I'm ringing in the new year with my first guest in 2016, and one of my best friends, Renee Bernard on Thursday, January 7th at 6pm EST. Renee is an award winning and USA Today bestselling author of historical romance and recently, contemporary romantic comedy.  She's won RT’s Reviewer’s Choice award for “Best Debut Historical” a few years ago, and hasn't slowed down since. By the end of 2015, she has penned over sixteen novels, and several novellas. Renee has published with Simon & Schuster and Berkley as well as branching out into independent publishing, audio books and comic books.  For over four years she has been the host of “The Romance Bookmark” (formerly “Canned Laughter and Coffee”), a weekly internet radio show. From wine wrangling—to stand-up comedy and public speaking, there’s nothing off the table.  (No really.  Nothing.  Except anything involving dancing and a pole.  She’s past that now.)

Renee lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains with her husband and daughters, and an adequate number of cats to qualify as a romance writer.