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John Lewis in Washington, D.C. while continuing to write comics and give talks on the history of comics during the Civil Rights Movement, writing for nonfiction, activism, and working with incarcerated youth.","raw_bio":"ANDREW AYDIN is the creator and co-author of the graphic memoir trilogy, MARCH -- with Rep. John Lewis and art by Nate Powell -- published by Top Shelf Productions. Aydin is a New York Times bestselling author, a National Book Award winner, a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Honoree, a Printz Award winner, a Sibert Medal winner, a Walter Dean Myers Award winner, a two-time Eisner award winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors, among others.An Atlanta native, Andrew currently serves as Digital Director & Policy Advisor to Rep. John Lewis in Washington, D.C. while continuing to write comics and give talks on the history of comics during the Civil Rights Movement, writing for nonfiction, activism, and working with incarcerated youth.","slug":"andrew-aydin","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/andrew-aydin","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:59:37.316696","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26618,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Monica_McCarty.png","name":"Monica McCarty","bio":"What do you get when you mix a legal career, a baseball career, motherhood, and a love of history with a voracious reader? In my case, a Historical Romance Author.Like most writers, I’ve always loved to read. Growing up in California there was always plenty to do outside, but all too often I could be found inside curled up with a book (or two or three). I started with the usual fare: The Little House on the Prairie series, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, Watership Down, Nancy Drew, and everything by Judy Blume. Once I cleared off my bookshelf, I started swiping books from my mom. Some, like Sidney Sheldon’s The Other Side of Midnight, probably weren’t the most appropriate choice for a pre-adolescent—although they were definitely illuminating. I can still remember the look of abject horror on my mom’s Catholic-girl-face when I asked her what a virgin was. After that rather brief conversation, she paid a little closer attention to what had disappeared off her book shelf, and steered me in the direction of Harlequin and Barbara Cartland romances. I was hooked. I quickly read through the inventory of the local library and was soon buying bags of romances at garage sales.In high school, with the encouragement of my father (who I think was a little concerned about the steady diet of romances), I read over eighty of the Franklin Library’s One Hundred Greatest Books ever written—including Tolstoy, Confucius, Plato, and the entire works of Shakespeare. Some of them were tough going for a teenager, but the experience would prove an invaluable foundation for college. After reading War and Peace, I wasn’t easily intimidated.For some reason Monica decided to go into writing and not fashion.After graduation, I loaded up the VW (Jetta not Bus) and trekked down I-5 to attend the University of Southern California, majoring in Political Science and minoring in English (see why all that reading helped!). I joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and when I wasn’t studying or at football games, did my best to support the local bartending industry. Ah, the good old days.With that kind of fun, four years of college wasn’t quite enough. So leaving Tommy Trojan behind, I traveled back up north to Palo Alto for three more years of study at Stanford Law School. Once I survived the stress of the first semester, law school proved to be one of the best times of my life—garnering me a JD, life-long friends, a husband, and an unexpectedly intimate knowledge of baseball. (See “The Baseball Odyssey” below).Law School was also where I fell in love with Scotland. In my third year, I took a Comparative Legal History class, and wrote a paper on the Scottish Clan System and Feudalism. So I immediately dropped out of law school and went on to write Scottish Historical Romances…well no, not quite. You see, I always knew I wanted to be a lawyer. My father was a lawyer, I was a “poet” (i.e., not into math), and I love to argue. It seemed natural.So I finished law school, got married, passed the CA bar, moved to Minnesota (with a few stops along the way), waived into the MN bar, worked as a litigator for a few satisfying years, moved back to CA, had a couple of kids, realized that a legal career and being a single parent for most of the year (due to husband's career) would be extremely difficult, and THEN decided to sit down and write.And how did I end up writing romance? It’s not as divergent as it seems. What I loved about being a lawyer are the same things I love about being a writer—research and writing. The only thing missing is the arguing, but that’s what a husband and kids are for, right?","raw_bio":"What do you get when you mix a legal career, a baseball career, motherhood, and a love of history with a voracious reader? In my case, a Historical Romance Author.Like most writers, I’ve always loved to read. Growing up in California there was always plenty to do outside, but all too often I could be found inside curled up with a book (or two or three). I started with the usual fare: The Little House on the Prairie series, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, Watership Down, Nancy Drew, and everything by Judy Blume. Once I cleared off my bookshelf, I started swiping books from my mom. Some, like Sidney Sheldon’s The Other Side of Midnight, probably weren’t the most appropriate choice for a pre-adolescent—although they were definitely illuminating. I can still remember the look of abject horror on my mom’s Catholic-girl-face when I asked her what a virgin was. After that rather brief conversation, she paid a little closer attention to what had disappeared off her book shelf, and