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Claire can't remember a time when writing wasn't part of her life. From the time she was a pre-teen, she wrote stories, most of them romances. She used to write stories with her friends, with each of them choosing a famous person or a character from their favorite TV series, and model the novels around that. One of her earliest stories, unfortunately lost to time, centered around the 1970s series Starsky and Hutch (she was partial to Starsky).

Although she read primarily fantasy and science fiction as a teenager, it didn't take long for Claire to discover Harlequin romances and their happily-ever-after endings. In a time when book covers would be ripped off the books for returns and then the actual books resold on the second-hand market, Claire devoured these coverless romances (and she regrets her role in the copyright violation), but always wanted to know what happened behind closed doors.

Fast forward and life, as life will, took precedence over creativity. She continued to write on and off, but it kept taking a back seat to other priorities such as paying the bills. When she started reading romances again, several years ago, Claire was delighted to find that the bedroom boundary first got broken, using euphemisms, and then romances went to their natural place of plain English and intense sexual situations. To her, anything goes within the boundaries of a loving relationship. She decided, if she enjoyed reading it, then she could take that natural next step and write it. And so a revived writing career was born.

Early literary influences include Anne McCaffrey, most notably her Dragonriders of Pern series, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Elizabeth Lowell. Current authors she admire include C.L. Wilson, Nalini Singh, and Marjorie Liu.

Claire has many irons in the fire, most notably her first foray into urban fantasy as well as a paranormal series and many contemporary romances. The books she has self-published are just the beginning of what she hopes will be a long and rewarding career that brings romance to people.

The first book in her paranormal series, called "Fire Danger" is now available on Amazon!

Originally from Brookline, Massachusetts, Claire now lives in Los Angeles. In addition to writing she has an office job she loves, does animal rescue, reads and goes to movies. She loves to hear from fans, so feel free to drop her a line!

I enjoy writing romances because there's always a happy ending. I got hooked on the steamy novels after reading the Notebook. If I could, I'd travel all the time. Italy is one of my favorite countries to visit. For fun I play tennis and pickle ball. I’m also a huge fan of Zumba. When I'm not editing and writing, you can usually find me watching TV. Game of Thrones, Bridgerton and Outlander have all been favorites. I'm also addicted to the Bravo channel. The Housewives franchise in particular. It's like watching a train wreck.

River Eno

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River Eno is an author and managing copy editor and co-owner of Speculation Publications: a women-owned indie press striving to amplify new and established voices. River writes dark-erotic/urban fantasy novels—The Anastasia Evolution Series—and horror-adjacent short stories, usually with a bend toward paganism or pagan archetypes.

Residing on the east coast with rescue dogs, old turtles and family; River is vegan, a practicing witch, and an herbalism enthusiast with polyglottal aspirations.

JM Cyrus is a speculative fiction author that writes for anthologies, magazines and online. She writes whenever there is a chance and reads whenever there isn't one.