Category: Featured Beau Monde Authors
Sophia Nash – Featured Beau Monde Author
Sophia Nash is today’s Featured Author for The Beau Monde Regency chapter of Romance 
Writers of America.
Sophia Nash’s first three novels won eight national awards including the prestigious RITA Award and a spot on the American Library Association’s “Top Ten Romances of the Year.”
Sophia was born in Switzerland, raised in France and the United States, but says her heart resides in Regency England. Her ancestor, an infamous French admiral who traded epic cannon fire with the British Royal Navy, is surely turning in his grave.
Before pursuing her long held dream of writing Historicals, Sophia was an award winning television producer for CBS, a congressional speechwriter, and a nonprofit CEO.
Now writing for Avon/Harper Collins, Sophia’s back to back releases of her brand new Royal Entourage series are: Between the Duke and The Deep Blue Sea and The Art of Duke Hunting.
Find Sophia Nash at – Web Facebook
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Sophia Nash - Between the Duke and the Deep Blue Sea
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Shannon Donnelly – Featured Beau Monde Author
Shannon Donnelly is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author. 
Shannon Donnelly’s writing has won numerous awards, including a RITA nomination for Best Regency, the Grand Prize in the “Minute Maid Sensational Romance Writer” contest, judged by Nora Roberts, RWA’s Golden Heart, and others.
Her writing has repeatedly earned 4½ Star Top Pick reviews from Romantic Times magazine, as well as praise from Booklist and other reviewers, who note: “simply superb”…”wonderfully uplifting”….and “beautifully written.”
Her latest Regency Historical Romance, Paths of Desire, can be found as an ebooks on Kindle, Nook and at Smashwords, along with her Regency romances, and her free novella, Cats Cradle. She has had novellas published in several anthologies, has had young adult horror stories published, and is the author of several computer games.
Shannon is a regular speaker at writing conferences, and will be speaking at the 2012 RWA National conference in Anaheim. She gives online workshops and is the author of Story Telling; Story Showing, an ebook that compliments her popular online class Show and Tell: An Interactive Workshop. She lives in New Mexico with two horses, two donkeys, two dogs, and the one love of her life.
Find Shannon at – sd-writer.com 
twitter.com/sdwriter facebook.com/sdwriter
Google+ as SdonnellyNM@gmail.com
Elena Greene – Featured Beau Monde Author
Elena Greene is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author
Elena Greene grew up reading her mother’s Georgette Heyer novels, but it wasn’t until she went on an international assignment to the United Kingdom that she was inspired to start writing her own.
Her first Regency romance was published in 2000 and was followed by five more Regencies and a novella.
Her books have won the Desert Rose Golden Quill and Colorado Romance Writers’ Award of Excellence.
Her Super Regency, LADY DEARING’S MASQUERADE, won RT Book Club’s award for Best Regency Romance of 2005.
Elena lives in upstate New York with her stroke survivor husband and two daughters.
Website: Elena Greene
Blog: www.riskyregencies.blogspot.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ElenaGreene
Grace Kone (Blair Bancroft) – Featured Beau Monde Author
Grace Kone (Blair Bancroft) is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author
Grace Kone’s Biography -
I began writing (as Blair Bancroft) later than most because my mother was the successful author of children’s books, and it never occurred to me we could have two writers in the same family.
When I did make the attempt, the Regency was closest to my heart. But since I truly believe variety is the spice of life, I also write Romantic Suspense, Thrillers, Mystery, Futuristic, and Steampunk.
My Tarleton’s Wife won a Golden Heart and The Indifferent Earl, a RITA finalist, was chosen Best Regency by Romantic Times.
In 2011 I went “indie” with my backlist and am thoroughly enjoying the renaissance of my traditional Regencies.
A new Regency novella, Mistletoe Moment, was published by Ellora’s Cave (Blush) for the holidays.
Grace Kone Orange blossoms & Mayhem
And in January 2012 I uploaded my first indie-published new work, the thriller, Orange Blossoms & Mayhem.
