About WordWranglers:
The WordWranglers are six writers who found one another on the web. We talk about everything - writing, current events, our books, our favorite authors, and whatever might strike us at the moment. We hope you find something you love about our little blog...and keep coming back!
Liz Flaherty
Liz is a multi-published author with Harlequin, The Wild
Rose Press and Carina Press.
Nan Reinhardt
Nan Reinhardt is a USA Today bestselling author of sweet and sexy romance novels featuring women in their prime. She is also a wife, a mom, a mother-in-law, and grandmother to an active little boy and two rambunctious dogs. She’s been an antiques dealer, a bank teller, a stay-at-home mom, a secretary, and for the last 25 years, she’s earned her living as a freelance copy editor and proofreader.
But writing is her first and most enduring passion. Nan can’t remember a time in her life when she wasn’t writing—she wrote her first romance novel at the age of ten. It involved a love story between the most sophisticated person she knew at the time, her older sister (who was in high school!), and a member of Herman’s Hermits. If you know who they are, you’re Nan’s audience! She’s still writing romance, but this time from the viewpoint of a wiser, slightly rumpled, older woman instead of a starry-eyed preteen.
She’s completed twelve novels: Rule Number One was her first published novel and is still available in print and digital at all e-book retailers; The Women of Willow Bay series includes Once More From the Top, Sex and the Widow Miles, The Summer of Second Chances, and Saving Sarah, which are also available in e-book and print at all book retailers. Her Four Irish Brothers Winery series, from Tule Publishing includes A Small Town Christmas, Meant to Be, Christmas with You, and The Baby Contract, which are all currently available in e-book and print from all book retailers. She has just completed a new 3-book series, The Langes of River’s Edge, for Tule Publishing.
Kristina Knight
I'm Kristina Knight, a former television reporter, who now writes the stories of her heart rather than the news of the day! After a ten year career reporting on bank robberies, murders and general mayhem, I decided to take my life back and get a real job - writing about romance!My family and I live in Northern Ohio, in a rural area of a not-so-small town. By day, you'll find me writing non-fiction articles on the marketing industry...or maybe writing about soap operas for an online magazine. By night, I'll be writing about hot men, daring women and love that lasts.
Kristina is a multi-published author with Harlequin, Crimson Romance and a few self-published titles on her shelf.
Visit Kristina on the web here or follow her on Facebook or Twitter.
Check out Kristina's books.
Margie Senechal
Margie started writing as a young adult and never really grew out of it. She lives in the Pacific Northwest where she's at work on a YA novel laced with humor, adventure, and hopefully a little enlightenment. During her day/night job in retail management, she's able to cull the public for inspiration. Okay, so sometimes the only inspiration the public provides is the desire to get published and out of the public, but that's beside the point.
Married for 26 years, her two daughters were raised with "When Dad whens the lottery or Mom sells a book..." and they're still waiting. But, like their mother, they believe in dreams. Visit Margie, writing as RG Senechal, on the web here.
Janie Devos
Janie DeVos, a
native of Coral Gables, Florida, began her career in the advertising
industry. After more than a decade in
that field, she focused her time and attention on her love of writing. DeVos began her freelance writing company,
Rainy Day Creations, in 2000, and began composing verses for several greeting
card companies. Then, HOW HIGH CAN YOU FLY?, DeVos’ first
hardcover picture book published through River Road Press, made its debut in
2001. In 2003, Ms. DeVos’ second
hardcover picture book, THE PATH WINDS
HOME, was released.
Both books grabbed
the attention of a New York publisher, East End Publishing, and in 2007, Ms.
DeVos’ third book, BARTHELLO’S WING,
made its debut. Scholastic Books was
interested in including BARTHELLO’S WING
in their North American school book fairs, and asked that it be produced in
soft-cover. It was, and to date it has
sold over 90,000 copies. In the spring
of 2012, DeVos once again teamed up with seasoned publisher Pat Avery to
release her latest children’s book, THE
SHOPKEEPER’S BEAR. It was released
in November of that year, and has become a fan favorite.
In 2015, DeVos’ first
adult novel found a home with prestigious Kensington Publishing. BENEATH
A THOUSAND APPLE TREES was released in the fall of 2016, and its sequel, THE ART OF BREATHING, was released in February,
2017. In December 2017, book one of DeVos’
trilogy about Old Florida, A CORNER IN
GLORY LAND, made its debut to much acclaim.
The second book, THE RISING OF
GLORY LAND, was released in June 2018, and her final book in the series, THE RIVER TO GLORY LAND, was released in
December 2018.
Ms. DeVos has made
numerous appearances in schools, libraries and bookstores. She has been a keynote speaker for Miami, Florida’s
Title One Program, as well as the authors’ liaison for the Reading Across Broward
Festival, and was one of three authors selected by Border’s Books, Children Services of Broward
County, and Broward County Libraries as part of a joint effort in targeting at
risk children in after-school programming.
Presently, Janie is working on a new novel about the Great Depression while living in a log cabin in the Blue Ridge
Mountains, with her husband and beloved Bassets.
Catch up with Janie on the web here.
Jana Richards
When Jana Richards read her first romance novel, she immediately knew two things: she had to commit the stories running through her head to paper, and they had to end with a happily ever after. She also knew she’d found what she was meant to do. Since then she’s never met a romance genre she didn’t like. She writes contemporary romance, romantic suspense, and historical romance set in World War Two, in lengths ranging from short story to full length novel. Just for fun, she throws in generous helpings of humor, and the occasional dash of the paranormal. Her paranormal romantic suspense “Seeing Things” was a 2008 EPPIE finalist.
In her life away from writing, Jana is an accountant/admin assistant, a mother to two grown daughters, and a wife to her husband Warren. She enjoys golf, yoga, movies, concerts, travel and reading, not necessarily in that order. She and her husband live in Winnipeg, Canada with their Pug/Terrier cross Lou and several unnamed goldfish.
You can catch up with Jana here.
By night, Ava Cuvay writes out of this world science fiction romance featuring sassy heroines, often-alien-but-always-sexy heroes, and an alcoholic beverage or two... Think "Star Wars" meets "Firefly", with no Jedi mind tricks, but with a lot more heat.
By day, she feeds her passion for wine and spirits while working for an alcoholic beverage distribution company. It’s a tough job, sometimes requiring her to sample product before she has even finished her first cup of coffee. Yet oddly enough, she never gets any sympathy for this grueling job obligation.
Just teasing. Ava loves both her daytime and nighttime proclivities. And it only makes sense she would write hot romance, when she is knee-deep every day in products called Kinky and French Kiss and Buzzballz and Fighting Cock…
When not writing, Ava is thinking about writing. Or wine. And she’s always thinking about bacon.
You can catch up with Ava here.
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Ava Cuvay
By day, she feeds her passion for wine and spirits while working for an alcoholic beverage distribution company. It’s a tough job, sometimes requiring her to sample product before she has even finished her first cup of coffee. Yet oddly enough, she never gets any sympathy for this grueling job obligation.
Just teasing. Ava loves both her daytime and nighttime proclivities. And it only makes sense she would write hot romance, when she is knee-deep every day in products called Kinky and French Kiss and Buzzballz and Fighting Cock…
When not writing, Ava is thinking about writing. Or wine. And she’s always thinking about bacon.
You can catch up with Ava here.