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Cassandra O'Leary is an Australian romance and women's fiction author and freelance writer/communications professional based in Melbourne, Australia. She won the global "We Heart New Talent" writing contest run by HarperCollins UK in 2015, and her debut novel, Girl on a Plane, was published in 2016.
O'Leary was born in Dandenong, Victoria and attended St John's Regional College between 1987 and 1992. She holds a Bachelor of Communications (Public Relations) from Monash University, graduating top of her class in 1998. She is married with two children and lives in Melbourne's south-east suburbs.
Cassandra O'Leary worked for many years as a communications professional, marketing communications consultant and PR advisor at organisations including RMIT University when she took up fiction writing. She was working on romantic fiction and romantic comedy novels and entered many writing competitions beginning in 2014. She was a finalist in the 2014 First Kiss contest, Romance Writers of Australia, and the 2015 Lone Star contest, Northwest Houston Romance Writers of America.
In 2015, O'Leary won the global We Heart New Talent contest run by HarperCollins UK, and her debut novel, Girl on a Plane, was subsequently published in July 2016 by the digital first imprint, Avon Maze. Girl on a Plane was an iBooks top 20 bestseller in both the UK and Australia. The novel has now been contracted for an international translation in the Czech Republic in both ebook and print.
Also in 2016, O'Leary was a finalist in the Best New Author category, AusRom Today Reader's Choice Awards. She has been interviewed by book bloggers and podcasters and has written guest posts for international blogs including the Pink Heart Society and We Heart Writing. She also appeared on a panel at the Australian Romance Readers Convention in February 2017.
Cassandra O'Leary is a member of the Romance Writers of Australia, Romance Writers of America and Writers Victoria.
Julie Pottinger, better known by her pen name, Julia Quinn, is a best-selling American author of historical romance fiction. Her novels have been translated into 41 languages and have appeared on The New York Times Bestseller List 19 times. She has been inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. Her Bridgerton series of novels has been adapted for Netflix by Shondaland under the title Bridgerton.
Pamela Britton is an American author of romance novels. In addition to writing novels, she is a freelance journalist for the Quarter Horse journal JQURNAL. Her non-fiction work is written under the name Pamela Britton-Baer. She is best known for being the first author to secure NASCAR licensing for her works of fiction.
Linda O. Johnston is an American author of mystery and romance novels.
Wally Lamb is an American author known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, both of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club. He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich from 1989 to 1998 and has taught Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Connecticut.
Cynthia Leitich Smith is a New York Times best-selling author of fiction for children and young adults.
Margo Lanagan is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.
Brenda Hiatt is an American, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of romantic adventure novels, including traditional Regency romance, time travel romance, historical novels, contemporary humorous mystery, and most recently young adult science fiction romance. She has authored and published over 20 such novels in a writing career that started in 1988.
Beth Kephart is an American author of non-fiction, poetry and young adult fiction for adults and teens. Kephart has written and published over ten books and has received several grants and awards for her writing. She was a National Book Award Finalist for her book "A Slant of the Sun: One Child’s Courage." She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and son. She is a writing partner in the marketing communications firm, Fusion Communications, and occasionally teaches and lectures at the University of Pennsylvania.
Nicole Burnham is the author of several romance novels and books for teens. She writes romances under the name Nicole Burnham and young adult novels under the name Niki Burnham.
Anuja Chauhan is an Indian author, advertiser and screenwriter. As a writer, she is known for The Zoya Factor (2008), Battle For Bittora (2010), Those Pricey Thakur Girls (2013), The House That BJ Built (2015), Baaz (2017), and Club You To Death (2021). She worked at the JWT advertising agency in India for over 17 years, becoming vice-president and executive creative director before resigning in 2010 to pursue a full-time literary career.
Jennifer Archer is an author of young adult fiction or teen fiction, women's fiction and romance novels. She was born in Cleburne, north central Texas.
Janet Gover is an Australian writer of over a dozen romance novels and more than 20 short stories since 2002. Her work has won numerous awards in the UK and the US, including the Romantic Novelists' Association's Epic Romantic Novel of the Year (2017) and Elizabeth Goudge Trophy (2007).
Celeste O. Norfleet is a contemporary African-American novelist known for romance and young adult novels.
Nalini Singh is a New Zealand author of Indo-Fijian descent. She has authored numerous paranormal romance novels.
Figment was an online community and self-publishing platform for young writers. Created by Jacob Lewis and Dana Goodyear, who both worked at The New Yorker, the site officially launched on December 6, 2010. At the time of its closure, Figment had over 300,000 registered users and over 440,000 'books', or pieces of writing. Other features included frequent writing contests, a blog, forums, and The Figment Review. On February 27, 2012, Figment announced it would purchase and merge user bases with its rival site, Inkpop.com. On March 1, 2012, the two sites merged userbases and works. On October 29, 2013, Figment was acquired by Random House Children's Group. As of February 1, 2018, the site now redirects to Underlined, a book-themed blog also owned by Random House. All stories on Figment were deleted during the shutdown. A story creation tool will be added to Underlined as part of the transition from Figment to Underlined.
Mary Alice Moore Connealy is an American author of Christian fiction who specializes in romantic comedy set in the cowboy era of the American west.
Barbara O'Neal is an American romance novelist who has written over forty books under different pen names.
Sarah Mayberry is an Australian contemporary romance author and television screenwriter. She has written several novels for Harlequin Mills and Boon, as well as scripts for the television soap opera Neighbours. She was a storyliner for the New Zealand medical drama Shortland Street and co-created the teen drama series Karaoke High with Kirsty McKenzie. Mayberry and her works have been nominated for several awards, and she won the Favourite Erotic Romance accolade at the Australian Romance Readers Awards in 2015.
Cath Crowley is a young adult fiction author based in Melbourne, Australia. She has been shortlisted and received numerous literary awards including the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction for her novel Graffiti Moon and, in 2017, the Griffith University Young Adult Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards for Words in Deep Blue.
Denise Hunter is an American author of romance, Christian and women's fiction. She has written more than 40 novels and has appeared on the Amazon, ECPA, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers lists. Three of her books have been adapted into Hallmark movies: The Convenient Groom, A December Bride, and The Goodbye Bride. Hunter has appeared on the 700 Club and received awards such as The Holt Medallion Award, The Carol Award, The Reader's Choice Award, and The Foreword Book of the Year Award.
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