The Romance Studio opened its doors all the way back in January 2003 and looking back, we’re just honored and humbled by the success we enjoyed even in those early days.

We’re launching our new Throwback Thursday feature to go back and take a look at some of our best moments and brightest stars in our 16-year history.

Back in December 2003, we had Lisa Renee Jones, Dee S. Knight, Lora Leigh, Tina Leonard, and Jennifer Macaire as featured members. Two of them are still with us. Can you guess who?

Lisa Renee Jones

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is still a featured member of TRS and the author of many highly successful titles including her Inside Out series,  the Tall, Dark and Deadly series, The Secret Life of Amy Bensen series, and the Dirty Money series. Her latest release, A Perfect Lie, will be released on May 14, 2019. We’re counting down the days!

Dee S. Knight

is still a featured member of TRS and has lived a varied lifestyle. After college, she married her high school sweetheart and they became house parents at a home for wards of the court. Thus, she went from newlywed to “mother” of a dozen teenage boys, in a month. Two years of living in one city proved to be enough, and she and her husband spent the next eight years as long-distance truckers. Swiftly following their trucking years, she became a computer consultant, high school and adult ed teacher, technical writer and novelist. More than thirty years later, she’s still married to her own hero and finds life infinitely interesting. She currently resides in Idaho with Jack still by her side. Life is quite a trip!

Her latest work is contemporary romance Only a Good Man Will Do.  Check it out today!

Lora Leigh

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling and award-winning author Lora Leigh is a fabulous writer whose steamy, compelling titles have been loved by millions of readers. We’ve always been big fans here at TRS.

Lora’s personal and writing exist in relative peace with each other. Lora is “Surrounded by a menagerie of pets, friends, and a son who keeps her quick wit engaged, Lora finds her life filled with joys, aided by her fans whose hearts remind her daily why she writes.”

One of Lora’s latest releases is One Tough Cowboy which released in January. Check it out today!

Tina Leonard

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling and award-winning author Tina Leonard has more than 3 million books in print with over seventy titles making the USA Today, Waldenbooks, Bookscan, and Ingrambook bestseller lists. She’s written for houses like Harlequin, London Bridge, Random House Loveswept, and most recently Diversion Books. Leonard is known for a charming sense of humor, snappy dialogue, and characters you won’t forget including sexy hunks and sassy heroines.

Jennifer Macaire

Author Jennifer Macaire lives in France with her family & pets. Originally from upstate New York, Samoa, and the Virgin Islands, she’s a former model for Elite who went on to meet her husband in France where she’s lived happily ever after.

She’s published short stories like PKA’s Advocate, The Bear Deluxe, Nuketown, The Eclipse, Anotherealm, Linnaean Street, Inkspin, Literary Potpourri, Mind Caviar in magazines like Polo, 3 am Magazine, and the Vestal Review. One story,  ‘Honey on Your Skin’, received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize. In June 2002 she won the 3am/Harper Collins flash fiction contest for her story There are Geckos’. Another story,  ‘Islands,’ appears in the anthology ‘A Dictionary of Failed Relationships’ published by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of Penguin Putnam.

Check out her Time for Alexander series today! The sixth title, The Soul of Time, was released in January 2019.