"Christmas in Charlevoix" Finals in the Carolyn Readers' Choice Awards!
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Christmas in Charlevoix finaled in the Women's Fiction category. The holiday book was the introduction to the Quinn family. Three sisters with secrets. An adorable meddling aunt. A Christmas family reunion like no other! Loved writing about this family and their retreat to the family summer home to reconnect, find out what’s new (a lot) and get their lives back together! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHQ2ZT5R/
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"Her Christmas Wish" Takes First Place!
How exciting to be notified that "Her Christmas Wish" has won first place as an Inspirational Short in the National Excellence in Story Telling contest of 2024. Many thanks to all readers for recognizing this heart warming story of Josie and Malcolm, their family and friends in the fictional town of Sweetwater Creek.
Note: "Her Christmas Wish" was also recognized in the Book Buyers Best contest of 2024.
Note: "Her Christmas Wish" was also recognized in the Book Buyers Best contest of 2024.
Christmas Cruise Takes Honor!
The Christmas Cruise is a fanciful tale of a cruise down the Danube during holiday season. A conniving aunt takes her jilted niece on this adventure. She has a certain prince in mind. The book was honored by a Holt Medallion in 2022 by the Virginia Romance Writers.
Christmas Dreams and Santa Schemes" wins first prize!
Christmas Dreams and Santa Schemes won first place for National Excellence in Romantic Fiction Awards. Many thanks to the First Coast Romance Writers for recognizing this story of a widowed mother of two young boys who set out to find the right man for their mom. The story is set in the Michigan town of Gull Harbor, the setting for Barbara's Man from Yesterday series.
Earlier Awards
Her Favorite Mistake, contemporary romance, won first place in the 2013 Cleveland Rocks competition. The national writing contest is sponsored by Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America.
May, 2012 - Touch of Magic, the yearly competition sponsored by the Central Florida Writers, a chapter of Romance Writers of America, has announced that His Prized Possession has finaled in their yearly Touch of Magic competition.
November, 2012 - In November MRA, the Maryland Romance Writers of America chapter, announced the finalists in the Release Your Inner Vixen contest. Dating Dr. By-the-Book (Note: published in 2014 as "Her Favorite Hot Doc") was named a finalist in the Contemporary Series category.
May, 2012 - Touch of Magic, the yearly competition sponsored by the Central Florida Writers, a chapter of Romance Writers of America, has announced that His Prized Possession has finaled in their yearly Touch of Magic competition.
November, 2012 - In November MRA, the Maryland Romance Writers of America chapter, announced the finalists in the Release Your Inner Vixen contest. Dating Dr. By-the-Book (Note: published in 2014 as "Her Favorite Hot Doc") was named a finalist in the Contemporary Series category.