


Catherine Stein
Catherine Stein started reading at age two, when her mother noticed that she could tell the difference between words that started with the same letter. Ever since, she has wandered around with a book in her hand, her backpack, her purse, or even tucked down the back of her pants. A few years after she …

Liberty Kontranowski
Liberty Kontranowski is a romantic comedy author who adores all things lovey-dovey with a pinch (or more) of hubba-hubba. When she’s not at the keyboard, she’s taxiing around her three boys, studying her astrology chart, blogging, fangirling, and dreaming up more fake people. She also spends an inordinate amount of time drinking coffee and dreaming …

Lynn Crandall
Lynn Crandall lives in the Midwest and writes in the company of her cat. She has been a reader and a writer all her life. Her background is in journalism, but whether writing a magazine or newspaper story or creating a romance, she loves the power stories hold to transport, inspire, and uplift. She writes …

Lynne Spreen
After a thirty-year career in Human Resources, Lynne M. Spreen reinvented herself as an author, speaker, blogger, and teacher. She speaks about the positive side of aging, and writes novels and short stories about people who are finding themselves in midlife and beyond. Lynne believes the second half of life is a rich, untapped literary …



Episode #11
Welcome to Episode #11 of Romance Happy Hour! Co-hosts Dawn Luedecke and Dylann Crush are joined by romance authors Amanda Uhl and Sharon Wray

Amanda Uhl
Amanda Uhl has always had a fascination with the mystical. Having drawn her first breath in a century home rumored to be haunted, you might say she was “born” into it. After a brief stint in college as a paid psychic, Amanda graduated with a bachelor of fine arts in theatre and a master’s degree …

Episode #10
Welcome to Episode #10 of Romance Happy Hour! Co-hosts Dawn Luedecke and Dylann Crush are joined by romance authors Kate Bateman and USA Today bestseller Suzan Tisdale.