Leanne Shawler

Regency writer Leanne Shawler has long had an affinity for the electronic world, having met her husband on the internet back in 1996. Both fans of science fiction's most romantic couple: Clark Kent and Lois Lane, it seemed natural to leave her home country of Australia and move to Southern California, where dreams come true. Leanne has written for all of her remembered life: 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 then 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 has since completed four other novels (three Regency-based, one contemporary). Three of her manuscripts have been finalists in RWA-sponsored contests and one, A Sword for Wellington is a 2004 Golden Heart Finalist. She is a member of the RWA Regency chapter The Beau Monde . She has short erotica published with Amber Quill Press and now "sweet" Regency romances with Zebra Kensington. 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." Frequently, her research takes her to the seedy underworld of the Regency period. When she's not writing, Leanne reads, designs websites and enjoys the theater and good food with her husband.