If you missed them the first time around you can catch up on the various authors featured in our weekly updated WRiter Spotlight Column in March, below.

Nicholas Sparks
He writes amazing love stories, the kind that can make anyone believe in true love conquering all, and he runs the gamut of ages and types of love. There are stories about two people meeting for the first time and instantly connecting, of people who have to work through their differences before they can even become friends, and of people who miss their chance once only to find one another again much later in life. All of his novels also deal with some type of tragedy — something to demonstrate to the reader that life is short and that it should be embraced...
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Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the master of the murder mystery with the twists and turns. She knew how to keep readers guessing, always adding in clues and characters at the last minute to throw you for a loop, never making any of the culprits easy to pick out. A lot of modern day mysteries take pages from her books (some of them almost literally). For example, ever seen a movie or read a book where all the characters are sequestered in one space, disappearing one by one until the masked man (or woman) behind all of the unfortunate events is found? You can thank the lovely Agatha and her And Then There Were None (or Ten Little Indians as it was originally called) for this nail biting thriller...
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Lauren Willig
Because Lauren Willig strives to do something a lot of writers don't. She aims for historical accuracy in her romance novels, and if they aren't accurate, she leaves an author's note at the story's conclusion telling you why. In fact, Lauren maintains, in just about any biographical information that you can find on her, that writing historically accurate romance novels was her entire reason for going to college. She got her Doctorate in History from Harvard University, and she spent many hours working on her first novel when she should have been working on her dissertation...
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Alexandre Dumas
Dumas gives you a taste of good old fashioned adventure. Emphasis on the old fashioned. And the adventure. His novels are set around the time of the early nineteenth century. He writes about spies and royalty and men with mistresses who wait for them while they go off to fight on behalf of the king...
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Met Cabot
Meg Cabot knows how to make a girl feel special. She takes everyday girls and plants them in not-so-everyday situations, providing readers with the idea that anything is possible. She really makes you believe that you can be or do anything you want. However, sometimes her characters do rely on luck a little more than your average person. They can find themselves in the most ridiculous situations, and luck generally has a hand in working the situation out for them. Of course, this does provide the upside of lots of happy endings in Cabot's world...
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