Published Authors
Listed alphabetically by authors’ last name.
Shelley Adina
Shelley Adina is the author of some 60 novels published by Harlequin, Warner, Hachette, and Moonshell Books, Inc., her own independent press. She writes steampunk adventure and cozy fantasy historical mystery as Shelley Adina; as Charlotte Henry, writes classic Regency romance; and as Adina Senft, is the USA Today bestselling author of Amish women’s fiction. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in the UK; her dissertation was a historical women’s fiction novel. She appeared in the 2016 documentary film Love Between the Covers, is a popular speaker and convention panelist, and has been a guest on many podcasts, including Worldshapers and Realm of Books. When she’s not writing, Shelley is usually quilting, sewing historical costumes, or enjoying the garden with her flock of rescued chickens.
Visit Shelley’s websites at www.ShelleyAdina.com and www.AdinaSenft.com
Reggi Allder
“Reggi Allder will hold you on the edge of your seat as you follow her real-to-life characters. Grab one of her books. You won’t be disappointed.” NL reviews
Reggi writes suspense and contemporary novels. Her characters must overcome difficulties in both genres. The males are strong and the women are determined. They change their lives to manage their future, struggle to discover a hidden strength and work toward a lifelong goal. She studied creative writing and screenwriting at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
Besides other novels and a novella and participating in two cookbooks, Reggi has two series. The Dangerous Series starts with Dangerous Web book one of four. Love championship cowboys, small towns, and second chances? Try the Sierra Creek Series, Her Country Heart book one of four.
An avid film buff, she has collected many classic movies. A dog lover, she has raised a puppy for Guide Dogs for the Blind. She has done foster care for dogs and cats. She and her hubby share their home with a purebred dog and a rescued mutt. He barks too much, but she loves him anyway.
Follow Reggi on Amazon(dot)com, Bookbub (dot) com, Facebook (dot)com/reggi.allder/, allauthor(dot)com. She enjoys hearing from readers.
Visit Reggi’s Amazon page
Sharon Ashwood 
USA Today bestselling author Sharon Ashwood is a novelist, desk jockey and enthusiast for the weird and spooky. She has an English literature degree but works as a finance geek. Interests include growing her to-be-read pile and playing with the toy graveyard on her desk. As a vegetarian, she freely admits the whole vampire/werewolf lifestyle would never work out, so she writes her adventures instead.
Sharon is a winner of the RITA® Award for Paranormal Romance. She lives in the Pacific Northwest and is owned by the Demon Lord of Kitty Badness.
Visit Sharon’s website at www.SharonAshwood.com
Libby Campbell
Libby’s books feature strong, self-reliant women and the powerful men who love them.
They are the outcome of a childhood spent creating imaginary worlds, questioning authority, and hoping for a happy ever after (HEA) of her own.
She’d almost given up hope of ever finding true love when one cold spring day, while scuba diving on a rocky beach in the Pacific Northwest, she met the yang to her yin.
With Mr. C’s love and support, she gathered the courage to share her writing with the world. She hopes they offer a happy diversion from the real world.
Visit Libby’s website at www.LibbyCampbell.com
Sarah Castille
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Sarah Castille has written over 20 books under two pen names. As Sarah Castille, she writes sizzling contemporary romance and romantic suspense. As Sara Desai, she writes fun, sexy, diverse romantic comedy. Sarah’s books have appeared in People, Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, Pop Sugar, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Booklist, Hello Giggles, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal, Frolic, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Woman’s World and Hello! Canada.
Vanessa Chase
Vanessa Chase writes emotional and uplifting romance stories. Full of good vibes and sweetness, her characters always have a happily ever after. The Place We Begin is her debut novel.
Vanessa has been a lifelong romance reader for one simple reason: she wants to believe in the joy and good in life. And now she’s a romance author for the same reason. She wants to believe that happiness, joy, and great big love are possible for us all, despite messy circumstances and very real human experiences. And so Vanessa writes stories that explore this.
A reader at heart, Vanessa studied English Literature at The University of British Columbia, where she was swept up in the angst of American Modernist Literature, in particular Nightwood by Djuana Barnes. These days, she is still chasing the high of reading her first book with heartbreaking angst, concluding with hope.
