- Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts (b. October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland as Eleanor Marie Robertson), is a bestselling American author of more than one hundred fifty romance novels. She was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. She writes suspense novels as J.D. Robb, and has written romance novels under the pseudonyms Sarah Hardesty and Jill March.
- Debbie Macomber
Debbie Macomber (born October 22, 1948 in Yakima, Washington) is a best-selling American author of over 150 romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. Over sixty million copies of her books are in print throughout the world, and one, "This Matter of Marriage", became a made-for-tv-movie in 1998. Macomber was the inaugural winner of the fan-voted Quill Award for romance in 2005 and has been awarded a Romance Writers of America RITA Award.
- Julia Quinn
Julia Pottinger (born Julie Cotler in 1970), is a best-selling American historical romance author, who says she chose the name "Julia Quinn" so her Regency romances would be on bookshelves next to those of the successful romance writer Amanda Quick. Her novels have been translated into eight foreign languages, and she has appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List four times.
- Tami Hoag
Tami Hoag (January 20 in Minnesota) is a best-selling American author of romantic fiction and suspense novels. More than 22 million copies of her books are in print.
- Barbara Delinsky
Barbara Ruth Greenberg Delinsky (born August 9, 1945, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) is a best-selling U.S.American writer of more than sixty-five romance and mainstream fiction novels. She has also been published under the pen names Bonnie Drake, Billie Douglass and her real name Barbara Delinsky.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sherrilyn Kenyon (born 1965) is a bestselling and award-winning American author. Under her own name she is known for her paranormal romance and vampire chronicles. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor she is also well known for her historical romance novels. Kenyon's novels have an "international cult following," with over ten million copies in print in twenty-six countries.
- Lisa Kleypas
Lisa Kleypas (born 1964) is a best-selling American author of romance novels set primarily in the nineteenth century. In 1985, she was named Miss Massachusetts and competed in the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. Kleypas currently resides in Texas with her husband and their two children.
- Lori Foster
Lori L. Foster is a best-selling U.S.American writer of over fifty romance novels as Lori Foster. She will branch out with her first Urban Fantasy release using her first and middle initials, L.L. Foster. She lives in Ohio with her husband and her three sons.
- Stephanie Laurens
Stephanie Laurens is a best-selling author of romance novels.
- Belva Plain
Belva Plain (born 1919 in New York, New York) is a best-selling American author of mainstream women's fiction.
- Christina Dodd
Christina Dodd is a best-selling American author of romance novels.
- Linda Lael Miller
Linda Lael Miller (born 1949 in Washington as Linda Lael), is a best-selling author of more than seventy contemporary and historical romance novels. She has also written under the pen name Lael St. James. Miller was raised in Northport, Washington, where her father was a town marshal. A bright student, she was named the valedictorian of her high school class. Miller admits to having wanderlust, and has spent time living in London, Italy, and Arizona.
- Karen Robards
Karen Robards (born about 1957) is a best-selling author of over thirty romance novels. After first gaining recognition for her historical romances, Robards became one of the first historical romance novelists to successfully make the switch to contemporary romantic fiction. Her work has been translated into eleven languages, and has won awards from both "Romantic Times" and "Affaire de Coeur".
- Carly Phillips
Carly Phillips (born July 7, ?? in New York) is the pen name used by Karen Drogin to write over twenty-three best-selling contemporary romance novels.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (born Cincinnati, Ohio) is a best-selling American author of romance novels.
- Mary Jo Putney
Mary Jo Putney (b. New York) is a best-selling American author of over twenty-five historical and contemporary romance novels. She has also been published fantasy romance novels as M.J. Putney. Her books are known for their unusual subject matter, including alcoholism, death, and domestic abuse.
- Brenda Joyce
Brenda D. Joyce is a best-selling American author of romance novels.
- Catherine Anderson
Catherine Anderson, born in 1947, is an American best-selling writer of historical and contemporary romance novels.
- Joan Johnston
Joan Johnston (born Little Rock, Arkansas) is a best-selling American author of over forty contemporary and historical romance novels.
- Vicki Lewis Thompson
Vicki Lewis Thompson (b. October 11 in U.S.A.) is a best-selling U.S.American writer of over seventy romance novels. She has also been published under the pseudonyms Cory Kenyon and Corey Keaton with Mary Tate Engels.
