Cara Bristol

Cara Bristol is a USA Today bestselling science fiction romance novelist who writes tough alien and cyborg heroes who fall hard for sassy heroines. Her work spans multiple long-running series, including the Cy-Ops Sci-Fi Romance series about cyborg operatives, the Breeder series, Cosmic Mates, the Cyborg Force series, Aldebaran Alien Mates, and her Castaways series in which alien survivors of a destroyed planet find refuge and love in a small town on Earth.

For other writers, her best-known reference is Naughty Words for Nice Writers: A Romance Novel Thesaurus, now in an expanded third edition. It contains thousands of usable synonyms across more than fifty word lists for romance novel love scenes, with practical guidance on writing intimate scenes that work on the page. It is widely used by romance novelists looking for variety in description without slipping into cliche.

She also wrote Plot Twist: I'm Dead, an end-of-life planner specifically designed for authors. The guide helps writers organize the publishing-specific knowledge their families will need, including royalty accounts, rights, intellectual property, and ongoing series obligations, so that a creative career can outlive its creator without leaving the people who carry the legacy forward overwhelmed.

Bristol writes from her home office, which she shares with the squirrels visible from her window. She and her husband travel widely and have a long-running goal of visiting all seven continents.