Vanessa lives on the unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) + W̱SÁNEĆ nations on Vancouver Island with her husband and daughter. When she’s not writing or reading, Vanessa is probably baking, crafting, or riding her cargo bike around town pretending she lives in Amsterdam.
MaryAnn Clarke
MaryAnn Clarke set out to write emotionally engaging stories that walk a tight rope between intelligent Women’s Fiction and heart-warming Romance. The Art of Enchantment, first in the Life is a Journey series about young women on journeys abroad who discover themselves and fall in love while getting embroiled in someone else’s problems, is a Chatelaine Grand Prize winner and Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist. Her Having it All series is about professional women struggling to balance the challenge and fulfillment of their careers with their search for identity, love, family and home.
A polymath who studied Fine Arts, Urbanism, Architecture and Gerontology on both coasts of Canada, she turned to her first love, writing stories, when she realized it was more fun than working as an architect or university researcher. When not writing, she meditates, hikes, does yoga and Pilates, reads eclectically, contemplates wormholes, paints abstract expressionism, kills plants and tries not to burn dinner while solving her next plot problem. Clarke lives on beautiful Vancouver Island, Canada with her husband and cats. Although she knows she lives in Paradise, she still loves traveling the world in search of romance, art, good food and new story ideas.
Visit MaryAnn’s website at www.MaryannClarkeScott.com
Whitley Cox
Born and raised on the West Coast of Canada and married to her high school sweetheart, with a spirited toddler and a fluffy dog. Whitley spends her days making food that gets thrown on the floor, vacuuming Cheerios out from under the couch and making sure that the dog food doesn’t end up in the air conditioner. But when nap time comes and it’s not quite wine o’clock, Whitley sits down, avoids the pile of laundry on the couch, and writes. A lover of all things decadent: wine, cheese, chocolate and spicy erotic romance, Whitley brings the humorous side of sex, the ridiculous side of relationships and the suspense of every day life into her stories. With mommy wars, body issues, threesomes and role playing, these books have everything we need to satisfy the curious kink in all of us.
Visit Whitley’s website at www.WhitleyCox.com
Bonnie Edwards 
Multi-published author Bonnie Edwards lives with her husband and pets on the rainy coast of British Columbia. Her earthy, irreverent love stories sometimes have a paranormal twist, like curses and ghosts, other times not. But her books always entertain and guarantee a happy ending.
With four ongoing romance series (Tales of Perdition, The Brantons, and The Christmas Collection) and contemporary family novels in her newest series, Return to Welcome, she rarely spends a day without writing. She has written novels, novellas, and short stories for Kensington Books, Harlequin Books, Carina Press, and Robinson (UK) although now she publishes her work herself.
Visit Bonnie’s website at www.BonnieEdwards.com
Kate Gateley
Kate Gateley is an award-winning Canadian contemporary fantasy and romance author. She holds a BA in Linguistics and a BSc in Physiology from the University of Saskatchewan and is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada, the Federation of BC Writers, and Vancouver Island Romance Authors. Her ongoing study of ancestral memory and human psychology (among other side quests) continues to inform her writing and earn her honours as an author, including two consecutive Canadian Book Club Award wins and three shortlist nominations for the novels of The Lost Wells Trilogy.
Kate currently lives, writes, and creates on a small farm in traditional, unceded Quw’utsun territory (Cowichan Bay, BC) with her wonderfully helpful husband and two amazing kids, as well as two dogs, two geese, and a whole lot of ducks and chickens. She enjoys a wide variety of hobbies, drinks a great deal of coffee, and is barefoot as often as possible.
Visit Kate’s website at https://kategateley.com/
Rachel Goldsworthy 
An English grad, a biochemistry alum, and a paleontologist walk into a bar… And, no joke, two hours later, they’ve sketched a town and a far-flung family of cousins who inherit the local chocolate shop and its swashbuckling pirate ghost. Then they invited another writer to join the crew and she brought a parrot!
Rachel Goldsworthy is the biochem grad, although her day job is creating applied communications for a research centre at the University of Victoria. She believes in living her values, which means cycling to work and constantly researching new chocolate recipes so her stories are authentic. Also she is vastly entertained by putting words in the mouth of that talking parrot.
