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Angela Abderhalden
My name is Angela and I have been a writer now for fifteen
years. I love writing and always have. On March 15, 2008, my
first book, Questionable Ethics will be published. It is the
first of the Mel Addison Series. The Series was delayed when
I was diagnosed with, and subsequently fought, cancer. Life
has a funny way of working itself out and I used the long hours
of treatment that would have otherwise been mind-numbingly boring
to develop and finish the series. The second book, Unintentional
Victim, is due to be published in the Fall of 2008. When I'm
not writing, I serve as President of Partners in Crime, the
local chapter of Sisters in Crime and Member-at-Large of the
Popular Fiction Association of Idaho, which is a non-profit
organization that promotes fiction in Idaho. I am also a member
of the Caldwell Chapter of the Idaho Writers League and Coeur
du Bois, the Romance Writers of America chapter. I live with
my wonderful husband and children and a rascally beagle name
Kaya.
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Ann Elizabeth Cree
Since Ann Elizabeth Cree was a young teenager, her favorite
form of daydreaming has always been weaving romantic stories
in her head. She had embarked on her second career, working
for the State of idaho as an auditor, when a friend encouraged
her to start putting those stories to paper. Seven years later,
she sold her first book and now considers writing her third
and final career. She lives in Boise with her husband, two lively
sons, two sled dogs, and eccentric cats.
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Jan Hambright
Jan Hambright attempted her first novel at age seventeen. She
credits her Grandma Edna for instilling a passion for storytelling
at an early age. She put that need to good use when her children
were small and the nearest hospital was over an hour away. Jan
became a volunteer EMT in rural Idaho and spent ten years meeting
people on the worst day of their lives. She retired in 1999 and
began writing full time, but she still loves adventure and couldn't
resist jumping out of an airplane at ten-thousand feet attached
to a man with a parachute, just to celebrate turning forty. Jan
was born and raised in Idaho, where she still live with her husband,
three of their five children, a three legged watch dog and a spoiled
horse named, Texas, who always has time to listen to her next
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Robin
Lee Hatcher
RWA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Robin Lee Hatcher discovered
her vocation as a writer after many years of reading everything
she could put her hands on, including the backs of cereal boxes
and ketchup bottles. However, she's certain there are better
plots and fewer calories in her books than in puffed rice and
hamburgers. A past president of Romance Writers of America,
Robin is the author of over 40 novels and novellas with more
than five million copies of her books in print in fourteen countries.
Six of her books have been finalists for the prestigious RWA
RITA Award. Patterns of Love won the award for Best Inspirational
RITA in 1999 and The Shepherd's Voice won the same category
in 2001. Other awards include the Christy Award for Excellence
in Christian Fiction, the Heart of Romance Readers' Choice Award
for Best Historical, two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic
Times, and the Favorite Historical Author Award from Affaire
de Coeur. For her efforts on behalf of literacy, ProLiteracy
Worldwide (formerly Laubach Literacy) named their romance award
"The Robin."
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Stef Ann Holm
Stef Ann Holm was born in Southern California near Hollywood.
With the fantasy worlds of Disneyland and Universal Studios
at her doorstep, her imagination was stimulated at an early
age. She attended Chatsworth High where Kevin Spacey, Mare Winningham
and Val Kilmer entertained on the school's stage. As a semester
elective, Stef Ann enrolled in drama and played a Fandango hostess
in the chorus of Sweet Charity. It was the beginning and the
end of her acting and singing career. She got a "C"
in Drama and an "A" in Creative Writing.
She sold her
first romance in 1987. While waiting for a load of laundry to
complete at the laundromat, Stef Ann made up the name for her
heroine, Camry, when she saw a Toyota Camry parked outside in
the lot. Who knew that model would end up being so popular,
making her in-depth research seem so shallow. Stef Ann has had
twenty-three novels and one novella published. Her editor calls
her contemporary romances, "Slices of life stories about
real people."
Stef Ann lives
in Boise, Idaho with her husband, extended family and
beloved Beagle.
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Adrianne Lee
Adrianne Lee always wanted to be Doris Day when she grew up. You
know — singing her way through a happily ever after life.
Unfortunately her voice would shatter crystal and her dreams are
the kind that usually have her biting her nails to the nubs. So
she happily settled for marrying her high school sweetheart and
retelling her own love story in books that also incorporate her
nightmares. Her novels are usually described as "exciting
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Jennie
Lucas - Jennie Lucas adores chocolate, Coach handbags,
international travel and oh yes -- writing glamorous, intensely
passionate stories for Harlequin Presents. She lives in Idaho
with her husband and their two young children.
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Catherine Mulvany
Catherine Mulvany, award-winning author of five published novels
(and umpteen unpublished novels), is Coeur de Bois Chapter’s
token Oregonian. She holds a bachelor’s degree in education
from Eastern Oregon University and an M.A. in creative writing
from Seton Hill University. In addition to teaching full-time,
the former CBC president and conference chair also writes paranormal
romantic suspense for Pocket Books.
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Annalise Russell
Annalise Russell is a true romantic, right down to her toes. She's
been an avid reader of romance novels since she started sneaking
them out of her mother's closet as a teenager. Writing, in one
form or another, has been a way of life since high school thanks
to the encouragement of teachers and professors along the way.
A social psychologist by degree, she's a member of a behavioral
sciences research team and loves to people watch when in public.
She lives in the gorgeous state of Idaho with her husband, two
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Charlene
Teglia
Charlene Teglia made her first novel sale in 2004. Since then
her books have garnered several honors, including a 2005 Romantic
Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Erotic Novel, 2005 CAPA
nomination for Best Erotic Anthology, and Romantic Times Top Pick.
When she's not writing she can be found hiking around the Olympic
Peninsula with her family, or opening and closing doors for cats. |
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Mary Vine
Many people plan to go to college after finishing high school,
start a career and then a family. Not Mary. She married and
started a family right away, not thinking about other possibilities
in the world until her sons were in high school. When she first
started writing at age thirty-six, she was shy about telling
anyone. With encouragement from her neighbor, a retired English
teacher, she went on to become a member and officer of a writers
group, published two articles and now, MAYA'S GOLD (October
2007 release). Mary graduated from college and is teaching speech
and language classes to K-12 students. She's an active member
of Romance Writers of America who lives with her husband in
northwest Oregon.
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