The gift that keeps on giving, right on time this past Xmas: My novel Sweet Glory won FIRST PLACE for Historical Fiction (set in American Civil War times) in the 2018 TopShelf Indie Book Awards!!! You can find it displayed on page 17 at this link for TopShelf Magazine’s 2018 Holiday Issue. There will be a review posted in a forthcoming […]
Sweet Glory & Train to Glory (Books 1 & 2 of Glory: A Civil War Series) On Sale!
Are You North or South of the Equator? At the beach or curling up before a fireplace? Either way, if you’re searching for fun reads, search no more! I’ve joined Smashwords 10th Annual July Summer/Winter Promotion (July 1-31, 2018) where my two historical fiction eBooks, Sweet Glory & Train to Glory, are discounted by 50%! […]
Sweet Glory & (Sequel) Train to Glory: Fresh Starts!
Long Time No Chat, Readers! “Why?” You Ask. In order to give Sweet Glory. . . . . .& its sequel Train to Glory. . . . . .fresh starts, I had to remove myself from the social-media grid for a while. “Why?” Again, You Ask. Devastatingly, my publisher went out of business at the […]
The Results of the Arizona Authors’ Association 2016 International Literary Contest Are In!

I promised to let readers know the results of the Arizona Authors’ Association’s 2016 International Literary Contest, and I can finally get off the pins and needles I’ve been sitting on since Train to Glory became a Finalist in the category for Children’s Literature now that I’ve learned. . . . . .Drum Roll, Please. . . Train […]
Literary Award Finalist

Train to Glory has been selected as a finalist by The Arizona Authors’ Association, Arizona’s finest literary competition. Winners will be presented in Phoenix on November 5, 2016, at the Association’s 35th Annual Awards Gala and Silent Auction. Works by all finalists will be published in the Arizona Literary Magazine 2017 scheduled for release in late […]
2016 Finalists Announced for the Dante Rossetti Award
Train to Glory was named as a finalist in the 2016 Dante Rossetti Awards for Young Adult Fiction. The 2016 Dante Rossetti Grand Prize Winner will be announced at the April 1st, 2017 Chanticleer Writing Contests Annual Awards Gala, which takes place on the last evening of the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in […]