With the other Corsettes (see above) she writes fun, feminist fiction set in the delightful community of Corsair’s Cove.
Visit Rachel’s website at www.RachelGoldsworthy.com
Judith Hudson 
Friendship, Family and Happily-ever-after pretty well sums up Judith Hudson’s love-over-30, Fortune Bay series. Summer of Fortune, the first full length book in the series, is free everywhere on-line.
Judith grew up in the East but raised her family on Vancouver Island and now considers herself an Island Girl. Her Fortune Bay series of small-town romances is loosely based on Honeymoon Bay on Vancouver Island where she lived for eight years, but really, who would believe in a town called Honeymoon Bay?!
Judith also writes the Rocky and Bernadette international travel mysteries under the name J.M. Hudson.
Visit Judith’s website at www.JudithHudsonAuthor.com
Leigh Jarrett
Leigh Jarrett (she/he) is a queer, bigender author based in Victoria, British Columbia. They write MM+ contemporary romance, blending heartwarming happily-ever-afters with emotionally intense stories that explore trauma, identity, and healing.
Leigh’s work often features underrepresented characters, including autistic and older protagonists, and focuses on themes of found family, resilience, and authentic queer love.
Their popular Salish Sea Society series is set on Canada’s rugged west coast and showcases inclusive, deeply human connections.
With over a decade of indie publishing experience and more than two dozen titles to their name, Leigh is committed to telling meaningful, diverse stories that reflect the richness of the LGBTQ2IA+ experience.
Outside of writing, Leigh enjoys exploring Vancouver Island with their wife and building direct connections with readers through Bluesky.
Visit Leigh’s websites at www.leighjarrett.com and MM+ Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: www.jtfader.com
Bluesky: @leighjarrett.com
Suzan Lauder 
A love for Jane Austen’s novels and Regency and Austenesque romance novels inspired Suzan Lauder to write her own variations, which led her to a passion for Regency era history and costuming. She cherishes the many friends she’s made as a result of these interests. Suzan is a member of JASNA, VIRA, RWA (PAN and Beau Monde chapters), and EGBC. She enjoys independent travel, design, Pilates, yoga, cycling, sustainability, upcycling, architecture, beta editing, and blogging. Most of the time, a Vancouver Island penthouse loft condominium with a view of the Salish Sea is home. For a few months each winter, Mr. Suze and their two rescue cats accompany her to their tiny Spanish colonial casita in Centro Historico of a port city in Mexico. All of Lauder’s published fiction is based on Pride and Prejudice and is available from Meryton Press.
Visit Suzan’s website at www.SuzanLauder.MerytonPress.com
Kathleen Lawless
USA Today Bestselling Author Kathleen Lawless blames a misspent youth watching Rawhide, Maverick and Bonanza for her fascination with cowboys, which doesn’t stop her from creating a wide variety of interests and occupations for her many alpha male heroes.
With nearly 50 published novels to her credit, she enjoys pushing the boundaries of traditional romance into historical romance, contemporary romance, romantic suspense and women’s fiction.
She makes her home in the Pacific Northwest and loves to hear from her readers
Visit Kathleen’s website at www.KathleenLawless.com
Cindy Procter-King 
Cindy Procter-King writes romantic comedy, sassy suspense, and small-town romance set in B.C. and the Pacific Northwest. Cindy’s novels and short fiction are available from eBook retailers all over the world, as well as in trade paperback, library and some foreign editions.
Cindy’s mission in life is to see her surname spelled properly—with an E. So take heed. That’s P-r-o-c-t-E-r hyphen King. Never, under any circumstances should you spell Procter with two Os. It gives Cindy the creeps.
Cindy lives in the Okanagan Valley with her family, a cat obsessed with a Batman water glass, and the Ghost of Allie McBeagle. Cindy also writes erotic romance and romantic erotica as Kate St. James (but don’t tell anyone).
