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Kate Angelo
Romantic Suspense
Kate Angelo is a Publishers Weekly bestselling author, Selah Award winner, and Amazon Top 100 bestseller from Southwest Missouri. When she’s not putting fictional characters through the wringer in her fast-paced romantic suspense novels, she’s working alongside her husband Jerry as co-founder of their nonprofit ministry dedicated to strengthening marriages and families. Having aged out of foster care herself, she brings hard-won wisdom about trauma and healing to every story she writes, weaving hope and forgiveness into her characters’ journeys. Whether she’s helping people survive in fiction or thrive in real life, Kate is passionate about helping others discover their own happily ever after. To learn more about her work (and hear the wild story about her pet lion!), subscribe to her newsletter at kateangelo.com.
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Stephanie Daniels
Historical Fiction for Young Adults
Stephanie Daniels started her publishing journey by writing serial fiction for the now-defunct Amazon Kindle Vella where her stories were often in the top 250 favorites on the site. She lives and homeschools in Southwest Missouri with her husband and three almost-grown sons.
Recommending and championing clean and age-appropriate fiction for teens is her passion which is why she helps administrate two Facebook groups dedicated to doing this, the Teen/YA Christian Fiction Bookshelf and Authors for Teen/YA Christian Fiction Bookshelf. You can learn about her stories at https://AuthorStephanieDaniels.com.
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Savanna Kaiser
Historical Romance
Savanna Kaiser is represented by Tamela Hancock Murray of the Steve Laube Agency and her historical fiction has won both the Genesis and Cascade Awards. She’s also a web designer and freelance writer of 100+ published magazine articles. She and her husband live in the Missouri Ozarks with their two daughters. She loves homeschooling, gardening, and any road trips that lead to the mountains.
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Julia Kay
Women’s Fiction
Julia Kay’s favorite spot is the beach. She loves a hot cup of tea and she’s never met a bookstore she didn’t like. She has a B.A. in English from Southwest Baptist University and a MFA in writing from Lindenwood University. She is an adjunct professor at her aluma mater, an award winning writer, and columnist. She dabbles in poetry, but also loves to wield her pen to explore and illuminate the human condition through fiction.
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Erin Mifflin
Historical Romance
Erin Mifflin lives in the Missouri Ozarks and claims reading and writing as some of her favorite activities. She tutors middle school and high school students, and is an active big sister and aunt in her large family. She loves llamas, baking, history, and the Olympics.
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Jenny Powell
Historical Fiction
Jenny Powell MD is a wife, mother, grandmother, and family physician turned author. She operates an independent family medicine clinic in the Missouri Ozarks. A past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, she is a former Sunday School teacher and lay speaker, and a long-time church musician. She was a semi-finalist of the ACFW Genesis contest in 2024 and a supporter of Christian writers everywhere. A large unfortunate portion of her brain is dedicated to song lyrics and movie lines.
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