Bonkers Romance is a partnership between Katee Robert and Jenny Nordbak that celebrates bold, fearless storytelling. They have raised more than $2.5 million with crowdfunding projects and are advocates for the future of crowdfunding in publishing.  Katee Robert (they/she) is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Dark Olympus series and other works of spicy romance and fantasy. Entertainment Weekly calls their writing “unspeakably hot.” Their books have sold over two million copies. They live in the Pacific Northwest with their husband, children, and various animals. Jenny Nordbak (she/her) is a USA Today Bestselling author, retired dominatrix, and former archaeologist. When she isn't writing romance novels, she delights in narrating the steamiest of audiobooks. She lives in New Zealand where she can generally be found in the outdoors with her two adorably feral children and her handsome Viking husband.

Hi, I'm Steff. I'm the USA Today bestselling author of dark, gothic, and sinful romance novels. Born in New Zealand and raised on a steady diet of metal and out-of-print archaeology books, I’m now a novelist, hiker, mead-brewer, cat-wrangler, and professional iron maiden. Oh yeah... and I'm legally blind. My Cantankerous Drummer Husband (CDH for short) and I live in an off-grid home we designed and built ourselves on 4 acres of paradise overlooking the rugged Kaipara coastline, with our four cats, a menagerie of barnyard animals, and our medieval sword collection.

Navessa Allen is a lover of all things romance. She writes historical, paranormal, and contemporary from her home on the East Coast, heavily supervised by her cats. 

Nia "N.E." Davenport is an award-winning & USA Today bestselling Science Fiction/Fantasy and Romance author. She writes stories set in fantastical worlds that spotlight Black characters, especially Black heroines, in archetypes where they aren't conventionally seen, such as Black fae, Black vampires, Black archangels, Black werewolves, and Black witches. You can find Nia online at www.nedavenport.com or on Threads/Instagram @nia.davenport, where she talks about binge-worthy TV, fun movies, and killer books. 

EMILY RATH (she/her) is a New York Times, USA Today, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of romance and fantasy. She started her career as an indie author, self-publishing books with little more than a hope and a prayer. Now, on Amazon alone, she’s had over 800 million pages read of her books. Her works have been translated into fifteen languages and counting. She can be found online at EmilyRathBooks.com, on Instagram @emilyrathauthor and on TikTok @emilyrathbooks.

Ruby Dixon is an author of all things science fiction and fantasy romance. She is a Sagittarius and a Reylo shipper, and loves farming sims (but not actual housework). She lives in the South with her husband and three goofy cats, and can’t think of anything else to put in her biography. Truly, she is boring. Katla is a Texas-based freelance digital artist, who recently became willfully unemployed to do what she loves most: bringing book characters to life. A nerd through and through, Katla enjoys drawing all things fantastical, whimsical, and if you give her the slightest excuse, a little unhinged. Conky is a queer Latinx Illustrator currently based in Texas. They have a background in Illustration, Design and Comics. Their sweet spot is and always will be Monsters, Magic and Romance.

JULIETTE is a New York Times, USA Today and internationally bestselling author of fantasy and paranormal romance. She’s a mood reader as well as a mood writer if that wasn’t obvious by her eclectic book list. As a native of Louisiana, she is inspired by the moss-laden trees and slow-moving bayou of her home as well as the Gothic setting of nearby New Orleans. She loves lazy nights with her husband, old-fashioneds, and family gatherings.

Karmen Lee is the author of the Peach Blossom series, including The 7-10 Split, The Relationship Mechanic, and The Secret Crush Book Club. She’s a lifelong southerner living in Atlanta, GA with her kid, her cats, and humidity. When not packing lunches or working her nine-to-five, she can be found drinking coffee too late at night, dreaming up ways to show her readers a good time. Find her on Instagram/FB/TikTok (@authorkarmenlee).