Visit Cindy’s websites at www.CindyProcter-King.com and www.KateStJames.com
Valda Stefani 
Valda Stefani writes vivid, visual romantic suspense with lots of action. Her home is on Canada’s wild West Coast. She takes breaks on her bicycle or in the garden, or trail-walking with her little rescue dog Chiquita. She’s witnessed some interesting human behaviour in her various jobs, which included an early stint as a loans officer and secretary for a Victorian cemetery chock-full of stories and historic characters. A researcher and archivist, she’s a lifelong writer and editor. Family, nature and history loom large for Valda and she volunteers at a small archives.
Visit Valda’s website at www.ValdaStefani.com
Odette Stone 
Odette has ranked in the top #50 of all Amazon Authors, with a Top #20 bestseller. This KDP All-star indie author loves to write contemporary, new adult and sports romance books and has six books published. She resides in Vancouver with her soulmate and partner-in-crime, and lives for coffee, walks on the beach (no, really), a good book and TV dramas. She wants a dog more than anything. She has been described as introverted, funny, and an excellent listener.
Odette writes real, honest and intense romance novels. If you like hot, intelligent Alpha males, you’ve come to the right place! Her writing goal is to keep her readers up late at night, because they keep saying, “Just one more chapter, I’m just going to read one more chapter.”
Visit Odette’s website at www.OdetteStone.com
Laura Tobias 
By the time she hit Grade Four, Laura Tobias knew she wanted to be a writer. So did the teachers. It was the persistent daydreaming and invisible friends that tipped them off. Laura lives on the east coast of Vancouver Island where she writes romance, women’s fiction and the occasional article about food or gardening. If she’s not writing or reading, she’s probably playing in the garden, spying on people at the grocery store or planning her next meal. Her first word was cookie, her second word was book, and her priorities haven’t changed since. Laura is also the award-winning author of 20 books for teens and children writing as Laura Langston.
Visit Laura’s websites at www.LauraTobias.com and www.LauraLangston.com
Alice Valdal 
Alice writes under only one name, but she can’t seem to settle on a genre.
She loves her western historical romances, originally published by Kensington Books, but her first book was a contemporary romance, still available at Montlake.
Her short stories wander all over the place, but she’s very fond of them too. But whatever time period Alice explores, her stories are rich in language, tug at the heartstrings, and celebrate the power of love.
Visit Alice’s website at www.AliceValdal.com
Shereen Vedam 
Once upon a time, Shereen read fantasy and romance novels to entertain herself. Now she writes heartwarming tales braided with threads of magic and love, and mystery elements woven in for good measure.
She’s a fan of resourceful women, intriguing men, and happily ever after endings. If her stories whisk you away to a different realm for a few hours, then Shereen will have achieved one of her life goals.
Visit Shereen’s website at https://www.shereenvedam.com/
Nancy Warren 
Nancy’s a USA today bestselling author of more than 60 novels. Nancy’s originally from Vancouver, Canada but she tends to wander. She currently lives in an 18th century house in Bath, England where she loves to pretend she’s Jane Austen, or at least a character in a Jane Austen novel. When she’s not writing, she’s hiking, skiing, traveling or sipping wine. She’s appeared on the front page of the New York Times (when her book, Speed Dating launched Harlequin’s NASCAR series), has been a clue in a crossword puzzle (National Post, Canada) and she’s been a finalist for the RITA award three times, honored by Romantic Times Magazine and often shares her love of writing in her popular workshops.
Visit Nancy’s website at www.NancyWarrenAuthor.com
Brian Wyvill 
Brian’s early childhood in London included frequent visits to the well preserved old clipper, the Cutty Sark, which inspired a lifelong interest in sailing ships. As a computer scientist he invented new techniques for 3D modeling and created animated sequences for the movie, Alien, and has published his share of academic papers. He spent 15 years living in Canada’s Rocky Mountains where he climbed, skied, wrote plays, and acted with the Rocky Mountain Shalespeare company. He moved to Victoria on the West Coast in 2006 to take up a Canada Research Chair at the University of Victoria. In the Second Gate he turns from covering the page with mathematical symbols to writing a sea faring adventure set during the Napoleonic wars. Brian is a mountaineer, an author/playwright, a professional actor and a pioneer in computer graphics research. A renaissance man, proficient in the arts, and the sciences, who embraces physical challenge, he has now turned his talents towards creating historical fiction.
Visit Brian’s website at www.BrianWyvill.com
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