My BFF, Trisha asked me if I would attend Lori Foster’s Reader and Author Get Together. I immediately said yes without even knowing which authors would be there. Trisha is attending for the sole reason to meet Karen Marie Moning. 
After research all the authors. I am a little bit of a geek and listed them all in an excel spreadsheet to track the ones I want to meet. I was delighted to find Donna Michaels on the list as I have read two of her books. Nineteen of the authors I have contacted have agreed to be interviewed. *Squeeeeee
Below is a list of the authors I will be interviewing with a link to their website. If you recommend a question for the interview and I decide to use it, I will mention your name in the Facebook Live interview.
Lori is the host of the annual Readers and Authors Get Together. This year the event sold out in under 10 minutes!!!! Lori has also been soooo gracious. She offered to be available for an interview. I was too intimidated to ask since you is famous. I would LOVE to have you join us on Facebook live as I interview each of the ladies. Each one is so special and unique from cancer survivors, to purple hair, to riding a Harley 3200 miles, to a Harvard graduate, to living the same state as I do and I didn’t even know it.
Below I share a little about each author and at the bottom I share the interview schedule if you want to plan your Friday and Saturday around the interviews. I would highly recommend that!!!
Lori Foster – Since first publishing in January 1996, Lori Foster has become a USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly and New York Times bestselling author. Lori has published through a variety of houses, but is currently with Harlequin. Lori lives in Central Ohio where coffee helps her keep up with her cats and grandkids between writing books.
Lori hosts a very special annual “Reader & Author” event in West Chester, Ohio. Proceeds from the event have benefited many worthy causes, including the Hamilton County YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter, the Animal Adoption Foundation, The Conductive Learning Center for children with spina bifida and cerebral palsy, and The One Way Farm, Children’s Home.
In 2007, Lori began writing her annual benefit books, meaning once a year she writes a novella where all advance and proceeds from the sales of the book go to wonderful, local causes. In the beginning the books benefited our deployed men and woman, the YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter, and more. In 2013, Lori decided that the proceeds from the benefit books would go to the Animal Adoption Foundation.
Kimberly Kincaid writes contemporary romance that splits the difference between sexy and sweet and hot and edgy romantic suspense. When she’s not sitting cross-legged in an ancient desk chair known as “The Pleather Bomber”, she can be found practicing obscene amounts of yoga, whipping up anything from enchiladas to éclairs in her kitchen, or curled up with her nose in a book. Kimberly is a USA Today best-selling author and a 2016 and 2015 RWA RITA® finalist and 2014 Bookseller’s Best nominee who lives (and writes!) by the mantra that food is love. Kimberly resides in Virginia with her wildly patient husband and their three daughters.
Summer Hanford grew up on a dairy farm in Upstate New York. She earned her bachelor’s degree in experimental psychology and went on to do graduate and doctoral work in behavioral neurology. Eventually turning away from long hours spent in research, Summer has returned to her childhood dream of being an author. Summer writes in three genres; fantasy novels, Regency romance and Jane Austen Fan Fiction.
Summer’s complete five novel YA fantasy series, Thrice Born, was published by Martin Sisters Publishing.Starting in 2014, Partnered with fan fiction author Renata McMann on her well-loved Pride and Prejudice variations. More information on these works is available at www.renatamcmann.com. Additionally, in 2016, Summer was lucky enough to be asked to join Austen Authors, a great place for fans to get more Jane Austen. To explore Austen Authors, visit www.austenauthors.net. On top of her fantasy and fan fiction work, Summer also has Regency Romance titles published by Scarsdale Publishing, including several books in their ongoing Marriage Maker series. Summer is currently working with McMann, writing new works in both fantasy and Regency romance, providing content for, creating and managing websites, and a faculty member at AllWriters’ Workplace and Workshop, LLC., an international creative writing studio. She lives in Michigan with her husband and compulsory, deliberately spoiled, cats.
Julie Moffett is a bestselling author and writes in the genres of mystery, historical romance and paranormal romance. She has won numerous awards, including the 2014 Mystery & Mayhem Award for Best YA/New Adult 
Mystery, the prestigious 2014 HOLT Award for Best Novel with Romantic Elements, a HOLT Merit Award for Best Novel by a Virginia Author (twice!), the 2016 Award of Excellence, a PRISM Award for Best Romantic Time-Travel AND Best of the Best Paranormal Books of 2002, and the 2011 EPIC Award for Best Action/Adventure Novel. She has also garnered additional nominations for the Bookseller’s Best Award, Daphne du Maurier Award and the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence.
