Leanne Shawler, Regency Historical Romance Author

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Leanne Shawler
Regency-set Romances with a Paranormal Swirl!
PO Box 26945
San Diego, CA 92196
leanne@leanneshawler.com
http://www.leanneshawler.com/

Forthcoming Releases:
DANGEROUS TO KNOW, Zebra/ Kensington Publishing, April 2005

TOUCHED BY TIME, Zebra/Kensington Publishing, July 2005

From Amber Quill Press, two erotic short stories set in the Regency period:

RESTRAINED HEARTS, available
RAINBOW'S DESIRE, available

Biography

A 2004 Golden Heart finalist, Leanne Shawler has written for all of her remembered life (since she was eight). From a short story about a monster eating the bully in her third grade class, to the full-blown and unlikely adventure romances she wrote with her high school gal pals, she graduated to angst-ridden poetry and erotica, followed by a "masters" in fanfiction. At last she pulled a Regency manuscript she'd written one summer (back in 1990!) out of its storage box and decided to "fix" it. She is a member of Romance Writers of America (RWA), the RWA Regency chapter The Beau Monde and her local RWA chapter, RWASD

Always an Anglophile, she first became interested in the Regency period over fifteen years ago and has been researching and visiting England ever since. "I enjoy the mannered wit of the Regency, the bright personalities (Byron, the Duke of Wellington, Jane Austen) and the adventures of the time: wild rides hanging on a bizarre bet, elopements to Scotland, the wars with Napoleon. While they maintained an outward appearance of good society, they are known to have lived life to the fullest."

Leanne lives in San Diego, California with her husband, after he enticed her away from her home town of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Visit her website http://www.leanneshawler.com/ for more information.

Workshops:

After The Call Is Over (co-presenter, April 2005, San Diego RWA Chapter)
Let's Get Physical: Talking About Body Language and Other Non-Verbal Communication (10/16/04, San Diego RWA Chapter)
Everything You Wanted To Know About Computers But Were Afraid to Ask, co-presenter (04/28/01, San Diego RWA Chapter)

Author Goals

I write about second chances where duty, justice and love are intertwined, usually with a paranormal element.

I see my future career as two-pronged: writing Regency-set historicals; and writing fantasy romances involving kick-butt heroines.

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