The voices
Our Authors
Dear readers, you know well that given the steamier stuff in some of these stories, not all our authors are comfortable using their real names or likeness. We are as honest as our authors will allow us to be, but some of them are pseudonyms. And no, we won't tell you who, or Nadia and Sigrid have promised to "come after us".
Romance
Astrid Norén
Works as a UX designer for a fintech startup. Moved to London at 24 for work and stayed for the theatre scene. Writes romance in English because "Swedish has too few words for feelings and too many for snow." Unmarried, which her mother mentions in every phone call.
2 titles with Ribbon & Flint
Contemporary MM Romance (Open Door, Explicit)
Cass Merrick
Cass writes the men she wishes more books would: guarded, funny, capable of a tenderness they don't yet have language for. Interested in masculinity that finally makes room for want. Believes the best MM is about two men who stop performing — for the team, the family, the world — and let one person see the whole of it.
9 titles with Ribbon & Flint
Western & Frontier Romance (Contemporary, Open Door, High Heat) — working-ranch romance with a guaranteed HEA
Delia Rhodes
Delia writes the West as a place of work — early mornings, calving in the cold, the smell of hay and diesel and horse — because the labour is what makes the tenderness land. Her heroes are rugged and capable without being cruel; her heroines are neither helpless nor hardened past feeling. She treats the land and the weather as characters in their own right: a blizzard, a drought, a fence that has to be walked, a herd that has to be moved before the storm. Her one rule about the "claiming" register the genre loves — a man saying mine, the patience of gentling a horse turned on a woman — is that it is always mutual and always chosen: possession is something offered and accepted out loud, never taken. The heat runs high; the consent runs higher.
1 title with Ribbon & Flint
Sports Romance
Fiona MacKenzie
Grew up in a rugby-mad family—her father coached at club level, her brothers all played, and she spent her childhood on muddy sidelines learning to love the game. Played women's rugby at university before a knee injury ended her athletic career. Now works as a sports physiotherapist for a professional football club, giving her inside access to the world she writes about. Single; says she's too busy for dating but keeps falling for the wrong athletes.
3 titles with Ribbon & Flint
Romance
Freya Thornbury
Veterinary nurse by day, romance writer by very late night. Lives above a chip shop with a rescue cat who judges her life choices. Has strong opinions about tea, the Oxford comma, and emotionally unavailable men in fiction (for them, cautiously). Writes first drafts longhand in Moleskine notebooks because she's a specific kind of pretentious.
4 titles with Ribbon & Flint
Dark Contemporary Mafia Romance (Open Door, Explicit) — possessive, consensual power play
Nadia Sokolova
Raised on noir films, opera, and her grandmother's stories of the old country, Nadia writes the Bratva and Cosa Nostra as modern mythology — kingdoms of loyalty and blood where the most lethal man alive meets the one thing he will not gamble. She is emphatic that the danger points outward, never at the heroine: the fantasy is a woman who walks into the fire and walks out owning it. A rule is taped above her desk: he can burn the world down for her; he never lays a hand on her against her will.
7 titles with Ribbon & Flint
High-Heat Contemporary Romance (Interracial, Kink, Open Door, Explicit) — negotiated power in a luxury high-rise
Odette Rue
Twelve years in luxury hospitality — most of them as night manager of a five-star high-rise residence hotel, the person who held every resident's secrets and surrendered none of them. That job is the whole engine of her voice: discretion as power, access as intimacy, and the certainty that the most interesting floor of any building is the one the public never sees. She writes the building she used to run.
2 titles with Ribbon & Flint
Romantic Comedy
Poppy Fairweather
Working-class background; first in her family to attend university. Studied drama at Manchester Met, then spent three years doing stand-up comedy in pubs and clubs across the North before transitioning to writing. Her comedy background shows in her dialogue—quick, sharp, and deeply human. Works part-time as a barmaid while building her writing career. Lives in a chaotic flat-share in Salford; dates enthusiastically and catastrophically; mines her own disasters for material.
5 titles with Ribbon & Flint
Dark Romance / Alpha Male — contemporary MC (motorcycle-club) romance (Open Door, Explicit, high heat)
Roxanne Vaughn
Roxanne grew up with a wrench in her hand — her father ran a two-bay garage off a dead highway, and she learned to rebuild a carburetor before she learned to drive. She rode before she wrote, and it shows: the bikes are real, the grease is real, the economics of a broke town where the biggest employer left in 1994 are real. She came up on Zane and Kristen Ashley in equal measure and writes the books she wanted on the shelf — outlaw men who are hard everywhere except one place, and women who are nobody's victim and nobody's prize, who walk into that world with their eyes open and get to choose it out loud. Her one unbreakable rule: the possessiveness is a promise, never a cage. "Mine" is something both of them get to say. The danger always points outward — at the men who'd hurt her — never at the heroine.
5 titles with Ribbon & Flint
Paranormal Shifter Romance (Fated Mates, Open Door, Explicit)
Sable Wilde
A folklore obsessive who reads bestiaries for fun, Sable writes the fantasy of being recognized on sight and wanted without condition. Her one unbreakable rule about the mate bond: it amplifies desire, it never overrides choice — the pull is mutual, and both of them still have to say yes.
5 titles with Ribbon & Flint
Viking Historical Romance
Sigrid Bjornsdottir
Grew up surrounded by saga literature—her mother is a historian with a special interest in Old Norse, her father a blacksmith who reconstructs Viking-age metalwork as a hobby. Spent childhood summers at medieval reenactment festivals. Studied history. Her academic rigor combines with romantic imagination to create historical romance that feels authentic (while taking the right types of liberties) without sacrificing passion. Lives in a turf-roofed cottage; practices historical swordsmanship; absolutely lethal at Viking chess ( at least one of these tree is a lie)
9 titles with Ribbon & Flint
Contemporary Interracial Billionaire Romance — Open Door, Explicit — negotiated power, ownership, and the honest contract of devotion.
Simone Ashford
A former private-client lifestyle manager — a discreet "fixer" for ultra-high-net-worth families on the Upper East Side — who spent a decade arranging the un-arrangeable for people whose money bought everything except an honest yes. She left to write the books she kept not finding: Black heroines with real careers, real teeth, and appetites they refuse to shrink; power exchange treated as the most romantic negotiation two adults can have, not as something shameful smuggled in after dark. She writes interracial pairings as chemistry and chosen power — the pull of two people who agree to want each other on the record. Race is her heroines' identity, rendered with depth and beauty; it is never the object of the power dynamic.
7 titles with Ribbon & Flint
Contemporary Femdom Romance (Female-Led Power Exchange, Open Door, Explicit) — negotiated service and devotion
Verity Sloane
Fifteen years as a theatre stage manager before she wrote full-time — the person who calls the show from the dark, whose authority the audience never sees and the company never questions. That job is the whole engine of her voice: control as competence rather than volume, cues and timing as intimacy, and a deep belief that the person genuinely running the room is the calmest one in it.
4 titles with Ribbon & Flint
Contemporary BWWM BDSM Erotic Romance (Open Door, Explicit) — consensual power exchange
Vivian Devereaux
A former family-law paralegal who went full-time on fiction after her first Dom/sub novella took off. Raised on Beverly Jenkins and Zane in equal measure, she writes the books she wanted on the shelf: Black heroines with sharp interior lives, real careers, real friends, and appetites they refuse to apologize for. Active and well-read in Atlanta's kink-positive community, she treats negotiation, safewords, and aftercare as the most romantic parts of a scene, not the boring admin around it. Her interracial pairings are about chemistry and chosen power exchange — never about race as a fetish.
14 titles with Ribbon & Flint