About Ciji Ware
In addition to the novella “The Ring of Kerry Hannigan,” Ciji Ware is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of eight novels and two nonfiction works. She is the daughter, niece, and descendant of writers (including William Ware, author of the historical romance Zenobia, 1836; Henry Ware, author of On the Formation of the Christian Character, 1831), so the writing profession is just part of the “family business.”
Among her many accolades, she has been honored with the Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence and a Romantic Times Award for Best Fictionalized Biography for Island of the Swans, and as a result of that book, was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (FSA Scot), a tribute she treasures. In 2012, she was a finalist in the prestigious WILLA (Cather) Literary Award for A Race to Splendor.
Ware is also an Emmy-award winning television producer, former radio and TV on-air broadcaster for KABC in Los Angeles, as well as a print and online journalist. She received a BA in History from Harvard University and has the distinction of being the first woman graduate of Harvard College to serve as the President of the Harvard Alumni Association, Worldwide.
The author lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and can be contacted at http://www.cijiware.com.
About Diana Dempsey
Diana Dempsey traded in an Emmy Award-winning career in TV news to write fast, fun romantic fiction. She is the author of eight women’s fiction and mystery novels. Her debut novel, Falling Star, was nominated for a RITA award for Best First Book by the members of Romance Writers of America. The Ms America mysteries introduce beauty queen and budding sleuth Happy Pennington.
In her dozen years in television news, the former Diana Koricke played every on-air role from network correspondent to local news anchor. She reported for NBC News from New York, Tokyo, and Burbank, and substitute anchored such broadcasts as Sunrise, Today, and NBC Nightly News. In addition, she was a morning anchor for KTTV 11 Fox News in Los Angeles. She started her broadcast career in the anchor chair for Financial News Network.
Born and raised in Buffalo, New York—Go, Bills!—Diana is a graduate of Harvard University and the winner of a Rotary International Foundation Scholarship. She enjoyed stints overseas in Belgium, the U.K., and Japan, and now resides in Los Angeles with her husband and a West Highland White Terrier, not necessarily in that order.
Diana loves to hear from readers. Visit www.dianadempsey.com to email her, and be sure to sign up for her mailing list while you’re there to hear first about her new releases.
About Kate Moore
Kate Moore is a Readers’ Crown winner and three-time RITA finalist who has been reading and writing romance fiction since she was ten. Her historical fiction takes readers to the dark side of Regency London and the triumphant side of love. Her contemporary fiction, on the lighter side, is set in the San Francisco area where Kate lives in a little town north of the Golden Gate with her surfer husband and her children’s dogs. Kate can be contacted at www.katemoore.com.