is no longer with us, her written words are still available. 

Join A.C.'s Yahoo Group at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/henleyac/info 

To contact A. C.'s partner Sherry, email her at  barkerss1@att.net

Linda Crist:  Linda Crist is the author of reader favorite the Kennedy and Carson series (which begins with The Bluest Eyes in Texas), and 2006 Goldie award finalist, Galveston 1900: Swept Away, as well as short stories in two anthologies, and thousands of pages of online fan fiction.  She is the recipient of numerous online writing awards, including the Royal Academy of Bards Lifetime Achievement Award and Hall of Fame awards, Xippy awards, Bard's Challenge awards, and Swollen Bud awards. She was also on the Xena Subtext Virtual Season staff, and on the staff of the Orlando BardCon, which ran for four years at Walt Disney World.

A 4th generation Texan, Linda started writing at an early age by composing picture stories on the church bulletin. She holds a Journalism degree from The University of Texas at Austin, where she interned with the Lady Longhorns Sports Information Office. After college,  she worked for two years as a section editor with the Dallas Times Herald.   Linda describes herself as a Xenite, Parrothead and general sci-fi/fantasy geek.  She is passionate about the environment, animal welfare, and the outdoors in general, and enjoys biking, hiking, beach-combing, kayaking, scuba diving, travel, photography, live music, micro-brews, good conversation over good coffee, and of course, writing. 

 Linda's Website is  http://texbard.com and readers can "friend" her on FaceBook at: http://www.facebook.com/texbard

Jackie Kennedy:  Jackie lives in Scotland. She lives an ordinary life, doing ordinary things. Until she flips open her laptop...

Contact Jackie at omegathirteen@ymail.com

Erica Lawson is a “dinky di” Aussie, born and raised in Sydney, Australia, 57 years ago. She has worked as a secretary for most of her working life in a variety of interesting fields from a government scientific organization, the fire brigade, the film industry and finally, for the last 20 years, with a psychiatrist. Many of her friends will attest to the fact that she finally found her niche in the last job, gaining many helpful hints for her own state of mind.

Her first book, “Possessing Morgan”, was released in December 2009. It is a winner of the 2010 GCLS award for best thriller/mystery novel. Her second book “The Chronicles of Ratha: The Children Of The Noorthi”, a science fiction adventure, was released in December 2010 and a finalist in the 2012 GCLS Awards. Erica’s third novel, “Soulwalker” was released in February 2012, a Rainbow Award winner for Best Science-Fiction story of 2012, and a 2013 GCLS Finalist.

She has two new releases. “Miss-Match” (co-authored with A.C. Henley) came out in April 2013 through Affinity eBooks, Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

Contact Erica at  ericalawson@y7mail.com and visit her website at http://www.ericalawson.com

Alane Hotchkin; If anyone knows where the birthplace of oil is in North America you will know exactly where I am talking about. I was born in Oil City, PA and later lived in Pittsburgh. You say do not know where Oil City is. Well imagine a tiny town population “two” directly between Pittsburgh & Erie, PA. I grew up with family always around (mostly male) and all with wicked senses of humor. My one cousin one day decided to see if his father’s (my uncle) car would float in the retention pond.

Okay, so now you also know where I got my sense of humor. My earliest childhood memory is driving to the store with my favorite uncle to buy his cigarettes & booze in his HUGE Cadillac with the top down, while listening to an eight track of Dolly Pardon’s Coat of Many Colors and so a little girl’s education was started. LOL

Side Note: Finally in 2005 I had to admit to myself and unwillingly to others that well….I’m a country hick even though all my life I tried to be a city girl. LOL

Went to college and majored in Accounting/Business Law/Economic Engineering and guess what, I ended up in the accounting field. Now tell me, how many people actually end up working in the field they studied for? The accounting let on to working at a bookstore for five years, a local television station for ten years and then onto where I am now. What can I say, I love numbers.

Contact Alane at Lilthblackawk121@yahoo.com and visit her website at http://www.alanelhotchkin.com

Ali Spooner is a native of Florida, currently living and working in Memphis, TN. Home for Ali is Pensacola, Florida where she has a partner of twenty years, one son and a grandchild that has her wrapped completely around her little finger. Her other children are all four legged, three dogs and two cats, and my dearest companion in Memphis, Rascal, a rescued tiger kitten named after my favorite country group.

