Alesha Adamson
Contrary to what hundreds of authors have experienced, Alesha did not love reading from an early age. Battling dyslexia, she mostly avoided the written word, instead spending hours and hours creating her own stories with dolls, stuffed animals, or even beaded lizards. Copying movies and tv would not do, she insisted upon creating her own stories, usually involving romance and insurmountable odds. In the end, good would prevail and everyone would receive their happily-ever-after.
Then, with the dedicated help of family and loved ones, she discovered that books were not simply letters on a page, they were amazing stories full of romance, magic, adventure and so much more. It wasn’t long before she was hooked, then—almost accidentally—found herself writing her very own stories.
Once she started creating stories, she couldn’t stop. The ideas kept flowing and she is excited to continue writing more fairytales, adventures, fantasies and especially romances all with their own happily-ever-after.
Website: aleshaadamson.com
Camille Peters
Camille Peters was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah where she grew up surrounded by books. As a child, she spent every spare moment reading and writing her own stories on every scrap of paper she could find. Becoming an author was always more than a childhood dream; it was a certainty.
Her love of writing grew alongside her as she took local writing classes in her teens, spent a year studying Creative Writing at the English University of Northampton, and graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in English and History. She’s now blessed to be a full-time author.
When she’s not writing she’s thinking about writing, and when’s she’s not thinking about writing she’s…alright, she’s always thinking about writing, but she can also be found reading, at the piano, playing board games with her family and friends, or taking long, bare-foot walks as she lives inside her imagination and brainstorms more tales.
Website: https://camillepeters.com/
Lichelle Slater
Lichelle Slater has been writing for as long as she can remember with a deep love of fantasy, with some of her fondest memories being visiting the library as a child. After earning a creative writing degree from Utah State University, she worked to become a USA Today Bestselling author with multiple nominations, including Mind-Blowing Fantasy of the Year.
She loves everything dragon related and She currently lives in Salt Lake City, UT with her adorable King Charles Spaniels, Perseus and Ollivander. She works full-time as a kindergarten teacher and loves exploring the mountains and valleys of Utah.
Website: www.LichelleSlater.com
Facebook: Lichelle’s Book Wyrms
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lichelleslater_author/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lichelleslaterauthor?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
Mary Mecham
Mary Mecham writes no spice romantasy and fairytale retellings packed with high stakes adventures, swoony romances loaded with banter, and plenty of villains. Beyond writing, she is a passionate disability advocate and speaker, lives in Texas with her husband and three children and loves roller coasters, fire breathing, axe throwing, and power paragliding.
Website: https://marymecham.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marymecham_author/
Lea Doué
Lea Doué is the author of The Firethorn Chronicles, a fantasy series inspired by fairytales and other classic stories, as well as the Fairytale Dragon Rider series. A native of south Georgia, Lea lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her husband, their two boys, and four cats. But, sadly, no dragons.
Website: www.authorleadoue.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leadoueauthor
Suzanna Fowers
At the tender age of seven, Suzanna regaled her classmates with tales of crime-solving donuts, Henry VIII’s wives exploring Jupiter, and a world of candy with ice cream mountains. Her imagination hasn’t stopped since. She credits her older brother, whose dragon-adorned room housed fantasy books she borrowed, and her mother’s hidden stash of historical regency romances for shaping her literary tastes. These stolen reading sessions had consequences—her brother consoled her through cliffhangers and out-of-order series, while her mother still contends with her daughter’s romantic ideals. Today, Suzanna writes across genres, blending dystopian worlds, fairy tales, romantic epics, regency romance with Greek gods, and steampunk crime mysteries. She also writes romance under the name, Stephanie Fowers.
Website: https://www.suzannafowers.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suzannafowers/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/suzannafowers/
Nina Clare
Nina writes fantastical fairy tales and historical romances, and sometimes mixes the genres up for fun. She particularly enjoys populating her story worlds with English eccentrics and flawed protagonists, which tells you volumes about her. She dwells in rural England, and can often be found musing plot points while hiking about the countryside with her dogs.
Website: www.ninaclarebooks.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/ninaclarebooks
J.M. Stengl
After a whirlwind life as a military spouse and mom, author J.M. Stengl plots fairytale adventures and confuses her indulgent husband by dropping random gossip about griffins, cinder sprites, and mages into real-life conversations. Happily settled now in North Carolina, she enjoys baking fresh bread, flower gardening, restoring model horses, and playing with her dog and two “mewses.”
Website: www.jmstengl.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/FarawayCastleSeries/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17638772.J_M_Stengl
C. J. Brightley
C. J. Brightley grew up in Georgia. After a career in national security, she turned her attention to writing. She lives with her husband and children in Northern Virginia. You can find her at CJBrightley.com, along with sneak peeks of upcoming books, deleted scenes, background material, thoughts on writing, and books she enjoys.
She also runs Noblebright.org and PhoenixCrate.com, both dedicated to highlighting the best of noblebright fantasy. Noblebright fantasy characters have the courage to risk kindness, honesty, integrity, and love; to fight against their own flaws and the darkness of the world around them; and to find hope in a grim world.
Website: www.cjbrightley.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CJBrightley
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cjbrightley/
Julene Johnson
Julene has lived in worlds of the mind since childhood. There wasn’t a board game, scooter ride, or friendship she couldn’t weave into the imaginary adventures she was constantly living out in her head.
It wasn’t until middle school that she realized she wanted to translate imaginings into ink, but once the idea took root, it grew steadily into a dream she knew she’d find a way to fulfill. Stories were written on binder paper, in school notebooks, on whiteboards, on computer files, pretty much anywhere she could find when a story consumed her.
But though she loved crafting tales, her interests grew in other disciplines too. She studied science and worked in tech, developing her pen-craft as a hobby, expecting the time would eventually come to focus on her dream. The time came earlier than expected and Julene is thrilled.
Over the years, her imaginary world has expanded into a universe and she has stories upon stories she’d love to develop and share. She can’t wait, and hopes you enjoy exploring worlds with her.
Website: (coming)
Kayla Eshbaugh
Kayla loves writing swoon-worthy spice free romance in the fantasy romance and fairytale retelling genres. She has often been told that her own real-life love story sounds a lot like a romance novel. At the age of sixteen, her brother’s best friend told her that they would get married someday and even though she told him that would never happen–spoiler alert–it did!
Kayla currently resides with her husband of seventeen years and their two sons in southern California. She loves traveling with her family, true crime documentaries, scary movies, camping, flowers, thrill rides, sparkly things, and the beach, where she usually gets her best story ideas.
Kayla loves happily-ever-afters, along with a bit of magic, which is the reason that in her stories, you will find both!
Website: https://kaylaeshbaugh.weebly.com/
Abigail Manning
Abigail Manning is a wife, mother, foster mother, and author of YA romance. She resides with her husband in the beautiful state of Tennessee.
In school, she studied both Early Childhood Development and Theatre Arts, both of which aided in the development of her Emerald Realm series, based off of retold fairy tales, and now her romantasy stories.
Abigail has always adored the world of fantasy romance, and dreams of crafting worlds that readers will wish were real.
She has joyfully published over twenty-five young adult novels, and is eager to continue watching her bookshelves grow.
Website: www.abigailmanningauthor.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abigailmanningauthor/
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@abigailmanningauthor
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Abigail-Manning-Author-100074816973438/