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This is me at the inaugural Booklovers Conference in New Orleans in May 2019, bracing myself for the Big Book Bash day... 200 authors... thousands and thousands upon thousands of readers... (I sold out in less than two hours, it was amazing!)

“A Day in the Life” of Contemporary Romance Author M. Jane Colette

May 27, 2020 Jessica da Cunha

M. Jane Colette wrote her first book at age four. It was four pages long, featured evil gnomes and sweet woodland animals, and not much plot. She no longer writes about evil gnomes and sweet […]

The author at Owl’s Nest Books for the release party for the Women of Stampede series in July 2018. (photo by Adelle Palmer)

“A Day in the Life” of Romance Author Alyssa Linn Palmer

May 13, 2020 Jessica da Cunha

Alyssa Linn Palmer (pronouns she/her or they/them) is a Canadian author based in Cochrane, Alberta. She writes romance novels, starting with a short historical lesbian romance, Prohibited Passion, in 2011. She continued on her publishing […]