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Gladys Taber, beloved author of The Stillmeadow books, columnist for "Ladies Home Journal" and "Family Circle", was born in Colorado Springs on April 12, 1899, and spent most of her early years moving because of her father's work as a mining engineer. She lived in New Mexico, California, Illinois, Wisconsin, and spent time on her grandfather's farm in Massachusetts.Later, she received her bachelor's degree from Wellesley and her M.A. from Lawrence. She taught English and Writing at Lawrence College, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, Virginia, and at Columbia University from 1921 to 1926.
In 1943, the Tabers and their friends, Eleanor and Max Mayer, bought a 17th century farmstead in Connecticut, which they called “Stillmeadow.” At first, it was only a part-time country house, but soon they began living there full-time. Gladys Taber enjoyed the outdoors, writing, and her pets. She kept cocker spaniels, Irish setters, and Siamese, Abbysinian and Manx cats.
Marriage and a baby interrupted her academic career, then for more than 20 years, she lived in her vintage farmhouse, having commuted to New York part of the time to teach creative writing at Columbia University. After her parents had died, Gladys’ family consisted of her husband, Frank Taber, and her daughter Constance.
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Kathleen Clarice Groom, née Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell (b. 11 March 1872 in Melbourne, Australia - d. 1954 in Hove, Sussex, England). She wrote short stories and novels under different pseudonyms: Kit Dealtry, C. Groom, Mrs. Sydney Groom and Kathleen Clarice Groom (playing with her different names and surnames).
In a beyond suspicion time, when M/M romance was still a budding genre mostly for the ebooks market, Hal Bodner wrote Bite Club, and it’s surprising how much it sticks with what we now believe being the common rules of a M/M paranormal vampire romance. Probably the only exception is the character of Becky, the girl best friend of vampire Chris, who should be a main character of her own, so nice she is.
In a beyond suspicion time, when M/M romance was still a budding genre mostly for the ebooks market, Hal Bodner wrote Bite Club, and it’s surprising how much it sticks with what we now believe being the common rules of a M/M paranormal vampire romance. Probably the only exception is the character of Becky, the girl best friend of vampire Chris, who should be a main character of her own, so nice she is.