Heather Graham

New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Heather Graham majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in dinner theater, back-up vocals, and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her third child and began to write, working on short horror stories and romances. After some trial and error, she sold her first book, WHEN NEXT WE LOVE, in 1982 and since then, she has written over one hundred novels and novellas including category, romantic suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult, and Christmas holiday fare. She wrote the launch books for the Dell's Ecstasy Supreme line, Silhouette's Shadows, and for Harlequin's mainstream fiction imprint, Mira Books.
Heather was a founding member of the Florida Romance Writers chapter of RWA and, since 1999, has hosted the Romantic Times Vampire Ball, with all revenues going directly to children's charity.

She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty languages, and to have been honored with awards frorn Waldenbooks. B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, Romantic Times, and more. She has had books selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, and has been quoted, interviewed, or featured in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, People, and USA Today and appeared on many newscasts including local television and Entertainment Tonight.

Heather loves travel and anything have to do with the water, and is a certitified scuba diver. Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, her greatest love in life remains her family, but she also believes her career has been an incredible gift, and she is grateful every day to be doing something that she loves so very much for a living.

Joan Johnston

Joan Johnston has an eclectic background. Now the bestselling, award-winning author of forty-six novels, she was formerly an attorney with Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Virginia and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Miami, Florida. Joan also worked as a newspaper editor and drama critic in San Antonio, Texas, as a director of theatre in Southwest Texas, and as a college professor, most recently at the University of Miami, Florida. Joan has a B.A. in theatre arts from Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida, an M.A. in theatre from the University of Illinois in Urbana and received her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.

Joan loves to travel and visited England and Scotland to do research for her Captive Hearts series (Captive, After the Kiss, The Bodyguard and The Bridegroom). She also made journeys to Tahiti, Australia and Bali--for a South Seas, WWII novel that she hopes to write. Joan's books have appeared on the New York Times, USA TODAY and Publisher's Weekly Bestseller Lists.

For her Bitter Creek series, Joan toured the legendary King Ranch in South Texas and took a course on tracking (humans and animals!) from a Deputy Marshal deep in the Big Bend country of West Texas. She also traveled to Australia to tour the big cattle stations there and see what life is like Down Under.

Joan is a member of the Authors Guild, Novelists, Inc., International Thriller Writers and Romance Writers of America. She divides her time between homes in Colorado and Florida.

Sally Schoeneweiss aka Sally Fairchild

In her twenties, Sally married and wrote articles for the Capitol Hill Times, a Seattle community newspaper, about college life, baking her first apple pie, and the joy of owning cats. By her thirties, she had three children and had left the beaches of Kailua, Hawaii for the mountains of Denver, Colorado and part-ownership of a German delicatessen. As the wife of a frequently transferred executive, Sally felt moving companies were almost like family by the time she arrived in Scottsdale, Arizona where she sold luxury condominiums for a leading Arizona developer. But it wasn't until she arrived on Long Island's North Shore and met a romance author that Sally decided to pursue writing as a career. At least, she reasoned, typewriters were portable.

Soon Sally found herself in Miami where she immediately founded a Romance Writers of America chapter known as Florida Romance Writers, Inc. and served as the president for the first three years. She also chaired and presided over two Fun-in-the-Sun conferences and watched as the group's membership swelled to its current size and spread into three counties.

After years of hard work, Sally sold her first book, Born to the Game (Sept. '88, Ballantine) followed a second,White Lies (May '89, Ballantine.) Following publication of the novels, Sally obtained a well-known literary agent to represent her and spent several years on what her agent termed the "equivalent of a doctoral program." Although succeeding manuscripts met with much interest, Sally felt a need to network with the world around her, especially after Hurricane Andrew prompted a move to Boca Raton. She became a licensed Realtor and sold over a million dollars worth of real estate on a new home site before the establishment of Talk Ink, Inc, a boutique firm specializing in literary marketing and promotion.

Sally has enjoyed great success specializing in literary marketing and promotion for many well-known authors. She is a member of Romance Writers of America and two local Florida chapters, Florida Romance Writers (FRW) and Tampa Area Romance Authors (TARA.) In addition, Sally's novel, Ports Of Call, was published in 1999 by MIRA Books and has since been reprinted in many countries and languages.

In recent years, Sally relocated to the Tampa area where she continues to work with authors and expand her business by finding not only new approaches…but ideas that produce results.