Elaine Golden – Featured Beau Monde Author

Elaine Golden

Elaine, today’s Featured Beau Monde Author, is our current, and wonderfully efficient, Treasurer for the Beau Monde Chapter.

She is an avid historical romance junkie, with a special tendre for the Regency era.

A native of the Washington, DC area, she now resides in Nashville, TN with her husband of over 20 years. When not traveling domestically for her day job, Elaine and her DH like to travel to historically rich international locales.

Elaine debuted with Harlequin Historical Undone! this year with a sensual Regency romance trilogy.

Read about her series here : THE FORTNEY FOLLIES

An Imprudent Lady, February 2011

A Disgraceful Miss, March 2011

A Compromised Innocent, July 2011

You can find Elaine here –

Website

Facebook

Goodreads

Twitter: @elainegolden

Shereen Vedam – Featured Beau Monde Author

Shereen Vedam

Shereen Vedam, a fantasy and regency author, is today’s Featured Beau Monde Author.

She has published several short stories but her one and only published regency short story (with no magic involvement whatsoever) is available for sale through The Wild Rose Press and is called To Capture Love. This short story has garnered some very nice reviews, such as this one :

Coffee Time Romance Review – Reviewed by: Maura – Sensuality rating: Sweet

I loved the way Pauline is able to live in both worlds, as a marriageable young woman of society, and as a very talented artist, all with the approval of her family. This is a great story that fans of this genre will definitely want to read.

Recently, one of Shereen’s unpublished novels (The Coven At Callington) was chosen as one of six semi finalists in Terry Pratchett’s Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now fantasy contest.

Set in 1815, Cornwall, England, this is a tale of a witch and a church guard who become entangled in Church politics and a battle with the fey. This light-hearted romance is an alternate-history fantasy that takes a quirky look at the strengths and weaknesses of love, magic and religious beliefs.
Find her at – Web

J.L. Langley – Featured Beau Monde Author

J.L. Langley
JL is a full-time writer, with over ten novels to her credit.

Among her hobbies she includes reading, practicing her marksmanship (she happens to be a great shot), gardening, working out (although she despises cardio), searching for the perfect chocolate dessert (so far as she can tell ALL chocolate is perfect, but it requires more research) and arguing with her husband over who the air compressor and nail gun really belongs to (they belong to JL, although she might be willing to trade him for his new chainsaw)

Find her at – Web and Facebook and Twitter @JL_Langley

Valerie Bowman – Featured Beau Monde Author

Valerie Bowman

Valerie, today’s Featured Beau Monde Author, is a PRO member of RWA and a former Vice President of the First Coast Romance Writers chapter in Jacksonville, FL.

She has a B.A. in English Language and Literature with a minor in History from Smith College and has been writing and editing professionally for nearly 15 years as a technical writer and editor at a computer software company.

She is a 2011 finalist in the Regency category of the prestigious Golden Heart® Awards and is professionally represented by literary agent Kevan Lyon of the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.

Find her at – Web and Twitter

Miranda Neville – Featured Beau Monde Author

Miranda Neville

Miranda, today’s Featured Beau Monde Author, grew up in England before moving to New York City to work in Sotheby’s rare books department. After many years as a journalist and editor, she decided writing fiction was more fun.

She is the author of historical romances published by Avon, including the Burgundy Club series featuring Regency rare book collectors.

She lives in Vermont.

Find her at – WEBSITE

TWITTER @Miranda_Neville

Barbara Monajem – Featured Beau Monde Author

Barbara Monajem

Barbara, today’s Featured Beau Monde Author, wrote her first story in third grade about apple tree gnomes.

After dabbling in neighborhood musicals and teen melodrama, she published a middle-grade fantasy when her children were young. Now her kids are adults, and she’s writing historical and paranormal romance for grownups.

She lives in Georgia with an ever-shifting population of relatives, friends, and feline strays.

Take a peek at her books – BLOOD & MOONLIGHT, June 2011
NOTORIOUS ELIZA, Epic Winner!

Find her at – Website– Blog – Facebook

Twitter: @BarbaraMonajem

Sally MacKenzie – Featured Beau Monde Author

Sally MacKenzie

Sally, today’s featured Beau Monde Author, writes the funny, hot, Regency-set Naked nobility series for Kensington Zebra.

Her seventh and final (at least for now) Naked novel, The Naked King, releases June 7, 2011 and she’ll be starting a new series for Kensington in 2012. A USA Today bestselling author, Sally’s books have been translated into Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovakian, and Spanish.

She graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame in the first class of women. She’s a Cornell Law School dropout, former federal regulation writer, recovering parent volunteer, and mother of four mostly grown sons. A native of Washington, D. C., she still resides in suburban Maryland with her husband.

Find her at – Website

Blog

Facebook

Facebook fan page

@Sally_MacKenzie or @Sally_MacKenzie

Vicky Dreiling – Featured Beau Monde Author

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Vicky Dreiling, our featured Beau Monde Author, is a confirmed historical romance junkie and Anglophile.