A true daughter of the South, Ali enjoy spinning stories about the South, the strong, but gentle women and creatures that make it a wondrous place to live.

As an “Indie” author, Ali has been writing for many years as a hobby, and after a cancer diagnosis in 2010, she decided to take a leap and start self-publishing and has published over a dozen stories. Ali’s characters range from cowgirls and psychics, to a healthy dose of supernatural beings. She has written stand-alone titles and series. Ali frequently writes several stories at a time, depending on which characters are bouncing around loudest in her head.

Ali is an avid reader and her other hobbies include photography, outdoor activities and watching college sports.

FRAN HECKROTTE is the 2011 Winner of the Alice B. Readers Award. Her book (co-authored by A. C. Henley) Rapture, Sins of the Sinners placed second in the 2014 Rainbow Awards for Best Lesbian Fiction Crime/Thriller category and seventh Best Lesbian Fiction. Fran lives in the Sunny South with her husband, her dogs, fish, chickens, and geese. Her life experiences include living in Alaska, gold panning, bull riding, scuba diving, flying, training gaited horses and more. After spending five years in law enforcement, she switched to construction and eventually opened her own property management company. Favorite town is Montréal. Hobbies include gardening, beaches, skiing, photography and reading. Feel free to email her at franheck@hotmail.com. 

Lisa Ron, formally known as GabTBard around the ‘net, lives in northwest New Jersey with her wife, three sons, cats, dogs and grandogs. A solo librarian and adjunct faculty member at a small community college, Lisa is dedicated to helping people learn and, hopefully, to laugh along the way. She enjoys spending time with her family, sleeping, learning, TV, movies and, of course, books. This is her first book.

Riley Jefferson is the youngest of a family of four. She grew up in the simple life of New England. She loves to walk on the beach, read, write, and enjoy time with her family and friends. Riley still live in New England till this day with her loving wife, two cats, and one dog. 
Finding Her Way is Riley's first publication.  

After retiring from full time work, Jen thought she would spend her days playing golf, shooting arrows, reading, and enjoying quality time with her wife (not necessarily in that order). Instead she started writing and her debut novel, Starting Over, was published by Affinity Rainbow Publications in 2014. Jen now has seven published novels to her name, a number of short stories, and not as much time as she thought for other activities.

Book six, Running From Love, was shortlisted for a 2017 Diva Literary Award (Romance).

For the characters in Jen’s stories, life definitely begins at forty, and older, as they continue to discover and enjoy their appetites for adventure and romance.

Take a look at Jen’s blog: www.jenjsilver.wordpress.com or find her on: Facebook: www.facebook.com/jenjsilver and Twitter: @jenjsilver 

As a Navy brat, Renee lived on three continents before her family settled in Virginia. She currently resides in Southwest Florida with her partner, Pam, and their poodle, Sabrina. Renee works and plays in the swamp, where she enjoys wildlife photography and hiking. Even though Renee has been paid to do all sorts of jobs, ranging from dental assistant to bartender, data entry clerk to maintenance worker, and field sampler to pet-sitter, she insists she’s only had one job—writer—and all the rest has just been research.

Find her on Facebook or email her at reneewrites3@gmail.com. Check out her blog at https://reneemackenzie.wordpress.com/.

Annette Mori is a health care executive living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her new wife (got to love Washington state) and their three furry kids. Well actually, it might be more than three, but they do not count the ones they only feed. Live Forever, Love Forever is her first novel originating from a vivid dream. Annette is fifty-five years old and believes it is not too late to try something new. She hopes sales for her first book will pay for her ever-increasing e-book habit. The only way to tolerate her daily one and a half hour workout is to read a good Lesbian Romance novel while sweating over her bike, elliptical, or rowing machine. Yes, you can actually read and row at the same time. She is pleased there are thousands of good books to choose from, and hopes hers will be one of the many for readers to consider. She reads at least three to four books a week, so please keep them coming. She has a habit to feed after all.

