Mary Shotwell is the author of small-town romances for every season. The first book in her new small-town contemporary romance series Waverly Lake is out in May, 2022. Her first romance novel, Christmas Catch (Carina Press, 2018), received a starred review from Library Journal and was a 2019 Golden Leaf Award finalist for Best First Book. Her speculative short stories are featured in several anthologies, and her latest nonfiction story can be seen in Chicken Soup for the Soul: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (Simon and Schuster, 2019). She lives in Tennessee with her husband and three children and loves holidays, baking anything sweet and hosting movie nights with her kids. Learn more at maryshotwell.com.
