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Teresa Arrington*
email: tarringt2001@yahoo.com
Bio: Teresa R. Arrington writes historical romance, mainly in the Regency period, as well as the occasional contemporary romance. Her poetry was published during her college years and currently her non-fiction is published in her professional field. Her romance WIP is the first book in a trilogy set during the Regency period concerning two noble brothers and the women who turn their lives upside down.

Vanessa Barlow 
SECRETARY
email: im2busynow@yahoo.com
Bio: Vanessa Barlow writes short contemporary romance. Nothing published as of yet, but one manuscript entered into the GH last year and this year. Also writes poetry --when there's time, and has been published in this area. 

Penny Boswell
TREASURER
CONTEST COORDINATOR
email: pboswell@jam.rr.com
Bio: Penny Boswell has been writing off and on since her teen years. She has written for an electric industry newsletter as well as revising technical manuals for easier user understanding. She is the former editor for Jackson Bridge Club’s newsletter and for MSRW’s Psyche’s Lamp. Her original crochet patterns have been published in a needlework magazine. Currently she is working on a super-sexy romance. Now retired, Penny plays tournament bridge, owns a duplicate bridge club, directs bridge games and teaches bridge courses. Somewhere in between all the bridge she writes romantica and dabbles in crochet and crafting.

Suzanne Cox
email:  Suecox27@yahoo.com
web page: 
Bio: Suzanne Cox's first Harlequin Superromance. A Different Kind of Man, came out in December of 05 and was chosen as a reviewer's choice finalist by RT Bookclub. She is working on her second book for Superromance. 

Delores Fossen**
email: df@dfossen.com
Web Page: Delores Fossen, Author
Bio: Delores Fossen is a beloved, award-winning author of Harlequin Intrigues. She's just signed a new contract with Harlequin for 5 (count'em 5!!!!) books. Congratulations Delores!!!
Here's her upcoming books list:
THE CRADLE FILES, July 2006
COVERT, October 2006
TRACE EVIDENCE IN TARRANT COUNTY, Feb. 2007
CRADLE OF LIES, 2007
CONSPIRACY, 2007
OPERATION: RESCUE, 2007
HEIR OF DECEPTION, 2007
BORN INTO DANGER, 2008

Frances Drake
email: 
Web Page:
Bio

Sheri Gilmore**
email:  sgilmore@cableone.net
Web Page: Sheri's Secrets
Bio:  Sheri Gilmore writes erotic-romance for Loose Id, LLC and Pretty Things Press under her own name. Her e-books, ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER, HARD CANDY, and MASLOW'S NEEDS are available now at Loose ID. Her short-story, 'Pure Sin' will be available in an anthology, NAUGHTY STORIES FROM A TO Z, VOL. 4, in 2005 through Pretty Things Press. Her e-novel, HOT HOUSE: DANTE & HAYLEY, will be available in June 2005 through Loose ID. You can learn more about Sheri at her website http://www.sherisecrets.com 

Judith Hanes
email: jahanes@suscom.net
Bio: 

Judith has always enjoyed writing.  She sometimes wrote allegorical essays and short stories for fun during high school and college, but did not write fiction again until 1996.  Since that time she has completed 2 manuscripts and is ¾ of the way through the third.  Her first manuscript, Katherine's Touch, finaled in The Finish That Dang Book Contest in 1999 and in The Daphne du Maurier Contest in 2002. She has enjoyed participating in our local writing group since 1996.

Married for thirty-six years, Judith is the mother of six children ages thirty to thirteen years (three boys, three girls—one daughter died in 2004), and four grandchildren. She worked as an R.N. for several years after she married, then stayed home to raise her family. During the next twenty-one years she volunteered her time as a La Leche League Leader and teaching Sunday school and also completed her Masters degree in Education in 1988. As a La Leche League Leader, she edited, wrote, and published newsletters for several groups and was Area Treasurer for Mississippi/Alabama/Louisiana. She also spoke at several Area Conferences. In 1997, when her husband retired from the Public Health Service, she returned to work. She has since worked as a clinic nurse, a dialysis nurse, and a staff nurse and has taught nursing and psychology at a local college. 

Raising a family is always challenge, but even more so when children suffer from various health problems. These last two years has been especially rough, so there hasn’t been as much energy and time for writing, but attending MSRW meetings, RWA conferences, and our writing retreats are always not to be missed events. 

Pam Hillman*
email: phillman@netdoor.com

Sherri Kenyon aka Kinley MacGregor**
Past President
Charter Member
email: sherrilyn@cyberjunkie.com
Web site:
The Homepage of Kinley MacGregor
Sherrilyn Kenyon's Home Page
Dark Hunters

June Love
Past President
email:  jlove4her@yahoo.com
Bio: June graduated with a Master’s Degree in Education with emphasis on Social Science, which includes the fields of political science and economics. Writing had always been in the back of her mind, but she’d not pursued it until 1999, when she began her first novel. Two years later she finished that novel, but freely admits it needs major revamping before it can ever be pitched to an editor. Realizing the enjoyment and satisfaction her writing had given her during those two years, she began searching for others who shared the passion of writing. She found that in the members of MSRW, which she joined in 2001.

Rickey R. Mallory aka Mallory Kane**
PRESIDENT 2006
Public Relations
Historian
Website Manager
Charter Member
email: rickey_m@bellsouth.net
Web site:
Rickey's Pretentious Web Page
Mallory Kane's Page
Ultimate Agents
Bio: available on www.rrmallory.com

Debbie Minyard aka Deborah Cox**
Charter Member
email: dminyard@cox.net

Melanie Noto**
Vice-President
Past President
email: mnoto@jam.rr.com
Web page: Melanie Atkins Homepage
Bio: Melanie Noto, aka Melanie Atkins, has several books out and in the works from Triskelion Publishing. Her first book, a gothic romantic suspense titled HAUNTED MEMORIES has been a Triskelion favorite. Her New Orleans detective series, including CHERISHED WITNESS, PRIME SUSPECT and the upcoming CHOSEN TARGET are garnering great reviews. She also wrote the final book in a continuity for Triskelion. Her book is called TRUTH OR DARE. Several of her books are scheduled for print release in the next few months. She is an RWA PRO with seven completed manuscripts and two works-in-progress, and has finaled in the Daphne du Maurier, First Kiss, Laurie, Duel on the Delta, and Dixie First Chapter contests. She is also a certified contest judge. Find out more about Melanie by visiting her web page.

EMILY'S NIGHTMARE (novella), October 2006
BELOVED CAPTIVE (ebook), November 2006
CURSE OF THE MIDNIGHT STAR: TRUTH OR DARE (print), November 2006
BLOOD RITE, May 2007
SKELETON BAYOU, Fall 2007 

Mary Alice Pritchard
email: meow63@yahoo.com
Web page: http://www.maryalicepritchard.com/
Bio:

Connie Ratcliffe
e-mail: Ratcliffesix@msn.com

Amy Jo Searle**
email: sable@cobblestone-press.com
Web page: Sable Grey
Cobblestone Press
Bio:

Gay Simpson
email:
Web Page:
Bio:

Lucy Slagel
email: millcrk1@aol.com
Web Page:  Loblolly Writer's House
Bio: Lucy Slagel began writing romantic suspense six years ago and has found her niche in the Southern Gothic set in Mississippi's historical past. Though yet to be published, she has won and/or placed in a number of contests and is PRO certified. Lucy is a retired commander from the United States Navy and is the married mother of five children.

Ginger L. Tedder
email:  gtedder@bellsouth.net

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* Published in short fiction, non-fiction, screenwriting, other
** Published in novel-length fiction

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