Multi-published author and international lecturer Vanessa Grant is the author of 30 novels, and the critically acclaimed how-to book, Writing Romance, now in its second edition. Her books have been translated into 15 languages and she has over 10 million books in print. Vanessa is a popular international lecturer who has given workshops to many writers' groups in Canada and the USA. In August of 2001 she was the featured speaker at the Romance Writers of Australia and Romance Writers of New Zealand's annual conferences.