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The Ladies, Wilnona Marie and Jade Dee, started this journey with the simple thought that life is different from textbook or what society told them. They missed some things. They forgot to to teach everything needed to be a successful women in today's world.  The ladies came together to write a book about what they have learned along the way throughout their lives.  The And I Thought Ladies range in age from 26-62 ( they are all 27 and holding) and have done every sort of job and faced challenges involved at every level of life.   They discuss everything from surviving domestic violence to throwing the perfect twenty dollar party. You can learn more at their website: http://www.andwethought.com/ And for more about our host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com Book Lights - shining a light on good books!

C.H. believes in fate, destiny, and love at first sight. C.H. fell in love at first sight when she was seventeen. She was married for 41 wonderful years until her husband lost his battle with cancer. Soul mates, their hearts will be joined forever. They have three grown children—one son-in-law, two grandsons, two rescue dogs, and two rescue grand-cats. Her characters rarely follow the synopsis she outlines for them…but C.H. has learned to listen to her characters! Her heroes always have a few of her husband’s best qualities: his honesty, his integrity, his compassion for those in need, and his killer broad shoulders. C.H. writes about the things she loves most: Family, her Irish and English Ancestry, Baking and Gardening. Take a trip back in time to Regency England for her new series: The Lords of Vice, or venture back to the Old West with her bestselling Irish Western Series. Fast-forward to the present, stopping at the Circle G Ranch in Pleasure, Texas, before finally landing in Apple Grove, Ohio–Small

Stephanie LaVigne has done a bit of everything. After spending years in the NYC film industry and as a professional photographer specializing in underwater portraits, she eventually settled into her favorite phase of life yet: as an urban adventurer and full-time fiction writer. From hopping trains across the US to crewing a sailboat on a trans-Atlantic crossing, from mushing dogs on a Canadian dogsled to unwittingly hiking Mount Washington (which, as a native Floridian is a big deal), she’s been lucky enough to have incredible adventures with all kinds of real-life characters.  She currently lives in her favorite South Florida neighborhood surrounded by palm trees, peacocks, a few wild kids, one wild husband, and a handful of incredible family and neighbors. You can find out more at her website: https://stephanielavigne.com/ And for more about our host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com Book Lights - shining a light on good books!

Julie Caplin is addicted to travel and good food. Julie Caplin is an English author of romance books best known for her book series Romantic Escapes. She also writes standalones romance books under the penname Jules Wake. She’s always had the passion for reading and writing books right from childhood. She is addicted to good food and travel, and she’s always on the hunt for the ideal gin and obsession picky about tonic, garnishes, and glasses. Formerly a PR director, for many years she swanned around Europe taking top food and drink writers on press trips (junkets) sampling the gastronomic delights of various cities in Italy, France, Belgium, Spain, Copenhagen and Switzerland. It was a tough job but someone had to do it. Her romantic escapes series will take you from Brooklyn to Tokyo to Copenhaguen and everywhere in between. Her latest book, The Little Swiss Ski Chalet is out now. You can find Julie on Facebook, Amazon, Book Series in Order, and BookBub.

Shane Wilson is a storyteller. No matter the medium, the emphasis of his work is on the magical act of the story, and how the stories we tell immortalize us and give voice to the abstractions of human experience.  Born in Alabama and raised in Georgia, Shane is a child of the southeastern United States where he feels simultaneously at-home and out-of-place. He graduated from Valdosta State University in south Georgia with a Masters in English. He taught college English in Georgia for four years before moving to North Carolina in 2013. Shane's short story, "The Boy Who Kissed the Rain" was the 2017 Rilla Askew Short Fiction Prize winner and was nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize. Shane is currently at work on a new novel. Visit www.shanewilsonauthor.com for more! And for more about host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com Book Lights - shining a light on good books!

With over 35 stories in print, best-selling author Monique McDonnell has fun, flirty stories to tell. Monique's writing journey began when she was in 6th grade and wrote about a kutaburra. That article was published in the local paper and with her name in the byline and $10 in her hand, Monique knew she'd found something amazing.  After working in PR, a series of events led Monique to writing full-time. Since then, she's penned the Upper Crust Series, the Jewel Sisters Series, the Courtside Romance series, and a few stand-alone novellas.  Her latest book from the Marlin Shores series, Saltwater Wishes, was just released.  You can find Monique on her website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.     

