Best-selling, award-winning author Suz deMello, a.k.a. Sue Swift, has written nineteen novels, plus numerous short stories and articles on writing. She enjoys writing mashups with romance, history, vampires and very steamy sex.

Her hobbies are yoga and world travel. She resides in northern California, where she's planning another trip overseas to research another novel in her best-selling "Highland Vampires" romance series.