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THE HUSTLER wins the Golden Heart®!

I’m so pleased and honored that my romantic suspense, THE HUSTLER, was named the 2019 Golden Heart® Award Winner for Romantic Suspense! When I first started writing THE HUSTLER around Christmas of 2015, I never could have fathomed that my story about a tech-savvy private investigator falling in love with the subject of her investigation—a…

THE HUSTLER is a Golden Heart Finalist!

It’s taken me three months to truly wrap my head around this news, but I’m so pleased to share that my romantic suspense, THE HUSTLER, is a RWA Golden Heart® Award Finalist! Finaling in the Golden Heart has always been a pie-in-the-sky writing dream of mine, and I still can’t believe…

New Year, New Outlook, New Genre (…plus contest finals, huzzah!)

Something you should know about me: I’m always up for an adventure. Whether it’s traveling to a new place, trying my hand at a new hobby, or hopping in the car and seeing where the road takes me, I figure life’s too short to stay in your comfort zone. So earlier this year, when…

THE HUSTLER is a Daphne Finalist!

I almost didn’t answer my phone this morning when a call came in from an unfamiliar New Jersey number. Almost. Curiosity got the better of me though, and thank goodness it did. The call was from Marnee Blake, a contest coordinator from the RWA Kiss of Death chapter, letting me know that THE HUSTLER is a finalist in…

Signing with an Agent: My Story

This is it—the news I’ve been dreaming about announcing since I first started querying The Hustler… I have an agent! And not just any agent, but the utterly fabulous Patricia Nelson of Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. If you read my blog, you’ll know this is me right now… Three weeks ago I was deep in…

Want to Enter a RWA Chapter Contest? Here’s Everything You Need to Know.

If you’re a member of Romance Writers of America (RWA), you’ve probably seen notices for the myriad RWA chapter contests that are offered throughout the year. Perhaps you’ve even thought about entering a few. But where to begin? What’s the point of a contest? Which one(s) should you enter? For those…

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