Candy Calvert - is a registered nurse who blames her quirky sense of humor on "survival tactics learned in the trenches of ER." Born in Northern California and the mother of two, she now lives with her husband in the beautiful Hill Country of Texas. Aye Do or Die is the second in Calvert's funny & romantic cruise mystery series. Midnight Ink will release Mai Tai to
Murder in September 2007. Grueling research for the Darcy Cavanaugh Mysteries finds Candy wearing sequins, sipping Mojitos and "Chicken Dancing" in shipboard Discos worldwide. She is now at work on a fourth mystery, with an Alaska Inside Passage setting. Visit Candy's website at:
www.candycalvert.com

Dianne Drake - Dianne has written 17 medical romances for Harlequin Mills & Boon and in the past wrote 4 romantic comedies for Harlequin's Duets & Flipside lines. Prior to coming to romance, she was a nonfiction writer with her articles appearing in most of the leading women's magazines, as well as having had 7 published nonfiction books. In RWA, Dianne has served as the contest and election chairs for the Kiss of Death chapter, as well as chapter president, and taught numerous workshops both online and in person for several national conferences and various chapters. Currently she is
contest chair and vice president for RWA's Heartbeat Chapter. Visit her at www.DianneDrake.com
Current and upcoming books:
A Child to Care For - 4/07
The Rescue Doctor's Baby Miracle - 5/07 - Harlequin Medical
Their Very Special Child - 9/07
A Family for the Children's Doctor - 1/08 - Harlequin Medical


Laura Iding
His Pregnant Nurse 4/07
Bride For A Single Dad 8/07
Baby: Found At Christmas 11/07
www.lauraiding.com


Lynn Marshall - Lynne Marshall used to worry she had a serious problem with daydreaming. Instead of seeking psychiatric help, she started writing the book of her heart in 2000 and discovered it was a romance. After joining the RWA in 2001, she quickly found her local chapter, the Los Angeles Romance Authors, and attributes everything she's learned about writing to both the RWA and LARA. As a life-long Registered Nurse, she targeted the Medical Romance market figuring it only made sense. In 2003, after meeting HMB editor Kimberley Young at the NYC RWA national conference, she submitted her first medical manuscript to Mills and Boon. Ten months later she was rejected. Undaunted, she wrote another medical and since November 2005 has sold three medical romances to HMB: Her Baby's Secret Father 9/06, Her L.A. Knight 3/07, In His Angel's Arms 7/07, and Her Perfect Match 1/08, and one Single title Boomer Lit e-book, One for the Road 3/07 to Triskelion Publishing. With many more stories floating around in her head, she is finally grateful to be such a big daydreamer.

Molly Evans - The Passion of Romance. The Drama of Medicine.
www.mollyevans.com
The Surgeon's Marriage Proposal coming in hardback May '07, paperback in July '07.
Online class: Blood Guts & Gore, getting the medical details of your fiction right! in April '07
See what Molly's saying at: www.mollyevans.blogspot.com


Tessa Radley -- In the span of just seven days, Tessa Radley had sent off her full manuscript, signed with an agent and received an offer to buy her book. The roller coaster began with a pitch on eHarlequin.com to Desire editor Melissa Jeglinski.

But it hasn't all been a joyride. Tessa has been writing for six years and there was no easy ride to publication. But along the way she discovered lots of wonderful books and met a crowd of fabulous people—like the Heartbeat members—as well as her critique group, Superromance authors Abby Gaines and Karina Bliss, and Sandra Hyatt. So Tessa advises new writers to "Hold on to your dream. Keep writing and never give up!"

Tessa's debut Silhouette Desire Black Widow Bride will be in store April 2007 and her next book Rich Man's Revenge hits the shelves in June 2007.
www.tessaradley.com