Board Members
Presidents
Diane Rogers and Stacey Getz
Diane Rogers:
Even as a kid, Diane (Wilson) Rogers loved to read. Her favorite books were the Nancy Drew Mysteries, which made her want to pen a book of her own someday. Her first effort, a Nancy Drew-like story attempted in the fifth grade, didn’t go quite as planned. Two chapters into it, Diane was lost and gave up. Following another failed attempt at novel writing in her thirties, Diane succeeded several years later when she decided to write about something she loved—history.
Diane, who writes as D.L. Rogers because her step father (an avid reader) told her once he refused to read anything written by a woman, loves to weave her fictional stories into the fabric of the events that built our country. Having grown up in New Jersey, but with lots of family in Tennessee and the Carolinas, Diane has always had an intense interest in all things Civil War, and that interest is reflected in most of her books.
At the beginning of the Ebook explosion, Diane had five books published as Ebooks by Awestruck Publishing. Unable to get hard copies through Awestruck, she turned to a local publisher, who put those books into print. Taking to the road, Diane “hawked” her books at every arts and crafts festival she could find, spoke to whoever would listen (and still does), and is now working on her fourteenth novel.
Recently widowed, Diane lives on fourteen acres south of Harrisonville in Cass County, Missouri, the focal point of so many of her stories. She has two wonderful children who have given her five (also) wonderful grandchildren that Diane loves to enjoy in her “down time.” Diane also enjoys country dancing and reading as many books as she can get her hands on.
Website: dlrogersbooks.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dlrogersbooks
Email: dlrogers2@peoplepc.com
Stacey Getz:
Stacia Kaywood dabbles in all areas of romantic fiction from historical to paranormal to contemporary with heaps of fiery spice tossed in to keep the readers drooling for more. Her greatest fear is someone demanding that she pick a genre and stick with it! Her first novel, Bathed in Moonlight, is a historical romance set at the end of World War II. She is currently wrapping up edits for her first Regency Romance, Stealing Annabelle, Book 1 of Belles and Rogues, with an expected release in the summer of 2024. Short stories are available through Medium including Haunting Jasmine featuring mystery and the sexiest ghost imaginable, office romances that will singe the panties right off your favorite coworker, and age gap romances that have people wondering what exactly goes on in those backyard toolsheds.
Stacia currently resides in Kansas City, the Missouri side naturally, enjoying copious amounts of BBQ, Mexican food, and the greatest Austrian cuisine this side of Vienna. She’s a voracious reader who never sticks with a genre, but if it is a historical romance, it always worms its way to the top of her to-be-read pile. Traveling fuels her creative passion, allowing her to find inspiration in paintings, architecture, and real-life stories. If she isn’t writing, she is baking or plotting her next series.
Website: https://staciakaywood.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stacia.kaywood
Email: staceyeringetz@gmail.com
Vice President and Program Chair
Michelle Grey
Michelle’s love affair with romance began the summer before high school when she discovered her mom’s Harlequin collection. The feeling of joy from experiencing those happily-ever-afters has stayed with her ever since.
Now she writes stories about strong women with strong passions, sexy swoon-worthy heroes, and the twists of fate that bring them together and try to tear them apart. She hopes to ignite the same spark of joy for her readers that caught fire in her that long ago summer.
When she’s not writing, reading, or voicing a novel, Michelle spends most of her time hanging out with her favorite humans. With marriages and babies and puppies, the boisterous group seems to grow every year, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
Michelle loves to hear from her readers so drop her a note on Facebook or Instagram, or on her website.
Website: www.authormichellegrey.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authormichellegrey
Email: michelle@authormichellegrey.com
Secretary
Darlene Nicholson
Darlene was born and raised in Southern California, moved to Georgia in her mid-twenties, and now lives in the middle of Kansas with her husband of thirty years and their three fur babies. Her time is spent volunteering for her church, helping her mom and mom-in-law, and doing her best to turn the characters, quests and adventures running rampant in her head into stories she can share with others.
For Darlene, nothing is better than getting lost in a story where the settings and characters come alive in your mind. Like Linus with his blanket, books have always been her security blanket. She truly never goes anywhere without a book.
