Emily McKaskle, who writes as Emily McKay, has been reading romance novels since she was eleven years old. Her first Harlequin Romance came free in a box of Hefty garbage bags. She’s been reading — and loving! — romance novels ever since.

In her spare time, she loves to garden and cook ... well, bake. Mostly cookies. Naturally, she still loves to read a good romance. She’s been blissfully married for eleven years. When they can ditch their five pets for a couple of weeks, she and her husband like to travel to exotic and exciting locations like Greece, Costa Rica, and Ignorant Flats, Texas.

She has a degree in English from Texas A&M University. After college, she taught middle school for four years. While teaching America’s disenfranchised youth to appreciate fine literature, she learned very little about writing romance but a lot about finding humor in any situation. Eager for a job where she wouldn’t have to dodge spitwads, she fled the teaching profession to write full-time. Though her characters sometimes misbehave, they almost never throw things at her.

Emily has been writing seriously for ten years. In 2001, one of her dreams came true when her manuscript, Love Letters to Tabitha, was a finalist in the Golden Heart. Just over a year later, she got ‘THE CALL.’ In January of 2003, Love Letters to Tabitha was published as Baby, Be Mine by Harlequin Temptation. Baby, Be Mine is also a finalist for the 2004 RITA Award in Best First Book and Best Short Contemporary Romance categories. Emily has gone on to sell seven more books to Harlequin Silhouette. Her next book, Baby on the Billionaire's Doorstep, will be released in April of 2008.