I  met today’s guest author at my first RT Convention in New Orleans in 2014 and although I’ve seen her at several other RT Conventions, I had my first chance to get to know her a little better when we met at a Harlequin author’s evening in Australia . As well as being a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, this wonderful lady has played host at RT convention dinner functions and dazzled us all with her theatrical productions. It wasn’t surprising, then, to find that she majored in theatre arts at the University of South Florida and spent some time working in dinner theatre until she decided to stay home and write after the birth of her third child.   Her first book, “When next we love”, was published in 1982 and since then she has written category romance, time travel, vampire fiction, romantic suspense, historical romance and Christmas romance.  A mother of five, (and now also a grandmother), in 1999 she launched the RT Vampire Ball and revenue from this w...