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* Award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction, short stories and essays
* Founder of "Celebrate Short Fiction" Day and “Midlife Moxie” Day
* Host of Living the Writing Life podcast: where writers talk about their creative process
* Popular workshop leader on various writing-related topics
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I'm a writer by trade and inclination, the award-winning author of two Midlife Moxie novels, Reinventing Rita and Finding Fran (both by BookBaby), four short story collections: The Language of Love and Other Stories, Mistletoe Magic and Other Holiday Tales, Traveling Left of Center and Other Stories, and Peripheral Visions and Other Stories (all by Unsolicited Press), and three non-fiction books: The Gifts of Change (Atria/Beyond Words) and Rut-Busting Book for Writers and Rut-Busting Book for Authors (both by BookBaby). Moving Maggie, my third Midlife Moxie novel, is coming in 2025.
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While I enjoy writing in the non-fiction category, my greatest passion is, and always has been, for fiction. I have been making up stories since I was a child, engaging in "what if" and "let's pretend" activities that took me far beyond my northeastern Ohio home. And I'm still doing it, only now in written form.
Over the years, my short stories have been accepted by publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Toasted Cheese, Streetlight, Talking River, Bethlehem Writers Roundtable, St. Anthony Messenger, Wild Violet, EWR: Short Stories, Hypertext, Full of Crow, Fiction365, Red Fez, and The Chaffin Journal. Several of my stories have also earned placement in national competitions.
Why fiction? Because I love the world of make-believe. I love learning about my characters, following them as they live their lives, rejoicing with them when things go well and commiserating with them when life becomes painful and events are almost unendurable. It is less a question of writing fiction as recounting what they choose to tell me. I am their conduit, their confidante; I wait for their stories and then do my best to put them in written form so others can understand what they have done, what they have experienced and why they are the way they are.
Crazy? Maybe. But you have to be a little crazy to spend your days and nights with people only you can see and hear.
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AWARDS AND CONTEST PLACEMENTS
REINVENTING RITA—2023 International Firebird Book Award Winner; Bronze award winner in the 2023 Royal Palm Literary Awards (RPLA) competition, Finalist (women’s fiction) in the 2023 N. N. Light Book Awards, Semi-finalist in the 2023 Kindle Book Awards
RUT-BUSTING BOOK FOR AUTHORS—Finalist in the 2019 American Book Fest competition; Finalist in the Independent Author Network 2020 Book of the Year, 2019 Readers’ Favorite 5-Star award-winner
RUT-BUSTING BOOK FOR WRITERS—A 2018 Notable Indie by Shelf Unbound; Finalist in the 2018 American Book Fest competition
PERIPHERAL VISIONS AND OTHER STORIES—Bronze award winner in the 2020 Foreword INDIES competition; Finalist in The Eric Hoffer Award 2021 competition; Finalist in the 2020 N. N. Light Book Awards – Short Story category; Second-place winner in the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards (RPLA) competition.
TRAVELING LEFT OF CENTER AND OTHER STORIES— Runner-Up in the 2016 Best Indie Book by Shelf Unbound
“Lucinda and the Christmas List” – Quarter-finalist in the 2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition
“Pandora’s Box”—Finalist in the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards (RPLA) competition; Quarter-finalist in the 2017 ScreenCraft Short Story Contest
“I Remember”—Shortlisted for 2017 Stories That Need to Be Told Contest
“Peripheral Visions”—Quarter-finalist in the 2016 ScreenCraft Short Story Contest
“Right Wrist or Left”—Shortlisted for Pulp Literature’s 2016 The Raven Short Story Contest
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