Lynn Ames is the best-selling author of The Price of Fame (which was short-listed for the first annual Golden Crown Literary Society award in the category of lesbian romance), The Cost of Commitment, The Value of Valor (winner of the 2007 Arizona Book Award for Best Gay/Lesbian Book), The Flip Side of Desire (which was a finalist for the GCLS 2007 Ann Bannon Best Popular Lesbian Fiction Award), and Heartsong (short-listed for the 2008 GCLS award for best lesbian romance).

Ms. Ames is a former press secretary to the New York state senate minority leader and spokesperson for the nation's third-largest prison system. For more than half a decade, she was also an award-winning broadcast journalist. She has been editor of a critically acclaimed national magazine, author of a coffee table art book, and a ghost writer of celebrity memoirs. These days she is a nationally recognized speaker and public relations professional with a particular expertise in image, crisis communications planning, and crisis management.