Linda Avellar …

It’s been all over the loop, so I don’t know if it’s really news any more …

but I placed first in the the mainstream category of the Golden Palm contest for my novel Walking Backward off a Cliff.

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Kristina McMorris …

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

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Shannon Kennedy …  Siren Book Strand just bought my third western mainstream novel. A Woman’s Place, written under my pen name, Josie Malone, will be released in March 2012.

Sandra Tilley … My manuscript Class Reunion won the Women’s Fiction category in the get Your Stiletto in the Door Contest.

Sharon Struth … My Manuscript, The Hourglass, received second place in the Golden Pen Contest under Novel with strong romantc elements, and  I happily took second to Laura Drake’s first place for The Sweet Spot in the same category. Yay, Laura!

Patti Yager-Delagrange’s second book, MOON OVER ALCATRAZ, will be
published in e-book form on January 6, 2012, by Musa Publishing.

Sophia Knightly’s humorous women’s fiction novel, PAGING DR. HOTTIE, will be
published by Samhain in September 2012. It is her second sale to Samhain Publishing
and there’s editor interest in a series!

The Golden Pen Contest winners have been announced, and our chapter was well represented in the WF category:

Sharon Struth’s , THE HOURGLASS, placed second, and Laura Drake’s, THE SWEET SPOT, placed first.

NEWS: Connie Cox finished NaNoWriMo!! Although she’s started
it a few times, this is the first time she’s ever made it through the whole thing.

Congrats to all our NaNoWriMo’ers!

Linda Avellar’s manuscript, WALKING BACKWARD OFF A CLIFF, is a
finalist in the Golden Palm Contest.

Jenny Gardner’s 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!

Amy Sue Nathan’s debut novel, THE GLASS WIVES, sold to Brenda Copeland at St. Martin’s Press for publication in Spring 2013 by Jason Yarn of Paradigm.

Kimberly Swaak’s 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.

Kimberly Swaak’s 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.)

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 withRomantic Elements category.

Laura Drake’s novel, THE SWEET SPOT, is a finalist in the Golden Pen Contest, and placed second out of 200 entries in the Orange Rose Contest!

Kristina McMorris was thrilled to accept an offer from Kensington
Books to write two more women’s fiction novels!