Since leaving her "day job" as a civilian employee of the U. S. Army, Deirdre O'Dare, who also writes PG-13 rated, mainly contemporary romance as Gwynn Morgan, has settled into writing romantic fiction as a second career. Deirdre has over two dozen short stories and novellas, all published by Amber Quill in their Amber Heat and Amber Allure lines while Gwynn has nine novels, a book of poetry and a few shorter works divided among four publishers. www.gwynnmorgan.com

Writing came naturally to Deirdre whose parents both wrote. She scribed her first simple verse at age eight. An avid reader, she devoured hundreds of books while growing up and many more as an adult. Somewhere along the way, she found romance, and a bit later, romance with more explicit and detailed love scenes. That's when she knew what she would write!

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 among consenting adults are both a divine gift and a sacred duty to honor The Mother.

Fantasy and highly imagined tales of derring-do and adventure appeal to her, so she sets some of her erotic romances in imaginary worlds where magic and special powers may be found or exotic locales in the distant future. She's also a big fan of cowboys and the west. Finding rodeo the last real 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. Members of the military and police officers are also special heroes of hers and are often featured in her tales such as To Protect and ...Seduce? and Armed and Amorous.

Deirdre admits her favorite heroes are cops, cowboys and Celts. If she can get two for one, that's even better! Her late husband managed to be a bit of all three as is her current special friend. That's the type of men who make up her hero-building paradigm and inspiration.

A ranch-raised gal, Deirdre loves animals and often features dogs, horses and even a few more unusual 'critters' as secondary characters such as in her best selling Canine Cupids series of man-love stories where a dog or dogs brings the guys together. Look for an anthology of these special tales in 2009!