Julie is a military brat (Air Force) and has traveled extensively. Her more exciting exploits include attending high school in Okinawa, Japan; backpacking around Europe and Scandinavia for several months; a year-long college graduate study in Warsaw, Poland; and a wonderful trip to Scotland and Ireland where she fell in love with castles, kilts and brogues.
Julie has a B.A. in Political Science and Russian Language from Colorado College, a M.A. in International Affairs from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and an M.Ed. from Liberty University. She has worked as a proposal writer, journalist, teacher, librarian and researcher. Julie speaks Russian and Polish and has two sons.
Tawdra Kandle writes romance, in just about all its forms. She loves unlikely pairings, strong women, sexy guys, hot love scenes and just enough conflict to make it interesting. Her books include young adult and new adult paranormal romance, new adult and adult contemporary romance and adult paramystery romance. She lives in central Florida with a husband, kids, sweet pup and too many cats. And yeah, she rocks purple hair.
Jules Bennett USA TODAY bestselling author Jules Bennett lives in the Midwest with her two girls and her high school sweetheart husband. She published her first book in 2005 and hasn’t stopped creating unique, fascinating characters since. She often takes her plots from songs or dreams.
Jules is the author of contemporary romance from small town to billionaires. While she is good friends with other romance authors, she still fan-girls at signings.
Pintip Dunn I’m a New York Times bestselling author of YA fiction. I graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, with an A.B. in English Literature and Language. I received my J.D. at Yale Law School.
My novel, FORGET TOMORROW, won the RWA RITA® for Best First Book. In addition, SEIZE TODAY is a 2018 RITA finalist. My books have been translated into four languages, and they have also been nominated for the following awards: the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire; the Japanese Sakura Medal; the MASL Truman Award; the Tome Society It list; and the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award. My other titles include REMEMBER YESTERDAY, THE DARKEST LIE, GIRL ON THE VERGE, and the upcoming STAR-CROSSED and MALICE. I live with my husband and children in Maryland.
Constance Phillips lives in Ohio with her husband, daughter, and three canine kids where she writes contemporary romance novels and paranormal romance novels. When not writing stories of finding and rediscovering love, Constance and her husband spend the hours planning a cross-country motorcycle trip for the not-so-distant future…if they can find a sidecar big enough for the pups.
Tina Desalvo I spent my 25 plus year journalism career focusing on what other people were doing I’m now 
launching my fiction writing career and I feel it has been a long time coming. I grew up in one of the distinctive neighborhoods of New Orleans. It was after graduation from college that I moved into Cajun Country to take a job as a broadcast journalist. I started my broadcasting career as a play-by-play football and basketball sports announcer and anchor at a small market television station. I have been told—but I have never confirmed this—that I was the first female to do so in Louisiana. I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer
When you purchase Elli, the Second Chances Series, you will be helping in the FIGHT AGAINST BREAST CANCER! All the profits of this book will go to the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and will be used for those people who are in the fight of their lives.
Callie Hutton – USA Today bestselling author, Callie Hutton, author of more than thirty historical romance books, writes humorous and spicy Regency with “historic elements and sensory details” (The Romance Reviews). Callie lives in Oklahoma with two rescue dogs and her top cheerleader husband of many years. Her family also includes her daughter, son, and daughter-in-law. And her three year old twin grandsons “The Twinadoes.”
My historical romances are full of heat, humor, and quirky characters. I’ve always loved history, which was my college major. Things of the past fascinate me. Not those boring history classes in high school, but the history of people. How they lived their lives, what they ate, what they wore, the challenges they faced, what they worried about.
Jocie Mckade – I’m the author of romantic comedies and cozy humorous mysteries. I love to laugh at life and 
I think romance should always be fun.
I live in the boonies of the Midwest USA surrounded by cornfields, cattle and chickens.We have a small farm I lovingly call, Dust Bunny Farm.
I met my husband under the hood of a car. I love cars and he was a mechanic, you might say we were a match made in RPM heaven.
I read the Mayson-Dickson series.
Donna Michaels – It’s all my mother’s fault. She read to me before I could read and opened up that magical world where I still reside today. Then came television and movies. Now I had three avenues that fed my imagination…and boy could I eat! As you no doubt figured out, this lead to my writing career. I’m a NY Times, USA Today, and Amazon Bestselling Award winning author. Phew, that was a mouthful! Multi-published in e-book and print with several publishers, I certainly have a ton of voices in my head.
