Find below a handy and convenient list of all authors who have author pages set up in the Historical Community. Formerly called The Historical Romance Society, most of these authors have been with us since our website launched our community in 2005. Listed in alphabetical order, this page will be updated frequently when there are updates on any of the author pages listed below. Check back often and see whats new.
Jennifer Ashley
A member since 2005, her page was last updated May 2010
USA Today Bestselling author Jennifer Ashley has lived and traveled all over the world, and now lives in the Southwest. She writes historical, paranormal, and contemporary romance, historical mystery, and historical mainstream fiction. She writes as Jennifer Ashley and also under the pen names Ashley Gardner (mysteries) and Allyson James (paranormal romance).
→ Visit Jennifer’s Author Page
Sara Bennett
A member since 2005, her page was last updated May 2010
Sara Bennett began writing as soon as she could hold a pen, and always knew she wanted to be a published author. After winning a local short story competition and then having several of her stories accepted for an Australian magazine, she thought her dream had come true. But nothing is easy, and writing doesn’t always pay well.
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Nicola Cornick
A member since 2007, her page was last updated May 2010
Nicola Cornick has been a published author since 1998 and started her career writing historical romance for Harlequin Mills & Boon. This was a dream come true for her as she had always loved Mills & Boon Historicals and still has an extensive collection of them on her keeper shelves. She now writes Regency historical romance for Harlequin HQN Books in the US and MIRA in the UK.
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Charlotte Featherstone
A member since 2009, her page was last updated May 2010
Charlotte is an erotic romance writer who pens sexy and sensual tales in both historical and contemporary paranormal genres. Her books are available in both print and e-book formats. Amongst her vices are good chocolate, her husband’s coffee, her DVD of North and South with the ultra yummy Richard Armitage, and a really good book with a dark, brooding alpha male and hot love scenes!
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Gaelen Foley
A member since 2005, her page was last updated May 2010
Gaelen Foley is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen rich, bold historical romances set in the glittering world of Regency England and the Napoleonic Wars. Her books are available in twelve languages around the world, and have won numerous awards, including the Golden Leaf (three times), the Booksellers’ Best (twice), the National Readers’ Choice Award, the Holt Medallion, the CRW Award of Excellence, the Beacon, and the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Historical Adventure, and more.
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Elizabeth Hoyt
A member since 2006, her page was last updated May 27th
Elizabeth Hoyt is a New York Times bestselling author of historical romance. She also writes deliciously fun contemporary romance under the name Julia Harper. Elizabeth lives in central Illinois with three untrained dogs, two angelic but bickering children, and one long-suffering husband.
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Jackie Ivie
A member since 2010, her page was last updated May 27th.
Jackie Ivie was born and raised in a suburb outside Utah’s capital, beautiful Salt Lake City. The second in a family of four daughters and one son, Jackie was constantly amusing her siblings with her invented games, escapades, and stories. And she was always reading. She would even walk the family dog, with one hand holding the leash, while the other held the ever-present book. No subject went unread, but once she discovered Historical Romances, there was no doubting her favorite genre.
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Kayleigh Jamison
A member since 2008, her page was last updated May 2010
A writer and musician at an early age, Kayleigh Jamison wrote her first novella at the age of seven, and first picked up a violin at eight. By eighteen, she had won several state and regional awards for the performance arts, recognizing her accomplishments in violin, viola, and oboe. Unable to resist the lure of the past, Kayleigh finds herself particularly drawn to certain periods of world history, and has spent extensive time studying Stuart Scotland and Tudor England, most specifically the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Brenda Joyce
A member since 2005, her page was last updated May 2010
Brenda Joyce is the bestselling author of over forty-four novels and five novellas. She has won many awards, and her debut novel, Innocent Fire, won a Best Western Romance award. She has also won the highly coveted Best Historical Romance award for Splendor and Two Lifetime Achievement Awards from Romantic Times Book Reviews. There are over 14 million copies of her novels in print and she is published in over a dozen foreign countries.
