The Indianapolis Lineup

The Indianapolis Lineup

In-Person Lineup | Indianapolis | March 29, 2025

  • Bethany Baker

    Bethany Baker (she/they) writes erotic romance that blends the familiar and the fantastical, the erotic and the emotional, the silly and the sexy—into one downright tasty concoction.

    When she's not baking cookies or writing smut, she enjoys collecting weird animal facts and going for walks with her partner. She has two cats, who go by "Disaster Bean" and "Chaos Baby" more often than their actual names.

  • Carlotta Hughes

    A feral unhinged trash cat opossum scribbling smut next to a dumpster fire at the back of a Waffle House. Carlotta writes spicy Scottish space orcs and an ever expanding multiverse rich in world building, spice, shenanigans, and folklore. When not in a paroxysm of AuDHD insanity, Carlotta is drawing, writing, or playing dead due to chronic illness.

  • Darva Green

    Darva writes monster romance and fairy (sometimes scary) tales with lots of spice and lore. She loves giving morally grey babes their happily ever after.

  • Elaine J Daniels

    Elaine Daniels writes the stories she wants to read. For as long as she can remember, she has imagined vivid characters with extraordinary lives and adventures. Her first attempt at writing a novel was a retelling of Lord of the Rings with herself as the protagonist (and Frodo's girlfriend) when she was 11. Currently residing in the American South, Elaine uses her communications background at a nonprofit. After her 9 to 5 job, she focuses on her writing career. Being a queer Southerner is a core part of Elaine’s identity and she’s passionate about advocating for progressive protections for the LGBTQ community. When she's not writing, Elaine enjoys reading romance novels, eating her wife's cooking, trying new hobbies, and spending quality time with her friends, family, and furry babies.

  • Emma Elizabeth

    Emma Elizabeth is a project manager by day, and a smut-lover by night. She’s been escaping to fantasy worlds as long as she can remember, and has found her passion creating worlds for other people to enjoy!

  • Evangeline Priest

    Eva Priest writes romance that spans the galaxy, featuring strong heroines and the dominant alpha males who claim them.

  • G. M. Fairy

    G.M. FAIRY is a best-selling, erotica author who dabbles in Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and all things whimsical.

  • Jersey Konlyn

    Exhausted Millennial Trash Panda just trying to make it through the day.

  • Kate Prior

    Kate Prior writes cozy, steamy, hilarious monster romances. Like any office worker constantly updating their resume, she tranfers her dayjob graphic design skills to her books, illustrating her own book covers and character art. She lives in the Mythical Central NJ with her boyfriend and her cat.

  • Latrexa Nova

    "Latrexa Nova's mind is a Rube Goldberg machine of puns and monsterfudging.

    A California native, Latrexa has always seen the weird in the world and seeks to share their outright lust for the strange and unusual. Their hobbies include sculpting unnatural horrors, running from their inner demons, and trying to celebrate Halloween all year round. They write for the weirdos, with a lust for darkness and off-beat humor."

  • Lizzie Strong

    Lizzie Strong is a Monster Romance Author where the monsters are spooky scary and the romance is cute and cuddly. A Florida swamp gremlin masquerading as a human, she's a dog mom, previous retail and restaurant manager, and a horror DM for table top roleplaying games. She specializes in queer representation, specifically bi&pan representation, with a heavy splash of chaos. Best known for her King's Fall Universe, she's seven books deep and getting deeper in kink friendly, consent heavy, monster smut.

  • Luna Cantrip

    Luna is a sucker for steamy monster romance. She wants everyone to find the perfect hairy beast to curl up on top of. Someone who will make us tea, read us a good book, and rip our enemies in half, if we ask very nicely. She write smut and drinks cheap wine in a little house in Kentucky, with her husband, a cat, and another cat.

  • Nicole Parker

    Nicole Parker is the author of creative and humorous romance stories. She is a 30-something California native who spends the great majority of her free time writing books, reading books, or organizing her ever growing TBR list. She also has a spouse, some kids, and pets, but this isn't about them. Nicole's books are funny, raunchy, silly, and most importantly full of good vibes and happy endings.

  • Petra Palerno

    Petra Palerno is a lifelong weirdo who loves writing otherworldy romance and erotica. If it's got any combination of aliens, fae, or other assorted monsters count her in. She lives in the Midwest with her husband and a menagerie of spoiled pets. She can often be seen making a cocktail at her in-home tiki bar and lurching away into her writer's cave like the true goblin she is.

  • R. K. Pierce

  • Rose Santoriello

    Rose Santoriello is the author of Hook-up to Holidate, a Monster Romance Novella. They currently reside in Central Florida with their husband and their cats KitKat and Millie. When they aren’t writing or reading, Rose spends their time at Renaissance Festivals and Anime Conventions where she cosplays and socializes to her heart’s content. She is looking forward to showing the world her stories which are monstrously cute!

  • Sabrina Cross

    A fan of monsters since first seeing The Beast in the X-Men cartoon as a young child in the 90s, Sabrina now devours monster romances. Corny is her first published novel. When she's not reading or writing about getting railed by monsters she can be found knitting or hanging out with her cat.

  • Sam K Astra

    Hello I'm Sam K Astra, Monster Romance author, I love writing female monsters and I enjoy subverting monsters "traditional traits and tropes". As a neurospicy person I enjoy bringing that representation into my characters.

  • Sofia Rose

    Sofia Rose is a Monster Romance author.

    She enjoys writing cozy, low stakes, spicy books featuring a diverse cast. Her debut novel, 'Snapdragon', released in May 2024 and is available now!

    This is part of an ongoing series called 'Fortune Records', with further books releasing later this year. Book two, 'Aster', is releasing July 26th and is available for preorder now.

    She lives with her wife in Ireland, where they enjoy a cozy apartment with their books, vinyls, and Taylor Swift live streams.

  • Talia Greer

    Talia lives in the mountains with her gamer husband, two chaotic kitties, and a stubborn Corgi. When she's not writing, she's drinking iced coffee or watching truly terrible horror movies."

  • Tilly Bramley

    Tilly and her life partner live in the snowy north and homeschool their clutch of children. If she’s not reading, writing, mainlining iced oat milk lattes, swimming, or herding cats, she’s definitely cursing about her dead sourdough starter (again) or working on her cake decorating skills so she doesn’t embarrass herself at the kids’ bake sale.

  • Trish Heinrich

    Even as a little girl, Trish believed that any story could be made better with some kissing…or a lot of kissing. It’s no wonder that she decided to take the plunge into writing Monster and Alien Romance where she can mix her love of strong women, adventure, and all things geeky with an unapologetic excitement for the naughtier side of romance. When she’s not chained to her laptop creating the smutty worlds we all adore, she can be found curled up with a good book, playing a board game with her kids or binge-watching Lucifer…Again.

  • Unfortunate Reads / Clover Holloway

    You may have stumbled upon Cassie’s videos, but now she writes the same weirdo stuff she loves to read! She also writes under the pen name Clover Holloway. She is a long time romance reader turned author who loves to write cozy sentient object romance, monster romance, and steamy omegaverse. She's an ADHD agent of chaos so her book topics may vary wildly. She's an avid fan of traditional millennial customs including craft breweries, monstera plants, and skinny jeans.

  • Vera Valentine

    An unapologetic book-huffer and devourer-of-stories, Vera Valentine has carried on a torrid love affair with the written word for nearly all of her 42 years. Grown in the diner-laden wilds of the New Jersey Pine Barrens and transplanted to North Carolina, she lives with her husband, many cats, and two dogs, most of whom are house trained.