I’m happily married to a military man for 28 years. We have four children and several rescued cats. Michael’s been in the Army National Guard since before he graduated. The Guard has been a part of our lives right from the start. It was only natural for the military to spill into my writing. God bless the military and their families. Thank you all for your sacrifices. ♥
You already know my mom inspired my love of reading,but it was my dad who got me hooked on movies. Even now, if I had the time, I could happily go from one movie to another all day long. They are the reason I love mixed genre and why I can’t just stick to just one in my writing, although, as you can tell, I have a soft spot for cowboys and the military.
Cindi Madsen – Fun, Flirty and a little bit Nerdy- USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance and 
young adult novels. She sits at her computer every chance she gets, plotting revising, and falling in love with her characters. Sometimes it makes her a crazy person. Without it, she’d be even crazier. She has way too many shoes, but can always find a reason to buy a new pretty pair, especially if they’re sparkly, colorful, or super tall. She loves music, dancing, and wishes summer lasted all year long. She lives in Colorado (where summer is most definitely NOT all year long) with her husband and three children.
Jennifer Mcgowan is also author Jennifer McGowan, whose Maids of Honor series of Young Adult 
Elizabethan spy romances are published by Simon & Schuster, and author Jennifer Chance, whose Rule Breakers series of New Adult contemporary romances are published by Random House/LoveSwept and Vwhose modern royals series, Gowns & Crowns, is now available.
Jenn Stark is an award-winning author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy. She lives and writes in Ohio… and she definitely loves to write. In addition to penning her “Immortal Vegas” urban fantasy series and “Demon Enforcers” paranormal romance series, Urban fantasy, paranormal, and YA fiction
Violet Howe enjoys writing romantic suspense and romantic women’s fiction, both with healthy doses of humor. She lives in Florida with her knight in shining armor and their two handsome sons. They share their home with three adorable but spoiled dogs. When she’s not writing, Violet is usually watching movies, reading, or planning her next travel adventure. You can follow Violet’s ramblings on her blog, The Goddess Howe.
Before dedicating myself to writing full-time, I spent fifteen years immersed in wedding planning and five years teaching in a middle-school classroom–both of which gave me countless stories and experiences to draw from for writing inspiration!
I am happily married to a man I consider My Knight in Shining Armor, and I am a mother to a teenage son whose intelligence, wit, and finesse with sarcasm amazes me daily. We share our home (and live in servitude for) our three insanely spoiled dogs.
I absolutely love to travel, and planning a trip is almost as much fun for me as actually going. I am a fanatic about all things movies–quotes, trailers, awards shows, midnight premieres, marathons, trivia, the smell of popcorn. If it’s movie-related, I’m in.
I’m a drama queen. A hopeless romantic. Chronically late despite my best intentions. Moderately disorganized. I’m passionate and loyal. I love to laugh and I cry at pretty much anything remotely sappy. I love stories with happy endings, and I believe we can change the world if we try.
Jodi Vaughn is a USA TODAY best selling author. She was born and raised in Mississippi. Her deep Southern roots and love of the paranormal led her to write Southern Paranormal novels. She is the author of the hit series, RISE OF THE ARKANSAS WEREWOLVES. She also writes contemporary romance in addition to paranormal romance and urban fantasy.She currently lives in Northeast Arkansas with her handsome husband, brilliant son, adopted swan, and yellow lab that is fond of retrieving turtles when duck season is over. She’s recently added a black lab named Harley and a German Anatolian puppy named Lulu. They both love eating anything not nailed down..
KaLyn Cooper enjoys speaking to wives groups about various subjects from books and a writing career to 
“Afterlife: Life After He Takes Off the Rank”.
KaLyn Cooper’s romances blend fact and fiction with blazing heat and heart-pounding suspense. Twenty-two years as a military wife has shown KaLyn the world, and thirty years in PR taught her that fact can be stranger than fiction. She leaves it up to the reader to separate truth from imagination. She, her husband, and Little Bear (Alaskan Malamute) live in Tennessee on a micro-plantation filled with gardens, cattle, and quail. When she’s not writing, she’s at the shooting range or on the river.
Monette Michaels A Hoosier born and raised, Monette lives in the heartland near Indianpolis, Indiana.
After obtaining her law degree, she worked in a small general practice, attempting in her own way to right wrongs and fight the good fight. Little did she realize that all those clients, opposing counsel and the problems she handled would jump start the need to write fiction. But after twenty years in law, she did just that — started writing. First, romantic suspense, then adding paranormal romance and science fiction romance, then adding a sexier side (as Rae Morgan).
She still practices law – – but writing is her passion. Monette is married to her college sweetheart and has one son and a cat. The cat is the boss. Monette (and Rae) love to hear from her fans. Rae Morgan has her own Author Central page, please visit her there. I’m an attorney with a science background and my husband is a pathologist.
Here is the schedule if you want to watch the interview on Facebook Live.
