Tina Vaughn is an award-winning journalist, romance author, and bookseller who's always dreamed of being a writer. As a toddler, she pretended to be Lois Lane. While in elementary school, she wrote her friends' love letters to their boyfriends in exchange for Mickey Mouse ice cream bars. In high school, she scribbled her first romance in a spiral notebook. A former community newspaper editor and bookseller, Tina lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with her husband and daughters, and is known for commemorating milestones with silver jewelry, tattoos and/or ice cream.