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About usGo Green/Read e would like to offer a special thanks to All Romance eBooks whose generous financial support made this project possible. We'd also like to thank the Go Green/Read e Staff and our 2009 Project Team. If it wasn't for your passion and dedication we wouldn't be here. Go Green/Read e Staff Go Green/Read e 2009 Project Team
Eliza GayleModerator - New AccountsAfter penning several sequels to her favorite movies in her youth, with a more romantic slant of course, Eliza temporarily put away her dream of writing for service in the Marine Corps. After the service she was waylaid with college, marriage, the corporate world and having babies. From the moment she read her first erotic romance novel, she knew she had found her niche and realized that her dream was passing her by. So after years of thinking about writing she finally grabbed her laptop and wrote. Eliza lives in beautiful North Carolina and spends her days dividing her time between writing erotic romance, her book video business and raising her two daughters with her husband. She likes her stories hot and spicy whether they be contemporary, fantasy or paranormal and will write in whatever genre her imagination has conjured that day. For more information on Eliza Gayle, visit her website: elizagayle.net Angela JamesModerator - eReader information and discussionIn 2005, Angela James joined Samhain Publishing, Ltd, a small press company focusing on digital publishing, as its executive editor, where she has played an instrumental role in building the company from the ground up. In her executive position at Samhain, Angela is responsible for managing the publisher's editorial services division. Her responsibilities include the management of editorial staff, quality oversight, networking and marketing efforts at regional, national and international writing conferences to promote the digital publishing industry as well as Samhain. In addition to her administrative duties, Angela continues to edit more than 50 authors including national bestselling authors Lucy Monroe, Lilith Saintcrow and Deidre Knight. For more information on Angela James, visit her blog: Nice Mommy - Evil Editor Liz Jasper2009 Blog AmbassadorAward-winning author Liz Jasper always wanted to write books but in college and grad school dutifully studied things that would make her "marketable." She liked her (many) years being a science teacher (most of the time) and later, her career switch as an analyst. And yet…while teaching, doing five page math problems in graduate school, and developing huge budget spreadsheets for multinational corporations, she haunted bookstores and read her way through the library system's fiction sections in three counties. And she took unreasonable joy in fact that, while she very properly interned for a bank during business school, what she did for them was write magazine articles. So she took the plunge, let the creative side loose and started writing books. Why paranormal mysteries? After all those years teaching middle school science, writing about blood-sucking demons was only natural. For more information about Liz Jasper, visit her website: lizjasper.com Cat JohnsonModerator - News SectionIt all started in first grade when Cat Johnson won the essay contest at Hawthorne Elementary School and got to ride in the Chief of Police's car in the Memorial Day Parade…and the rest, as they say, is history. As an adult, Cat generally tries to stay out of police cars and is thrilled to be writing for a living. She has been published under a different name in the Young Adult genre, but released her first romance in 2006. Today, she is a multi-nominated, award-winning author of more than a dozen published romances. On a personal note, Cat has horses, far too many cats, a dog, assorted fish and fowl and one husband and is not sure which of those gives her the most grief. Needless to say, she is very busy on her 18th century little farm in New York State. She plays the harp professionally and stresses this does not mean she plays well, only that she is paid for it. A past tour guide, bartender, marketing manager and Junior League president, Cat's life is quite the dichotomy and on any given day she is equally as likely to be in formal eveningwear as in mucking clothes covered in manure. Most often she is in pajamas on her laptop. Cat looks forward to hearing from you all. For more information about Cat Johnson, visit her website: catjohnson.net Terry Odell2009 Blog AmbassadorTerry Odell was born in Los Angeles and now makes her home in Orlando, Florida. An avid reader (her parents tell everyone they had to move from their first home because she finished the local library), she always wanted to "fix" stories so the characters did what she wanted, in books, television, and the movies. Once she began writing, she found this wasn't always possible, as evidenced when the mystery she intended to write rapidly became a romance. For more information on Terry Odell, visit her website: terryodell.com Rob PreeceModerator - ePublisher information and discussionRob Preece is publisher and senior editor for BooksForABuck.com, a small publisher specializing in Romance, Mystery, Science Fiction and Fantasy. Rob founded BooksForABuck.com in 2000, with a focus on affordable electronic fiction. With his background in high-tech (twenty years in telecommunications and software marketing, technical writing and product management) and in writing, Rob saw electronic publishing as the future of fiction in a world where consumers have many choices for their entertainment dollars. When he's not scouring the slush pile for