About Lydia
Lydia Michaels is the author of over forty novels and the consecutive winner of the 2018 & 2019 Author of the Year Award from Happenings Media, as well as the recipient of the 2014 Best Author Award from the Courier Times. She has been featured by USA Today, Romantic Times Magazine, the Women in Publishing Summit, and more. She is a certified life coach who specializes in author coaching, work/life balance, and plot development. As the CEO and founder of the East Coast Author Convention, the Behind the Keys Author Retreat, and Lydia Michaels Coaching & Consulting, she is a recognized presence and advocate within the publishing industry.
Lydia is an outspoken feminist and happily married to her childhood sweetheart. Some of her favorite things include cooking Italian cuisine, hosting extravagant dinner parties, organizing moon circles and energy readings as a spiritual high priestess, sipping espresso martinis, listening to her husband play piano, and escaping to her coastal home at the Jersey Shore.
She loves writing broken heroes and badass female leads who can save themselves, but she also has a sweet spot for overbearing territorial types. Her books are spicy, character driven, and deeply emotional. She’s known for breaking readers’ hearts and building them back stronger.