Kenya Goree-Bell writes dark, delicious curvy girl romances where good girls find their Happy Every After with unapologetic villains.    Kenya is living her own best curvy girl life in Alabama with her former warrior husband and three kids. The author of the bestselling dark romance Blood Legacy and contemporary the Mogul Series finds joy when not writing as a book influencer, lifelong bibliophile and can be seen weekly on Instagram and interviewing other authors with The Author Spotlight, which has had over a hundred guests since its inception in 2018. She believes that Happy Ever After belongs to everyone and writes about worlds where everyone has a chance at love.   When not writing, she is an Autism advocate currently working with her oldest son on his own children’s book reflecting his Autism journey, Little C & Me. She spends an inordinate amount of time reading, talking about books, cooking, making stickers and having fun with her kids.  

Jessica Cage is an International award-winning and USA Today Bestselling Author of speculative fiction and urban fantasy novels. The Chicago-raised author of over 40 fiction titles, she continues to produce stories that give representation to marginalized communities in fantasy landscapes.

Daniela Romero is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of emotionally intense, trope-packed romance novels that break hearts and heal them in equal measure. Known for her angsty enemies-to-lovers stories, possessive heroes, and fierce heroines, she writes steamy new adult and paranormal romance that keeps readers hooked from the first page to the last. Her books feature unforgettable characters, explosive chemistry, and emotional journeys set in vivid worlds—whether on the football field at Sun Valley High or deep within supernatural realms. A Bay Area native now living in Washington State, Daniela is a proud Latina, a devoted wife, and a mom to three wild and wonderful kids. When she's not writing or wrangling words, you can find her curled up with a book, binge-watching TV with a crochet hook in hand, or plotting her next fictional heartbreaker. She believes in love, redemption, and happily ever afters—no matter how messy the journey. http://www.daniela-romero.com

You may also know me as Eden Emory. I'm a sapphic author that writes spicy, darkish, romance for fellow queers.  I was born and raised in California but love to travel the world with my wife and baby boy. Many days I can be found at 5 AM with a coffee in hand and pushing out as many words as I can get before my son wakes up. I fell in love with writing from a young age and even went as far as binding my own stories together. I was also an AVID fanfic reader and a lot of the tropes I love def came from my late nights binging 100k+ word fics.  Writing is not only an outlet for me, but I have fun with it and have been able to build a wonderful community of readers over these last five years. I can’t wait to see what else I can accomplish in the next five!

Lesbian author of queer romantasy <3

Steffanie Holmes is the USA Today bestselling author of kooky, spooky romance. She's sold over 1 million books worldwide and is most well known for her Nevermore Bookshop series. Legally-blind since birth, Steff lives in New Zealand with her cantankerous drummer husband, a horde of mischievous kitties, and their medieval sword collection. 

J.C. Sang writes medical thrillers steeped in dark realism for readers who know survival always comes at a cost. Her stories pull back the curtain on life inside the sterile walls of the hospital, revealing the resilience, tension, and human connection forged in moment of crisis. Drawing on firsthand experience as a registered nurse, Sang exposes the high-stakes world of medicine and the raw truths rarely spoken aloud. Her stories are born at the bedside where breath falters, pulse races, and silence settles after the flatline tone. Her upcoming debut fiction unearths the emotional undercurrents of life and death that lingers long after the patient chart is closed.

she/her  Writing monster romance & romantasy 🖤🌈

Hello! I'm Lucy, a neurospicy author who writes paranormal/fantasy romance books where there is always a HEA no matter how long it takes or how dark the story gets. I was raised in Alaska by a single mom, but I am currently living my own HEA with my equally nerdy husband in Missouri. 

Contemporary (and sports) Romance Author (with a vampire story in her somewhere)

AC Arthur is an award‑winning romance author known for her beloved Donovans and Shadow Shifters series. Writing also as Lacey Baker, she created the novelizations for the Hallmark Channel movies A Gingerbread Romance and Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing. She is the founder of the One Love Reunion and lives in Maryland with her family.

Rae Shawn is a candle-buying night-owl who overthinks everything but manages to get things done. She writes contemporary Black romances that’ll have you up in arms for the heroes, and sometimes even the villains. When she isn’t writing, she’s dancing around her living room or watching reruns of "Supernatural" and all the anime she can find. Rae lives on the East Coast but will never forget her summer-living Los Angeles days.