Alison StuartAlison was born in Kenya and emigrated to Melbourne at the age of ten. She studied law at Melbourne University and has worked in a wide range of areas as a lawyer, including the military and as a senior executive in a major emergency service. In 2000 she moved to Singapore with her husband and sons and for three years was able to pursue serious, full time writing. While in Singapore she was published in two anthologies of short stories, one of which appeared briefly in a best seller list and both of which are still available on Amazon!
Apart from this minor success with short stories, she has been published in a number of anthologies of short stories and magazines. Prior to publication Alison was a finalist in competitions, including the shortlist of the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, the Emma Darcy Award and the Emerald Award. In 2007 her first two novels BY THE SWORD and THE KING’S MAN were published. BY THE SWORD won the 2008 Eppie Award for Best Historical Romance.
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With a combined love of words and history, Allison Butler read her first historical romance and was inspired to write her own. She lives in New South Wales, Australia, with her Scottish hero, two lovely daughters and a Jack Russell named Wallace.
A member of Romance Writers of Australia, Romance Writers of America and Romance Writers of New Zealand, Allison writes medieval romance by day and cares for the elderly by night. Her love of travel has gifted her with many amazing sights but none more heart-stirring than the rugged beauty of Scotland.
Anne is an Australian author, married with three children. Born to Yorkshire parents who emmigrated to Australia, she has also spent 3 years living in England. Her passions, apart from writing, are reading, researching, genealogy, collecting Victorian diaries, roaming historical sites, buying books and gardening.
She is an author of historical women's fiction, contemporary romance and several short stories.
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Annie lives on the beautiful east coast of Australia, where she loves sitting in her writing chair, gazing at the ocean and writing stories. She has always been fascinated by all things historical and has found her niche writing steampunk, where strong heroines and brooding heroes fight together to make their alternative world a better place. She has recently signed with Lyrical Press, and is looking forward to seeing her first novella, Winter of the Passion Flower released in March 2012. She is currently working on her second project, Summer of the Moon Flower, a novel length follow up.
Annie lives with her husband, and “Bob” the dog and two white cats, in a house next to the beach in a small coastal town of New South Wales. Their two children are grown and married, and she loves spending time gardening, walking on the beach and spoiling her two grandchildren
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Bronwyn's love of reading all things romantic got her into trouble at a very young age. Starting with Mills and Boon 'borrowed' from her mother and then progressing to meaty historicals and sweeping sagas, it's only fair that romance pays her back with unique ideas for her own novels. She now writes dark and gritty Regency that borders on the edge of noir with the occasional dabble in contemporary and women's fiction. Her treehouse in the Adelaide Hills is filled with the laughter of her young kids, the meows of two white, fluffy cats and a man who thinks chilvary is what happens after you eat bad chicken.
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Cassandra is an incurable romantic. Her love of romance started after reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. She was hooked. She quickly began secretly raiding her mother’s bookshelves. Now her mother raids hers! She now writes Regency Historicals with a light humorous touch. Cassie is a member of Romance Writers of Australia, The Regency Reader e-group, the Regency e-group and is the Moderator of the Romance Writers of Australia Historical e-group. She also belongs to the Breathless in the Bush RWAust chapter and is a member of several Book clubs. Cassie lives in the glorious city of Wollongong on the NSW South Coast with her husband and three children.
Cheryl Leigh
Cheryl knew she wanted to be a writer, not a ballerina, when she won a playwriting competition in fourth grade. Plotting stories was more fun than practising pliés.
Her passion for historical novels and the past makes her family claim she was born two hundred and fifty years too late. She lives in Sydney close to where the First Fleet arrived, which might explain her interest in eighteenth-century British history. As a former interior designer with a love of travel, she enjoys ambling through old English manors, museums and antique shops. A member of Romance Writers of Australia, she has been a judge, contest manager, and Contest Coordinator. She is also a member of Romance Writers of America. Cheryl writes adventure romances set in the Georgian era.
Christina Phillips
Christina has always loved writing, and while her efforts in eighth grade usually involved space ships, time travel and unfortunate endings, as soon as she discovered romance novels a whole new world opened up.
She now writes ancient historical romances about strong heroines and gorgeous warrior heroes who, no matter how torturous the journey, are guaranteed their happily-ever-after. Christina was born in the United Kingdom, but now lives in sunny Western Australia with her real-life hero and their three children.
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Dana Scully
Dana grew up on an idealic wooded farm where orange fairy rings clung to the bark of craggy trees. She could often be found nestled into the emerald moss just under the ‘old oak’ creating magical worlds full of fairies and dragons. By her side through every tale was her imaginary knight in shining armour. Over the years, Dana forgot about her fairy tales. Believing she was destined to be a nun, she even forgot about her handsome knight.
It wasn’t until one fateful day, when she looked into a pair of dazzling blue eyes that she remembered her childhood dreams...of writing stories and falling in love. Dana and her knight have been living their happily ever after on the outskirts of another beautiful woodland, where Dana can often be found under a large eucalypt telling magical tales of fairies and dragons to their eight year old knight’s apprentice. Tales that she turns into romances by night!
Danielle Lisle
Danielle loves romance! Loves it with a passion in fact! Yet, her writing tends to focus on the romance of old, in a somewhat naughty way. *Cheeky Grin* Writing erotic historicals is her pleasure of choice and reading them comes in at a close second. She loves the history and feeling a part of the time and story as a author carries her off on the merry journey. What isn’t there to love about a Lord or Duke facing society for the lower-class woman he loves, or the highlander who will go against his friends and family because of a bonnie English lass who has stolen his heart? Can you think of anything better?
Danielle lives in the Northern Territory, Australia with her husband and two year old son. She considers herself a pro vacumist and floor washeroo when she’s not nose deep in editing or writing.
