5 Minute Quickies

A Five Minute Quickie with Jenny Bayliss

A former professional cake baker, Jenny Bayliss lives in a small seaside town in the UK with her husband, their children having left home for big adventures. She is also the author of The Twelve Dates of Christmas, A Season for Second Chances, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe, A December to Remember and Kiss Me at Christmas.

By |2025-01-02T10:08:24-05:00January 2, 2025|Categories: 5 Minute Quickies|Comments Off on A Five Minute Quickie with Jenny Bayliss

A Five Minute Quickie with Julia McKay

Julia McKay is the pen name of Marissa Stapley, a former magazine editor and the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick Lucky, as well as many other international bestsellers, including The Lightning Bottles. She has co-authored several holiday rom coms, including bestseller The Holiday Swap, writing as Maggie Knox. Many of her novels have been optioned for television. She lives in Toronto with her family.

By |2024-11-19T08:37:59-05:00November 19, 2024|Categories: 5 Minute Quickies|Comments Off on A Five Minute Quickie with Julia McKay

A Five Minute Quickie with Holly Cassidy

Holly Cassidy is the pen name for internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon. Her suspense novels include The Neighbors, Her Secret Son, Sister Dear, You Will Remember Me, Never Coming Home, and The Revenge List. McKinnon was born in England, grew up in Switzerland, and now lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband and three sons. The Christmas Countdown is her second novel writing as Holly Cassidy. 

By |2024-10-25T08:44:27-04:00October 25, 2024|Categories: 5 Minute Quickies|Comments Off on A Five Minute Quickie with Holly Cassidy

A Five Minute Quickie with Josie Juniper

Josie Juniper is a Pacific Northwest native who has worked chiefly in mathematics and journalism. She writes romance featuring STEM, sass, spice, smart women, and angsty, wicked-talking men. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her artist husband and a flock of rescue turkeys.

By |2024-10-09T07:59:08-04:00October 8, 2024|Categories: 5 Minute Quickies|Comments Off on A Five Minute Quickie with Josie Juniper

A Five Minute Quickie with Katrina Kwan

KATRINA KWAN is a Vancouver-based author and actress. After graduating from Acadia University in 2017 with a BA in political science with honors, Kwan spent the next six years honing her creative skills as a freelance ghostwriter. With several ghostwritten romance novels under her belt, she’s ecstatic to finally be writing books under her own name.

By |2024-08-28T14:51:53-04:00August 28, 2024|Categories: 5 Minute Quickies|Comments Off on A Five Minute Quickie with Katrina Kwan

A Five Minute Quickie with Kate Cole

Since meeting Mr. Darcy in English 101, Kate Cole hasn’t managed to shake her obsession with all things happily ever after. A sucker for romance, this Canadian bibliophile is a buttoned-up bureaucrat in the street, spicy rom-com writer in her desk seat. When she isn’t reading or writing, she’s also a wife and mom in suburbia who can’t get enough of Duran Duran or pedicures that match her current reads. 

By |2024-01-31T18:30:26-05:00January 31, 2024|Categories: 5 Minute Quickies|Comments Off on A Five Minute Quickie with Kate Cole

A Five Minute Quickie with Katie Shepard

Katie Shepard is, in no particular order, a fangirl, a gamer, a bankruptcy lawyer, and a romance author. Born and raised in Texas, she frequently escapes to Montana to commune with the trees and woodland creatures, resembling a Disney princess in all ways except age, appearance, and musical ability. When not writing or making white-collar criminals cry at their depositions, she enjoys playing video games in her soft pants and watching sci-fi shows with her husband, two children, and very devoted cat.

By |2023-11-16T20:07:17-05:00November 16, 2023|Categories: 5 Minute Quickies|Comments Off on A Five Minute Quickie with Katie Shepard

A Five Minute Quickie with Robin Lefler

Robin Lefler lives near Toronto with her husband, their two children and an anxious goldendoodle. Over the course of a career in tech, she has travelled the globe but generally prefers to be at home, where she can easily locate coffee, wine and high-quality waffles. Reasonable Adults is her debut novel.

By |2023-10-25T09:15:49-04:00October 25, 2023|Categories: 5 Minute Quickies|Comments Off on A Five Minute Quickie with Robin Lefler

A Five Minute Quickie with Sarah Rodi

Sarah Rodi has always been a hopeless romantic. She grew up watching old, romantic movies recommended by her grandad, or devouring love stories from the local library. She has been a magazine journalist for over 20 years, but it has been her lifelong dream to write romance for Mills & Boon. Sarah believes everyone deserves to find their happy ever after.

By |2023-10-02T09:06:10-04:00October 2, 2023|Categories: 5 Minute Quickies|Comments Off on A Five Minute Quickie with Sarah Rodi

A Five Minute Quickie with Jean Meltzer

Jean Meltzer studied dramatic writing at NYU Tisch and has earned numerous awards for her work in television, including a daytime Emmy. She spent five years in rabbinical school before her chronic illness forced her to withdraw, and her father told her she should write a book-just not a Jewish one because no one reads those. Kissing Kosher is her third novel.

By |2023-09-07T19:25:35-04:00September 7, 2023|Categories: 5 Minute Quickies|Comments Off on A Five Minute Quickie with Jean Meltzer
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