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Ali Harris lives in Cambridge with her husband and three children. She has a degree in Performing Arts and cites theatre as her third love – after her family and books. There’s not a musical she’s seen (and she’s seen many!) that she hasn’t loved.

Prior to having children, Ali was a journalist and wrote for a variety of women’s magazines including Glamour, Cosmo, Red, Stylist and ELLE.

She is the author of three previous novels, including Sunday Times bestsellers Miracle on Regent Street and The First Last Kiss, as well as Written In The Stars. Her upcoming novel was written after a prolonged break following the loss of her baby girl, late in pregnancy.

Kate Horsley’s first novel, The Monster’s Wife, was shortlisted for the Scottish First Book of the Year Award. Her second novel, The American Girl, will be published by William Morrow (US) and HarperCollins (UK) in Summer 2016. Her poems and short fiction have been published in a number of magazines and anthologies including Best British Crime Stories.

A native of New York State, Karen Ann Hopkins now lives with her family on a farm in Northern Kentucky, where her neighbors in all directions are members of a strict Amish community. When she’s not homeschooling her kids, giving riding lessons, or tending to a menagerie of horses, goats, peacocks, chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs, and cats, she is dreaming up her next romantic novel. Karen loves to hear from readers. You can find her on the Web at Facebook.com/KarenAnnHopkins.

Catherine Hunt is a former BBC TV News journalist who has found a new love in writing books. Someone Out There is her debut thriller. Catherline started out as a journalist on local newspapers, including the Evening Argus in Brighton, the town in which Someone Out There is set. She was also a reporter for the Press Association and the Daily Mail, before joining the BBC. She currently runs a media consultancy business. She lives in Surrey and is an avid reader of crime fiction.

Suzan Holder trained as a newspaper journalist before moving into TV where she worked on a variety of ITV news and lifestyle programmes and was Series Producer of ITV’s daytime show Loose Women.

Shake It Up, Beverley is Suzan’s first novel and is adapted from her original play Shake It Up, Baby which has been performed around the UK.

USA Today-bestselling author Samantha Lee Howe began her professional writing career in 2007 and has been working as a freelance writer for small, medium and large publishers ever since.

A former high school English and Drama teacher, Samantha has a BA (Hons) in English and Writing for Performance, an MA in Creative Writing and a PGCE in English.

She lives in Lincolnshire with her husband, David, and their two cats, Leeloo and Skye.

CM Harris is the author of novels Maiden Leap, The Children of Mother Glory, and the psychological thriller She Never Left. Her writing has appeared in O Magazine, Pseudopod podcast, as well as various journals and anthologies.

CM Harris lives in Minneapolis with her wife and their twins. She is also the singer/guitarist for indie band Hothouse Weeds.

Find out more at authorcmharris.com and follow her on Twitter @flammablewords.

Pernille Hughes (pronounced Pernilla) has previously had three novels published, TEN YEARS, PROBABLY THE BEST KISS IN THE WORLD and PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE. Her writing has also been printed in the Sunday Times.

She lives in Buckinghamshire and while the kids are at school she scoffs cake and writes stories in order to maintain a shred of sanity.

Flora Harding began writing over 30 years ago to fund a PhD on the disposal of waste in Elizabethan York, and has juggled fact and fiction ever since. Under various pseudonyms she has written more than 75 novels, histories and other forms of non-fiction and continues to be fascinated by the relationship between the past and the present, whatever she happens to be writing.

Born in California (and always a California girl at heart), I’m now a teacher in the Upper Midwest. I wrote my first novel at the age of seven – a saga about a family of chipmunks and the family of ducks who lived in the pond next door. I’ve been writing ever since.

My husband and I are lucky enough to have two smart, wonderful children who live on opposite coasts of the US. Since I’ve become a HarperImpulse author, my remaining daydream is to live in Paris or London.

Carmel Harrington is from Co. Wexford, where she lives with her husband, her children and their rescue dog, George Bailey. A bestseller and regular panellist on radio and TV, her warm and emotional storytelling has captured the hearts of readers worldwide.

Carmel’s novels have been shortlisted for Irish Book Awards, and her debut, Beyond Grace’s Rainbow, won Kindle Book of the Year. Her most recent book, A Mother’s Heart, was an Irish Times bestseller.

Emma Heatherington has penned more than thirty educational short films, plays and musicals as well as eleven novels, two of which were written under the pseudonym Emma Louise Jordan.
Emma’s novel, The Legacy of Lucy Harte, was an eBook bestseller in both the UK and US.
She lives in her native Donaghmore, Co Tyrone, with her partner Jim McKee and their children Jordyn, Jade, Dualta, Adam and Sonny James.