Being an avid reader at an early age, LuAnn McLane soon knew she wanted to be a writer. Encouragement from teachers led to creative writing classes on both the high school and college level.

In the mid 1980s she became a staff reporter and wrote human-interest stories for several local newspapers and at one point had her own award-winning column in The Kenton County Recorder. Fiction, though, was what she really longed to write. She joined an eclectic literary group called Night Writers and met romance novelist Nicole Jordan who invited her to join Romance Writer's of America. With a handful of women, they founded the Ohio Valley RWA chapter that is now a huge national chapter.

McLane now writes for Signet Eclipse, an imprint of New American Library. Although she still enjoys penning sensual contemporary trade-sized romances, she now also writes southern romantic comedy in mass market including Dark Roots and Cowboy Boots, Dancing Shoes and Honky Tonk Blues, Trick my Truck but Don’t Mess with my Heart, Redneck Cinderella and He’s No Prince Charming. She’s currently working the Cricket Creek series, a romantic comedy trilogy with baseball as the backdrop and she’s excited to be in a Christmas anthology with Susanna Carr and Janice Maynard, an October 2010 release.

Learn more when you visit LuAnn's websitehttp://www.luannmclane.com