Awards

Literary Awards

  • San Diego Christian Writer’s Guild — Sherwood Eliot Wirt Award for “Writer of the Year” 2011
  • Gold Medallion, Christian Romance, for Smoke Before the Wind, Reader’s Favorite Book Review and Award Contest. September, 2010.
  • Gold Medallion, Christian Fiction, for “House of the Forest” (manuscript), Reader’s Favorite Book Review and Award Contest. September, 2010.
  • Silver Medallion, Christian Fiction, for “A Distant Mountain ” (manuscript), Reader’s Favorite Book Review and Award Contest. January, 2010.
  • First Place, Short Story Category for “Phipps and the Jay”, San Diego Book and Writing Awards, May 2008.
  • Finalist in Fiction; San Diego Book Awards Association’s Published Book Contest 2004
  • San Diego Christian Writer’s Guild — Best Book of the Year awarded to Journey to the Well.
  • San Diego Christian Writer’s Guild awards in fiction, songwriting and poetry, 1990, 1991
  • San Diego Christian Writer’s Guild Poet of the Year 1989

Publishing Experience

  • Book, Martha: A Novel, published June 2011, Revell
  • Book, Smoke Before the Wind, published April 2009, Pleasant Word
  • Book, Journey to the Well, published March 2009, Revell
  • Poetry book, Wings of the Wind, published 2008, Pleasant Word
  • Creation Magazine, Spring 2001
  • Trinity County Poet’s Chapbook, 1992
  • Point Loma Nazarene University’s literary contest chapbook, “Reflections” 1988, ’89
  • Articles published in Good News Etc. a local Christian newspaper
  • Articles and poetry published in various church and auxiliary newsletters and anthologies
  • First published in the Christian Science Monitor at age of twelve

Stories accepted for publication in:

  • Growing Old Ain’t for Wimps, Servant Publications
  • Mom Overboard, Harvest House Publishers
  • What I Learned about God While Cooking, Barbour Publications