Meka James is a writer of adult contemporary and erotic romance. A born and raised Georgia Peach, she still resides in the southern state with her hubby of 16 years and counting. Mom to four kids of the two legged variety, she also has four fur-babies of the canine variety. Leo the turtle and Spade the snake rounds out her wacky household. When not writing or reading, Meka can be found playing The Sims 3, sometimes Sims 4, and making up fun stories to go with the pixelated people whose world she controls. You can find out more at her website: https://www.authormekajames.com/ Lisa Kessler is a Best Selling author of dark paranormal fiction. She’s a two-time San Diego Book Award winner for Best Published Fantasy-Sci-fi-Horror and Best Published Romance. Her books have also won the PRISM award, the Award of Excellence, the National Excellence in Romantic Fiction Award, the Award of Merit from the Holt Medallion, and an International Digital Award for Best Paranormal. Her short stories have been published in pri

A public relations professional, Denny S. Bryce spent more than 20 years running her marketing and public relations firm. For nearly 10 of those years, she wrote and read Buffy/Spike fan fiction.  Before fanfiction, and her days as a PR Diva, the graduate of Barat College at DePaul University, was a professional dancer, part-time singer, and “bad” actress. She worked with professional dance companies in Chicago and New York, and a theatrical production, which almost debuted off-off-off-Broadway.  Her debut novel, Wild Women and the Blues brings the past and the present together when a grieving film student Sawyer Hayes seeks out the 110-year-old Honoree to get answers for his thesis on the legendary filmmaker, Oscar Micheaux and they discover more than they bargained for.   The book has been featured in O Magazine, Bustle, Parade, Marie Claire, and multiple others. You can find Denny at her website, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook.    

Kelly Cain is a multicultural romance author. She loves reading most genres but don’t ask her to pick just one. However, she can pick her favorite book boyfriend – Will Herondale – although Jamie Fraser is a close second. When she isn’t reading or writing, she’s most likely using ancestry to research her extended family, both old and new. Or cooking/baking something delightful. She has two adult daughters, and a new granddaughter, and lives in Austin, Texas. You can connect with her through her website kellycainauthor.com, twitter @kellycainauthor, and facebook KellyCainAuthor. And for more about our host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com Book Lights - shining a light on good books!

Contemporary Romance & Chick Lit with sizzle and sass Brynn North's goal is to write fun, witty, and relatable books that leave you with a smile and laugh. Her heroines are often finding their way in life, in and out of relationships. Her characters may not always be perfect people, but hey, neither are we, right? She hopes that you can see another perspective or even parts of yourself in her books and realize you aren't alone in figuring this whole life thing out. 
Her books are chick lit or closed-door romance, perfect for readers who love chemistry and sizzle but no explicit content. She is a Minnesota native and still lives in Minneapolis with her family, loving it for approximately eight months out of the year. The other four months she dreams about moving to a warmer zip code. She is a total cat lady, with the best cats in the entire world. #sorrynotsorry Her books Love Refined and Love Game are out now with additional books ready for you to preorder. You can find Brynn at her website, Faceb

Kristi is a scientist and science fiction/urban fantasy author who resides in Vancouver, Canada. Kristi writes what she loves; adventure heavy stories featuring strong, savvy female protagonists with the occasional RPG fantasy game thrown in the mix. She is also a co-host on the popular Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing Podcast. She received her BSc and MSc from Simon Fraser University in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, and her PhD in Zoology from the University of British Columbia.  You can find out more about her at: http://www.kristicharish.com/ And for more about our host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com Book Lights - shining a light on good books!

C.P. Hoff lives in southern Alberta with her husband and children. She has written for the local paper, which might be impressive if she lived in New York, and if anyone read the local paper. Hoff is a founding member of WordBridge Writers Conference in Lethbridge Alberta. Her first novel, A Town Called Forget, was longlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal For Humour. Her second novel, West of Ireland, received a Kirkus star and was featured in Kirkus Best Indie Fiction & Literature 2020. You can learn more on her website here: https://cphoff.com/ And for more about our host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com Book Lights - shining a light on good books!

Despite working as a professional wordsmith – Halima is a broadcast journalist having worked with the BBC and ITV.   Since she was a child, she knew that words would be her thing. With a lifelong passion for writing, Halima wrote her first novel - a coming-of-age children's story - at the age of 12. It was politely turned down by all the major publishing houses. However, proving that writing was indeed her forte, Halima went on to study English and Journalism and was one of just four people in the UK to be granted a BBC scholarship during her postgraduate studies. Along with being a PR consultant,Halima also blogs on lifestyle, food, travel, and parenthood on halimabobs.com. This is where she also shares updates on her novels, her first, The Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage came out in 2020 and her latest book, the second of the series, The Secret Life of a Bengali Bridezilla was released in early 2021. You can find Halima at her website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.   