When she was little, her mother instilled a love of stories in her by reading to her every night. After she started reading for herself, her mother took her to the library and she discovered “The Grey King” by Susan Cooper, the “Wizard of Oz” series by L. Frank Baum, and “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster, to name a few. Years later she stumbled across a copy of “The Flame and the Flower” by Kathleen Woodiwiss in a neighbor’s bookshelf and her love of romance novels was born.
In the years following, her tastes have expanded to include suspense, mystery, and paranormal. Her goal is to combine all of them along with a loving dose of romance into her in-progress paranormal romantic suspense novel.
Author Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darlene.nicholson3
Treasurer
Mary Blake
While other kids were out swimming, going to summer camp and just having fun in the sun in Dayton, Ohio, I was into the Bobbsey Twins and the Cherry Ames, R.N. series. The library became my second home. I checked out four books a week, read them and came back for more. I was into English historical fiction/romance by then, and became a science fiction fan once I was introduced to Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler, and many others.
I had a short career in journalism as a beat reporter at a radio station in Toledo, Ohio, and then marriage led me to Lexington, Kentucky, where I first plied my writing talent in the advertising agency business. That morphed into a 35-year career as a freelance marketing writer, 26 of those spent in Los Angeles.
While in LA, I co-authored, edited and project-managed two non-fiction history books. The first was titled A Credit To Its Members, Hughes Aircraft Employees Federal Credit Union, a history, 1940-2000. This 112-page hardbound book was a vanity project for one of my clients, as was another book, Thirteen Men, Sixty-Five Dollars, Seventy Years Later, a history of Wescom Credit Union, 1934-2005.
After 9 years in Denver, I was done with corporate America and retired, moving to Kansas City in 2021. I’m currently finishing my first work of fiction, a dystopic adventure/thriller about second-chance romance, with a working title of Love After The Collapse. I write under the name Delaney Blake.
Board Members
Presidents
Diane Rogers and Stacey Getz
Diane Rogers:
Even as a kid, Diane (Wilson) Rogers loved to read. Her favorite books were the Nancy Drew Mysteries, which made her want to pen a book of her own someday. Her first effort, a Nancy Drew-like story attempted in the fifth grade, didn’t go quite as planned. Two chapters into it, Diane was lost and gave up. Following another failed attempt at novel writing in her thirties, Diane succeeded several years later when she decided to write about something she loved—history.
Diane, who writes as D.L. Rogers because her step father (an avid reader) told her once he refused to read anything written by a woman, loves to weave her fictional stories into the fabric of the events that built our country. Having grown up in New Jersey, but with lots of family in Tennessee and the Carolinas, Diane has always had an intense interest in all things Civil War, and that interest is reflected in most of her books.
At the beginning of the Ebook explosion, Diane had five books published as Ebooks by Awestruck Publishing. Unable to get hard copies through Awestruck, she turned to a local publisher, who put those books into print. Taking to the road, Diane “hawked” her books at every arts and crafts festival she could find, spoke to whoever would listen (and still does), and is now working on her fourteenth novel.
Recently widowed, Diane lives on fourteen acres south of Harrisonville in Cass County, Missouri, the focal point of so many of her stories. She has two wonderful children who have given her five (also) wonderful grandchildren that Diane loves to enjoy in her “down time.” Diane also enjoys country dancing and reading as many books as she can get her hands on.
Author Links:
Website: dlrogersbooks.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dlrogersbooks
Email: dlrogers2@peoplepc.com
Stacey Getz:
Stacia Kaywood dabbles in all areas of romantic fiction from historical to paranormal to contemporary with heaps of fiery spice tossed in to keep the readers drooling for more. Her greatest fear is someone demanding that she pick a genre and stick with it! Her first novel, Bathed in Moonlight, is a historical romance set at the end of World War II. She is currently wrapping up edits for her first Regency Romance, Stealing Annabelle, Book 1 of Belles and Rogues, with an expected release in the summer of 2024. Short stories are available through Medium including Haunting Jasmine featuring mystery and the sexiest ghost imaginable, office romances that will singe the panties right off your favorite coworker, and age gap romances that have people wondering what exactly goes on in those backyard toolsheds.
