For twenty-five years, Yvonne Lehman, best-selling novelist with over 3,000,000 books in print, created and supervised the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. She is now the director of the Blue Ridge Writer Retreat in the Rockies. Lehman holds a master's degree in English from Western Carolina University and has previously taught college English and creative writing. She is the author of Harlequin Heartsong, a three-book series set in Savannah, GA, and Greenbrier Books' Hearts of Carolina, an eight-book series set in North Carolina and South Carolina. Hearts that Survive - A Novel of the TITANIC (Abingdon), her fiftieth novel, is available in bookshops and at the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, TN, where she performs book signings on a regular basis.

Divine Moments (Grace Publishing), her first non-fiction book, is a collection of 50 essays written by diverse authors. ChristianRead.com and Novel Rocket Blog are two of her blogs.