What:
Hello! I am an author who writes primarily contemporary romance and contemporary women’s fiction… and even some romcom. A couple of my stories just might have a little paranormal aspects in them. Granted, I do have a couple others like a biography, a couple cookbooks and even a paranormal romance with an amazing, shared world series.
My main focus is contemporary romance and contemporary women’s fiction and romcom though, and I have some releases planned. That includes the rerelease of my romcom series, The Celebrity Crush Series!
Why:
As a child, I knew I wanted to write. Whether it was stories, poems, columns, reviews. I wanted to do it all. But once I finished that first novel, I knew I was in love with the craft. And I’ve stuck with it ever since. In total, with all of my pen names, I have had over 40 works published.
How:
The how is a layered response, now isn’t it?
A scene, a character, a plotline. It doesn’t matter what it is or what inspires it, something pops into my mind, and as long as I can jot it down, it’ll start to bloom from there. I get so many ideas for stories that I have file folders full. I once counted them a few weeks ago, and I have well over 250 started stories and story concepts in their own documents, waiting to be told. Since I carry a tablet with a hinged keyboard case with me everywhere and a backup battery, I can write on the go. At home, I have a 3 monitor PC and a couple laptops, so research and note keeping is made easy.
Some people ask how I can stay regimined and disciplined enough to write so much and so often. I honestly don’t try to. I have to. There is no if I can. It’s a part of me. A part of who I am. And a part of what I do.
Bio:
Colleen Nye is a Detroit based author who has gone from poetry to content writing, movie reviewing, press releases, short stories and everything in between. And now, a cookbook!
Loving the art of the full-length novel, she published her first in 2012, a romcom called When in Maui, book one in The Celebrity Crush Series. Since then, she’s released several books in a variety of genres, including The Long Summer, Letters to Cora, Hidden Truths, books 2, 3 and 4 of The Celebrity Crush Series, as well as written the biography of Alonzo “Chacho” Gomez in his book From Pen to Page. She has also been featured in a number of anthologies.
Colleen has won several awards for her works, including one for Immersion (now under her pen name R.J. Lloyd) for “Most Intense Scene” at the ChapterCon awards in London, England, 2017. When In Maui was listed as a B&N bestselling book on Mother’s Day weekend in 2014. Both Immersion and letters To Cora reached #1 bestselling status on Amazon in 2020.
You can also find other works under her pen names R.J. Lloyd and Nora Carter.
Links:
You can find all my links here:
https://linktr.ee/authorcolleennye
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One group chat. Four soup-loving women. And a dating bet no one expected to work.
When Lydia, a Texan with a serious chili obsession, replies to a stranger’s post about hot and sour soup, she doesn’t expect it to spark a global friendship. But soon she’s trading recipes – and secrets – with Clara, a fiery journalist in Brazil, Mei Ling, a razor-sharp artist in Shanghai, and Sofia, a brooding Roman sous chef who believes soup should be poetic (and men should be better).
What begins as a cozy online chat quickly simmers into something much more hilarious: a pact to date just for the soup. Literally. Each woman must go on dates solely for the purpose of trying new soups, and if romance just happens to show up? Even better. From absurd dates with soup snobs and startup bros to spicy ramen flings and soup-lecturing sommeliers, these women navigate love, laughter and ladles of emotional growth, all while proving that the best things in life are served hot… and preferably with crusty bread on the side.
Sassy, sweet, and stirred with just the right amount of heat, The Soup Sisters is a delicious romantic comedy about friendship, food and finding love when you least expect it – often somewhere between the first spoonful and the second helping.
The Soup Sisters Companion Cookbook comes out this 2025 Holiday Season!
Thank you for visiting. Author Linda K. Sienkiewicz is a wrangler of words and big messy feelings in fiction and poetry. Her second novel, Love and Other Incurable Ailments, is coming October 27, 2026, from Regal House Publishing: When love letters from a despondent stranger land in her lap, an anxious overthinker becomes convinced she’s the cure, and sets off to save him, and herself, blissfully armed with nothing but magical thinking.
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