Frequent business trips to the UK allowed her to indulge her passion for all things Regency England. Bath, Stonehenge, and Spencer House are among her favorite places. She is, however, truly sorry for accidentally setting off a security alarm in Windsor Castle. That unfortunate incident led her British colleagues to nickname her “Trouble.”

When she’s not writing, Vicky enjoys reading, films, concerts, and most of all, long lunches with friends. She holds degrees in English literature and marketing. A native Texan, she shares her home with her daughter and a spoiled mini-lop rabbit that lives in a slightly gnawed cardboard cottage.

Find Vicky here – Website

Added News – Vicky will sign HOW TO SEDUCE A SCOUNDREL and HOW TO MARRY A DUKE at the “Readers for Life” Literacy Autographing on Tuesday, June 28, from 5:30–7:30 p.m at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square.

Ann Lethbridge – Featured Beau Monde Author

Ann Lethbridge

Our Featured Beau Monde Author is the chapter’s current President and tireless worker, Ann Lethbridge.

She regularly attends, assists, and signs books at both chapter and national romance writing conferences in Canada and the USA. She also attended the inaugrual Australian Romance Readers Convention in 2009.

Romance Writers of America, the Beau Monde chapter, plus the other chapters she is involved with, are appreciative of Ann’s knowledge, expertise, and her willingness to share her valuable time to help other authors.

An army brat born in England, Ann lived all over the UK in her youth. She grew up loving history, but majored in business, with history on the side.

Now living in Canada, she has a husband and two lovely daughters and a Maltese Terrier called Teaser, who likes to sit on a chair beside the computer while she works.

She loves the Georgian era, and within that, the period known as the long Regency. She also adores happy endings.

You will find her print books in bookstores in the month of issue, as well as on line where you will also find her e-books.

The Gamekeeper’s Lady, HH, April 2011
More than a Mistress, HH, May 2011

Website
Regency Ramble Blog
Facebook
@annlethbridge: @annlethbridge

Donna Hatch – Featured Beau Monde Author

Donna Hatch

Donna’s passion for writing began at age 8 when she wrote her first short story. During her sophomore year in high school, she wrote her first full-length novel, which was recently published.

Her writing has won or been nominated as a finalist in many writing awards including the Whitney, SARA Merritt, and Golden Quill. In between caring for six children, (7 counting her husband), her day job, and her many volunteer positions, she manages to carve out time to indulge in her writing obsession.

A native of Arizona, she writes Regency Romance and Fantasy. And yes, all of her heroes are patterned after her husband of over 21 years, who continues to prove that there really is a happily ever after.

Books – The Guise of a Gentleman; Book 2 of the Rogue Hearts Series

Queen in Exile, a fantasy

Blog

https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnahatch

Diane Gaston – Featured Beau Monde Author

Diane Gaston.

Diane’s dream came true in 2003 with an unexpected phone call from England. The Harlequin Mills & Boon editor who judged her Regency Historical manuscript in the Golden Heart wanted to buy it—and it also won!

Diane’s Regencies have gone on to win RWA’s most prestigious RITA award, the National Readers Choice Award, The Orange Rose (now Bookseller’s Best), the Golden Quill and Holt Medallion.

She continues to write for Harlequin Historical. A member of Beau Monde for at least a decade, Diane enjoys being among like-minded people who love the Regency as much as she does.

She blogs at Risky Regencies on Mondays, Diane’s Blog on Thursdays, and eHarlequin the third Wednesday of the month. You can also find her on Facebook and on Twitter as DianeGaston.

Susan Gee Heino – Featured Beau Monde Author

Susan Gee Heino

Susan began her writing career as a Theatre student, where she discovered writing plays for others to perform was much easier than memorizing lines and showing up to rehearsal every day. After several years working in forsaken little theatres, she settled into her current role as preacher’s wife and child herder.

To preserve her sanity, she took her love of Historical Romance and turned her focus back onto writing. In 2008, she won Romance Writers of America’s prestigious Golden Heart ® Award in the Regency Historical category.

MISTRESS BY MISTAKE was released in 2009 by Berkley Publishing. DAMSEL IN DISGUISE, came out in 2010 and TEMPTRESS IN TRAINING will hit shelves in July of 2011. She is currently working on the fourth book in this series.

Regina Scott- Featured Beau Monde Author

Regina Scott is our Beau Monde Author under the spotlight today. She’s been a member of the Beau Monde since 1996 and served as published author liaison, conference chair, and in 2011 president-elect. Later in 2011, she will step up to become our new President.

Regina started writing novels in the third grade. Thankfully for literature as we know it, she didn’t actually sell her first novel until she had learned a bit more about writing. Since her first book was published in 1998, her stories have traveled the globe, with translations in many languages including Dutch, German, Italian, and Portuguese.

She’s written for both adults and teens, with fourteen novels and four novellas to her credit, all set in the Regency period. She and her husband of over 20 years reside in southeast Washington State.

Regina is a decent fencer and owns a historical costume collection that takes up over a third of her large closet.

Blog: www.nineteenteen.blogspot.com