Dr Kate Cuthbert is an editor and book industry professional. She has held senior roles at Books+Publishing, Pantera Press, Writers Victoria and launched the Escape Publishing brand at Harlequin Australia. Her book How to Judge a Book by its Cover was released in November 2025. A genre fiction advocate and enthusiast, she is the co-host on the popular podcast What Would Danbury Do?

A. K. Mulford is a bestselling fantasy author and former wildlife biologist who swapped rehabilitating monkeys for writing novels.  They/she is inspired to create diverse stories that transport readers to new realms, making them fall in love with fantasy for the first time or all over again.  They now live in Australia with their husband and two young human primates, creating lovable fantasy characters and making ridiculous TikToks.

Stacey McEwan is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of romantic fantasy. Her high school English teacher once called her writing “above year level standard” and she took that B+ very seriously. Stacey received a bachelor’s degree in education in 2012 and worked as a classroom teacher for eleven years. She is a content creator on multiple platforms, including Tiktok and Instagram. Stacey was born and raised on the Gold Coast, Australia, and still resides in her hometown with her husband, two children and one questionable dog.

Jaymin Eve is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Amazon Charts, and Amazon #1 Bestselling author of fantasy and romance novels filled with steamy love stories, adventure, and humour. HEA guaranteed. She lives in Australia with her husband and two beautiful daughters. Her books have sold millions worldwide and have been translated into multiple languages.

Jodi McAlister is both an author and scholar of romance fiction. She’s written eight romance novels for adults and young adults, including her most recent novel An Academic Affair. In her other life, she’s a Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin University and the President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance.

Tania Joyce writes heart-wrenching rockstar, contemporary, and new adult romance stories. She threads romance, tears, and passion into wild locations that range from the dazzling lights of New York to the tempting vineyards of the Hunter Valley.
Traditionally published in 2015, Tania transitioned to self-publishing in 2017. Her two rockstar series have been Amazon bestsellers. She loves to write about strong-minded, career-driven heroes and heroines who embark on real, raw emotional journeys, experience steamy encounters, and risk everything as they strive to find their happily-ever-afters.
Widely travelled and with a diverse background in the corporate world, Tania also has a love for sparkles, shoes, and Shiraz. She’s proud to call Brisbane home.

USA Today Bestselling author Sofia Aves writes spicy romance from dark stalkers to jingle-your-Christmas-baubles heroes and heroines. She writes kidlit for charity and has over a hundred and fifty publications across six not-so-super-secret pen names. As acquisitions editor for Evernight and Evernight Teen Sofia loves discovering new talent in both romance and YA spaces (her favourite!). She is a mum of three neurodivergent crazies in a returned veteran household with a menagerie of two large fur babies who think they’re teacup puppies, a pair of ducks who prefer to eat from a dog bowl, a shrimp maternity tank, and two axolotls named after a dragon and a firebird. Sofia has her own alpaca park, Lorendel where she hermits and writes daily.