Diane Perkins http://www.dianeperkins.us

Diane Perkins has been a member of WRW since 1995 and has served as Vice President, Marlene Coordinator, Membership Chair, and Elections Chair, as well as serving on the refreshment committee and the taping committee. In 2001 and 2002 Kathy Caskie named her "The Contest Empress" because of the number of contest finals and wins she racked up. In 2002, Diane took first and third in the Marlene, first and third in the Fabulous Five, and first and second in the Fool for Love, as well as winning the Royal Ascot. She was a Golden Heart finalist in 2001 and 2003 for her Regency Historical manuscript, Unmasked. In 2003, the Mills & Boon editor who judged Unmasked for the Golden Heart, bought the book. The manuscript Diane was once told "would never sell" went on to win the 2003 Golden Heart for best Long Historical manuscript. It was released by Mills & Boon in July 2004 as The Mysterious Miss M, written under the name Diane Gaston, and quickly became a hard-to-find title. Shortly after selling that first book, Diane received a two book contract from Warner. Her first Warner Forever, The Improper Wife (November 2004), was nominated for a Romantic Times BOOKclub Reviewers Choice Award for Best First Historical of 2004 and was a finalist in Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence contest. Diane is now writing full-time.  #

Lynn Reynolds http://www.lynnreynolds.com

Lynn Reynolds is a writer, wife, and mom-not necessarily in that order. A city girl currently trapped in Green Acres, Lynn works as a freelance reporter and publicist in real life. Her feature articles have appeared in major daily and weekly newspapers and her short stories and poetry have been published in a few obscure literary magazines you've never heard of. In previous lives, she's been a child model, an actress, a stagehand, a secretary, a seller of ladies' lingerie and-in a brief fit of practicality, a computer programmer. Her first romantic suspense novel, Thirty-Nine Again, is scheduled to be released by The Wild Rose Press in 2009. Thirty-Nine Again was a finalist in the WRW's 2007 Marlene Awards. Lynn writes romance novels because she genuinely believes in Happily Ever After.  #

Melissa Schroeder http://www.melissaschroeder.net

Since her first published book in 2004, Melissa Schroeder has had over 25 short stories, novellas, and novels with 7 different publishers in genres ranging from historical to futuristic, from sensual to erotic. She was nominated in 2005 for an Eppie in the Contemporary Romance Category for her story The Hired Hand, while also hitting number twelve on the international best seller list for ebooks in June of the same year with her contemporary erotic romantic comedy, A Little Harmless Sex. She is married to an AF major and they have two daughters, and one adopted dog daughter. She is happy to finally live somewhere the bugs die in the winter.   #

Kathleen Gilles Seidel http://www.kathleengillesseidel.com/

Kathleen Gilles Seidel has written twelve contemporary romances, the first of which was a launch title for the Harlequin American Romances line. Others have been published by NAL, Pocket, HarperCollins, and Avon. She has won every major romance market award, including two RITAs, but is proudest of Harlequin readers once voting her After All These Years as their all-time favorite Harlequin novel. She has a Ph.D. in English literature from Johns Hopkins and was the second president of WRW, serving for two years. Her first hardcover, A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity, will be published by St. Martin's Press in March 2006.   #

Jane Sevier http://www.janesevier.com

As soon as Jane Sevier was old enough to hold a pencil, she knew she wanted to write. As an award-winning feature writer, she covered fields as varied as artificial intelligence, the arts, the environment, and international affairs and traveled on assignment to such exotic locales as Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Texarkana, Texas. Now her job is writing fiction. Her first manuscript, THE QUETZAL'S TALE, a thriller, has finaled in the British Crime Writers' Debut Dagger, Washington Romance Writers' Marlene, and the Writer's League of Texas competitions. Jane was made in Tennessee but born in France. After a stint in Germany, her family came home to Tennessee when she was three. In her grown-up life, Jane has lived in Nashville, Dallas, Paris (France), and Washington, D.C. She now calls Austin, Texas, home, and she shares her 1920s house with her husband, four children, and four cats.  #

Lynne Silver http://www.lynnesilver.com

By day, Lynne lives the suburban soccer mom life; volunteering with the PTA, doing laundry and working. By night she enters the sensuous world of alpha males and passionate heroines. She holds an undergraduate degree in American Literature and a Masters in Education. She calls the nation’s capital home and lives in an old fixer-upper with her husband and their two sons. When not writing romance, she reads it. Lots of it. Over and over and over again, preferably with a bag of M&Ms in hand. Lynne currently sits on the WRW Board and is 2011 Retreat Chair.  #