A.E. Wasp
After time spent raising children, earning several college degrees, and traveling the world with the U.S. State Department, she is returning to her first love – writing. A dreamer and an idealist, Amy writes about people finding connection in a world that can seem lonely and magic in a world than can seem all too mundane. She invites readers into her characters’ lives and worlds when they are their most vulnerable, their most human, living with the same hopes and fears we all have. An avid traveler who has lived in big cities and small towns in four different continents, Amy has found that time and distance are no barriers to love. She invites her readers to reach out and share how her characters have touched their lives or how the found families they have gathered around them have shaped their worlds. Born on Long Island, NY, Amy has lived in Los Angeles, London, and Bangkok. She currently lives in a town suspiciously like Red Deer, Colorado. Her website is www.aewasp.com 

Allyson Charles
Website: www.allysoncharles.com Bio: Allyson Charles lives in Colorado. She’s the author of sexy and funny small-town romances, including the Pineville Romance series and The Forever series. A former attorney, she happily ditched those suits and now works in her pajamas writing about men’s briefs instead of legal briefs. When she’s not writing, she’s probably engaged in one of her favorite hobbies: napping, eating, or martial arts (That last one almost makes up for the first two, right?). One of Allyson’s greatest sources of happiness is that she now lives in a city that has a Cracker Barrel. Allyson Charles also writes steamy historical romances under the name Alyson Chase, and paranormal romances under the name A. Caprice. Her website is www.allysoncharles.com

Andre Gonzalez
Andre Gonzalez is the international bestselling author of the Wealth of Time Series, and co-owner of M4L Publishing. After surviving the Aurora Theater Shooting in 2012, Andre was inspired to chase his lifelong dream of pursuing a career as an author. This tragedy gave him a new appreciation for life along with a drive to make the world a better place by publishing books readers all around the world can enjoy. He has written over twenty time-travel, thriller, and horror books after spending many years reading and studying the works of Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Keeping readers up late and their hearts pumping faster than normal is his ultimate goal. Andre was the recipient of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers 2021 Independent Writer of the Year award. When he’s not writing, you can find Andre buried underneath a long to-do list or chasing around his three hyper children. He and his wife are raising their family in their hometown of Denver, CO. His website is www.andregonzalez.net 

Bruce W. Most
Bruce W. Most writes crime whodunits and short stories. His latest whodunit is NO TIME FOR MURDER. A former crime writer living a rat-race family and professional life reluctantly agrees to investigate whether his best friend’s death was murder, not suicide. Now if he can just find the time. Bruce grew up on a diet of famous whodunit writers including Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, and his grandfather’s collection of Perry Mason books. Many mystery readers love figuring out the puzzle, and Bruce believes in playing fair with them. His favorite mystery writer remains the great Raymond Chandler, whom he pays homage to in the award-winning mystery, MURDER ON THE TRACKS and its sequel, THE BIG DIVE. His award-winning ROPE BURN features a former big city detective caught up in rustling and murder in contemporary Wyoming cattle country. Yep, cattle rustling still exists. He also is the author of the Ruby Dark bail bond mysteries, BONDED FOR MURDER and MISSING BONDS. His website is www.brucewmost.com 

Corinne O’Flynn
Corinne O’Flynn is a USA Today bestselling author writing as Corinne (Fantasy & Mystery, Fiona Starr (Paranormal Romance) and Daria Blake (Contemporary Romance). She’s a native New Yorker living in Colorado who wouldn’t trade life in the Rockies for anything. When not writing, she can be found hanging with family, playing board games, knitting, reading, or binge watching some fabulous shows (while sipping tea). Her website is https://bingeworthyfiction.com

Holly Grant
Holly Grant likes to dream about magic hiding in birthday candles and silver snow globes and golden keyholes and peculiarful books squirreled away in forgotten nooks and crannies. Her lifelong hope is to discover a secret door that opens upon a mysterious and wonderful place. In the meantime, she lives in Colorado and writes stories for children like you. Her website is www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/170451/holly-grant or you can find her on X @HollyMMGrant and Instagram as hoppylearner.

J. Rose
J. Rose, author of the VERA WARDEN and TWINS OF ORION series, is not from the planet Inara. Rumors say she writes with the Rocky Mountains outside her window and ferrets at her feet. In her other life, she’s a trained opera singer and holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. When she’s not searching for magic in ordinary places, she can be found studying Italian, walking with an audiobook, or spending time with friends. Real friends. Her website is www.JRoseBooks.com and you can also find her at @JRoseBooks.