Website: www.blairbancroft.com
Blog: http://mosaicmoments.blogspot.com
Facebook: Grace Kone
Linkedin: Grace Kone
Twitter: @blairbancroft
Deb Marlowe – Featured Beau Monde Author
Today’s Featured Beau Monde Author is Deb Marlowe.
Deb Marlowe
Deb Marlowe adores history, England and Men in Boots.
Clearly she was destined to write Regency Historical Romance. A member of RWA, the Heart of Carolina RWA and the Beau Monde for nearly 15 years, she’s won the Royal Ascot and the Golden Heart and has been nominated for a Rita.
She sold her first book to Harlequin Historicals in 2006 and her newest, Tall, Dark and Disreputable releases in March 2012. She is a director of the Raleigh/Durham satellite of Lady Jane’s Salon.
She lives in North Carolina where she spends her days with the people in her head and her evenings with her wonderful husband, her two charming, active and hungry boys and one spoiled cat.
Anna Small – Featured Beau Monde Author
Anna Small is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Anna Small
Anna is a PRO member of Romance Writers of America and according to her, it seems like she’s been writing romance forever!
Anna says….My western historical, TAME THE WILD WIND, was published by The Wild Rose Press in 2010 and a contemporary romance, TAKING A CHANCE ON FOREVER, was published in 2011 by Bookstrand.
My website is www.annasmallbooks.com.
Alicia Rasley – Featured Beau Monde Author
Alicia Rasley is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Alicia grew up as the oldest girl in a family of ten. She had a lot of responsibility early, but she is a self-admitted daydreamer. Books provided an escape from her routine life, and some of the books she read were the Regency novels of Georgette Heyer. "Suddenly there was a new world for me, far from the noise and chaos of a big family and school, a place of elegance and wit," she tells us. She was inspired to write Regencies, and after beginning a dozen, she finished her first when she was twenty-five. She wrote a half dozen Regencies, winning a Rita Award along the way.
But Alicia did not stay entirely faithful to Regency novels. She wrote a couple of women’s fiction novels and two non-fiction writing how-tos. But she has returned to the writing of Regencies once again, admitting that she has been seduced back into that elegant, exciting time and place. She likes rakish heroes, reckless heroines and elegant stories.
Regardless of all the romance she has read and written, Alicia says she has always been practical and is the most unromantic romance writer one would ever meet. She pours all her romantic notions into her writing. "Just ask my husband!" she says. "He’ll tell you he really gets off easy when it comes to anniversary and birthday gifts!"
Her most recent novel is The Year She Fell.
The Year She Fell - Alicia Rasley
Find her at Facebook — regencystories.wordpress.com/ — www.rasley.com
Lauren Smith – Featured Beau Monde Author
Lauren Smith is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Lauren Smith has been obsessed with writing since the third grade, when her teacher convinced her to submit her mystery thriller novella to a young writer’s conference in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ever since that fateful day, Lauren’s been a dedicated writer. Having grown up on classics and fantasy novels, she didn’t start writing romance until her second year of law school.
Lauren is currently an Intellectual Property attorney with both American and Canadian law degrees, but she stays up late to write by the flashlight app on her smart phone. She loves writing Regency and paranormal romances. In addition to the Beau Monde, she belongs to the Oklahoma Outlaws and Passionate Ink where she writes erotic romance under the pen name Emma Rochester. Lauren was a 2011 semi-finalist for the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Award. She was a quarter-finalist for the 2010 Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award.
Find her at Facebook — Twitter — theleagueofrogues.blogspot.com
Wendy Soliman – Featured Beau Monde Author
Wendy Soliman is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
A British author who grew up on the Isle of Wight in southern England, Wendy was surrounded by historic buildings, castles and ancient ruins. With all that, she says it is little wonder that her first love is historical romance. So far, she has published nine Regency romances and has just started work on a new series which features the Forster dynasty.