steered me in the direction of Harlequin and Barbara Cartland romances. I was hooked. I quickly read through the inventory of the local library and was soon buying bags of romances at garage sales.In high school, with the encouragement of my father (who I think was a little concerned about the steady diet of romances), I read over eighty of the Franklin Library’s One Hundred Greatest Books ever written—including Tolstoy, Confucius, Plato, and the entire works of Shakespeare. Some of them were tough going for a teenager, but the experience would prove an invaluable foundation for college. After reading War and Peace, I wasn’t easily intimidated.For some reason Monica decided to go into writing and not fashion.After graduation, I loaded up the VW (Jetta not Bus) and trekked down I-5 to attend the University of Southern California, majoring in Political Science and minoring in English (see why all that reading helped!). I joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and when I wasn’t studying or at football games, did my best to support the local bartending industry. Ah, the good old days.With that kind of fun, four years of college wasn’t quite enough. So leaving Tommy Trojan behind, I traveled back up north to Palo Alto for three more years of study at Stanford Law School. Once I survived the stress of the first semester, law school proved to be one of the best times of my life—garnering me a JD, life-long friends, a husband, and an unexpectedly intimate knowledge of baseball. (See “The Baseball Odyssey” below).Law School was also where I fell in love with Scotland. In my third year, I took a Comparative Legal History class, and wrote a paper on the Scottish Clan System and Feudalism. So I immediately dropped out of law school and went on to write Scottish Historical Romances…well no, not quite. You see, I always knew I wanted to be a lawyer. My father was a lawyer, I was a “poet” (i.e., not into math), and I love to argue. It seemed natural.So I finished law school, got married, passed the CA bar, moved to Minnesota (with a few stops along the way), waived into the MN bar, worked as a litigator for a few satisfying years, moved back to CA, had a couple of kids, realized that a legal career and being a single parent for most of the year (due to husband's career) would be extremely difficult, and THEN decided to sit down and write.And how did I end up writing romance? It’s not as divergent as it seems. What I loved about being a lawyer are the same things I love about being a writer—research and writing. The only thing missing is the arguing, but that’s what a husband and kids are for, right?","slug":"monica-mccarty","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/monica-mccarty","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:59:37.861223","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26619,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Katie_May.png","name":"Katie May","bio":"Katie May is a romance writer of numerous genres! She writes everything from horror to fantasy to contemporary. #whychooseShe has a gorgeous tabby cat who she adores, and she’s obsessed with coffee and horror movies.","raw_bio":"Katie May is a romance writer of numerous genres! She writes everything from horror to fantasy to contemporary. #whychooseShe has a gorgeous tabby cat who she adores, and she’s obsessed with coffee and horror movies.","slug":"katie-may","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/katie-may","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:59:38.558326","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26620,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Kel_Carpenter.png","name":"Kel Carpenter","bio":"Kel Carpenter is a master of werdz. When she’s not reading or writing, she’s traveling the world, lovingly pestering her co-author, and spending time with her family. She is always on the search for good tacos and the best pizza. She resides in Maryland and desperately tries to avoid the traffic.For subrights or media and film inquiries, please reach out to kel@kelcarpenter.com.To keep up with Kel and her books, join her Facebook Group: ","raw_bio":"Kel Carpenter is a master of werdz. When she’s not reading or writing, she’s traveling the world, lovingly pestering her co-author, and spending time with her family. She is always on the search for good tacos and the best pizza. She resides in Maryland and desperately tries to avoid the traffic.For subrights or media and film inquiries, please reach out to kel@kelcarpenter.com.To keep up with Kel and her books, join her Facebook Group: ","slug":"kel-carpenter","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/kel-carpenter","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:59:39.462441","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26621,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Jo__Piazza.png","name":"Jo  Piazza","bio":"I write books about strong women defying the odds. I love an adventure and a book that both sweeps you away and starts a conversation with your friends. Book club visits are one of my favorite things to do and I zoomed into hundreds of them for my Good Morning America Book Club pick You Were Always Mine. I'm a former travel editor who has gotten to visit 47 countries and I met my husband Nick in the Galapagos islands on a reporting trip. After living in NYC and San Francisco I have settled into Philadelphia (the greatest city on Earth) to raise my three feral children.)","raw_bio":"I write books about strong women defying the odds. I love an adventure and a book that both sweeps you away and starts a conversation with your friends. Book club visits are one of my favorite things to do and I zoomed into hundreds of them for my Good Morning America Book Club pick You Were Always Mine. I'm a former travel editor who has gotten to visit 47 countries and I met my husband Nick in the Galapagos islands on a reporting trip. After living in NYC and San Francisco I have settled into Philadelphia (the