Stacia currently resides in Kansas City, the Missouri side naturally, enjoying copious amounts of BBQ, Mexican food, and the greatest Austrian cuisine this side of Vienna. She’s a voracious reader who never sticks with a genre, but if it is a historical romance, it always worms its way to the top of her to-be-read pile. Traveling fuels her creative passion, allowing her to find inspiration in paintings, architecture, and real-life stories. If she isn’t writing, she is baking or plotting her next series.
Author Links:
Website: https://staciakaywood.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stacia.kaywood
Email: staceyeringetz@gmail.com
Vice President and Program Chair
Michelle Grey
Michelle’s love affair with romance began the summer before high school when she discovered her mom’s Harlequin collection. The feeling of joy from experiencing those happily-ever-afters has stayed with her ever since.
Now she writes stories about strong women with strong passions, sexy swoon-worthy heroes, and the twists of fate that bring them together and try to tear them apart. She hopes to ignite the same spark of joy for her readers that caught fire in her that long ago summer.
When she’s not writing, reading, or voicing a novel, Michelle spends most of her time hanging out with her favorite humans. With marriages and babies and puppies, the boisterous group seems to grow every year, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
Michelle loves to hear from her readers so drop her a note on Facebook or Instagram, or on her website www.authormichellegrey.com
Secretary
Darlene Nicholson
Darlene was born and raised in Southern California, moved to Georgia in her mid-twenties, and now lives in the middle of Kansas with her husband of thirty years and their three fur babies. Her time is spent volunteering for her church, helping her mom and mom-in-law, and doing her best to turn the characters, quests and adventures running rampant in her head into stories she can share with others.
For Darlene, nothing is better than getting lost in a story where the settings and characters come alive in your mind. Like Linus with his blanket, books have always been her security blanket. She truly never goes anywhere without a book.
When she was little, her mother instilled a love of stories in her by reading to her every night. After she started reading for herself, her mother took her to the library and she discovered “The Grey King” by Susan Cooper, the “Wizard of Oz” series by L. Frank Baum, and “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster, to name a few. Years later she stumbled across a copy of “The Flame and the Flower” by Kathleen Woodiwiss in a neighbor’s bookshelf and her love of romance novels was born.
In the years following, her tastes have expanded to include suspense, mystery, and paranormal. Her goal is to combine all of them along with a loving dose of romance into her in-progress paranormal romantic suspense novel.
Author Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darlene.nicholson3
Treasurer
Mary Blake
While other kids were out swimming, going to summer camp and just having fun in the sun in Dayton, Ohio, I was into the Bobbsey Twins and the Cherry Ames, R.N. series. The library became my second home. I checked out four books a week, read them and came back for more. I was into English historical fiction/romance by then, and became a science fiction fan once I was introduced to Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler, and many others.
I had a short career in journalism as a beat reporter at a radio station in Toledo, Ohio, and then marriage led me to Lexington, Kentucky, where I first plied my writing talent in the advertising agency business. That morphed into a 35-year career as a freelance marketing writer, 26 of those spent in Los Angeles.
While in LA, I co-authored, edited and project-managed two non-fiction history books. The first was titled A Credit To Its Members, Hughes Aircraft Employees Federal Credit Union, a history, 1940-2000. This 112-page hardbound book was a vanity project for one of my clients, as was another book, Thirteen Men, Sixty-Five Dollars, Seventy Years Later, a history of Wescom Credit Union, 1934-2005.
After 9 years in Denver, I was done with corporate America and retired, moving to Kansas City in 2021. I’m currently finishing my first work of fiction, a dystopic adventure/thriller about second-chance romance, with a working title of Love After The Collapse. I write under the name Delaney Blake.
Board Members
President
Diane Rogers
Even as a kid, Diane (Wilson) Rogers loved to read. Her favorite books were the Nancy Drew Mysteries, which made her want to pen a book of her own someday. Her first effort, a Nancy Drew-like story attempted in the fifth grade, didn’t go quite as planned. Two chapters into it, Diane was lost and gave up. Following another failed attempt at novel writing in her thirties, Diane succeeded several years later when she decided to write about something she loved—history.
