Getting to Know…

Getting to Know Joey Paul

Getting to Know Joey Paul

Joey is 39, disabled, a multi-award-winning indie author and a graduate with a BA (Hons) in Health & Social Care. She loves to write and is at the moment working on her next two books, as well as preparing her next two books for publication. She started writing when she was medically retired from her job at the age of 19. Her first book was released in 2005 and after a brief time away, her second one was released in 2011. In addition to writing books, she also enjoys reading them and can often be found resting in bed with a good book, with a cat or two on her lap.

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Getting to Know Brandy Woods Snow

Getting to Know Brandy Woods Snow

Brandy Woods Snow is an author and journalist born, raised, and currently living in beautiful Upstate South Carolina. She earned a BA in English/Writing from Clemson University and worked in corporate communications and the media for nearly two decades before pursuing her true passion of writing novels brimming with Southern culture, twisted family dynamics, young love, and deep-diving emotions.

When Brandy’s not writing, reading, spending time with her husband or driving carpool for her three kids, she enjoys kayaking, family hikes, yelling “Go Tigers!” as loud as she can, playing the piano, and taking “naked” Jeep Wrangler cruises on country roads.

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Getting to Know Adam Sass

Getting to Know Adam Sass

Adam Sass began writing books in Sharpie on the backs of Starbucks pastry bags. (He’s sorry it distracted him from making your latte.) His debut YA novel, Surrender Your Sons, was named a best book of the year by Kirkus and Foreword INDIES, best first novel for young readers by ALA Booklist, and won the Gold Medal for YA Fiction at the IPPY Awards. He even collaborated with Born Perfect, the leading organization fighting conversion therapy, which promoted Surrender Your Sons to raise money for LGBTQ causes. He lives in North Carolina with his husband and dogs.

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Getting to Know Victoria Anders

Getting to Know Victoria Anders

Book designer by day and writer by night, Victoria Anders lives in the world of books. And she feels extremely blessed with that! Originally from Atlanta, this Georgia peach now lives in the land of sunshine and barely a winter just north of Tampa, Florida.

Thanks to her daughter’s escapades in high school (and maybe her own), Victoria loves bringing you tales on the inner workings of the teenage mind. No fantasy or science fiction here. She brings you nothing but contemporary, realistic stories about kids growing up and discovering who they are. Oh, and yeah, there’s always a little bit of love thrown in from every angle.

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Getting to Know Judy Corry

Getting to Know Judy Corry

Judy Corry is the USA Today Bestselling Author of YA and Contemporary Romance. She writes romance because she can’t get enough of the feeling of falling in love. She’s known for writing heart-pounding kisses, endearing characters, and hard-won happily ever afters. She lives in Southern Utah with the boy who took her to Prom, their four rambunctious children and a dog. She’s addicted to love stories, dark chocolate and notebooks.

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Getting to Know Cody Wagner

Getting to Know Cody Wagner

Cody is the award-winning author of LGBTQ+ trilogy, The Gay Teen’s Guide to Defeating a Siren. The series has garnered much acclaim, and is a Readers’ Favorite Book Award Winner, LA Book Festival Award Winner, and New England Book Festival Winner. Book 1 was awarded The National Indie Excellence Award, 1st Place for LGBTQ for Children & Young Adults. Cody believes in his series, which tackles coming out, bullying, math, and sirens with superpowers. The usual stuff. He’s handing out cookie dough to anyone who grabs a copy (okay, maybe not). Cody is currently working on a YA contemporary novel that should be completed this summer (woot!).

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Getting to Know Jen Lowry

Getting to Know Jen Lowry

Jen Lowry is North Carolina born and raised, still holding on to that country slang that is unique to the small town of Maxton she loves so much in Robeson County. She an avid enthusiast of all things horror, UFC, and binge-watches old episodes of The Mentalist. She finds herself comfier in a pair of pajamas and would make all public appearances in them if she could get away with it. When she isn’t literacy coaching or teaching English at the high school, author coaching, or homeschooling her son, she can be found napping or reading more than one book at a time.

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Getting to Know Lisa Brown Roberts

Getting to Know Lisa Brown Roberts

Lisa Brown Roberts’ attempts to write serious literary fiction to impress peers and professors failed spectacularly, nearly destroyed her sense of humor, but eventually led to writing romantic comedies. Lisa lights her Jane Austen candle every day in gratitude for this miracle. 

Her novels The Bookworm Crush, The Replacement Crush, and more, feature adorkable teens navigating family, friendship, and first love, and have earned praise from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and the School Library Journal. Lisa loves hearing from readers who stay up all night reading her books, and blame her for their book hangovers. 

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Getting to Know Christina Herrera

Getting to Know Christina Herrera

Christina Herrera has always loved romance. Even as a child she would make up romantic plots with her older sisters as part of her bedtime stories. As she grew up, she remained fascinated by storytelling. When she was nineteen years old, she authored her first book. Ever since then she knew what she wanted to do in life: read, edit, and write down all of her romantic stories.

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Getting to Know Kelly Devos

Getting to Know Kelly Devos

Kelly deVos’s work has been featured in the New York Times as well as on Vulture, Salon, Bustle and SheKnows. Her debut novel, Fat Girl on a Plane, was named one of the “50 Best Summer Reads of All Time” by Reader’s Digest magazine. Her second book, Day Zero, is available now from Inkyard Press/HarperCollins.

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