Welcome to Resplendence Publishing. We specialize in romantic fiction, both in e-book and print formats. We consider ourselves to be the first "Boutique" Publisher with a quality over quantity approach. In addition, we provide customer service that is second to none with one goal in mind: keep our readers coming back for more.
We seek the best and brightest authors within the genre because those are the individuals who can deliver the type of high-quality books our readers have come to expect. We are looking for chilling paranormals that make readers shiver in fear and delight, romantic suspense that takes us on a pulse-pounding ride, frantically turning the pages to see what happens next, sultry erotic romance that gives us a vicarious thrill of pleasure and contemporary tales that reflect the lives of today’s romance reader.
For historical romance, we plan to offer stories set in a wide variety of time periods, from the Medieval keep filled with knights (complete with shining armor, of course) and their ladies, to the sparkle and glitz of 1940’s Hollywood.
Thank you for visiting ResplendencePublishing.com. We look forward to filling your lives (and bookshelves) with amazing romantic stories in the years to come.
Cheers!
The RP Staff
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Leigh Collett
Co-founder, CEO
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Leigh Collett has been an avid reader of romance for more than 20 years and has been a published writer for 18 years. She first published a short story in a literary magazine at the age of 17, with several freelance news articles and professional protocol journals published in following years. Leigh holds three degrees and is finishing her MBA. She spent 11 years as an Administrative Consultant, but she decided to retire from consulting in order to pursue her dreams within the publishing industry.
She is the CEO and Director of Sales and Marketing for Resplendence Publishing. Leigh is a member of RWA, Kentucky Romance Writers, Florida Romance Writers, FF&P, and EPIC.
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Jessica Berry
Co-founder, Publisher
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Jessica Berry obtained her BA in Psychology from the University of Central Florida in 2001, and she has since taught language arts to students on various levels, from Kindergarten to college. Her first love, however, is editing romantic fiction for publication and overseeing all elements of the publication process—from submissions to print book design and formatting.
In addition to her professional writing and editing experience, Jessica has attended and taught various workshops on the craft of writing. She is an avid reader, and has been devouring an average of 3 books per week for almost twenty years. This has given her a deep appreciation of the craft and the authors who practice it.
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Tiffany Mason
Creative Director
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Tiffany Mason loves to read everything romance—from historical to paranormal, steamy to sweet—she loves it all. After spending countless hours in bookstores and reading hundreds of romance novels through the years, Tiffany carried her love of romance with her as she joined the U.S. Air Force, obtained her degree in Electronic Technology, and traveled the world.
Tiffany left the Air Force to join her husband in the Middle East. While there, she enjoyed various employment opportunites including a position as an English teacher and a stint as a Marketing Manager for a technology solutions company.
After returning to the U.S., Tiffany decided to pursue her dream of working within the publishing industry.
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Michele Paulin
Editorial Director
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Hot sex, hot men and hot chocolate chip cookies are some of editor Michele Paulin's favorite things. Add great characters with a captivating plot and she's thrilled. She loves erotic romance - she loves romance, period - and is a sucker for a happy ending. With a background in both English and History, she brings over eight years of editing experience to the Resplendence staff. Michele lives in Michigan with her husband, two kids, the cutest dog ever, and a whole lot of books.
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Christine Allen-Riley
Executive Editor
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Christine holds a BA degree in English, with an emphasis in Creative Writing and a minor in Developmental Psychology. She had no idea how well that minor would serve her until she had children...
Married, with two sons, Chris lives in Michigan where she enjoys running literature circles for her youngest son’s class, crafting of all kinds, and of course, reading – fantasy, romance and erotic romance are her favorite genres.
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Andrea Grimm
Associate Editor
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Andrea Grimm is in the midst of a life-long love affair with romance, which provides a great escape from living in a house with three sons and a husband. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Liberal Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She has a great eye for detail and hates when she reads typos, which take her out of the story. She has experience editing erotic romance for another publisher and has published her own stories under a pen name.
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Jessica Bimberg
Associate Editor
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Jessica holds a BA in English with an emphasis on Medieval Literature. She has worked in the publishing industry for several years and loves every moment of it.
Married, with four children, Jessica lives with her family in Minneapolis. She keeps very busy, but always finds time to lose herself in a good book. While she enjoys most genres, romance is definitely her favorite—paranormal, fantasy, and erotic romance in particular.
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Darlena Cunha
Associate Editor
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Darlena Cunha holds a B.A. in journalism and a B.S. in Ecology from the University of Connecticut. She worked in television news for seven years before opting to stay at home with her toddler twin girls. She is a voracious reader and loves editing.
