Mimi Riser has been an actress, model, clown, belly-dancer, jewelry designer, editor, and publisher, but her first and foremost love is writing. She specializes in offbeat tales where laughter reigns and good always triumphs--but she makes her characters really work for their happy endings. Her books have been said to read like a snowball rolling downhill, gathering size and speed as it goes. But if you think her stories are crazy, you should see her life. Once devout city people, she and her husband exchanged the hustle and bustle of Philadelphia a lifetime or two ago for the natural, rugged splendor of the rural southwest. They were looking for a simpler way of life. They got it. It ended up being so “natural and rugged,” they spent their first six and a half years there in a hand-built house with dirt floors, no electricity and no plumbing. This has proved helpful for her historicals as she can now write about the “olden days” from personal experience. They have since rejoined the 21st century and enjoy life on the open range with a houseful of eccentric cats and a large, wacky dog who thinks she’s a cat, too.

Mimi Riser has had six novels published to date along with numerous articles and short stories. Last year she won Amber Quill Press's 2007 Heat Wave contest for her comedy sci-fi erotic romance novella, Samantha White & The Seven Dwarves. Her historical romance novel, I Do, was a “Top Ten Finisher” in the mammoth Preditors & Editors Readers Poll of 2003, and her contemporary comedy, Every Jack Needs His Jil, won the poll the following year for the “Best Mainstream Novel of 2004.”