8 Brand-New Romance Authors

For years Tanya Wright filled notebooks with short stories as a way of creative release. She found her big break and graduated from spiral notebooks to paperbacks when she won SYTYCW 2013. She lives just outside of Boston with her sister, and works as a Bridal Stylist where she gathers inspiration for future novels.Rachael has loved writing stories since she was a small child, but it was the discovery of Mills and Boon as a teenager, that started her love affair with romance. In 2013 she entered Harlequin's So You Think You Can Write competition and her entry earned her a place in the Top Ten. That entry, A Deal Before the Altar became her debut title. Rachael lives in Wales on a farm and loves exploring. Her latest adventure was in the Sahara Desert for charity – and research!Elisabeth’s writing career began when she finished third in Harlequin’s So You Think You Can Write contest in 2013 and hasn't looked back. She teaches Primary school but would rather write full time because unlike five year olds her characters generally do what she tells them. She spends most of her spare time reading and is a pro at cooking one-handed while holding a book.She lives in Cheshire because the car broke down there in 1999 and she never left.Avril Tremayne became a writer via careers in shoe-selling, nursing, teaching and public relations.Along the way, she studied acting, singing, pottery, oil painting, millinery, German and Arabic (among other things).A committed urbanite, her favourite stories are fast-paced contemporary city stories told with sass and humour.Married with one daughter, Avril lives in Sydney, Australia.When not writing or reading, she’s thinking about food, wine and shoes.Annie spent most of her childhood with a leg draped over the family rocking chair and a book in her hand. Novels, baking and writing too much teenage angst poetry ate up most of her youth. Now, Annie splits her time between corralling her husband into helping her with their cows, listening to audio books whilst weeding and spending some very happy hours at her computer writing.Amber Page has been writing stories since she could write. She's also an avid reader, and has been addicted to romances since she first discovered them in the dusty shelves of her library as a young teen.Writing for Harlequin is a dream come true.Amber lives with the love of her life, their daughter, and a menagerie of animals in the heart of Indiana. When not penning Happily Ever Afters, she works as a copywriter.Learn more about her at amberpagebooks.com.Laura Martin writes historical romances with an adventurous undercurrent. When not writing she spends her time working as a doctor in Cambridgeshire, where she lives with her husband. In her spare moments Laura loves to lose herself ina book, and has been known to read from cover to cover in a single day when the story is particularly gripping. She also loves to travel—especially to visit historical sites and far-flung shores.Unable to sit still without reading, Bella first found romantic fiction in her grandmother’s magazines. Occasionally stopping reading to be a barmaid, financial advisor, teacher and of course writer, her eclectic collection of wonderful friends have provided more than their fair share of inspiration for heroes, heroines and glamorous locations. Bella lives in the UK but commutes for international pleasure – strictly in the interests of research!