Official Bio

Tara L. Roí grew up in the wilds of New England, where spring peepers lulled her to sleep at night and roosters crowed her awake each morning. She holds a BA from Yale and an MFA from Seton Hill University. She’s also an RYT-200 certified yoga teacher. After trying her luck in Hollywood, then teaching high school, she honed her storytelling skills as a journalist covering a variety of environmental topics. 

When quasi-fictional characters started speaking to her and wouldn’t go away, she had no choice but to write her first novel, which she published in 2018 (under her real name). She followed that in 2019 with a nonfiction book about climate change.

With her appetite whet for love stories and her passion for environmental justice inflamed, the author married her interests and committed to penning romance novels with environmental themes exclusively. Thus, Tara L. Roí was born, and so was a subgenre: environmental romance (aka cli-fi romance). Few things make Tara happier than writing steamy romance in a heating world. Though, honestly, she’d be ecstatic about writing steamy romance in a cooling, healing world free of pollution (and having it be realistic). She might do that anyway, so we can all imagine a hopeful future for life on Earth after the climate crisis ends. 

A Word from Tara About the Heating World

I want to leave my daughter a healthy planet, so I’m passionate about environmental stewardship. That’s why I’m careful about the resources I use. In my business, that includes my electricity consumption, paper sourcing, writing implements, and how I make my books available to you.

I switched my electric service provider to one that generates 100% of its electricity from local, renewable sources, including small hydro-power plants, geothermal, solar, and wind. I avoid printing documents or manuscripts unless it’s absolutely necessary, but when I do print something, I use 100% recycled paper or paper made from renewable bamboo. As a writer, I go through a lot of pens, so I make sure to buy pens that are manufactured either from metal, wood, recycled paper, or from recycled plastic. Offering my books in ebook and audiobook formats saves paper. Paperbacks and hardcover books are print-on-demand, so there are never overruns that have to go back to a warehouse to be destroyed or recycled.

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