Published Author Network (PAN)

The RWA Published Author Network authors are those authors published by an RWA recognized publisher. These authors include:

Lori Avocato

After serving in the Air Force as a registered nurse, Lori Avocato decided to switch careers and now writes a humorous romantic mystery series for Avon Books. She lives in New England and is a member of Mystery Writers of America, The Author’s Guild and Sisters in Crime.

Lori believes that we all need a great entertaining read and humor always helps. Her Pauline Sokol Mystery Series, in which a burned out nurse becomes a medical insurance fraud investigator, is a perfect medium for Lori’s quick wit and amusing, believable characters. Lori’s book has made the best-selling suspense/thriller list on Amazon and placed second in the Reviewers International Organizations award of excellent for debut novel. A new book in The Pauline Sokol Mystery Series will be out every July and October until 2007. You can visit Lori’s website at: www.loriavocato.com where you can drop her a note.

Nancy Block

Zita Christian

Kate Freiman

Polly Holyoke (as Anna DeForest)

Karen Kendall

Karen was born in New Jersey but moved to Austin, Texas at the ripe old age of four, so she grew up an honorary Texan despite her closet-Yankee status. She started writing little stapled booklets about her cats as soon as she could form letters. Karen majored in art History at Smith College with a concentration in contemporary art.

Instead of writing a thesis for her master's degree in Art History, Karen decided to write a book! She wrote a very stinky manuscript followed by another, while working for a fun, funky art gallery. She sold her fourth book in a two-book contract to Avon! That book was Something About Cecily.

Cecily won the Maggie award. Since then, her books have finaled for the Holt Medallion award (3 times) the Bookseller’s Best award and the Madcap award for romantic comedy. She continues to write and dream, but wish she'd paid more attention to math. Why? Her husband, the knight with a shining spreadsheet, has to read her royalty statements for her!

Sasha Lord

May McGoldrick/Jan Coffey

Joanna Novins

Leslie O'Grady (as Leslie O'Grady, Lindsay Chase and Leslie Brannen)

Sharon Schulze

Sharon Sobel

Sharon Sobel has written four books - 2 for Lionheart Publishing (Family Portrait - 2002, and The London Claimant - July 2005). Her recent regency, Lady Larkspur's Declines, is published by Signet. Her next regency, Miss Clarkson's Classmate, is due out in December 2005.

Joyce C. Ware