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Kimberly Killion
A member since 2008, her page was last updated May 2010
Award-winning author, Kimberly Killion, has been hailed by Romantic Times Magazine as an author who writes “captivating romance with excellent pacing and characters who are honorable, intelligent and full of humanity.” Her debut book, Her One Desire (Kensington 2008), was nominated for the romance-publishing industry’s highest award of distinction, the RITA® Award.
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Pamela Labud
A member since 2005, her page was last updated May 2010
Pam is a twenty-four year veteran of the field of nursing. Working mostly in critical care, her long and varied time includes working in the cardiac catheterization lab, post surgical recovery room, the intensive care unit, and home health. For Pam, it’s all about giving people the best care possible and providing emotional support to her patients and their families during what is a most critical time.
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Denise Lynn
A member since 2005, her page was last updated May 2010
Denise read books before she rode a bike. She learned early on that if a book wasn’t handy it was just as easy to create her own story — and it was much more fun. At first her stories were based loosely on Disney’s The Sword in the Stone. Until she discovered an entire section at the bookstore called Romance! What could be better than pirates, highwaymen or knights? The shelves were filled with the most heroic men imaginable and heroines just as brave.
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Sally MacKenzie
A member since 2005, her page was last update May 2010
Sally MacKenzie decided to become a writer in grade school when she read one of her stories to the class. Her classmates laughed and she was hooked. She sat down immediately to pen her first novel.
Well, not exactly.
The hooked part is right—cursed might be a better description—but the sitting down and writing part came later. Much later…
→ Visit Sally’s Website
Julianne MacLean
A member since 2005, her page was last updated May 2010
Julianne MacLean came to the romance genre after completing a degree in English Literature with a focus on nineteenth-century novel study. She fell in love with some of the classic romances – Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Pride and Prejudice- and after a brief stint as a government auditor, decided to try her hand at becoming a modern day romance writer.
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Margaret Mallory
A member since 2009, her page was last updated May 2010
Margaret Mallory started out as a Midwest girl. Except for two years in Africa, she grew up in small towns in northern Michigan, where her dad was a county extension agent. She received degrees from Michigan State University and the University of Michigan Law School, and then headed to Washington, DC to save the world. When that failed, she packed up and moved to the Pacific Northwest for no reason except that it was beautiful and far from her last jobs and boyfriends.
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Delilah Marvelle
A member since 2008, her page was last updated May 2010
Delilah Marvelle spent her youth studying various languages, reading voraciously, and playing the pianoforte. She confesses that herein ends the extent of her gentle breeding. She was a naughty child who was forever torturing her parents with countless adventures that they did not deem respectable. Confined to her room on many occasions due to these misadventures, she soon discovered the quill and its amazing power. Long after she left the house, she continued to write for many years until discovering RWA in 1998. Her interest in history quickly led to a large and unusual collection of books on topics ranging from sex to the privy.
→ Visit Delilah’s Author Page
Christina Phillips
A member since 2010, her page was last updated June 2010
Born in the UK, Christina Phillips met her very own hero when she was just fifteen, was married at twenty and went on to have three wonderful children.
After moving to Australia in December 1998 she decided to get serious about her writing and joined the eHarlequin community. It was there she hooked up with her fabulous CPs. These girls not only help keep her sane but share her love of gossiping on IM, drooling over hot heroes and wearing glittery tiaras at romance conferences.
→ Visit Christina’s Author Page
Rona Sharon
A member since 2006, her page was last updated May 2010
In the summer of 2005, Rona left her career in the corporate world and hopped on a plane to New York City, determined to slam pitch her wickedly inspired first manuscript. A year later, her debut romance novel MY WICKED PIRATE—a dagger edged love story of an Italian desperado and an English Lady—enthralled readers and reviewers alike and was followed in 2007 by ONCE A RAKE—the haunting story of a scarred cavalry commander returning from the Napoleonic wars.
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Pearl Wolf
A member since 2008, her page was last updated May 2010
Pearl Wolf published her first work of fiction—a short anecdote for THE READER’S DIGEST—when she was fourteen years old. For this effort, she received the grand sum of $5.00. That was enough to start her on her writing career. She lives in Manhattan. She has two sons and three grandsons.
→Visit Pearl’s Author Page
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