HELENA HARTE is an incurable romantic with a marshmallow heart, and her bag is women loving women romance. Her favourite pastime is finding love and romance in the strangest of places.
Helena’s third book, Art to Love, is now available as an audiobook. Her fourth book, Stunted Heart, was released on August 1, 2023 and spent seven weeks at #1 in LGBTQ action & adventure, as well as reaching #1 in lesbian romance in the US, Australia, and Canada. Her next novel, Sanctuary, is the first in the Windy City Romance series, and was released June 2024. Unwritten, the second book in the Windy City Romance series, came out in November 2024. You can also find Helena’s books in audio format.
ALLY MCGUIRE lives in the UK with her wife. Social media frightens the bejesus out of her, as does the human race generally. She writes WLW fiction to escape into the far more pleasant world in her head.
Ally’s first romance novel, Where the Heart Leads, reached number 2 in the US Lesbian Romance charts, and her second book, Fragments of the Heart, won a Golden Crown Literary award. Heart of the Storm came out November 2023 and The Heart Remembers was released July 2025. Her books are also available in audio format.
SYDNEY LEAR is a longtime romantic, though a relatively new romantic author. Her formative years were spent in the Midwest, but the allure of the ocean, palm trees, and the California lifestyle called to her. She now lives in Los Angeles with her wife and pups. When she’s not tending to her garden or working as a healthcare professional, you can find her writing her next sapphic romance. Racing Hearts is her debut novel.
JP PRESTON lives in England with a long suffering wife and kids. She like Algerian coffee, Syrian hamsters, cold cider, and books. Audible is her best friend, but music is her lifelong lover. She’s prone to staring into space, blinking and sometimes mouthing words while she dreams up characters and plot twists. Sharing the products of this malady seemed like a better option than ignoring it, so here she is. Driving Me Barking is her debut novel.
JO FLETCHER is an avid reader and new author of sapphic romance. She lives with her wife, son, and elderly cat, Virginia Woolf. Despite living in the centre of England, Jo loves being at the beach. She spends most of her spare time picking up Lego and searching for shin pads. Jo enjoyed a twenty-year career in communications before turning her attention to writing fiction.
Jo’s debut novel, Here You Are, was released on 1 September, 2023 and has been shortlisted for a Golden Crown Literary award. Her follow-up novel, Back to Back, came out in 2024. Her latest, Here in My Heart (part of the Here Together series) is available now!
BREY WILLOWS is a longtime editor and writer. When she’s not running a social enterprise working with marginalized communities on writing projects, she’s editing other people’s writing or doing her own. She lives in the middle of England with her wife and fellow author and spends entirely too much time exploring castles and ancient ruins while bemoaning the rain.
Dark Haven is Brey’s first book with us, and it’s recently been shortlisted for a 2024 Golden Crown Literary award. Her second book, Ship of Dreams, is a rollicking romp in steampunk Victorian England.
By day, LEE HAVEN works as an encoder for a small streaming service. In her free time, she likes to create complex characters and weave fictional stories with a happy ending. If she can’t be found working or writing, she is most likely out for a long walk in the forest or along the river with an audiobook in her ears and a camera in hand.
Lee’s debut novel, Call to Love, is out now.
E.V.’s first two books, Warm Pearls and Paper Cranes and Of Light and Love, are now available as audiobooks. Warm Pearls won a Golden Crown Literary Award and the audiobook version has just shortlisted for another Goldie. Her fourth novel, Virgin Flight, is out now and is currently being turned into an audiobook. Encrypted Hearts is her latest novel, and the gorgeous novella, the On the Edge of Uncertainty, comes out December 1st! You can pre-order it now.
E.V. BANCROFT always wanted to write when she grew up. Despite that, she had a career’s worth of numbers as an accountant. Now her debut novel has won a Golden Crown Literary Award, maybe she’s grown up at last. E.V. lives near Bristol, England with her daughter and neurotic cat.
VALDEN BUSH has followed lesfic for years. Reading all those books got her wondering if she could do it too. Valden is a keen Zwift racer and can be found puffing her way up various hills most days. She lives near Bournemouth with her wife of over thirty years.
Book 2 of the Department 6 series, Love Under Fire, is available now.
ROBYN NYX lives in England but enjoys traveling all over the world in search of inspiration. Robyn is an avid shutterbug and lover of all things fast and physical. Her writing often reflects both of those passions. She lives with her wifey soul mate and fellow scribe, Brey Willows. They run the community interest company, Global Wordsmiths, helping aspiring authors to achieve their dreams and working with marginalized groups to get their stories heard. Robyn loves to create complex characters to weave into stories that remind us of the darker side of human nature in the hope that we might cultivate the light.
Under RJ NYX, she’s written a sci-fi time travel trilogy, The Extractor Series. Grab all three now.
KAREN KLYNE lives in England and is a passionate globetrotter. When she’s not travelling, she likes walking, cycling, and chasing a little white ball around lush green fairways.
Her latest release, just out in 2025, is Secrets of the Heart.
ADDISON M CONLEY has lived in five states. Her home is now in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle, where she enjoys the mountains and woods and shares her home with two fur babies and tropical fish. Her hobbies included stained glass, photography, and scuba diving. She loves the company of good friends (LGBTQ+ and allies).
AJ MASON lives in London. In her spare time, she enjoys playing (and even sometimes winning) strategy boardgames, and keeps tropical shrimp. Her writing reflects a lifelong love of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
As the youngest of six children born in a tough working-class area, and consumed by an obsessive desire for music and literature, SIMON SMALLEY has led an unconventional life. The second volume of his memoirs, Chucking Putty at the Queen, is available now!
Now being stocked in Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham.
JAMES MERRICK is a professor of Curriculum and Teaching. He lives in Bakersfield, California, with his husband of eight years. Writing fills most of his waking hours, but he also enjoys traveling, reading, and gardening. His current short stories and poems can be found here.
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