Join Austin indie romance authors Cate Lawley, Regina Morris, and Kay Manis (left to right, below), as they read selections from their works and discuss how they made the leap to indie publishing.

Cate Lawley is the pen name for Kate Baray’s sweet romances and cozy mysteries, including The Goode Witch Matchmaker and Vegan Vamp series. She writes and lives in Austin, Texas (where many of her stories take place) with her pack of pointers and hounds. Cate has worked as an attorney, a manager, a tractor sales person, and a dog trainer, but writing is the hands-down winner. When she’s not tapping away at her keyboard or in deep contemplation of her next fanciful writing project, she’s sweeping up hairy dust bunnies and watching British mysteries. Cate also writes paranormal (Lost Library) and urban fantasy (Spirelli) as Kate Baray and thrillers (Beauregard) as K.D. Baray. 

Regina Morris writes sensual and suspenseful paranormal romances about a covert team of vampires who protect the President of the United States. She also writes contemporary romances and fantasy/time-travel. She’s a software engineer by day, and writer by night and on weekends. Writing is her passion and tea and chocolate fuel her so she can write late into the night.

Kay Manis is a funny chick who’s sprinkled with a little crazy on top. Okay, let’s be honest… there’s ALOTTA crazy up there. She writes books filled with passion, promise and purpose (with laughter and a few tears, but always an HEA). She is a native Texan and lives with her family in Austin. When not reading or writing, you’ll find Kay eating out with friends or napping with her favorite pillow (stolen from an Inn in Vermont—true story).