Shelley Munro lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her husband and a small, bossy dog called Scotty. She writes hot and spicy tales for Ellora’s Cave and Samhain Publishing. She also loves to travel, which is what she’s doing for the first ten days of this month—lounging on a white sandy beach in Western Samoa. My Australian writer friend, Christina Phillips is helping me out this month. Born in the UK, Christina met her very own hero when she was just fifteen, was married at twenty and went on to have three delightful (well, they're delightful most of the time...) children. Christina writes paranormal erotic romance for The Wild Rose Press. Theme for this month - Paranormal Space Opera Main Characters - Hero: Django & Heroine: Carrie Holland This series will run from May 1 to May 27, 2009 Prize - Winner can choose 1 x download from Shelley Munro’s backlist plus they get downloads of Christina’s two Wild Rose Press releases, The Foretaste of Forever and Touch of the Demon. Also, a second prize winner can choose 1 x download from my backlist. Your Author Hosts for this Series - Shelley Munro and Christina Phillips
Alex Beecroft is known for her m/m historical romance. What's less well known is that she enjoys combining genres, so you're just as likely to read a Victorian steampunk murder mystery with elves from her pen as you are to get serious historical. As a warm up for my new novella "The Wages of Sin" - an 18th Century m/m romance with murder mystery and ghost story, coming out in MLR Press's anthology 'The Mysterious' - we're going to try something equally mad but fun. This month we're going to try writing a m/m Regency murder mystery with pirates. And if we can fit a ghost or two in there too, all the better! Theme for this month - m/m Regency murder mystery Main Characters - William and Andrew This series will run from August 1 to August June 1 to June 27, 2009 Prize - $20 Amazon Gift Certificate Your Author Host for this Series - Alex Beecroft

