Our Members

RACHEL BUTLER likes showing her snarkier side. She lives in denim, leather and stilettos, always has an opinion and is never shy about stating it, and is just generally an outlet to save her alter ego’s sanity. She’s got a rarely-updated website and a blog called Rachel Speaks (though sometimes she privately calls it Rachel Rants). Check her out.

JACKIE KRAMER Jackie has been writing most of her life; everything from Star Trek fan fiction to romance to SF/horror. She’s been lucky enough to sell everything she’s submitted, but never gets over the awe she feels when someone actually likes what she’s written.

In her spare time, Jackie enjoys Celtic music, studying ancient/medieval history, and loves to collect fantasy creatures. She reads anything, including cereal boxes in a pinch. She plans to continue writing until they pry her keyboard out of her cold, dead hands. www.jackiekramer.com

 

Scandal in Copper Lake, February 2009

MARILYN PAPPANO is the award-winning and best-selling author of more than sixty books for Silhouette, Warner, Bantam and Dell. Her titles include the popular Bethlehem series that began with Season for Miracles, the basis for the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, and the ongoing Calloway Brothers series for Silhouette Romantic Suspense. Visit her webpage, but don’t be surprised if it’s not very current. She’d rather spend her time writing books or playing Mahjong.

 

 

 

ASHLYNN PEARCE  is currently working on her 2nd book, A PIRATE’S FATE. Time-travel back to 1503 Scotland and learn why the heroine decides to stay with her Scottish hero (like she needs another reason, other that he’s Scottish). She LOVES hanging out with her RWI sisters and absorbs everything they teach her. Check her out!

 

 

DEANNA PONDER is thrilled to hang with the fabulous women of RWI (and they let me play with the newsletter too!!). She is currently working on a sexy contemporary, a fantasy and a historical and wonders what she will be when she grows up. More at MySpace.

MARGARET E. REID One never knows what Meg will be up to next, or what story she’ll craft from her adventures: Scuba diving (she hopes soon) in the Caribbean – belly, ballroom or zumba dancing – hiking in Big Bend. From March through September she’ll be racing her dirt track bomber car & hopefully on TV in a new reality show. Check out her website and at Myspace.

MARY RHYAN ∞ “ANNIE” Why a rat you ask? Rats tend to be more active after dark. They are industrious, tenacious, and aren’t afraid to scrap when necessary. Rats have big, sharp teeth, yet they very rarely bite. Rats enjoy the company of humans, but on their own terms. Rats aren’t glamorous and they don’t care that they aren’t. Some people find them cute and cuddly, while others can’t stand them–again, the rats don’t care. They thrive in almost any environment or circumstance. As they age, they become less attractive, but much more powerful. Although rats hide most of the time, they are basically fearless. Rats are survivors.

SUSAN SHAY Find out more.

  Susan’s next book,   will be out soon. (As soon as she gets a pub date, she promises to tell the world.) Her first book  published by The Wild Rose Press, is available now.

PLEASE BUY THEM BOTH!   www.thewildrosepress.com or Amazon.

CLAUDE MARY SUSE

LYNN SOMERVILLE is former campaign manager and press secretary to a California State Assemblyman.  Her weekly columns, written under her boss’s name of course, have been published in daily and weekly newspapers in Southern California, including the L.A. Times. She has written three novels but is still waiting on “the call”.  She writes contemporary romance with an edge.  Books, music, rock music specifically, and writing are her passions. Her most prized possession is her accoustic six string Ovation which she “plucks” away at.  An avid history buff,  she pariticpates in living history events that re-create everyday life in the American colonies during the French and Indian War and Revoluntionary War period. 

LINDA TROUT is an award winning author awaiting “The Call”. She loves writing romantic suspense…the twists, the turns, the bad guy dies! She doesn’t know where this facinating journey called writing will take her, but is glad she’s sharing the road with the wonderful bunch of women called Writing Sluts!

SANDEE WAGNER is a technical writer who gets her bent for fiction from documenting software.  “Go ahead and write it, by the time you’re done documenting, the software will be complete.”  Total fiction.  She began writing as an outlet for her rage.  When someone in the workplace made her mad, she’d come home and write a grisly murder scene where their entrails were splashed on the walls.  It did wonders for her stress management.  She writes and loves science fiction, romance and humor.  Although no publisher has felt like taking a chance on her yet, she still writes and submits on a regular basis.