Janet Evanovich is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a former lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet after losing her job. The novels in this series have been on The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestseller lists. Evanovich has had her last seventeen Plums debut at #1 on the NY Times Best Sellers list and eleven of them have hit #1 on USA Today Best-Selling Books list. She has over two hundred million books in print worldwide, and her books have been translated into over 40 languages.
Nora Roberts is an American author of more than 225 romance novels. She writes as J. D. Robb for the in Death series and has also written under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publications in the U.K. as Sarah Hardesty.
Kathleen Eagle is an American author of over 40 romance novels.
Lois Duncan Steinmetz, known as Lois Duncan, was an American writer, novelist, poet, and journalist. She is best known for her young-adult novels, and has been credited by historians as a pioneering figure in the development of young-adult fiction, particularly in the genres of horror, thriller, and suspense.
Janet Ellen Morris is an American author of fiction and nonfiction, best known for her fantasy and science fiction and her authorship of a non-lethal weapons concept for the U.S. military.
Catherine Anderson, is an American best-selling writer of historical and contemporary romance novels since 1988.
Patricia Maxwell, née Patricia Anne Ponder is a best-selling American author of over fifty novels. A member of the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame and the Affaire de Coeur Romance Hall of Fame, Maxwell has received numerous awards for her writing. Her first novel in the romance genre, Love's Wild Desire, became a New York Times Bestseller.
Betty Lee Duran was an American writer of romance novels. She started writing as Ruth Jean Dale, and now she writes as Lee Duran.
Cassie Edwards is a best-selling American author of over 100 historical romance novels. She has been published by Dorchester Publishing, Signet Books, Kensington Publishing and Harlequin.
Ruth Glick née Burtnick,, is a writer of cookbooks, romance and young adult novels. She has written novels under the pseudonym Rebecca York; until 1997 these were written in collaboration with Eileen Buckholtz.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips is a romance novelist from the United States. She is the creator of the sports romance and has been called the “Queen of Romantic Comedy.”
Dorothy Garlock was an American author of over 50 historical romance novels, most of them set in the American West. Many of her books became bestsellers. She also wrote under the pen names Johanna Phillips, Dorothy Phillips and Dorothy Glenn.
Jeanne Hines was an American writer of gothic novels as her real name and romance novels as Valerie Sherwood and Rosamond Royal.
Bethany Campbell and Lisa Harris are pen-names of Sally McCluskey, an American writer of romance novels.
Sally Wentworth was the pseudonym used by Doreen Hornsblow, a British romance writer of 70 romance novels in Mills & Boon's from 1977 to 1999.
Leigh Michaels is the pseudonym used by LeAnn Lemberger, a popular United States writer of over 80 romance novels. She published her novels in Harlequin Enterprises Ltd since 1984 to 2006. She also teaches romance writing for Gothan Writers' Workshop among other places.
Jean Saunders, née Jean Innes was a British writer of romance novels from 1974 to 2010. She wrote under her married and maiden names, and also under the pseudonyms of Rowena Summers, Sally Blake, and Rachel Moore. She also wrote an erotic novel as Jodi Nicol and also published writing books.
Eileen Buckholtz, née Garber was a United States novelist from 1982 to 1997. She wrote under her married name in collaboration with Ruth Glick, and also in collaboration with her under the pseudonyms of Amanda Lee and Rebecca York until 1997.
Jean S. MacLeod was a prolific British writer of over 130 romance novels from 1936 to 1996, she also used the pseudonym of Catherine Airlie.
Maureen Peters was a historical novelist, under her own name and pseudonyms such as Veronica Black, Catherine Darby, Belinda Gray, Levanah Lloyd, Judith Rothman, Elizabeth Law and Sharon Whitby.
