L. Valente writes white hot dark romance and equally sexy reverse harem stories featuring headstrong heroines and the men who love them. She's been a full-time author for over a decade, written eighty-five titles under four pen names, and loves to put her acting degree to use narrating when she can find the time.

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Ben Valenta is the SVP of strategy and analytics for FOX Sports. In his previous life as a consultant, he advised an incredible array of clients, including: Nike, NFL, Anheuser-Busch InBev, YouTube, ESPN, National Geographic, MSNBC, NBC News, Livestrong, New York Knicks, and New York Rangers.

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Richard M. Valelly is Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. His publications include Princeton Readings in American Politics, The Two Reconstructions, which won several prizes, and Radicalism in the States.

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Maria Vale is a logophile, a bibliovore, and a worrier about the world. Trained as a medievalist, she tries to shoehorn the language of Beowulf into things that don't really need it. She currently lives in New York with her husband, two sons, and a long line of dead plants. No one will let her have a pet.

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USA Today bestselling author Lani Lynn Vale writes contemporary and romantic suspense, and has a love for all things romance. She lives with her husband and children in Texas. Visit her at lanilynnvale.com.

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Claire Vale is the author of the Offered series and the Sin of Duty series.

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Kandi Vale is the author of the Slivered Souls Trilogy.

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Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, the author of the national bestseller The Dirty Girls Social Club and Playing with Boys, was named one of the twenty-five most influential Hispanics in America by Time magazine.

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Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino is an independent researcher and author in the field of death-related experiences, notably near-death experiences (NDEs) and after-death communications (ADCs). She has written numerous books and articles on these subjects, including Lessons from the Light, coauthored with Kenneth Ring.

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Sheila P. Vakharia is a nationally recognized harm reduction expert with over fifteen years of combined experience in addiction treatment, harm reduction, higher education, research, and drug policy reform. She works at the Drug Policy Alliance, a national advocacy organization fighting to end the war on drugs.

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Sandeep Vaishnavi, MD, PhD, is the director of the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners. He is a neuropsychiatrist at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, Duke University Medical Center, and is affiliated with Duke's Departments of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine.

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Amanda Vaill is the author of Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War, the bestselling Everybody Was So Young, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, and Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.

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