Reviews for Just About Write

Sandra Barret
Sandra Barret grew up in New England, where she spent more years than she cares to mention as a software programmer. She lives with her partner, two children, and a menagerie of pets. Sandra has been an avid reader of fantasy, horror, and lesbian romance. This interest has led her to pen her own creations in novel and short story format.

Contact her at sbarret_fic@yahoo.com

Mavis Applewater
Mavis Applewater was born and raised just outside of Boston. After earning her degree in Theatre from Salem State College, she began a successful career as a bartender. Still itching for a creative outlet she began writing. Her first novel, The Brass Ring, was published in 2003. This was followed by her second novel, My Sister’s Keeper. Her third novel, Tempus Fugit, was just published. In addition to her full-length novels, Mavis has published four collections of short stories, including the 2007 Goldie Finalist Home for the Holidays. Whispering Pines is her fourth full-length novel. Mavis still lives in the Boston area, and in 2006 legally married her longtime partner, Heather.

Lesley Davis
Lesley Davis lives with her partner in the West Midlands of England and is an avid science fiction/fantasy fan. She's also a passionate gamer and can be found writing on her computer when her Nintendo DS is out of her reach.

She is the author of Keeper of the Piece, Constellations of the Heart, Cast a Wide Circle, Woven in Life's Tapestry and A Touch of Alchemy. She has also had stories published in Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments and Road Games: Erotic Interludes 5.

Erin Dutton
Born in upstate New York, Erin Dutton now lives and works in Tennessee. Her novels include the 2008 Golden Crown Literary Awards Finalist, Sequestered Hearts, along with two other romances. She has also contributed to two anthologies. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, movies, golf, and spending time with her nieces and nephews.

Catherine Friend
Catherine Friend is the author of The Spanish Pearl, The Crown of Valencia, A Pirate’s Heart, The Compassionate Carnivore, Hit By a Farm, and The Perfect Nest. She raises sheep in southeastern Minnesota with her partner Melissa and writes fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books. They have three dogs, three barn cats, and no TV reception, which means their long winter nights are spent cozied up by the wood stove, reading and drinking wine. It’s a rough life.

Gerri Hill
Gerri Hill began writing lesbian romance as a way to amuse herself while snowed in one winter in the mountains of Colorado, and hasn’t looked back.

Her first published work came in 2000 with One Summer Night. Many more romances have followed, with the occasionaly murder mystery in the mix.

Her awards include the 2007 GCLS winners, Behind the Pine Curtain and The Killing Room, the GCLS finalist Hunter's Way and the Lambda finalist In the Name of the Father.

Gerri’s love of nature and of being outdoors usually makes its way into her stories as her characters often find themselves in beautiful natural settings.

When she isn’t writing, Gerri and her longtime partner, Diane, can be found at their home in East Texas, where their vegetable garden, orchard, and five acres of woods keep them busy. They share their lives with an ever-changing cast of furry friends.

Gerri’s favorite pastimes include camping, hiking, birdwatching (though she insists that she doesn’t wear funny hats yet!), photography, and cooking. She collects things nature offers, like an unusual pinecone, colorful rocks, or an abandoned bird feather. Dawn is her favorite time of day, the moment right before sunrise.

Visit Gerri’s site at www.gerrihill.com.

Frankie J. Jones
Frankie Jones is the author of fifteen novels. She is also an award-winning artist and freelance nature photographer.

Susan X. Meagher
Susan X. Meagher lives in New York with her partner. She has written a number of books, including the extensive series based on her work I Found My Heart in San Francisco. She enjoys discussing her work with readers and maintains more than one online group for this purpose.

You can learn more about her and contact her at her website: http://www.susanxmeagher.com

Kim Pritekel
Kim Pritekel was born and raised in Colorado. She is a full-time writer, working on novels as well as in the film industry.

She is a writer, producer, and director, currently working to bring several of her novels to the big screen through her film company, Asp Films.