the next Great American Novel or writing his own fiction, Rob is a book reviewer, fencer, black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and a bridge player. Rob's most recently published novel is HUNGER, a paranormal romance. He's a past RWA Golden Heart finalist and his works have topped several best-selling and highest-rated lists. For more information on Rob Preece, visit his website: rob-preece.com Stella Price2009 Blog AmbassadorA writer of Dark Fantasy Erotic and Paranormal Romance, Stella Price is one half of a sister team with her younger sibling, Audra Price. Writing stories and books straight from their own world, the Eververse, they are multi-published in the e-book world with Phaze, Siren, Total- E -Bound and Tease Publishing. In her early thirties, Stella has been a tour manager, a model, a promoter, a design consultant for a framing firm, a bartender and a retail slave and uses her experiences to her advantage in her writing and everyday life. She's the owner of Twilight Industries, promotions and graphic's company, and is the art director for Tease Publishing. She's also the senior cover artist at several publishers including BluPhi'er Publishing, Snuff books, Sigel Press and Phaze Books. She lives in New York State with her family, over a thousand miles from her sister, who resides in Scotland. For more information on Stella Price, visit her website: stellaandaudra.com Moira Rogers2009 Blog AmbassadorHow do you make a Moira Rogers? Take a former forensic science and nursing student obsessed with paranormal romance and add a computer programmer with a passion for gritty urban fantasy. Toss in a dash of whimsy and a lot of caffeine, and enjoy with a side of chocolate by the light of the full moon. By day, Bree and Donna are mild-mannered ladies who reside in the Deep South. At night, when their husbands and children are asleep, they combine forces to unleash the product of their fevered imaginations upon the page. To learn more about Moira Rogers, visit their webpage at: moirarogers.com Shiela StewartModerator - Available now in eBook!Raised on a rural farm in Saskatchewan, Shiela Stewart relied on her vivid imagination to fill her days. Never did she realize that her need to tell a story would someday lead to becoming a published romance author. In the fall of two thousand and six, Shiela published her very first book and hasn't stopped since. ??When not writing, Shiela spends time with the love of her life, William and their three children. She has a strong affection for animals, which is evident in the five cats, one dog, three turtles and ten fish she owns. Some of her passions aside from writing are drawing and painting and proudly displays her artwork in murals in her home. To learn more about Shiela Stewart, visit her website at: shielasbooks.ca Samantha SommersbyModerator - eBook helpAn avid reader and author of eBooks, Samantha Sommersby left what she used to call her "real life" day job to pursue her dream of writing full-time. Sam's background in the psychiatric field is apparent in her work and allows her to bring a unique perspective to her characters and stories. Samantha lives in southern California with her husband, son, and her cocker spaniel, Buck. She now happily spends her days immersed in the world of the Forbidden, a world where vampires, werewolves, and demons are real, where magic is possible, and where love still conquers all. To learn more about Samantha Sommersby, visit her website at: samanthasommersby.com Devyn Quinn2009 Blog AmbassadorDevyn Quinn lives in the scenic Southwest, though she has called several other states home. She is a huge fan of dark gothic literature, and read tons of books on history and biographies. She especially enjoys reading books on Hollywood before the 1960's. Now divorced (happily so), Devyn lives with her many cats, five ferrets (yes, five!), and Shih Tzu, Tess. After writing for several small presses, including Samhain Publishing and Ellora's Cave, Devyn debuted as a Kensington Books author with Flesh and the Devil in March 2007. Though she writes in both the contemporary and gothic genres, lately Devyn's attention has turned to very dark erotica. Most of her full length novels focus on the struggle of the ordinary person to accept extraordinary happenings in their lives-usually from a supernatural source. To learn more about Devyn Quinn, visit her website at: devynquinn.com Tracy Wolff2009 Blog AmbassadorTracy Wolff collects books, English degrees and lipsticks and has been known to forget where-and sometimes who-she is when immersed in a great novel. At six she wrote her first short story-something with a rainbow and a prince- and at seven she forayed into the wonderful world of girls lit with her first Judy Blume novel. By ten she'd read everything in the young adult and classics sections of her local bookstore, so in desperation her mom started her on romance novels. And from the first page of the first book, Tracy knew she'd found her life-long love. Now a writing professor at her local community college, Tracy writes for New American Library, Harlequin Superromance and Spice. She also gives workshops around the United States--teaching students how to write everything from poetry to literary narratives and short fiction and instructing teachers on how to teach writing. Her first novel, A Christmas Wedding, was published by Harlequin in November of 2008 and will be followed by five more books in 2009 that run the gamut from contemporary to paranormal to erotic suspense. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and three young sons. To learn more about Terry Wolf, visit her website at: tracywolff.com |
