Authors

Leigh Greenwood

Okay, let's get the hard stuff out of the way right up front. Leigh is a man! I know men aren't supposed to write romance, but I do and I don't intend to quit. It's fun. If you're still mad, you can blame it on my wife. I wouldn't have known what romance was if, after I got married in 1972, romances hadn't started collecting all over the house. They were everywhere I looked, in the den, on the kitchen table, in the living room, stacked along one whole wall in the bedroom, even in the bathroom. When my wife wasn't cooking or taking care of the children, she was reading a romance. I admit I was a little supercilious about her choice of reading material. After all, I was reading Dickens, Hemingway, Austen, the classics! I started calling them her "sin, lust, and passion" books. I said it so often my daughter started calling them Mommy's "celeste" passion books. I thought it was funny. My wife didn't. One day, after what I’m certain was a typically condescending remark (you have to understand I'd never read a romance, just looked at the covers and made a snap judgment), she threw a book at me and told me to read it or shut up. Being an obedient husband (my wife's expletive deleted!), I read the book. It was Georgette Heyer's These Old Shades. I loved it. To this day it's one of my favorite books. Being thoroughly hooked, I searched new and used bookstores until I'd collected every book Georgette Heyer ever wrote. After reading them all several times, I asked my wife to suggest some other books. Since I have a minor in history, she started me on a diet of the icons of early historical romance, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Rosemary Rogers, Jennifer Blake, Bertrice Small, and Johanna Lindsey. By now I was completely addicted. Somewhere along the line, I read that women could make decent money (more than I could as a music teacher) writing historicals, so I tried to get my wife to write one. She told me she couldn't write, that I ought to write one. I said I couldn't think of a plot. This went back and forth for some time until I said if she'd give me a plot, I'd write a book. She said, "I've lost everything." It wasn't a plot, but it must have been enough. I sat down and started writing. 889 pages later, I had finished my first romance. A badly overwritten romance, but a book nonetheless. I didn't know much about writing, and nothing at all about the romance market, so I had to write two more books and join Romance Writers of America before I knew enough to sell my first book. Wyoming Wildfire was published by Zebra in 1987. Since then I’ve written 45 more books and four novellas. Unfortunately, after thirty-six years of marriage, my wife and I divorced. Even though it was amicable, it has been a difficult adjustment. House-hunting and moving from a home I’d occupied for twenty-seven years was no fun, but that’s behind me. My ex-wife is an excellent cook so I gave up cooking once we were married. Now I find that not only do I enjoy it, I’m good at it. In fact, I find myself standing over a simmering sauce or making soup to freeze when I should be writing. I’ve also come to a greater appreciation of what it takes to prepare tasty and interesting meals day after day, but you’re not likely to see any of that in my books. I haven’t written much about cooking since I got letters from readers after Wyoming Wildfire came out complaining that the heroine spent too much time in the kitchen. I recently celebrated my 70th birthday so I call writing my mid-life crisis career. I have a BA in Voice and an MA in Musicology from the University of North Carolina. I taught music in schools and/or was an organist/choir director in churches for thirty-two years before retiring to write full time. I have three grown children (notice I didn't say mature or responsible!) who are momentarily occupying distant parts of these United States. I enjoy gardening and singing in both church and community choirs. I have just welcomed a beautiful grandson, and a granddaughter is on the way. Now if I can just live long enough to tell them stories about their parents. (From the Author's website.)

18 books

Leigh Haskell

1 book

Leigh Heather Wilson

1 book

Leigh Hobbs

2 books

Leigh Hodgkinson

2 books

Leigh Kennedy

Leigh Kennedy was born in Colorado but has lived in Hastings, England, for many years. Her first novel, The Journal of Nicholas the American, appears on the SF Masterworks list from the Gollancz publishing imprint. She has also published another novel and two short story collections, most recently Wind Angels (2011). Kennedy is currently at work on her next novel, with ideas for others brewing. — Alien Sex

