Deirdre O'Dare, who also writes contemporary (roughly PG-13 rated) romance as Gwynn Morgan, has loved reading and writing since early childhood. Writing came naturally to Deirdre/Gwynn who scribed her first simple verse at age eight. An avid reader, she devoured hundreds of books while growing up and later as an adult. Somewhere along the way she found romance and then romance with more explicit and detailed love scenes. "Ah ha," said she, "I think I have found my niche!" In the last decade after leaving her "day job" as a civilian employee of the U. S. Army, she finally settled into romantic fiction writing as a second career. Gwynn has nine books in print at present among four publishers and Deirdre has eight shorts and novellas out, all published by Amber Heat with more from both in the queue. With Irish and Welsh ancestry on both sides of her family, Deirdre has always been enthralled by the history and customs of the Celtic peoples as they have come down to us. The Mother Goddess idea particularly resonates with her as well as the notion that physical expressions of love between consenting couples are both a divine gift and a sacred duty to honor the Mother. Since fantasy and highly imagined tales of derring-do and adventure also appeal to her, she sets many of her erotic romances in imaginary worlds where magic and special powers may be used. She is also a lover of cowboys and the west. Finding rodeo the last bastion of the cowboy in our mechanized age, she selected this environment for her Rodeo Girls series in which a group of friends find their matches among the hard-riding competitors. Military men and police officers are also special heroes of hers and are often featured in her tales. Deirdre admits her favorite heroes are cops, cowboys and Celts. If she can get two for one, that is even better! Her late husband managed to be a bit of all three. He is still her number one hero-building paradigm and inspiration. Watch for more romances in a hotter shade of green from Deirdre's busy keyboard. She's at work currently on a full length novel set in the gorgeous red rocks of Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona involving a painter and a spirit from the Age of Lemuria! Another developing shorter tale centers around a runaway lady and a handsome blacksmith in a historical western setting. Follow-on stories spinning off from her M/M futuristic Treading Dangerous Ground and the yet unreleased Nellie's Rogue Stallion (were-horse in historical western setting) will also appear among future releases. Anthologies in print of her fantasy/paranormal stories and of her contemporary realistic tales are coming in 2007. As long as readers enjoy her work, Deirdre promises never to stop writing!.