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Wendy Williams
Associate Editor
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Wendy Williams obtained B.S. degree in Administrative Studies from Nova University, and has nearly 20 years of Marketing experience including writing and editing advertising copy, press releases, newsletters, proposals. She is currently a home schooling mom who loves the flexibility of working from home.
In addition to editing for Resplendence Publishing, Wendy is a published freelance writer, a successful grant writer, a marketing assistant for Resplendence and maintains the Resplendence Readers space at www.MySpace.com/resplendencereaders. Before motherhood, she was involved in the marketing of a super-regional mall for nine years, and became a Certified Marketing Director (CMD) through the International Council of Shopping Centers.
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Caitlin Green
Copy Editor
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Cait was thrust into the real world with a BA in History and a fanatical devotion to language and syntax, which earned her the nickname “Grammar Girl” in college. She’s obnoxious and impulsive, yet has been known to occasionally fake good behavior for noble causes or family functions. Her pathetically small amount of free time is spent writing, reading, or singing karaoke.
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Jason Huffman
Copy Editor
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Jason lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with his partner and helps raise their seven-year old daughter. Currently, he's a full-time student working toward a degree in Psychology so he can counsel GLBT youth. He is an avid reader and enjoys entertaining the idea of writing a novel someday.
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Liza Green
Copy Editor
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Liza Green lives in Detroit Michigan with her husband and two children. She loves Twizzlers and Blues Clues and is not ashamed to admit her embarrassing crush on Anthony from The Wiggles. Liza is a total homebody who would prefer sitting on the couch eating junk food with her family to going out and acting like a fool in public. Acting silly at home is always more fun.
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Juli Simonson
Copy Editor
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Juli spent several years in the US Air Force before obtaining her BS in Interdisciplinary Health Services with minors in Biology, Chemistry, and English. Currently working on a graduate degree, she credits reading massive amounts of romance, fantasy, science fiction, history and especially erotic romance with keeping her sane. After living in Okinawa for several years, she currently resides near the great lakes with her daughter and new kitten. With over ten years of experience writing, editing, and critiquing newsletters and fiction, she is thrilled to be a part of Resplendence Publishing.
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Brenda Whiteside
Copy Editor
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Brenda majored in Commercial Art at Northern Arizona University. When she married a man doing a stint in the Army, her art career went on hold while they saw a good part of the world. Somewhere along the way she put pen to paper, read books from every genre, and left her watercolors behind. She found more satisfaction filling a blank page with words than an empty canvas with color.
Minnesota is now home which she shares with her creative husband and their dog Rusty, who creates joy. They have one son who is a singer/song writer with talent unending. She loves to visit him in a far off town in the west, among the pines.
After publishing several short stories, Brenda’s first novel was released in 2010. Her idea of the perfect life is one filled with reading, writing, proofing, and editing. She’s delighted to be part of the Resplendence Publishing team.
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Venus Cahill
Copy Editor
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Venus is an author, a reader, a reviewer and proofreader.
You can blame her parents for her love of reading and her personality! Her first vivid memory is of her mother sitting her down on the potty with a book in her hands. Ever since then she will read anything available including extremely outdated magazines and shampoo bottles (rinse and repeat).
As far as her personality, when one is named for an amatory Roman Goddess she couldn’t help but start reading Harlequin novels when her classmates were still reading Judy Blume.
When she was a teen her father used to yell at her to get outside in the fresh air and she would have to sneak a book down my pant-leg, which was no easy task seeing as she was (and still is) a supreme klutz who trips over her own feet at least twice a day.
She usually has a minimum of four books on the go at the same time. She reads fiction and non-fiction anything she can get her hands on; she loves kilted hotties, demons with hearts of gold, and shapeshifting Alpha males. Her favorite heroines are curvy gals, after all she find them easy to relate to. However her absolute favorites are happily-ever-after romances.
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Kendra Egert
Cover Artist
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Kendra loves graphic design and cover art. While pursuing a writing career, she started doing graphic art and became obsessed. Now she can be found at her computer creating, on the couch reading (romance, of course) or having fun with her family.
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Chel Hickerty
Cover Artist
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Chel Hickerty hails from Michigan where she divides her time between family, books and art. She stumbled into digital art quite by accident and found she liked it there. A lot. Now it’s not unusual to find her deep in words or immersed in pictures—and that’s just where she wants to be.
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Additonal RP Staff
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Susan Everhardt
Senior Acquisitions Assistant
Diane Riley
Customer Service Specialist
Kelly Kirch
Administrative Assistant
Christine Allen-Riley
Review Coordinator
Delaney Sullivan
Associate Editor
Rose Star
Copy Editor
Les Byerley
Cover Artist
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