For as long as Chrstine Feehan can remember she's been a writer and lucky for us as she put those multiple stories down.  Her books have hit #1 New York Times bestselling author fifteen times over with her portfolio including over 50 published novels. This includes six series that include the Leopard Series, Dark Series, Ghostwalker Series, Drake Sisters Series, the Sisters of the Heart Series, and her new Shadow Series as well as other single titles.  She lives on the beautiful Northern California coast where she draws inspiration from the incredible beauty of the region. She loves people, dogs, good books, great coffee and her fabulous family.  Her latest release, Storm Shadow, is the 6th book of the Storm Shadow Riders series and out now. You can find Christine at her website, Facebook, Goodreads, and Instagram. 

EDWARD M. LERNER worked in high tech and aerospace for thirty years, as everything from engineer to senior vice president, for much of that time writing science fiction as his hobby. Since 2004 he has written full-time.His novels range from near-future technothrillers, like Small Miracles and Energized, to futuristic mysteries, like The Company Man, to such traditional SF-adventure fare as Dark Secret and his InterstellarNet series. Collaborating with Larry Niven, Lerner also wrote the space-opera epic Fleet of Worlds series of Ringworld companion novels. His 2015 novel, InterstellarNet: Enigma, won the inaugural Canopus Award "honoring excellence in interstellar writing." His fiction has also been nominated for Locus, Prometheus, and Hugo awards.In shorter forms, Lerner's writing has appeared in anthologies, collections, and many of the usual SF magazines and websites. He also writes about science and technology, most notably including Trope ing the Light Fantastic: The Science Behind the Fiction. You can fi

Laura Heffernan is the award-winning, internationally best-selling author of fun, witty romantic comedies and more serious women’s fiction. After a few years of practicing law, she realized that she much preferred arguing with her characters rather than other people.  When not watching total strangers get married, drag racing queens, or cooking competitions, Laura enjoys board games, travel, board games, baking, and board games.  Some of Laura’s favorite things include goat cheese, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, the Oxford comma, and ice cream. Not all together. The best place to find her is usually on Twitter, where she spends far too much time tweeting about writing, Canadian chocolate, board games and reality TV. Her newest release Sight Seeing, under her alter ego, Ada Bell, is out now. You can find Laura at her website, FB, Goodreads, Twitter, Amazon, and BookBub.

Chris (C.C.) Humphreys has played Hamlet in Calgary, a gladiator in Tunisia, and a dead immortal in Highlander; he’s waltzed in London’s West End, conned the landlord of the Rovers Return in Coronation Street, commanded a starfleet in Andromeda, and voiced Salem the cat in the original Sabrina. A playwright, his plays have been produced in Calgary, Vancouver and London. He has published 20 novels including The French Executioner, The Jack Absolute Trilogy; Vlad – The Last Confession; A Place Called Armageddon; and Shakespeare’s Rebel. His novel Plague won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel in Canada in 2015. He is now writing epic fantasy with the Immortals’ Blood Trilogy, for Gollancz; the first book, Smoke in the Glass, was published in 2019. Book Two: The Coming of the Dark has now been published in the UK and Canada. He has just published The Tapestry Trilogy set around - and through - the fabulous medieval Unicorn Tapestries in New York's Cloisters museum. He has an MFA in Creative Writ

Carly Bloom began her writing career as a family humor columnist and blogger, a pursuit she abandoned when her children grew old enough to literally die from embarrassment. To save their delicate lives, Carly turned to penning steamy, contemporary romance. The kind with bare chests on the covers. Carly and her husband raise their mortified brood of offspring on a cattle ranch in South Texas. In fact, according to Entertainment Weekly, Carly's invented a place we want to hang up our hat and kick up our spurs anytime she's got a story to tell.  You can find her latest book Must Love Cowboys out now. To connect with Carly, find her at her website, Twitter, FB, Instagram, and BookBub.  

Sebastien de Castell's acclaimed swashbuckling fantasy series, The Greatcoats. was shortlisted for both the 2014 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fantasy. the Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Debut, the Prix Imaginales for Best Foreign Work, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His YA fantasy series, Spellslinger, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and is published in more than a dozen languages. Sebastien lives in Vancouver, Canada with his lovely wife and two belligerent cats. You can reach him at www.decastell.com And for more about our host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com Book Lights - shining a light on good books!

Priscilla Oliveras, a USA Today bestselling author and 2018 RWA® RITA® double finalist, writes contemporary romance with a Latinx flavor. Her works earned praise from O, The Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist among others. She earned an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and teaches the online class “Romance Writing” for ed2go. Priscilla's also a sports fan, beach lover, and Zumba aficionado, who often practices the art of napping in her backyard hammock. Get her latest book Anchored Hearts and her upcoming release, Summer in the City, is out May 25th. Follow her at her website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.