Kiss & Tale 2024
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Fable Grounds coffee was created in 2019 by our founder, Katelyn, out of a desperate need for something that combined her two favorite things, books and coffee. Unable to find any company that provided what she was looking for, Katelyn began her journey into the world of coffee! Countless months of research and experimentation eventually led to Fable Grounds Coffee. All of our coffee is fresh roasted in small batches in Maryland, USA! We strive to bring you the tastiest roasts we can based on your favorite books and more!
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Nikki Castle is a wife and dog mom from Philadelphia who writes spicy love stories about alpha MMA fighters and the women that melt their badass, playboy hearts. She's a full-time romance author during the day and spends her evenings running a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) gym with her husband, who is also a retired fighter.
Nikki has been writing in one way or another since she was a teenager. She pursued an English and Philosophy degree in college, and finally decided to sit down and fulfill her longtime dream of writing a novel when quarantine began in 2020.
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Maggie Rawdon is a contemporary romance author living in the Midwest who writes dirty athletes and smart women who like to banter instead of flirt. She loves travel, hiking, books, and museums. You can usually find her writing with her two pups at her side, in between binge watching epic historical and fantasy dramas and cheering for her favorite (American & European) football teams on the weekends. Maggie Rawdon
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Kristen Granata is a teacher by day, and a bestselling romance author by night. Known for writing emotional contemporary romance, she loves creating realistic characters who struggle through the darkest parts of life and come out stronger on the other side. Kristen is a self-proclaimed "bitter cynic trapped in a hopeless romantic's body." Her inspirational stories will make you laugh, make you think, make you ugly cry--and they always live happily ever after.
Kristen openly shares her mental health struggles with depression and anxiety with her readers. Her message is a beacon of hope to anyone who is suffering: You are not alone. She delicately weaves this theme into her writing, and her stories demonstrate the ability of love to heal after tragedy.
Kristen was born & raised in New York. She now resides in New Jersey with her wife & two step-daughters. When she's not teaching or writing, Kristen is reading, tripping over something, indulging in her messy love affair with popcorn, and forever singing along to The Greatest Showman soundtrack.
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Lucia Franco resides in sunny South Florida with her husband and two boys. She was a competitive athlete for over ten years – a gymnast and cheerleader – which heavily inspired the Off Balance series.
Her novel Hush, Hush was a finalist in the 2019 Stiletto Contest hosted by Contemporary Romance Writers, a chapter of Romance Writers of America. Her novels are being translated into several languages.
She's written a dozen books and has many more planned for the years to come.
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Morgan is a born and raised Jersey girl, living there with her two boys, toddler daughter, and mechanic husband. She’s addicted to iced espresso, barbecue chips, and Starburst jellybeans. She usually has headphones on, listening to some spicy audiobook or Taylor Swift. There is rarely an in between.
Writing has been her calling for as long as she can remember. There’s a framed ‘page one’ of a book she wrote at seven hanging in her childhood home to prove the point. Her entire life she’s crafted stories in her mind, begging to be released but it wasn’t until recently she finally gave them the reigns.