greatest city on Earth) to raise my three feral children.)","slug":"jo-piazza","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/jo-piazza","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:59:40.429408","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26622,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Chad_Zunker.png","name":"Chad Zunker","bio":"CHAD ZUNKER is the author of the David Adams legal thriller, An Equal Justice, as well as The Tracker, Shadow Shepherd, and Hunt the Lion in his Sam Callahan series. Chad has worked for some of the country’s most powerful law firms and serves at Community First! Village, a 51-acre master planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness. He lives in Austin with his wife, Katie, and their three daughters, and is hard at work on his next novel. For more information visit ","raw_bio":"CHAD ZUNKER is the author of the David Adams legal thriller, An Equal Justice, as well as The Tracker, Shadow Shepherd, and Hunt the Lion in his Sam Callahan series. Chad has worked for some of the country’s most powerful law firms and serves at Community First! Village, a 51-acre master planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness. He lives in Austin with his wife, Katie, and their three daughters, and is hard at work on his next novel. For more information visit ","slug":"chad-zunker","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/chad-zunker","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:59:41.073677","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26623,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Bethany-Kris.png","name":"Bethany-Kris","bio":"The author of too many novels to count, Bethany-Kris is a Canadian, lover of much, and mother to four sons, a glaring of cats, and a pack of dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her boys under her feet, a snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a spouse calling over his shoulder, she is nearly always writing something ... when she can find the time.","raw_bio":"The author of too many novels to count, Bethany-Kris is a Canadian, lover of much, and mother to four sons, a glaring of cats, and a pack of dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her boys under her feet, a snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a spouse calling over his shoulder, she is nearly always writing something ... when she can find the time.","slug":"bethany-kris","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/bethany-kris","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:59:41.924456","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26624,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Weina_Dai_Randel.png","name":"Weina Dai Randel","bio":"Weina Dai Randel is the Wall Street Journal bestselling, award-winning author of four historical novels, Night Angels, The Last Rose of Shanghai, The Moon in the Palace, and The Empress of Bright Moon, historical novel series about Empress Wu (Wu Zetian), China's only female emperor. Weina is the winner of the RWA RITA® Award, a finalist of the National Jewish Book Awards, and a two-time Goodreads Choice Awards Best Historical Fiction nominee. Her novels have received starred reviews from Booklist, Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness and rave reviews from other publications such as RT Book Reviews, Bookbub, and Book Reporter. Her debut was also recommended by Texas Library Association’s 2017 Lariat Reading List and was a San Francisco Book Festival Honorable Mention. Her novels have been translated into twelve languages, including Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew.Immensely popular, her third novel, The Last Rose of Shanghai, sold 100,000 copies within six months of its publication. Weina's latest novel, Night Angels, features an introverted biracial American woman from Boston and a compassionate diplomat who saved thousands of Jews by issuing them visas to Shanghai. The novel is based on Dr. Ho Fengshan, hailed as the Chinese Schindler. Find more about Weina and her writing career on her website:   From Weina: \"I love to see how words form an image that transcends the banal reality or how words join together to create a morsel of wisdom that tickles your mind.\"Born and raised in China, Weina came to the United States in her early twenties. She holds an M.A. in English from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas.Connect with Weina on Facebook:","raw_bio":"Weina Dai Randel is the Wall Street Journal bestselling, award-winning author of four historical novels, Night Angels, The Last Rose of Shanghai, The Moon in the Palace, and The Empress of Bright Moon, historical novel series about Empress Wu (Wu Zetian), China's only female emperor. Weina is the winner of the RWA RITA® Award, a finalist of the National Jewish Book Awards, and a two-time Goodreads Choice Awards Best Historical Fiction nominee. Her novels have received starred reviews from Booklist, Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness and rave reviews from other publications such as RT Book Reviews, Bookbub, and Book Reporter. Her debut was also recommended by Texas Library Association’s 2017 Lariat Reading List and was a San Francisco Book Festival Honorable Mention. Her novels have been translated into twelve languages, including Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew.Immensely popular, her third novel, The Last Rose of Shanghai, sold 100,000 copies within six months of its publication. Weina's latest novel, Night Angels, features an introverted biracial American woman from Boston and a compassionate diplomat who saved thousands of Jews by issuing them visas to Shanghai. The novel is based on Dr. Ho Fengshan, hailed as the Chinese Schindler. Find more about Weina and her writing career on her website:   From Weina: \"I love to see how words form an image that transcends the banal reality or how words join together to create a morsel of wisdom that tickles your mind.