- Lynn Kurland
Lynn Kurland is a best-selling American author of historical, suspense, and time travel romance novels. The characters in her books are all part of the same extended family, and her love scenes are not as explicit as many other popular romances
- Penny Jordan
Penelope Jones Halsall (b. November 24, 1946 in England) well-known as Penny Jordan, is a best-selling English author of over 170 contemporany romance novels. She also writes under the pseudynom Annie Groves historical romance novels. She now lives in Nantwich, Cheshire, surrounded by her pets.
- Dorothy Garlock
Dorothy Garlock (born in Texas) is a best-selling American author of over 50 historical romance novels, most of them set in the American West. She has also written under the pen names Dorothy Glenn, Dorothy Phillips, and Johanna Phillips.
- Sabrina Jeffries
Deborah Gonzales is a best-selling American author of romance novels, primarily under the pen name Sabrina Jeffries. She also writes under the pen names Deborah Martin and Deborah Nicholas.
- Lavyrle Spencer
LaVyrle Spencer (born 1944 in Browerville, Minnesota) is a U.S.American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. She has successfully published a number of books, with several of them made into movies. Twelve of her books have been New York Times Bestsellers, and Spencer was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame in 1988. She retired from writing in 1997.
- Rosemary Rogers
Rosemary Jansz Navaratnam Rogers (b. 1932 in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka) is a best-selling author of historical romance novels as Rosemary Rogers. Rogers was born in the former Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka.. Her first book, "Sweet Savage Love", was published in 1974. She was the second romance author, after Kathleen Woodiwiss, to have her novels published in trade paperback format.
- Hannah Howell
Hannah Dustin Howell (born 1950 in Massachusetts) is a best-selling American author of over 40 historical romance novels. Many of her novels are set in medieval Scotland. She also writes under the names Sarah Dustin, Sandra Dustin, and Anna Jennet.
- Karen Young
Karen Young is a bestselling American author of over thirty contemporary romance novels.
- Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein is a Jewish-Australian, Sydney-based freelance journalist, author and blogger. Antony Loewenstein has written for The Guardian, Haaretz, the Washington Post, "Sydney Morning Herald", "The Australian", Sydney’s "Sun-Herald", "The Bulletin", Znet, "The Big Issue", "Crikey", "Counterpunch" and others. Antony contributed a major chapter to 2004’s best-seller, "Not Happy, …
- Corín Tellado
María del Socorro Tellado López, known as Corín Tellado is a prolific Spanish writer of romantic novels and photonovels, best-seller in several Castilian-language countries. She has published more than 4,000 novels and sold more than 400 millions of books which have been translated to several languages. She's listed in the 1994 Guinness World Records as the author who has sold more books written in Spanish Language than any other author.
- Samantha James
Samantha James is the pen name for Sandra Kleinschmit, a best-selling American author of historical romance novels. She has also written under the name Sandra James.
- Jill Barnett
Jill Barnett (born California) is a best-selling American author of romance novels.
- Connie Brockway
Connie Brockway (born Minnesota) is a best-selling American author of seventeen historical and contemporary romance novels.
- Judith Ivory
Judith Ivory is the pen name of Judy Cuevas, a best-selling American author of historical romance novels.
- Anne McAllister
Anne McAllister (b. California, U.S.A.) is a best-selling U.S.American writer of over 55 romance novels since 1985.
- Betina Krahn
Betina Krahn (born Huntington, West Virginia) is a New York Times best-selling author of historical romance novels.
- Rebecca Brandewyne
Mary Rebecca Wadsworth Brandewyne (born March 4, 1955 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is a best-selling American author of historical romance novels.
- Candace Camp
Candace Pauline Camp (May 23, 1949 in Amarillo, Texas) is a best-selling U.S.American writer of romance novels. She has also published under the pen names Lisa Gregory, Sharon Stephens, Kristin James and under her real name Candace Camp.
- Janelle Taylor
Janelle Taylor (born June 28, 1944 in Athens, Georgia) is a best-selling American author of romance novels.
- Jasmine Cresswell
Jasmine Rosemary Cresswell (born 1941 in Wales) is a best-selling author of over 50 romance novels.