That Holiday Feeling

Debbie Macomber (born October 22, 1948, in Yakima, Washington) is an American author of romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. She sold her first manuscript in 1984 after years of rejection and went on to publish more than 150 books, including the long-running Cedar Cove and Blossom Street series; Cedar Cove was adapted into a Hallmark Channel television series (2013–2015). She received the Romance Writers of America's Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.

Robyn Carr never intended to become a writer. She studied nursing in college. She married her high school sweetheart just before he left for the US Air Force as a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. Carr followed her new husband from base to base, and because they did not stay in any one place for very long, she was unable to pursue her nursing career. When a difficult pregnancy required her to be off of her feet, Carr turned to romance novels to distract herself. She soon decided to write...

Sherryl Woods has been a journalist and television editor as well as an author. She has also been the coordinator for a motivational program for the employees of the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Medical Center. She was born in Arlington, Virginia. She graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in journalism. Her first book was published in 1982 under a pseudonym. She also used a pseudonym for her second book. In 1986, she left her job and became a full-time writer. She has wri...