\"Born and raised in China, Weina came to the United States in her early twenties. She holds an M.A. in English from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas.Connect with Weina on Facebook:","slug":"weina-dai-randel","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/weina-dai-randel","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:59:42.512729","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26625,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Alex_Lidell.png","name":"Alex Lidell","bio":"Alex Lidell is the Amazon Breakout Novel Awards finalist author of THE CADET OF TILDOR (Penguin) and several Amazon Top 100 Kindle Bestsellers, including the POWER OF FIVE romance series. She is an avid horseback rider who believes in eating dessert first. She writes as both Alex Lidell and A.L. Lidell. Join Alex's newsletter for news, bonus content and sneak peeks:  Find out more on Alex's website: ","raw_bio":"Alex Lidell is the Amazon Breakout Novel Awards finalist author of THE CADET OF TILDOR (Penguin) and several Amazon Top 100 Kindle Bestsellers, including the POWER OF FIVE romance series. She is an avid horseback rider who believes in eating dessert first. She writes as both Alex Lidell and A.L. Lidell. Join Alex's newsletter for news, bonus content and sneak peeks:  Find out more on Alex's website: ","slug":"alex-lidell","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/alex-lidell","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:59:43.074389","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26626,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Zoe_Blake.png","name":"Zoe Blake","bio":"Zoe Blake is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the romantic suspense saga The Cavalieri Billionaire Legacy inspired by her own heritage as well as her obsession with jewelry, travel, and the salacious gossip of history’s most infamous families. She delights in writing Dark Romance books filled with overly possessive billionaires, taboo scenes, and unexpected twists. She usually spends her ill-gotten gains on martinis, vacations, and red lipstick. Facebook   ","raw_bio":"Zoe Blake is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the romantic suspense saga The Cavalieri Billionaire Legacy inspired by her own heritage as well as her obsession with jewelry, travel, and the salacious gossip of history’s most infamous families. She delights in writing Dark Romance books filled with overly possessive billionaires, taboo scenes, and unexpected twists. She usually spends her ill-gotten gains on martinis, vacations, and red lipstick. Facebook   ","slug":"zoe-blake","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/zoe-blake","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:59:43.623763","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26627,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Elizabeth_Lennox.png","name":"Elizabeth Lennox","bio":"USA Today™ best-selling author Elizabeth Lennox writes contemporary romance novels featuring sheiks, business tycoons, royalty, and other sexy rich men. Her male lead characters are smart, driven and determined, but can still be sensitive and vulnerable. Elizabeth’s female lead characters come from a variety of backgrounds. They are strong, intelligent and independent, while still feminine and caring. Although she wanted to be a romance novelist since the eighth grade, that dream only became a reality for her in 2009 and a full time job in 2012. Along the way, she received a BS in History and held different jobs in the real estate, government consulting, and financial industries. All during that time, though, she was always writing, using her personal experiences, dreams, and travels throughout the United States, Europe and the Caribbean as backdrops for her stories. To date, she has written over eighty books and sold over 5.1 million copies. Her free novellas have been downloaded over 8 million times since 2013. Elizabeth lives in Virginia with her husband and two children. Their home is just outside of Washington, D.C., and many of her novels are set in this area.","raw_bio":"USA Today™ best-selling author Elizabeth Lennox writes contemporary romance novels featuring sheiks, business tycoons, royalty, and other sexy rich men. Her male lead characters are smart, driven and determined, but can still be sensitive and vulnerable. Elizabeth’s female lead characters come from a variety of backgrounds. They are strong, intelligent and independent, while still feminine and caring. Although she wanted to be a romance novelist since the eighth grade, that dream only became a reality for her in 2009 and a full time job in 2012. Along the way, she received a BS in History and held different jobs in the real estate, government consulting, and financial industries. All during that time, though, she was always writing, using her personal experiences, dreams, and travels throughout the United States, Europe and the Caribbean as backdrops for her stories. To date, she has written over eighty books and sold over 5.1 million copies. Her free novellas have been downloaded over 8 million times since 2013. Elizabeth lives in Virginia with her husband and two children. Their home is just outside of Washington, D.C., and many of her novels are set in this area.","slug":"elizabeth-lennox","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/elizabeth-lennox","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T17:59:44.570743","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":26628,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Roxy_Sloane.png","name":"Roxy Sloane","bio":"Want Roxy's Hot stuff?Get Freebies, Sneak Peeks, news & more hotstuff! SIGN UP NOW!Roxy Sloane is a romance junkie with a dirty mind. She lives in Los Angeles and loves writing sexy, complex stories about pushing the boundaries and risking it all.","raw_bio":"Want Roxy's Hot stuff?Get Freebies, Sneak Peeks, news & more hotstuff! 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