Her most recent release from Carina Press is A Scandalous Proposition, featuring a handsome major in the Napoleonic wars and a Spanish heroine with links to the local house of ill-repute. Her next book, The Perfect Impostor, will be released in April, also from Carina Press. When two friends change places for a week, what could possibly go wrong?
Wendy is a member of the RWA, the Tampa Bay Chapter of the RWA, The British Romantic Novelists’ Association, and The British Society of Authors, Novelists Inc. She now divides her time between Andorra and Florida. She lives with her husband, Andre, and a rescued dog of indeterminate pedigree, named after the hero in one of her books, on the basis that they’re both handsome hunks, with independent spirits and naughty streaks.
Find her at Facebook — Twitter — wendysoliman.blogspot.com — www.wendysoliman.com
Taryn Kincaid – Featured Beau Monde Author
Taryn Kincaid is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Taryn Kincaid began writing as soon as she could and has never stopped. She is particularly pleased when she is lucky enough to be paid for her words. In additon to her books, she is also an award-winning reporter and columnist, covering stories ranging from fires and homicides to corrupt politicians and heroic dogs. Taryn is a member of the Beau Monde as well as the Hudson Valley RWA, in addition to the Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal chapters. Her most recent tale, a Regency novella, is Healing Hearts, which was published earlier this year.
Taryn enjoys reading in all genres, but she says she likes writing historical romance and romantic paranormals best. She has a couple of paranormal stories in progress, but is eager to write another Regency, perhaps a story linked to the main characters in her novella, Healing Hearts.
Find her at Facebook — Twitter — dreamvoyagers.blogspot.com
Samantha Kane; Featured Beau Monde Author
Samantha Kane is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Samantha Kane has been writing historical romance for over five years. She is best known for her erotic Regency historical series Brothers in Arms. She is also published in both science fiction and contemporary romance.
Samantha lives in North Carolina with her husband of fourteen years and three children, two boys and one girl. She spent seven years as a high school history teacher before becoming a full time writer and mom. She has a Master’s degree in American History.
Find her at Facebook — Twitter — www.samanthakane.us/Blog — www.samanthakane.us
Cheryl Bolen – Featured Beau Monde Author
Cheryl Bolen is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Cheryl Bolen is the acclaimed author of eight Regency-set historical romance novels published by Harlequin Historical and Zebra Historicals, some of which are now available as e-books. Her books have placed in several writing contests, including the Daphne du Maurier, and have been translated into eleven languages. She was named Notable New Author in 1999, and in 2006 she won the Holt Medallion (Honoring Outstanding Literary Talent) for Best Short Historical Novel. Her last two books became Barnes & Noble bestsellers.
A former journalist who admits to a fascination with dead Englishwomen, Cheryl is a regular contributor to The Regency Plume, The Regency Reader, and The Quizzing Glass. Many of her articles can found on her website, www.CherylBolen.com. Cheryl holds a dual degree in English and journalism from the University of Texas, and she earned a master’s degree from the University of Houston. She and her professor husband are the parents of two sons, one who is an attorney, and the other a journalist.
Find her at www.cherylbolen.com
Tracey Devlyn; Featured Beau Monde Author
Tracey Devlyn is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Tracey Devlyn writes historical romantic thrillers (translation: a slightly more grievous journey toward the heroine’s happy ending). She accepted a three-book deal from Sourcebooks, Inc. in April 2010. Her first release, A Lady’s Revenge, will hit the bookstores in April 2012.
Tracey is a co-founder of Romance University, a group blog dedicated to readers and writers of romance. She is also a member of Romance Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and the Hearts Through History, The Beau Monde, Women’s Fiction, and Windy City Romance Writers of America chapters.
An Illinois native, Tracey spends her evenings harassing her once-in-a-lifetime husband and her weekends torturing her characters.
Find her at Facebook — Twitter — traceydevlyn.com/blog — traceydevlyn.com
Nicole Jordan – Featured Beau Monde Author
Nicole Jordan is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
New York Times bestselling author Nicole Jordan spins delightful Regency tales that simmer with passion and sensuality. With over two dozen historical romances to her credit and six million books in print, Nicole has earned such honors as RITA finalist, RWA’s Favorite Book of the Year, the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, and the Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence, presented by a group of over one hundred romance reviewers.