1 book

Leigh L. Thompson

1 book

Leigh Michaels

LeAnn was born on July 27, 1954 in Iowa, USA, and raised on a farm in Guthrie County. She received a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, after three years of study and maintained a 3.93 grade-point average. She received the Robert Bliss Award as top-ranking senior in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and won a national William Randolph Hearst Award for feature-writing as an undergraduate. When she was fifteen, LeAnn wrote her first romance novel and burned it. She burned five more complete manuscripts before submitting to a publisher on Friday the Thirteenth. In 1984, the first submission was accepted by Harlequin, the only publisher to look at it, and was published. She writes using the name Leigh Michaels, a combination of her own name and that of her husband Michael W. Lemberger, an artist/photographer. Now, she is the author of more than 85 contemporary romances for Harlequin. She writes sweet, traditional romances, set in Midwestern cities or small towns, and emphasising family values. More than 27 million copies of her books have been printed, worldwide, in 650 editions. Her work has been translated and published in 120 countries in more than 20 languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, German, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Turkish, Hebrew, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. She was the guest of honour at an autograph party sponsored by Mills & Boons' Japanese division, for readers who chose her as their favourite author, and was recipient of the 1994 Pioneer Award presented by Iowa Romance Novelists. Fifteen of her books have appeared on the Waldenbooks Romance Bestsellers List. Five of her books (Ties That Bind, The Lake Effect, Travelling Man, The Unlikely Santa, and The Daddy Trap) have been finalists for Best Traditional Romance novel of the year in the RITA contest, sponsored by Romance Writers of America and Family Secrets, received a reviewer's choice award from Romantic Times magazine. She is the author of, Writing the Romance Novel with Leigh Michaels, a how-to-guide for romance writers, in addition to a series of audio tapes on writing and the romance genre. She teaches an annual seminar on the romance novel at the University of Iowa and has written articles for, Writer's Digest, and, The Writer. LeAnn also authored, Dear Leigh Michaels... A Novelist Answers the Most-Asked Questions about Getting Published; wherein, she addresses topics such as finding a publisher, contracts, rejection letters, pen names and writing query letters. She also wrote a cookbook entitled, A Taste of Love, featuring family recipes coupled with stories about the significance of each dish. Here, she reveals a long line of tradition in her family. LeAnn and her husband reside in her native Iowa. They have been featured on Iowa Public Television. They have collaborated in "A Richer Dust Concealed" by Loren N. Horton, and co-authored some books: "Buxton Roots" with LeeAnn Dickey, "Mars Hill: A Living Legacy" and "Pilgrimage: The Mass of Pope John Paul II in Rural America".

21 books

Leigh Michaels

3 books

Leigh Olsen

1 book

Leigh Phillips

1 book

Leigh Radford

1 book

Leigh Rivers

Leigh Rivers is a Scottish Biomedical Scientist who has ventured into the world of writing dark, morally gray characters with rollercoaster storylines to drive her readers wild. When she isn't reading, writing on her laptop, or gaming until ridiculous hours, she dances at the pole studio, goes to the gym, and walks her four dogs with her two sons and husband.

7 books

Leigh Robertson

1 book

Leigh Schmidt

1 book

Leigh Summers

1 book

Leighton Flowers

1 book

Leighton Pugh

1 book

Leigh Wallace

1 book

Leila Abdelrazaq

1 book

Leila Aboulela

3 books

Leila Aboulela

2 books

Leila Aboulela

1 book

Leila Ahmed

1 book

Leila Aitken

1 book

Leila Cobo

1 book

Leila Guerriero

Leila Guerriero (Junín, 17 de febrero de 1967) es una escritora, periodista y editora argentina, cuyo trabajo se publica en diversos medios de América Latina y Europa. Autora de los libros Los suicidas del fin del mundo, Frutos extraños, Una historia sencilla, Opus Gelber, Teoría de la gravedad y La otra guerra, entre otros, en 2010 ganó el premio de la Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano por su crónica El rastro en los huesos, donde relata el trabajo que realiza el Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense que identifica los restos de desaparecidos de la última dictadura militar argentina. Leila Guerriero (Junín, February 17, 1967) is an Argentine writer, journalist, and editor whose work is published in various media outlets in Latin America and Europe. Author of the books The Suicides of the End of the World, Strange Fruits, A Simple Story, Opus Gelber, Theory of Gravity, and The Other War, among others, in 2010 she won the Ibero-American New Journalism Foundation Award for her chronicle The Trace in the Bones, which recounts the work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team identifying the remains of those who disappeared during the last Argentine military dictatorship.

1 book

Leila Howland

1 book

Leila J. Rupp

1 book

Leila Meacham

1 book

Leila Mottley

Leila Mottley is the author of the novel Nightcrawling, an Oprah’s Book Club pick and New York Times best seller, and the poetry collection woke up no light. Her sophomore novel, The Girls Who Grew Big, came out in June 2025. She was also the 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. She was born and raised in Oakland, where she continues to live. (Source)

1 book

Leila R. Smith

1 book

Leila Sales

1 book

Leila S. Chudori

1 book

Leila S. Chudori

1 book

Leïla Slimani

Leïla Slimani, née le 3 octobre 1981 à Rabat au Maroc, est une journaliste et écrivaine franco-marocaine. Elle a notamment reçu le prix Goncourt 2016 pour son deuxième roman, Chanson douce. Leïla Slimani (born 3 October 1981) is a French-Moroccan writer and journalist. She is also a French diplomat in her capacity as the personal representative of the French president to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.In 2016, she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel Chanson douce.

4 books

Leila Waddell

1 book

Leil Lowndes

12 books

Leisa Rayven

1 book

Leisure Arts 7138

3 books

Leith Mullings

2 books

Leithold

1 book

Leiyu Shi

2 books

L. E. Jr Modesitti

1 book

L. E. L.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L.

1 book

Lela Nargi

2 books

Leland L. Beck

1 book

Leland M. Roth

1 book

Leland M. Roth

1 book

Leland Ryken

1 book