Joanne Greenberg
Joanne Greenberg, one of the Keynote Speakers, is an internationally renowned, award-winning author of sixteen novels and four collections of short stories. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she graduated from American University, where she majored in anthropology and English, and also studied at the University of London and the University of Colorado. Her second novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, published in 1964, has sold millions of copies and was adapted into a 1977 movie and a 2004 play of the same name. Greenberg lives near Lookout Mountain, Colorado, where she writes daily, tutors Latin and Hebrew, is active in the Beth Evergreen congregation, has been an adjunct professor of cultural anthropology and fiction writing at the Colorado School of Mines, and has volunteered as an EMT. Her website is www.rosegardenwriter.com

Jodi Burnett
Jodi Burnett is a Colorado native and a mountain girl at heart. She loves writing Mystery and Suspense Thrillers from her small ranch southeast of Denver, where she lives with her husband and their two big dogs. There she dotes on her horses, complains about her cows, and writes to create a home for her imaginings. Burnett is a member of Novelists, Inc. and Sisters in Crime. Connect with Jodi at Jodi-Burnett.com, on Facebook @ JodiBurnettAuthor, on Instagram @ JodiBurnettAuthor, or on X @ Jodi_writes. Get free books by Jodi on her website.

JRW Case
JRW Case lives in Denver, Colorado, with his partner Marceil, and their mischievous Boston Terrier. His latest book combines travelogue with memoir to create an inspiring story about an ordinary family living in the shadow of a very public massacre, of the coming of age and emancipation of the author’s two children who attended a neighboring high school, and of a father, who, twenty years after Columbine, takes off on a midlife escape across America on a touring bicycle. The pedaling began during the summer of 2017. He did not then realize that the route closely followed in reverse, the road trip taken by an earlier unknown author with his teenage son to inspire the 1974 bestseller, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.” JR’s latest book, “Cycling Through Columbine,” is by turns powerful and poignant, harrowing and heartfelt. You can reach Robert at robert@jrwcase.com

Kendra Merritt
Books have been Kendra’s escape for as long as she can remember. She used to hide fantasy novels behind her government textbook in high school, and she wrote most of her first novel during a semester of college algebra. Older and wiser now (but just as nerdy) Kendra writes retellings of fairytales with main characters who have disabilities. If she isn’t writing, she’s reading, and if she isn’t reading, she’s playing video games. Kendra lives in Denver with her very tall husband, their book loving progeny, and a lazy black monster masquerading as a service dog. Her website is www.kendramerritt.com

Kirsten Weiss
Amazon bestselling author Kirsten Weiss writes laugh-out-loud, page-turning mysteries. Her heroines aren’t perfect, but they’re smart, they struggle, and they succeed. Kirsten writes in a house high on a hill in the Colorado woods and occasionally ventures out for wine and chocolate. Or for a visit to the local pie shop. She’s best known for her cozy and witch mystery novels. So if you like funny, action-packed mysteries with complicated heroines, just turn the page…. Her website is https://www.kirstenweiss.com

Lisa Manifold
Lisa Manifold is a USA Today Bestselling Author of fantasy, paranormal, and romance stories. She writes as both Lisa Manifold and Laney Powell. She moved to Colorado as an adult and has no plans of living anywhere else. Lisa writes the things she does because she really, really wants to live in a world where these kinds of stories happen. This could explain her room of costumes, addiction to fan conventions, and her hope to meet the Goblin King (if he takes her away right now, she’s staying). She lives in the mountains with her children, #reddogs, and one murderball cat. Her website is www.lisamanifold.com

M.J. Bell
MJ Bell’s love of reading and everything magical motivated her to leave her 9-5 job and jump headfirst into a writing career. Her works include a YA Fantasy trilogy, Chronicles of the Secret Prince: Book I- Before the Full Moon Rises, Book II- Once Upon a Darker Time, Book III- How Dark the Light Shines, and a Women’s Fiction Time Travel thriller: Next Time I See You. She has received the Gold Mom’s Choice Award in the Fantasy category and the Indie Book of the Day Award, both awarded to Book I of the Chronicles of the Secret Prince. MJ spent her childhood in Iowa, but now considers Colorado her home where she lives with her husband, Tim. Her growing family has always been her pride and joy and provides her with a great source of inspiration to write and bring a little more magic into the world. She loves to hear from readers through her FB page at MJ Bell Author, or visit her website at www.mj-bell.com for the latest information on her works.

Natasha Gonzalez
Since she was young, Natasha had a nurtured act for storytelling. After having kids, they inspired her to start writing stories for other children. She writes in a simple, fun and relatable style that keeps children hooked while learning vital lessons. Natasha lives in Colorado with her husband and their three children. In her free time she enjoys travelling and singing Disney songs from the top of her lungs. Her website is www.NatashaNGonzalez.com

Sandra Dallas
Dubbed “a quintessential American voice” by Jane Smiley, in Vogue Magazine, Sandra Dallas is a New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen adult novels, several children’s novels, and numerous works of non-fiction about Western subjects and one of our Keynote Speakers. Her adult novels, which include Prayers for Sale, Tallgrass, and The Persian Pickle Club, all share themes of loyalty, friendship, and human dignity and have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and have been optioned for films. Her work has won or been nominated for numerous awards and prizes and in 2021, she was inducted into the Colorado Authors’ Hall of Fame. A former bureau chief for BusinessWeek magazine, Sandra lives in Denver and Georgetown, Colorado with her husband and with her two grown daughters nearby. Her website is www.Sandradallas.com