Radclyffe
Radclyffe has written over thirty novels and multiple anthologies. She is a five-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, a Lammy winner in both romance and erotica, and a recipient of several Goldies from the Golden Crown Literary Society. A retired surgeon, she brings her knowledge of the medical world to many of her novels. Radclyffe is the founder and publisher of Bold Strokes Books. She lives with her partner in upstate New York.

Shaylynn Rose
Shaylynn Rose was born and raised in California where she now lives. She started writing when she was a child and shared her poems with her teachers. She's the owner of a handmade crafts business where she makes and sells jewelry, medieval style garb and other assorted items. Banshee's Honor is her first published book. She can be contacted at the following places:
Fanfic website: http://www.geocities.
com/ shaych3/playground.htm;

Livejournal:
http://shaych-3.livejournal.com/;
and The Visitor’s Guide to Y’Myran: http://members.aol.com/
astariu/ymyran.htm.

Kate Sweeney
Kate Sweeny was born in Chicago and lives in Villa Park, Illinois, where she is an office manager—"no glamour here, folks; it pays the bills."

Humor is deeply embedded in Kate’s DNA. She sincerely hopes you will see this when you read her novels, short stories, and other works.

She was the recipient of the 2007 Golden Crown Literary Society award for Debut Author for her first book in the Kate Ryan mystery series, She Waits. The same book was also nominated for the Lambda Literary Society award for Lesbian Mystery.

Her other books are A Nice Clean Murder, The Trouble With Murder, Away From the Dawn and Residual Moon. She also contributed to an anthology Wild Nights: (Mostly) True Stories of Women Loving Women.

You can visit her web site at www.katesweeneyonline.com or email her at ksweeney22@aol.com.

Jessica Thomas
Jessica Thomas is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she attended Girls’ Preparatory School. She later graduated cum laude from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, with a bachelor’s degree in literature.

After early retirement, Miss Thomas spent a bit of time doing some rather dull freelance assignments and ghostwriting two totally depressing self-help books, always swearing someday that she would write something that was just plain fun. When her friend, Marian Pressler “gave” her Alex and Fargo, Jessica took them immediately to heart and ran right to her keyboard.

Ali Valli
Originally from Cuba, Ali Vali has retained much of her family’s traditions and language and uses them frequently in her stories. Having her father read her stories and poetry before bed every night as a child infused her with a love of reading.

In 2000, Ali decided to embark on a new path and started writing. She has discovered that living in Louisiana with her partner and running a non-profit provides plenty of material to draw from in creating her novels and short stories. Mixing imagination with different life experiences, she creates characters that are engaging to the reader on many levels. Ali states that "The feedback from readers encourages me to continue to hone my skills as a writer."

Her other books are Carly's Sound; Second Season; and the books in the Cain Casey series, The Devil Inside, The Devil Unleashed and Deal with the Devil.

She can be reached at www.myspace.com/alivali

Jane Vollbrecht
Second Verse is Jane’s fifth novel. Her first two books, Picture Perfect and Heart Trouble, were finalists for Golden Crown Literary Society awards. Her third novel, In Broad Daylight, was published in January 2007 and won a Goldie in the Dramatic Fiction category, and her fourth book, Close Enough, was released in July 2007.

She also has had several short stories included in anthologies and works as an editor when she’s not authoring her own books. In addition, she is now part of the management team at Blue Feather Books, Ltd.

MJ Williamz
MJ Williamz was raised on California’s Central Coast which she still loves, but left at the age of seventeen in an attempt to further her education. She graduated from Chico State with a degree in Business Management. It was in Chico that MJ began to pursue her love of writing.

Now living in Portland, OR, MJ has made writing an integral part of her life. Since 2002, she’s had over a dozen short stories accepted for publication, mostly erotica with a few romances thrown in for good measure. Shots Fired is MJ’s first published novel.