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Catherine Alliott
Catherine was born and raised in Hertfordshire. After graduating from Warwick university she moved to London, where she worked as a copywriter in advertising. She now lives with her husband, a barrister, and their three children.
Catherine's first novel, The Old Girl Network, was chosen by WHSmith for their fresh talent promotion in 1994 and became an instant bestseller across the country, as did her subsequent novels.
See Catherine’s books here.
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Juliet Archer (Choc Lit Author)
Juliet Archer is a 19th-century mind living in a 21st-century body. Actually, some days it’s the other way round. By day, she masquerades as wife, mother and businesswoman. By night, with a glass of wine and a box of chocolates to hand, she becomes An Author.
JA books are modern day versions of Jane Austen. The first being The Importance of Being Emma.
See Juliet’s book here.
Read an interview with Juliet
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Victoria Connelly
Victoria Connelly grew up in Norfolk before attending Worcester College where she studied English Literature. After graduating, she worked her way through a number of jobs before becoming a teacher in North Yorkshire.
See Victoria’s book here.
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Katie Fforde
Katie lives in Gloucestershire with her husband and some of her three children. Her hobbies are ironing and housework but, unfortunately, she has almost no time for them as she feels it is her duty to keep a close eye on the afternoon chat shows.
See Katie’s books here.
Read an interview with Katie
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Erica James
Erica James grew up in Hampshire and has since lived in Oxford, Yorkshire and Belgium. She now lives in Cheshire. She is the author of eleven previous bestselling novels, including GARDENS OF DELIGHT, which won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award.
See Erica’s books here.
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Susanna Kearsley
Susanna Kearsley studied politics and international development at university, and has worked as a museum curator.
Her first novel Mariana won the prestigious Catherine Cookson Literary Prize and launched her writing career. Susanna continued her mix of the historical and paranormal in novels The Splendour Falls , Named of the Dragon , Shadowy Horses and Season of Storms .
Susanna Kearsley also writes classic-style thrillers under the name of Emma Cole.
See Susanna’s book here.
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Sarah Mason
Sarah Mason lives in Cheltenham. At the age of 25 she began importing gourmet popcorn from America and was soon running a company with a seven figure turnover. She started writing when she sold the business on. Her first novel, PLAYING JAMES, was published in August 2002.
See Sarah’s books here.
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Carole Matthews
Carole Matthews is an international bestselling author of hugely successful romantic comedy novels. Her unique sense of humour has won her legions of fans and critical acclaim all over the world.
Carole has presented on television and is a regular radio guest. When she’s not writing novels, television or film scripts she manages to find time to trek in the Himalayas, rollerblade in Central Park, take tea in China and snooze in her garden shed in Milton Keynes which is near London, England.
See Carole’s books here.
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Sue Moorcroft (Choc Lit Author)
Sue’s Choc Lit novels include Starting Over (Nov ‘09), All That Mullarkey (June 2010) and Want to Know A Secret (Nov 2010).
Sue is an accomplished writer of novels and short stories, as well as a creative writing tutor. She’s also the new fiction judge at Writers Forum and their ‘cover girl’ in the March magazine! Her previous novels include Family Matters, Uphill All the Way and A Place to Call Home. She is also the commissioning editor and a contributor to Loves Me, Loves Me Not, an anthology of short stories celebrating the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s 50th anniversary. The anthology includes stories by Joanna Trollope and Katie Fforde.
See Sue’s books here.
Read an interview with Sue
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Melissa Nathan
Melissa Nathan died in April 2006 aged just 37 from cancer. She was a successful journalist who went on to become one of the best-selling comic romantic novelists of her generation. She wrote with an intelligence and intuition that went far beyond many love stories aimed at young women - she focused on the world of work for the post-feminist generation in the hugely popular novels The Nanny (2002) and The Waitress (2004). Her final book, The Learning Curve, which was published in August 2006, has a teacher as heroine. Creating credible, sympathetic, modern characters that her readers identified with and desperately wanted to fall in love with, was her greatest strength. Melissa’s heroines always achieved more than just falling in love - as a feminist herself she created rounded characters struggling to find their vocation, and she skilfully observed the social, family and career pressures faced by young women today.
See Melissa’s books here.
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Freya North
Freya gave up a PhD scholarship to write her first novel, Sally. For 4 years she turned deaf ears to parents and pals who pleaded with her to “get a proper job”. She went on the dole and did a succession of freelance and temping jobs to support “writing days” every now and then. During this time, she was rejected by many publishers and agents whose comments ranged from “you can’t start a book like that” (referring to Sally’s rather raunchy opening scene) to “I like your idea but can’t stand your style”. Undeterred, she started Chloë as soon as she finished Sally. In 1996 she approached one of the UK’s top literary agents, Jonathan Lloyd at Curtis Brown Ltd. Throwing caution to the wind, Freya sent him 3 chapters and a page of completely fabricated reviews, which she wrote on behalf of the Sunday Times, Jilly Cooper and Germaine Greer. Lloyd took her on and put her work up for auction.
See Freya’s books here.
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Abigail Reynolds
Abigail Reynolds is a lifelong Jane Austen enthusiast and a physician. In addition to writing, she has a part-time private practice and enjoys spending time with her family. Originally from upstate New York, she studied Russian, theatre, and marine biology before deciding to attend medical school. She began writing From Lambton to Longbourn in 2001 to spend more time with her favourite characters from Pride & Prejudice. Encouragement from fellow Austen fans convinced her to continue asking ‘What if…?’, which led to four other Pemberley Variations and her modern novel, Pemberley by the Sea. She is currently at work on another Pemberley Variation and a sequel to Pemberley by the Sea. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband, two teenaged children, and a menagerie of pets.
See Abigail’s new book here and also her other titles in Light Choc Lit - Past.
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Christine Stovell (Choc Lit Author)
Christine’s novel is Turning The Tide (June 2010).
Christine Stovell was bron in Epsom, Surrey and now lives in Wales.
Winning a tin of chocolate in a national essay competition at primary school inspired her to become a writer, an ambition she neglected for far too long thinking she had to have a proper job. After graduating from UEA, she took various jobs in the public sector writing research papers and policy notes by day and filling up her spare drawers with embryonic novels by night. Losing her dad to cancer made her realise that if she was ever going to get a novel published she had to put her writing first.
Setting off, with her husband, from a sleepy seaside resort on the east coast in a vintage wooden boat to sail halfway round Britain provided the inspiration for her novel ‘Turning the Tide’. Christine lives on the beautiful west Wales coast where long-distance running helps her plan her plots. Half marathons, like novels, both begin with small steps. She is married to the artist, Tom Tomos, and is enormously proud of her two daughters and two stepsons.
See Christine’s book here.
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Rosie Thomas
Rosie Thomas is the author of a number of celebrated novels, including the top ten bestsellers White, The Potter's House and, most recently, If My Father Loved Me. She lives in London. Once she was established as a writer and her children were grown, she discovered a love of travelling and mountaineering. She has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, and spent time on a tiny Bulgarian research station in Antarctica.
See Rosie’s books here.
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Josa Young
Josa is a London-based writer, editor and internet consultant. She lives in West London with her husband and three chrildren. One Apple Tasted is her debut novel.
See Josa’s book here.
Read an interview with Josa.
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