Diane, who writes as D.L. Rogers because her step father (an avid reader) told her once he refused to read anything written by a woman, loves to weave her fictional stories into the fabric of the events that built our country. Having grown up in New Jersey, but with lots of family in Tennessee and the Carolinas, Diane has always had an intense interest in all things Civil War, and that interest is reflected in most of her books.
At the beginning of the Ebook explosion, Diane had five books published as Ebooks by Awestruck Publishing. Unable to get hard copies through Awestruck, she turned to a local publisher, who put those books into print. Taking to the road, Diane “hawked” her books at every arts and crafts festival she could find, spoke to whoever would listen (and still does), and is now working on her fourteenth novel.
Recently widowed, Diane lives on fourteen acres south of Harrisonville in Cass County, Missouri, the focal point of so many of her stories. She has two wonderful children who have given her five (also) wonderful grandchildren that Diane loves to enjoy in her “down time.” Diane also enjoys country dancing and reading as many books as she can get her hands on.
Author Links:
Website: dlrogersbooks.com
Facebook: @dlrogersbooks
Email: dlrogers2@peoplepc.com
Vice President and Program Chair
Michelle Grey
Michelle’s love affair with romance began the summer before high school when she discovered her mom’s Harlequin collection. The feeling of joy from experiencing those happily-ever-afters has stayed with her ever since.
Now she writes stories about strong women with strong passions, sexy swoon-worthy heroes, and the twists of fate that bring them together and try to tear them apart. She hopes to ignite the same spark of joy for her readers that caught fire in her that long ago summer.
When she’s not writing, reading, or voicing a novel, Michelle spends most of her time hanging out with her favorite humans. With marriages and babies and puppies, the boisterous group seems to grow every year, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
Michelle loves to hear from her readers so drop her a note on Facebook or Instagram, or on her website www.authormichellegrey.com
Secretary
Darlene Nicholson
Darlene was born and raised in Southern California, moved to Georgia in her mid-twenties, and now lives in the middle of Kansas with her husband of thirty years and their three fur babies. Her time is spent volunteering for her church, helping her mom and mom-in-law, and doing her best to turn the characters, quests and adventures running rampant in her head into stories she can share with others.
For Darlene, nothing is better than getting lost in a story where the settings and characters come alive in your mind. Like Linus with his blanket, books have always been her security blanket. She truly never goes anywhere without a book.
When she was little, her mother instilled a love of stories in her by reading to her every night. After she started reading for herself, her mother took her to the library and she discovered “The Grey King” by Susan Cooper, the “Wizard of Oz” series by L. Frank Baum, and “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster, to name a few. Years later she stumbled across a copy of “The Flame and the Flower” by Kathleen Woodiwiss in a neighbor’s bookshelf and her love of romance novels was born.
In the years following, her tastes have expanded to include suspense, mystery, and paranormal. Her goal is to combine all of them along with a loving dose of romance into her in-progress paranormal romantic suspense novel.
Author Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darlene.nicholson3
Treasurer
Mary Blake
While other kids were out swimming, going to summer camp and just having fun in the sun in Dayton, Ohio, I was into the Bobbsey Twins and the Cherry Ames, R.N. series. The library became my second home. I checked out four books a week, read them and came back for more. I was into English historical fiction/romance by then, and became a science fiction fan once I was introduced to Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler, and many others.
I had a short career in journalism as a beat reporter at a radio station in Toledo, Ohio, and then marriage led me to Lexington, Kentucky, where I first plied my writing talent in the advertising agency business. That morphed into a 35-year career as a freelance marketing writer, 26 of those spent in Los Angeles.
While in LA, I co-authored, edited and project-managed two non-fiction history books. The first was titled A Credit To Its Members, Hughes Aircraft Employees Federal Credit Union, a history, 1940-2000. This 112-page hardbound book was a vanity project for one of my clients, as was another book, Thirteen Men, Sixty-Five Dollars, Seventy Years Later, a history of Wescom Credit Union, 1934-2005.
After 9 years in Denver, I was done with corporate America and retired, moving to Kansas City in 2021. I’m currently finishing my first work of fiction, a dystopic adventure/thriller about second-chance romance, with a working title of Love After The Collapse. I write under the name Delaney Blake.