Organizers
Julie Collier, Michelle Fewer, Rhon House, and Susy Araujo designed Charm City Romanticon based on their dream event and created it with input from authors and other readers. Cultivating deep ties and strong loyalty to indie romance authors, Michelle, Julie, and Rhon endeavor to facilitate an event that brings authors and readers together to celebrate their shared love of all things Romancelandia.
Julie was a non-reader until the night she watched Fifty Shades of Grey, because why read a book when you can watch a movie in 2 hours, right? She found herself frustrated at the end of the movie and, after a whole lot of encouragement, downloaded book one of the series, and as they say, the rest is history.
She now works as a personal assistant to authors, is a TBR enabler, podcaster and hype girl. When you don’t see a book in her hand, she’s probably driving a big yellow school bus.
She is a wife, mom of three kids and two dogs.
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An editor and author mentor, blogger, podcaster, hypegirl, and event organizer, Michelle Fewer (known on social media as the Brayzen Bookwyrm) focuses on building connections within the indie romance industry.
A reformed book snob, her goal is to help others recognize the inherent qualities in romance novels and the community built to support their readers and authors.
In her capacity as an editor and mentor, aka the professional word fluffer, Michelle works with everyone from brand-new debut authors to well established Indie Romance authors, helping them elevate their voice and find their joy in writing.
When she’s not immersed in her work in Romancelandia, Michelle—a 4th degree Black Belt—can be found teaching and training at Karate 4 Girls in Columbia, Maryland. She’s a wife, mom to two teenage spawns, and dedicated doggo guardian to Maggie (aka Her Maggesty—the bestest girl).
Rhon’s a voracious reader, writer, reviewer, blogger, mystic, sometimes poet, and all-around hype girl who believes anything is possible with a little help from her friends.
She writes under the pen name, Caera Everly and also works as an author assistant to a contemporary romance novelist. She enjoys co-creating all manner of bookish shenanigans, from reader groups to podcasts, to bookish conventions, with her stalker sister cohorts. And is currently co-authoring a romantic fantasy adventure series with her longtime friend and partner, which is scheduled to publish soon.
In her other lives, she’s had careers in mental health, law enforcement, and wellness and brings the life lessons of all of those incarnations to her daily activities.
Page has loved books most of her life, even though as a kid dyslexia made reading for fun feel like wrestling a greased octopus. She’s all about that HEA, but give her some angst and a fiercely protective love interest first. She reads and listens, and swears an amazing narrator can make a story unforgettable. A proud beta and ARC reader, she’s always happy and willing to dive into stories early and cheer authors on from behind the scenes.
When she’s not wrangling CCR organizers, she’s hanging with her 6’9” retired correctional officer husband (her very own real-life protector romance hero, though she still checks the closet for imaginary villains), her 14-year-old pit bull Matilda, and her two bonus sons. A Scrum Master by trade, in her perfect world, she’d read or listen to romance and romantasy all day, pause for freshly baked bread, take wind therapy rides on the back of her husband’s Harley, and immerse herself in the occasional comfort-show binge.
Come say hi if you see her, she’ll happily talk books, swap protector romance recs, gush about narrators, or convince you that your TBR can handle one… okay, fine, two… okay who are we kidding, six more.