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Elle Fynllay
Elle Fynllay is an Australian Romance writer, who lives in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales.
A mother to a tribe of warriors and one damsel who will never be in distress, she has been married to her knight in shining armour for many years.
Elle is just beginning her writing journey, which is taking her deep into the mists of time to the Medieval period in England. She loves her alpha males and her feisty heroines and enjoys writing their sensual love stories.
Elle is a member of the Romance Writers of Australia.
Erin Grace
Erin's love of collecting and reproducing antique lace led to a deep connection with the past. She felt every snippet of the precious fabric held a unique story – one Erin longed to tell.
But, as no two pieces of lace are the same, neither are Erin’s stories. Escaping from her ‘real world’ of sales and marketing, she immerses herself in unfolding tales of dire circumstance, brave heroines, unscrupulous villains and, of course, passionate hot-blooded men.
When not writing, Erin indulges in her love of home-style food by teaching her children to cook. Erin lives with her husband and three sons in the beautiful Blue Mountains of Australia.
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Hi, I'm Joanne. I have loved history for as long as I can remember. I have published two non-fiction histories on the legal firm where I work. Romance seemed to be an added extra to the history I already love. Although still unpublished in historical romance, I am striving to complete a number of works for hopefully future publication.
I have been married for nearly thirty years to Mr Romance himself. I have two sons, one married with two daughters. I have the greatest daughter-in-law, and I love being a mother-in-law and Nanna.
I have been married for nearly thirty years to Mr Romance himself. I have two sons, one married with two daughters. I have the greatest daughter-in-law, and I love being a mother-in-law and Nanna.
Maggi Andersen
Maggi and her husband, a retired lawyer, live in the beautiful Southern Highlands of New South Wales with their cat, Africa and the demanding wildlife. The children have left the nest. After gaining a Master of Arts in Creative Writing degree she wrote her first novel.
She loves reading, particularly mysteries, travel, swimming, theatre and movies, thrillers and old black and whites especially. Inspired by the world Georgette Heyer created, she writes Regencies with a light touch, and the work of Victoria Holt stirs her to write darker Victorian stories.
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Mary deHaas
I’m Mary deHaas. For me, I feel much of my inspiration comes from being both an artist and writer. The two crafts entwine to fuel my creativity. I have been writing romance fiction for .… well … let’s just say a long time. Actually, remember Bank Street Writer Word Program that came out with the very first Commodore 64 PC? *grin* back then, I found myself in a solitary world I knew nothing about, but I kept on writing! All that changed when 6yrs ago I joined a local FAW (Fellowship of Australian Writers) where I was directed towards RWA (Romance Writers Aust) to which I have been a member for 4yrs. Since joining RWA, I have participated in 2 Claytons Conferences, completed a few on-line workshops, attended a full/day one by Michael Hague, and last year I attended my 1st RWA Sydney Conference. Which was amazing!
I am currently unpublished, although there are many characters from over a dozen full works sharing my brain mass and begging for their stories to be told. It was my love of romance and history, which compelled me to complete 2 full 100K+ Historical Romance novels which, (the more I learn my craft) are now under re-editing. In between these I have penned 3 children’s picture-book stories and with my love of ART I am currently compiling the illustrations to support these manuscripts. I am proud to be a member of this fine Historical group of writers who are eager to support and aid one another through the rewarding and tough times of publishing.
Sandie Hudson
Sandie writes Historical Romance novels set in many eras.
Sandie’s love of history started from an early age, when her Dad would tell her the stories of their ancestors coming to Australia from England. Some as free settlers, others of the more common persuasion.
At the age of fifteen, she picked up her first Mills and Boon novel and fell in love with the heroes and heroines and their struggle to find happiness. Then she read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and was lost in the world of Historical Romance, never thinking one day she would find herself writing stories of long ago heroes and heroines.
Sandie started dating her husband, Jim, when she was seventeen; they have been together for thirty-seven years and married for thirty-five of those years. Sandie has two wonderful adult children; two grandchildren who are the greatest joy in Sandie’s life and a son-in-law and daughter-in-law who are like her own children.
Sandie is a member of Romance Writers of Australia and co-runs a face to face writing group near her home town.
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Sheridan Kent
Sheridan's love of romance started as a teenager when a friend at school lent her a Mills and Boon to read. She was hooked. With over two hundred and fifty historicals lining her bookshelf I guess you could class her as an addict. A few years ago when the idea struck to write her own novel, she couldn’t be stopped and is now piecing together her first manuscript with great excitement.
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Suzi Love
Suzi has been a voracious reader all her life, so when illness forced her to spend time in bed she turned that black cloud inside out and welcomed its silver lining. Being housebound meant time to finally write stories instead of just reading them. Having traveled widely, lived in outback Australia plus two Pacific countries, plot ideas and exotic settings screamed out to be written down in stories. Now though, Suzi’s love of hsitory drives her to write stories about the wild times of the late Regency and early Victorian when inventions and discoveries became every day occurences and even gently-bred heroines could participate.
Suzi is a member of Romance Writers Australia, RW New Zealand, RWAmerica, and is on the board of the Regency chapter for RWAmerica, the Beau Monde.
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Tamara Gill
Tamara's love of history started from an early age, but her reading of historical romances only began when home on maternity leave with her second son. Her writing career started as a hobby but soon turned into an obsession—just ask her members of her family, who have suffered many a whipped up, burnt meal.
Member of Romance Writers of Australia, Romance Writers of America, South Australian Romance Authors and The Beau Monde keep her occupied and focused on her craft and the changing trends of readers. Tamara lives in the beautiful Barossa Valley in South Australia and enjoys hearing from readers and writers alike.
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