Gwen Jones, MFA, is the author of the HarperCollins Avon FRENCH KISS series, Wanted: Wife, Kiss Me, Captain, and The Laws of Seduction. Her work has appeared in Writer’s Digest, Kelsey Review, The Connecticut River Review, and Pearl Street Press. She is now co-editor of the literary journal  Kelsey Review,  a mentor and instructor in Western Connecticut State University’s Master in Creative and Professional Writing program, a Professor of English at Mercer County College, in West Windsor, NJ, and long-standing member of the tri-state writers’ organization, Liberty State Fiction Writers. She lives with her husband, Frank, and various backyard wild critters, on a lake on the fringes of the Pine Barrens in southern New Jersey.