Celia Reynolds was born and raised in Wales and worked for almost twenty-five years in the film industry in London, and briefly Rome. In 2012, she left her job as European Marketing Director at Twentieth Century Fox to enrol in the Complete Creative Writing Course held at the Groucho Club in London’s West End. Later that year, she was awarded Runner Up prize in the London Writers’ Club/Hush Short Story Competition. She is now based on the Gower coast in South Wales.
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.
Michele writes comedies packed with lots of heart, best friends and girl power. She is both a Sunday Times and a USA Today bestselling author, raised in the US and now making London her home.
Michele also writes cosy comedies under the pen-name Lilly Bartlett. Lilly’s books are full of warmth, quirky characters and guaranteed happily-ever-afters.
Lilly Bartlett’s cosy comedies are full of laugh out loud moments, quirky characters and guaranteed happily-ever-afters.
Lilly is the pen-name of Sunday Times and USA Today best-selling author, Michele Gorman, who writes best friend-girl power comedies under her own name.
Marnie Riches grew up on a rough estate in Manchester, aptly within sight of the dreaming spires of Strangeways prison. Able to speak five different languages, she gained a Masters degree in Modern & Medieval Dutch and German from Cambridge University. She has been a punk, a trainee rock star, a pretend artist, a property developer and professional fundraiser. In her spare time, she likes to run, mainly to offset the wine and fine food she consumes with great enthusiasm.
Sheena Lambert is from Ireland, where the troubled history and raw beauty of the landscape were the inspiration behind her novel The Lake. She grew up in County Dublin, where she worked as an environmental engineer before becoming a full-time writer. Her stories, novels and screenplays have been shortlisted in a number of prestigious UK competitions.
Karen Ross is a former journalist, broadcaster and advertising copywriter who continues to run her own successful marketing consultancy in the absence of a job offer to manage Tottenham Hotspur.
She lives in Primrose Hill, where she and her dog, Scrabble, are among the least famous residents.
Author of the debut phenomenon Dear You and other bestsellers, Emily Blaine has become, with over 600,000 copies sold to date, the queen of contemporary French romance. A Breton by birth and a Parisian by adoption, her greatest pleasure is writing, and hearing from her readers.
USA Today bestselling author Heidi Rice used to work as a film journalist until she found a new dream job writing romance for Harlequin in 2007. She adores getting swept up in a world of high emotions, sensual excitement, funny feisty women, sexy tortured men and glamourous locations where laundry doesn’t exist. She lives in London, England with her husband, two sons and lots of other gorgeous men who exist entirely in her imagination (unlike the laundry, unfortunately!)
Niloufar Lamakan is an Iranian-born author and artist. She moved to the UK as a child and has lived in Islington, London most of her life. She came to writing after careers in tech, design, art, and property. Her debut novel, Aged to Perfection, won the Commendation Award at the Comedy Women in Print Prize and was a finalist at the Page Turner Awards.
She writes bold, spicy romantic comedies that are unapologetically age-defiant. Her art also explores the connections between age, identity, and society’s perceptions of beauty. When she’s not painting or writing, you’ll find her on the dancefloor.
Olivia is a former software engineer who writes contemporary romance. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, two kids, and two naughty cats (Hairy Houdini and Bess). Besides writing, she enjoys traveling and experimenting with cooking, and most of the time, she ends up eating the new meals herself because her family has a limit on how much they love her.
She is a member and volunteer at the Atlanta Writers Club. Olivia is represented by the lovely Helen Lane.
