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       GAIL (GAYMER) MARTIN is an award-winning author writing for Steeple Hilland Barbour Publishing. She began writing novels in 1997, sold to Barbour in 1998 and, since then has signed over forty fiction contracts. She has more than one million books in print. Gail's book, WRITING THE CHRISTIAN ROMANCE is a Writers Digest book, released in December 2007.

       Gail's novels have been finalists in numerous national contests, and her books have won numerous awards, including National Readers Choice Award, two Booksellers Best, two Holt Medallions, Winter Rose 1st place award, the 2002 American Christian Romance Writers Book of the Year in short inspirational, and Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice for Best Love Inspired of 2002.

       Gail is a popular keynote speaker and workshop presenter across the U.S. She is a founding member of American Christian Romance Writers, a member of Advanced Speakers and Writers Association and a member of RWA^® and three of its chapters---MMRWA, GDRWA and FHL.

       Read more about Gail's books and order autographed copies from her web site. She's also love to hear from you by email at gail@gailmartin.com!

       Take a look at Gail's article, "Life is Just a Bowl of 'Berries'" and her "Between the Covers Interview" on our Newsletter Articles page!

       KATHLEEN NANCE says her first declared career choice was detective, thanks to a shelf full of Nancy Drew books. Books have always been a treasured companion, a source of knowledge, and a means to travel beyond her world and experience It wasn't a far hop from a love of reading to a love of creating her own stories.

       A practical streak led to a career in pharmacy, but her years of writing drug monographs strengthened a heartfelt appreciation for the joys of fiction. When she became a stay-at-home mom, it seemed a perfect time to put the dream of getting published into practice. Especially when she got to live with djinn, elves, and meddling Greek gods.

       Her first book was published in 1998. Since then she's authored seven books and three novellas. She's has been a RITA finalist and her work has won a Golden Heart, a SARA Rising Star Grand Prize, the Holt Medallion, the PRISM Award, and the National Reader's Choice Award.

       After eighteen years in New Orleans, she returned to her birth state of Michigan with a husband, three teenagers, and two cats. Along with laryngitis from cheering at track meets and soccer games, figuring out how to drive on snow and bundle up for cold, and a home health care variation to the pharmacy career, she still finds creating characters and plot is an irresistible challenge.

       Only, in her books, Ned and Nancy are all grown up and falling in love.

       Kathleen would love to hear from you by email, and you can learn more about her and her books from her website.

       DANA CORBIT NUSSIO, a.k.a. DANA CORBIT started telling "people stories" at about the same time she started forming words. So it came as no surprise when the Indiana native chose a career as a newspaper reporter and features editor. She left the workforce to be a stay-at-home mom, but the stories came home with her as she discovered the joy of writing fiction.

       Her first novel, A BLESSED LIFE, an Oct. 2002 from Steeple Hill Love Inspired, was a finalist in the HOLT Medallion competition. She has since sold three more novels to Steeple Hill.

       Dana makes her home in Grand Rapids, Mich., with her husband, three daughters and two disinterested felines. She has been active in the Mid-Michigan RWA chapter since she joined in 1999, having served as the chapter secretary and chaired the Publicity, Published Author Network and Retreat Speaker committees.

       Dana loves to hear from readers and may be contacted by email at danacorbit@earthlink.net or at P.O. Box 120044, Grand Rapids, MI 49512.

       CINDY SPENCER PAPE   has been, among other things, a banker, a teacher, and an elected politician, though she swears she got better. She has an MS in zoology, and currently works in environmental education, when she can fit it in around writing. She lives in Howell, Michigan with her husband, two teenage sons, a dog, a lizard (Chewy, pictured), and various other small creatures, all of which are easier to clean up after than the three male humans.

       Cindy tells us that she writes Faerie Tales for Grown-Ups, and invites us all to get our happy-ever-after fix with a paranormal romance by Cindy Spencer Pape. You can learn more about Cindy and her books at: www.cindyspencerpape.com

       MARIS SOULE majored in art in college, but her love of books led her to writing, and her love of happy endings led her to romances. So far, she's authored 25 contemporary series romances, which have been translated into 18 foreign languages and sold world-wide. Always the Gemini, she likes variety, but has stuck with the same man for 33 years, following him even from sunny California to a too-cold-in-the winter/ too-humid-in-the-summer home near Kalamazoo, Michigan. Maris is a two-time RITA finalist and a two-time winner of the Write Touch Readers' Award.

       After many years as a romance writer, Maris Soule broke into still another genre with her recent sale of THE CROWS, a mystery. For more information, check out her new website at: www.MarisSoule.com

Authors without specific addresses listed can be reached c/o MMRWA, P.O. Box 2725, Kalamazoo, MI 49003-2725. All correspondence is appreciated!

If you're a MMRWA member who is not included on this page and want to be, or if you've had changes or updates you'd like added, please email them to Lana at info@midmichiganrwa.org!