Getting to Know Authors Chanta Rand, Lena Hart, and Valerie Twombly

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Award winning and best selling author Valerie Twombly grew up watching Dark Shadows over her mother’s shoulder, and from there her love of the fanged creatures blossomed. Today, Valerie has decided to take her darker, sensual side and put it to paper. When she is not busy creating a world full of steamy, hot men and strong, seductive women, she juggles her time between a full-time job, hubby and her two German shepherd dogs, in Northern IL. Valerie is a member of Romance Writers of America and Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal Romance Writers.

Lena Hart is a Florida native currently living in the Harlem edge of New York City. She is an active member of the Romance Writers of America organization, including the NYC and CIMRWA special interest chapter. Though Lena enjoys reading a variety of romance genres, she mainly writes sensual interracial romances with a flare of suspense and mystery.

Chanta Jefferson Rand is an Emma Award winning Debut Author of the Year, a multi-published, best-selling author of sizzling-hot romance, and the former host of The Chanta Rand Show. An avid reader of all genres, she stepped onto the scene in 2010 with her first published historical romance, Pharaoh's Desire. Soon after, she joined Romance Writers of America.