Our PAN Writers

Allison Knight

Award winning author, Allison Knight began her writing career like many other authors. She read a book she didn’t like and knew she could do a better job. She grabbed paper and typewriter (computers were available back then) and announced she was going to write a book. Her children hooted with laughter.

“Yeh, Mom, when cows fly,” her daughter declared.

She took classes, joined a critique group and RWA, and wrote, rewrote and wrote some more.

When her first book sold, she came home from her teaching job to find a stuffed toy cow rotating from the ceiling fan in the family room. It seemed – “Cows did fly!”

Since that time, Allison has written and published seventeen books with a gothic anthology and another medieval romance to be release in 2010. As a long time member of PAN, Allison often speaks at writers conferences and has taught writing classes eager to share her knowledge and her love of romance novels.

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Fran McNabb

Fran McNabb grew up along the beaches, bayous and islands of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and uses this setting in most of her novels. She received both her BS and an ME from the University of Southern Mississippi. After spending two years in Germany with her husband, they returned to the Coast where she taught English and journalism until taking an early retirement. She now lives on a quiet bayou harbor with her husband and cat and spends her time writing, working for Gulf Coast Chapter RWA, and presenting writing workshops.

Her writing credits include three books with Avalon (two contemporary romances and one historical romance), and numerous articles in magazines and newsletters. Visit her at www.franmcnabb.com.

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Candace Sams

CANDACE SAMS (also writing erotica as C.S. Chatterly) graduated from Texas A&M University with a BS in Agriculture. She worked as a police officer with the State of Texas, the San Diego Police Department, and in a teaching capacity for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.

Candace is the senior woman on the US Kung Fu Team (with four black belts), and has been awarded the Medal of Putien and the Statue of Tao by the Chinese Martial Arts Confederation in Quanzhou, China. She holds international martial arts titles. As confirmed by members of the US Senate, she serves as a martial arts ambassador between US and China and has trained with the Shaolin Monks in Quanzhou as well as exhibiting martial arts throughout Quanzhou, Putien and Fouzhou. She is known for writing fight scenes into her paranormal, science fiction and action/adventure books.

Please visit her as www.candacesams.com or www.cschatterly.com to view information about any of the over forty titles she has written, or contact her from one of her web sites. She loves to hear from readers.

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Katie Reus

Katie Reus has been reading romance for as long as she can remember, but she didn’t always know she wanted to be a writer. After graduating summa cum laude with a degree in psychology and working too many jobs she hated, she finally figured things out. She writes sexy paranormal romance and fast-paced romantic suspense. In 2011 she has two romantic suspense novels scheduled to release from Carina Press. And she recently signed a three-book deal with NAL/Penguin for a paranormal series featuring lupine shifters battling a radical hate group intent on destroying all paranormal beings. The first book is scheduled to release in early 2012.

She currently lives in the South with her own real life hero. When she’s not writing or reading, she enjoys traveling. Thanks to being a former military wife, she has friends all over and loves visiting them. For more information on Katie please visit: www.katiereus.com or find her on twitter @katiereus. She loves hearing from readers.