This writer’s dream-come-true took years and persistence. Here are some of my milestones along the way:

• Master’s in professional writing from Towson University.
• Church newsletter writer/editor.
• Teacher of English and creative writing; curriculum writer and department chair.
• Scholastic Press Association’s Publication Contest – Silver Award 2006 as faculty editor of high school student literary magazine.
• Second Place in Harlequin’s “Be the Next Red Dress Ink Author” competition with a novel submission in 2001.
• Published poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction in Chicken Soup for the Soul, World Enough Writers Anthology, Page & Spine, Wild Women’s Medicine Circle Journal, Decasp, and Teaching Tolerance Magazine.
• Blogger
• Finalist in Serious Writer’s Writer of the Year, 2019 Contest, Inspirational Romantic Suspense.
• Writer of numerous full-length, completed manuscripts—the writer’s apprenticeship.