[Hoshi Astarte]

My favorite authors are

Sherilyn Kenyon
Kresley Cole
Yasmin Galenorn
David Weber (I am somewhat addicted to his Honor Harrington series)
Jean Johnson
Jacqueline Carey
Mercedes Lackey
L.E. Modesitt (The Imager Series)

I know there are a few more but those are the one's I remember at the moment.