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In 2021, I attended an event highlighting the need for faith-based movies 
and got to meet Dean Cain.  It was super to meet Superman.
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2020, the year of critiquing online.
I don't like it.  I miss my face-to-face time with fellow writers.
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I have a few must buy authors.  Here is one:  Susanna Kearsley.  She was a speaker at the Tucson Festival of Books.  Yup, I purchased a book.  Yup, I forced her to take a picture with me.  Call me Fangirl.

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Critique Group Christmas part 2015

Left: Me!  Then Cathy McDavid (Harlequin author)  Connie Flynn (Harlequin)  Libby Banks (Aspiring) Marina Myles (Kensington)

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Would you believe it if I told my son reads Heartwarming novels?
Nah... You're right.
He's posed.
In 2014, he was all of 9-years-old
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This is Linda Style, Victoria Curran, and me.  

Victoria was my editor for the Harlequin Heartwarming line.  

She came to Arizona, and Linda and I took her to Sedona. 


Here she is in her natural habitat: Harlequin


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Me and author Kim Watters at the 2012 Glendale Chocolate Affair, signing our books and meeting a psuedo-Jack Sparrow



A whole lotta authors:  Just a few: Allie Plieter, Merrillee Whren...















The Glory days of RWA when sisterhood ruled.  

This is me and my BFF Cathy McDavid.


 



My dog Lucy likes my books!


This is my agent Steve Laube.  He's helping me hold my Book of the Year plaque for Broken Lullaby.  What he really should be holding is his Agent of the Year plaque.  We both had a good time at the 2009 American Christian Fiction Writers conference in Denver.


Tina James became my editor at Harlequin in 2009.  Here we are at the American Christian Fiction Conference in Denver, September of 2009.  The day after this photo was taken, my book Broken Lullaby took first place in the short romantic suspense category of the Book of the Year contest.


Our Christian Writers of the West group is growing in leaps and bounds.  Here you see fourteen of us at the July 2009 meeting.  I'm in the back row wearing a purple shirt.  Back row: Terry, Pam O, Michelle G., Avily, Me, Kathleen, Lauren, Michelle S, and Jen.  Front Row: visitor, Sheri, Janet, our speaker Donna Goodrich, and Brenda.




 

Krista Stroever purchased my first book for Steeple Hill's Love Inspired Suspense line.  She will forever by on my Christmas card list.  Look, I have a three year old and baby weight.  She has an eight month old and NO baby weight!


 



What does a writer really look like.  Ack!  This is me during a recent camping trip.  Yup, I had a deadline 

But... I still found time to read





My book Pursuit of Justice was up for the 2008 RITA.  The other nominees became friends of mine.  Here we pose, all of us wishfully thinking, "I hope I win!"  Karen Harter, Linda Goodnight, Irene Hannon, me, and Susan Warren.  Linda won.




 

This is at RWA National in San Francisco.  These are my fellow bloggers at the Craftie Ladies of Suspense.  What a treat to get to meet them:  Roxanne Rustand, me, Debby Giusti, Lisa Mondello, Margaret Daley, and Terri Reed.


These are the flowers I received from Harlequin honoring my 2008 RITA nomination for Pursuit of Justice, a Love Inspired Suspense: editor Krista Stroever.


 



  

I participated on a panel entitled "Some Like it Hot."  The gentleman is Kenneth Brown.  He used to be an FBI agent and is now a CPA.  He is self-pubbed and goes for what I'd call a niche market.  Then, there's me in the middle.  On my other side is Denise Agnew.  She has published with a number of small presses and is definitely representing the hot, while I represented the cold LOL.  Kenneth, I'm not sure.  I purchased a book and will read it soon.  


In September of 2005, I won the Desert Rose Award in appreciation for outstanding contributions towards furthering the growth of the Romance Writers of America's Phoenix Chapter.


Yes, this picture belongs here.  It's a 2002 Romance Writer's Wedding.  See, I'm the bride and I write for Love Inspired.  Next to me is my Maid of Honor,  Harlequin American author Cathy McDavid.  Next to her is Regency author Alison Hentges.  Then is Harlequin Special Edition author Stacy Cornell.  Then, there's my sister who could be the next Erma Bombeck if she ever gets her football article published.  Next to her is my now sister-in-law Patti Osback who is trying to sell an action/adventure.  Then, there's Cathy's daughter Caitlin.  On the other side, mostly plumbers.

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