Athena Carstairs is a Romance and Fantasy author with a desperate need for pining men. Her debut novel, Mr & Mrs Fate, is out now and her Fall-themed spicy romcom There’s Pumpkin About You will be out in 2025. She lives in London.
Claire Carver is a showbiz and interiors journalist slash novelist who has worked for several national papers and many magazines. She spends a lot of her life in and out of other people’s houses, rearranging the furniture and asking them endless questions.
After journalism college, she spent a carefree time learning her craft on local papers, followed by a spell as a television producer, regularly writing a live forty-minute show each day, and very occasionally appearing on screen.
Based in London, Claire has an MA in Creative Writing from St Mary’s University, Twickenham, and still meets up regularly with her fellow writers.
Hobbies include year-round swimming, light gossiping, and comparing lattes and dry whites with friends, some of whom she’s known since she was five.
Driven by a need to know what makes people tick, her children are constantly surprised when people tell her their life stories at the bus stop.
Vivian Conroy is a multi-published mystery author with 25+ contracted titles. Away from writing, she enjoys hiking, crafting and spending too much time on Twitter where readers can connect with her under @VivWrites.
Cassie Connor loves capsule wardrobes, packs light, enjoys weekending in Nice and takes her own champagne flute wherever she goes. She’s also got a history degree and has never finished War and Peace. When it comes to dating, her motto is CBA – Can’t Be Arsed – and has resorted to writing and inventing her own men because fictional heroes are always so much better. Hudson in her debut novel, Under Contract, proves the point perfectly.
Julie Caplin is the international bestselling author of the Romantic Escapes series. Her books have hit the top of the bestseller charts in Germany, Italy, Iceland, Holland, the UK and the Czech Republic and have sold over a million copies worldwide. Her uplifting romantic comedies are set in gorgeous destinations across the globe, providing her readers with the ultimate escape.
Julie also writes romantic and historical fiction as Jules Wake.
I grew up by the sea in Cornwall, spending my summers on the beach. I left to study History at Oxford University, before starting a career in television during which I was lucky enough to travel the world interviewing incredible authors for the Richard & Judy Book Club. Fast forward ten years I’m now married to a lovely man called James and have a daughter who keeps us on our toes. Oh, and a very furry cat called Bobby.
Adrienne Chinn was born in an old paper-making town in Newfoundland, and grew up in rural Quebec and Montreal. She retraced her English father’s footsteps back to England, where she now lives and works as an interior designer.
When not writing or designing, she can normally be found in the queue at Gatwick heading off somewhere new: she travels all over the world, but most often to her beloved Morocco, which she has been visiting regularly for over ten years.
Tracy Corbett lives with her partner Simon in Surrey and works part-time for a local charity. Tracy has been writing for a number of years and has had a few short stories published in My Weekly magazine. As well as belonging to a local writing group, she enjoys amateur dramatics and can regularly be found dressing up in strange costumes and prancing about the stage pretending to be all manner of odd characters.
Sun Chara, a multi-published, JABBIC winner for Manhattan Millionaire’s Cinderella, writes sexy, hip ‘n fun contemporary romance, high adventure historical romance, and any genre that knocks at her imagination. Globetrotting for lore while keeping tabs on Hollywood leads, she loves the challenge of creating stories for book and screen. Find out more about her at https://facebook.com/suncharaauthorpage or on Twitter @sunchara3.
