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Writing contest awards
Thank you and congratulations on your good news!
First sale! My manuscript PROMISES TO KEEP will be published with Soul Mate Publishing. I’m very excited and still in shock!!
Sent a partial to 2 agents for the first time. Sent follow up e-mail to editor from Harlequin that i will send the full she requested at RWA conference by November 1…it still needs edits. She reply’d “looking forward to seeing it Nov 1″! I know this is small stuff, but sometimes the baby steps are the hardest!
My current WIP, The Patriarch, is a finalist in the Golden Gateway Contest in the Mainstream Novel with Strong Romantic Elements category.
My women’s fiction manuscript “A Year to Remember” is a finalist in both the Heart of the West and the Heart of the Rockies Contest.
I signed a contract for my second novel “Moon Over Alcatraz” with e-book publisher Musa Publishing. I read about them in our own Industry News in August!
My January 2011 release, The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship, is a finalist for “Best Single Title” in the Golden Leaf contest!
My upcoming women’s fiction novel, A Summer in Europe (Kensington 11-29-11), just sold book club rights to the Literary Guild, Rhapsody Book Club and BOMC2 — very excited!
Laura Drake’s WF novel, THE SWEET SPOT placed second in the Orange Rose Contest. Since this contest considers score only (not category,) needless to say, she’s thrilled!
I landed an agent for my debut novel, The Charmed Life of Allison Van Pelt!!
Sharon Struth’s manuscript, “The Hourglass,” is a first place finalist in the Dixie Kane Memorial Contest and a finalist in the Golden Pen Contest (place to be determined), both in the Novel with Romantic Elements category.
My manuscript, TRUST ME, is a finalist in the Chick Lit/Women’s Fiction/Main Stream category of First Coast Romance Writers Beacon Contest (winners announced on December 15th).
I was thrilled to accept an offer from Kensington Books to write two more women’s fiction novels!
My RWA PRO application was approved on 10/25/2011
My debut novel, THE GLASS WIVES, sold to Brenda Copeland at St. Martin’s Press for publication in Spring 2013 by Jason Yarn of Paradigm.
My manuscript, Trust Me, is a finalist in Chick Lit Writers of the World 7th Annual Get Your Stiletto in the Door Contest and the SpacecoasT Authors of Romance Launching a Star Contest.
My manuscript, Walking Backward off a Cliff, is a finalist in the Golden Palm Contest.
my novel SLIM TO NONE was recently the #1 Kindle bestseller for two days straight, and was in the top 100 for a couple of weeks!
NEWS: I finished NaNoWriMo!! Although I’ve started it a few times, this is the first time ever that I made it through the whole thing.
PAGING DR. HOTTIE, my chick lit comedy, will be published by Samhain in September 2012! This is my second sale to Samhain Publishing and there’s editor interest in a series…
My second book Moon Over Alcatraz will be published on January 6, 2012, by Musa Publishing in e-book form.
My manuscript Class Reunion won the Women’s Fiction category in the Get Your Stiletto in the Door Contest.
SirenBookStrand just bought my third western mainstream novel. A Woman’s Place will be released in March 2012.
Oops, forgot to say that I write as Josie Malone for SirenBookStrand so the book will be released under my pen name.
My manuscript, THE HOURGLASS, received second place in the Golden Pen Contest under Novel w/strong romantic elements (and I happily took second to Laura Drake’s first place for THE SWEET SPOT in the same category…Yay, Laura!)
Hi there!
Here are my latest updates:
Polish rights to LETTERS FROM HOME sold to Ksiaznica.
My forthcoming novel, BRIDGE OF SCARLET LEAVES, received an amazing review in Publishers Weekly: “[Bridge of Scarlet Leaves] gracefully blossoms through swift prose and rich characters…this gripping story about two ‘brothers’ in arms and a young woman caught in between them hits all the right chords.”
– Publishers Weekly
Large print rights to LETTERS FROM HOME and BRIDGE OF SCARLET LEAVES sold to Thorndike.
Also, I received a glowing review from Kirkus Reviews:
“A sweeping yet intimate novel that will please both romantics and lovers of American history.”