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Kate Jarvik Birch is an American author of YA fantasy novels. She writes the Perfected series. Kate has loved writing ever since she was little. She wrote her first novel when she was in the fourth grade, and the protagonist may have shared a similarity with herself. Since growing up, her essays and stories have […]

Susan Wren is the protagonist in a series of mystery novels by American novelist Charlene Weir. Susan Wren has left the big city of San Francisco, California in order to marry a police detective in the small town of Hampstead, Kansas. But soon, their plans of growing old together are forced to change…

Charlene Weir (1937-2015) was an American author of mystery novels. She wrote the Susan Wren series. Charlene was born and raised in the state of Kansas. She was trained as a nurse, attended the University of Oklahoma and became a public health nurse. Charlene passed away in April 2015 in El Cerrito, California.

Fu Manchu is the main character in a series of crime fiction novels by English novelist Sax Rohmer. Fu Manchu is a supervillain who uses methods such as bandits, thugs, snakes, spiders or fungi rather than using guns or explosives to kill. The character has not only appeared in Rohmer’s series of novels, but also […]

Sax Rohmer was the pen name of English author Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959), who was best known for his Fu Manchu series. Rohmer had a working class background, growing up in Birmingham, England. He worked as a poet, songwriter and comedy sketch writer for music hall performers prior to becoming a novelist.

Jessica Lemmon is an American author of contemporary romance novels. She writes the Love in the Balance, Second Chance, Lost Boys and Billionaire Bad Boys series. Sick of working in sales, Jessica decided a change was necessary and decided writing about sexy heroes and sassy heroines was exactly what she needed. She has a degree […]

Maile Meloy is an American author of fantasy, adventure and literary fiction novels. She has had short stories published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. She won the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the John C. Zacharis Award for her collection Half in Love. Maile has also won the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction […]

Karen E. Bender is an American author of women’s fiction novels. She grew up in Los Angeles, but has also lived in New York City and Iowa City, where she attended the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her short story collection Refund was a Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction and was shortlisted for the […]

Growing up, my mum owned a lot of books including all of the V.C. Andrews books in the Dollanganger series. You know – Flowers in the Attic etc. Despite getting hooked on reading at a young age they never interested me. Maybe I thought they were “for girls” or something. At 16 i moved from […]

We all have favourite authors. Authors whose books we blindly buy year in, year out. I decided to pose the question to our readers: who is on YOUR blindly buy list? Without even having to read the book description… And I will warn you – we got a LOT of amazing feedback. Over 5,000 words […]