You can contact Annette at annettemori0859@gmail.com    

Lacey Schmidt is a first order nerd with a great love of psychology, fiction, poetry, photography, wildlife (including two dogs, two cats, and too many guppies to count), fast cars, random technology, and her wife. You can find Lacey on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ if you’re so inclined. Lacey also accepts any and all implied praise or encouragement directly by email at LaceyLSchmidt@gmail.com.

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Charlene Neil resides with her children in Cape Town, South Africa.

As a child she always had a wild imagination, and she sometimes still finds her mind in a parallel universe. Charlene loved to write poetry in school, and she also wrote a few songs for her music band when she was in high school. The band was just a rebel phase however, and luckily she soon returned to reality.

Currently, Charlene is working as a specialized case manager for a medical company. In her free time she loves to hike, read and spend time with her three children. She however lives to write. Once she starts, she finds that she can’t stop.

Her first novel, “The Prodigins”, was published by a South African publisher, Memories SA. It is a fantasy novel with the young reader in mind.

Charlene’s passion however lies with romance, and her interest in the Paranormal was inspired by events that happened to her in her life. The Presence is based on actual experiences.

Charlene is currently working on her third novel, which she is hoping to finish by the end of 2015.

Contact details:

e-mail:             Charlene.neil@rocketmail.com  

Angela Koenig was born in California, raised in Nebraska, and now resides in Illinois. She has worked at a number of occupations including janitor, teacher, house painter, proofreader, and telephone operator.

A practicing autodidact, some of her interests are recent and ancient history, literature, Gaelic, and geology, yet when all is said and done, it’s reading that’s the point.

She always wanted to write, and there’s an unfinished novel about an orphan puppy started when she was in fifth grade, but it wasn’t until a little Apple made instant editing possible that the dam broke.

She believes that story is serious stuff, that through fiction we can see further and feel more deeply, and she hopes that her stories contribute to this goal. She is the author of Rebellion in Ulster and Rendezvous in the Himalaya. 

Natalie London lived for three years in northern Thailand working for the Peace Corps in a provincial hospital lab. She spent another year in Nepal and Laos, finally returning home to manage a hospital chemistry lab.

Natalie and a friend have maintained two beehives for the last four years, an interesting and fun experience. Natalie enjoys swimming, biking, photography, playing her flute and during the cold winter months, snowshoeing.

She and her partner live with their rescued nine-year-old calico cat in southeast Wisconsin. 

Sam Hicks. I am currently working toward my Bachelor’s degree in Art and Huminites and when I am not writing or studying, I can be found with a pencil in my hand drawing pictures of wildlife, pets, and plenty of monkeys (I love monkeys!).

I have quite a few tattoos, and love getting out on my road bike or playing golf, weather permitting.

I am currently single, and have fallen in love many times with the characters I read in books by so many terrific authors. It is these stories that have inspired me to write down my own characters that have taken up residence in my head, clamouring to have their own love story told.

My biggest fears are heights and horses and I plan to one day conquer them both. I have a passion for reading, preferring it to almost anything, and hope to one day settle down by the beach.

Loryn Stone is a Los Angeles native who is more than a little bit obsessed with Nerd Culture. A life-long anime and heavy metal fan, Loryn actively writes about Nostalgia and Fandom. She continues to reside in LA with her husband, two children, and their cat. Her work has appeared on Cracked.com and she is the founder and Executive Editor of the Pop-Culture comedy website "PopLurker", a writing collective that helps showcase the writing talents of site readers by encouraging them to just take that first jump. 

Nanisi Barrett D’Arnuk had a successful music career twenty years ago but now devotes her time to writing mysteries and erotic romances. She has lived in the Northeast, the Pacific Northwest and Texas. but has travelled around the world to meet people and do research. She finds it funny that after living inTexas for ten years, she had to go to Brazil to go on a cattle drive. She now lives on thirty acres of wooded land in central Oklahoma, with her partner, their son, two labs and a puggle.

Growing up in a land with a vast culture, Laura was surrounded by magical creatures, hidden between the pages of books ever since she was a small child. But the lack of strong female leads created a necessity in her for a different world without the current social boundaries. Pen and paper helped and now Laura lives in her magical but complicated worlds where she is sometimes visited by her cat.

When she acts like a normal human being, Laura works as promoter, organizing concerts and events. Her next goal is to start producing theater plays.