News:
I sold five books to Steeple Hill--three Love
Inspired and two Love Inspired Suspense books.
In
November
http://www.eharlequin.com
will be featuring an eight-part story of mine
called Shattered Trust. It is about David
Russell’s police partner.
Forsaken Canyon is
a finalist in the short romantic suspense category
in the ACFW Book of the Year contest.
Forsaken Canyon
was a finalist in the Gayle Wilson Award of
Excellence in the romantic suspense category.
Forsaken was a
finalist in the Holt Medallion in the short
inspirational category.
Family Ever After
won the short inspirational category in the Holt
Medallion Contest.
I recently sold
four more books to Steeple Hill. One will be a new
series for Love Inspired Suspense and the other
three will be a series about home schooling for
the Love Inspired line. Love Lessons is the first
in the Love Inspired line about home schooling. It
will be out April 2010.
Also, I will
have a novella up at eHarlequin in November 2009
tied into the Fostered by Love Series.
I am servicing as
volunteer coordinator and board member of American
Christian Fiction Writer (a great online
organization).
I recently sold two more Love Inspired Suspense
books. One is the third book in the LIS 2010
continuity coming out in March of 2010. It is
called Cowboy Protector in the Witness Protection
Series. The second one is a Christmas novella for
December 2009. The other author in the anthology
is Debby Giusti.
Heart of the Family came in second place in the
Book of the Year Contest for American Christian
Fiction Writers in the short contemporary romance
category.
Buried Secrets won
the Inspirational Romance Readers’ Contest in the
short contemporary suspense category.
Heart of the Family is a finalist in the Book
of the Year Contest for ACFW in the Short Contemporary category.
Vanished is a finalist in the Book of the Year
Contest for ACFW in the Short Contemporary Suspense category.
Vanished is a finalist in the Daphne du Mauier
Contest.
Buried Secrets is a finalist in the
Inspirational Reader's Choice Contest.
Buried Secrets and Vanished are finalists in
the Golden Quill Contest. Buried Secrets won this contest in the
inspirational category.
Buried Secrets won the Winter Rose Contest in
the inspirational category.
So Dark the Night and Once Upon a Family are
finalists in the Beacon Contest.
Buried Secrets is a finalist in the Daphne
Contest for romantic suspense.
Once Upon a Family is a finalist in the 2008
Award of Excellence.
Steeple Hill has asked me to write a novella
called WHEN NIGHT FALLS about the first time Sam Pierce and Jocelyn Gold
met. They are my hero and heroine in WHAT SARAH SAW, the first book in the
Love Inspired Suspense continuity series for 2009. WHAT SARAH SAW comes
out in January. WHEN NIGHT FALLS will be available for promotions through
Steeple Hill.
I will be a speaker at the Ozark Conference in
June (6/13-15) in Springfield.
I will be a speaker at the ACFW Conference in
September in Minnapolis (9/18-21).
Heart of the Amazon is a finalist in the
inspirational category for the National Reader's Choice Award.
HEARTS ON THE LINE won
the American Christian Fiction Writers' Book of the Year for Short
Romantic Suspense.
HEART OF THE FAMILY is nominated for RT Reviewer Choice Award for
Best Love Inspired for 2007
HEARTS ON THE LINE, Love Inspired Suspense, won ACFW (American Christian Fiction
Writers) Book of the Year Contest in the short suspense category at its
national conference.
HEARTS ON THE LINE is a finalist in the Book of the Year Contest for ACFW in the
short suspense category.
WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE won the short contemporary category for
Inspirational Reader's Choice Contest.
I
have sold another book for a Love Inspired continuity series in 2008
called HOMECOMING HEROES. My book will be the fifth one in November 2008.
TIDINGS OF JOY was a finalist in the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence in
the Inspirational category.
WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE is a finalist for the Inspirational Readers Choice
Contest in the short contemporary category.
WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE
won the eHarlequin Reader's Choice Award for Best Inspiration for 2006
A
MOTHER FOR CINDY placed first in the Barclay Gold in the inspirational category.
I
recently signed another contract with Steeple Hill for three books--two
Love Inspired and one Love Inspired Suspense. I also have been invited to
participate in another Suspense continuity. My book will be the third one
in the Reunion Revelations Continuity that will come out the first part of
2008.
Now Available:
TIDINGS OF JOY
A
MOTHER FOR CINDY
is a finalist in the Texas Gold Contest in the inspirational category.
LIGHT IN THE STORM is a finalist in the Holt Medallion Contest in the
short inspirational category.
A
MOTHER FOR CINDY
and
LIGHT IN THE STORM are finalists in the Write Touch Readers' Award Contest
in the inspirational category.

LIGHT IN THE STORM
is a finalist in the inspirational category for the Golden Quill.
THE CINDERELLA
PLAN was the Reader's Choice for Best Inspirational 2005 at
eHarlequin.
A
MOTHER FOR CINDY is a finalist in the inspirational romance category for
the Gayle Wilson's Award of Excellence for 2005.
GOLD IN THE FIRE
placed second in the short contemporary category of the American Christian
Fiction Writers' Book of the Year Contest.
I have signed
another three book contract with Steeple Hill for two Love Inspired books
and one Love Inspired Suspense. The first book is Tanya's story which will
end my Ladies of Sweetwater Series. TIDINGS OF JOY comes out October 2006.
A FAMILY FOR TORY is
a
finalist in the Texas Gold contest in inspirational romance, March 2004, Love
Inspired.
I will be
speaking at RWA national conference at the end of July in Reno on Falling
in Love Without Falling into Bed.
GOLD IN THE FIRE
was Cataromance Best Love Inspired for 2004. Put this link to the review.
A FAMILY FOR TORY
and Gold in the Fire are finalists in the Golden Quill contest in the
inspirational category.
WHAT THE HEART KNOWS is
a
finalist in the short inspirational category of the Holt Medallion,
January 2004, Love Inspired.
GOLD IN THE FIRE is
a finalist in the More Than Magic contest in inspirational romance,
October 2004, Love Inspired.
A FAMILY FOR TORY is
a
finalist in the Laurie in inspirational romance, March 2004, Love
Inspired.

Coming Soon:
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COWBOY
PROTECTOR, Love Inspired, March 2010
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LOVE LESSONS, Love Inspired, April 2010

Contest Winners:
2010 Winners:
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July: Debra from Alabama
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June: Juanita from Oregon
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May: Barbara from Missouri
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April: Sally from North Carolina
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February: Cindy from Indiana
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March: Jackie from Oregon
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February: Cindy from Indiana
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January: Pamela from South Carolina
2009 Winners:
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December: Emma from Arizona
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November: Wanda from Canada
- October:
Pam from Oklahoma
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September: Roberta from Kentucky
- August:
Kimmy from Missouri
- July:
Jamie from Iowa
- June:
Sheila from Arkansas
- May:
Deborah from Georgia
- April:
Valri from Arizona
- March:
Jamie from Oklahoma
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February: Lora from California
- January:
Val from Arizona
2008 Winners:
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December: Kelly from New York
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November: Tanya from Texas
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October: Joan from Florida
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September:
Sena from Tennessee
- August:
Jackie from California
- July:
Jane from Missouri
- June: Cheryl from Georgia
- May: Sheila from Arkansas
- April: Harriet from South Carolina
- March: Gloria from North Carolina
- February: Lois from Pennsylvania
- January: Cheryl from Colorado

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No one comes to the Father
except through Me. John 14:6

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