Bethany Maines is an award-winning writer and native of Tacoma WA, who writes romantic tales of action-adventure that focus on women who know when to apply lipstick and when to apply a foot to someone’s hind end. Bethany is actually very much like her fictional heroines: she travels to exotic lands and has the ability to kick some serious butt with her fifth-degree black belt in karate. And while her travels may not necessarily include fighting mercenaries or super agents of evil so much as eating spicy foods and hiking to the tops of mountains (okay, really big hills), her black belt skills are mainly employed in teaching karate to…