Mardi Ballou

By day she's a mild-mannered language teacher and the handy, dandy Programming V.P. for Silicon Valley RWA. But after hours, Mardi Ballou's wild writer persona erupts and entraps her in bondage…to her computer. Release comes only once she achieves her word count goal, at which point the maniacal chocolate monster will give her one sublime piece. And then she can spend time with her hero husband Lee, who gives great massages at strategic times. So Mardi writes what she knows-- romances--hot and mainstream--for Ellora's Cave, Samhain, NCP, Whiskey Creek, and Changeling. Also women's fiction. Her most recent releases are Tamsin's Choice in e-book format for Ellora's Cave and, in print from Ellora's Cave Long, Slow Ride in the Better with Age anthology and Triple Booked. The Fangly, My Dear series--Byte Marks, What's a Ghoul to Do?, and Playing with Matches is in print from Samhain.