In her former life, Nicole grew up as an Army brat, moving frequently and attending high school in Germany. She later earned a civil engineering degree from Georgia Tech. Currently Nicole lives in the Rocky Mountains of Utah with her real-life hero (her husband) and beloved kids (her horses).
Find her at Facebook — nicolejordanauthor.com
Heather Boyd – Featured Beau Monde Author
Heather Boyd is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Heather Boyd is a fan of novels of the English Regency. She has only recently turned her hand to writing, admitting that she finds life as a romance author very exciting. She is the author of erotic romances with an historical bent. She does not like her romance sugar-coated, and is fascinated by the strange language and customs of bygone times, especially those of the Regency. She therefore takes delight in writing m/f and m/m stories which push the boundaries of propriety and even break the laws of that era.
Heather has chosen to eschew literary representation and has come to believe that independent publishing is an essential component of her writing career. She looks eagerly to the future and believes the best of her work is yet to come.
Find her at Facebook — Twitter — heatherboyd.wordpress.com/ — www.heather-boyd.com
Elena Greene – Featured Beau Monde Author
Elena Greene is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
A long time fan of Regency era romance, Elena Greene began writing her own stories after an inspiring three-year international assignment in the United Kingdom. She has written five Regency romances and a Regency novella. Her books have won the Desert Rose Golden Quill Award, the Colorado Romance Writers’ Award of Excellence and the National Readers’ Choice Award. They have also been nominated for the Holt Medallion and the Booksellers’ Best Award.
Elena’s last book, Lady Dearing’s Masquerade, was awarded the Romantic Times Best Regency Romance of 2005.
After a long hiatus due to a family crisis, Elena is happily writing again. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and two children.
Find her at — www.riskyregencies.blogspot.com/ — www.elenagreene.com
Kate Pearce – Featured Beau Monde Author
Kate Pearce is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Kate has been a member of RWA for the last ten years and a member of the Beau Monde for most of those years. She is originally from the UK, but has lived in Northern California for the past thirteen years with her husband and four kids. Having been published in all formats, (small press, UK press, digital, trade and mass market), she considers that has given her a good grasp on the publishing world and that experience will help in her in her role as PAN liaison. She is currently writing erotic Regency romances for Kensington Aphrodisia, (with the occasional steamy novella for Brava) and Tudor Vampire paranormal historicals for Signet Eclipse. Kate is also venturing into self-publishing.
Find her at: Facebook — Twitter — www.katepearce.com/blog — www.katepearce.com
Katharine Ashe – Featured Beau Monde Author
Katharine Ashe is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
The American Library Association’s Booklist named Katharine Ashe among its “New Stars of Historical Romance” and her debut,
Swept Away by a Kiss, was a 2010 nominee for Best First Historical Romance in the Reviewers’ Choice Best Book Awards. Katharine lives in the wonderfully warm Southeast with her husband, son, two dogs, and a garden she likes to call romantic rather than unkempt. A professor of European history, she has made her home in California, Italy, France, and the northern US.
Find her at Facebook — Twitter — www.theballroomblog.com — www.katharineashe.com/
Gail Whitiker – Featured Beau Monde Author
Gail Whitiker is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.
Gail has written over twenty historical and paranormal romances, and is a recipient of the Laurel Leaf Award for Published Authors and the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence. She currently writes Regencies for Mills & Boon Historicals.
Originally hailing from Wales, Gail says her fascination with the Regency began during frequent trips back to visit family and friends, when Sunday afternoon drives would inevitably lead to a castle, a cathedral, or a country house hotel (where she also discovered an unfortunate fondness for Devonshire cream teas and sticky toffee pudding!). She makes her home on the west coast of Canada.
Find her at: Twitter — www.penwarriors.com — www.gailwhitiker.com
