Fiction Projects:
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Prairie Fire, a completed 100,000 word time-travel romance
• Witch's Fire, continuing the universe created in Prairie Fire, currently in draft stages
• The Viking's Tale, an erotic short story, currently in draft stages
Contest Placements for Prairie Fire:
• Finalist,
2005 First Kiss Contest (a best first-kiss scene contest)
• Second Place, Historical Category,
2004 Stepping Stone Contest (a Golden Heart-style contest)
• First Place,
2003 Picture This Contest (a best-scene contest)
• Third Place, 2001 Heart of the West Contest (a first-chapter contest)
• Third Place, 2001 Southern Heat Contest (a first-chapter contest)
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Read judges' comments from some of these contests~
Member of Romance Writers of America
• Achieved RWA Pro status in 2003
• Attended national and regional conferences
• Member of Windy City Romance Writers
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Previous member of Hearts Through History Romance Writers, The Beau
Monde, San Francisco Area Romance Writers, Silicon Valley Romance
Writers, and the Futuristic, Fantasy and Paranormal Special Interest
Chapter of RWA
• Former editor of the Windy City newsletter, Blowing Kisses (winner of RWA’s Chapter Newsletter Contest in 1999 and 2000)
• Paranormal category coordinator for the Windy City Four Seasons Awards, 2005 and 2006
Degree in journalism from Drake University, Des Moines
Worked 8 years at a Chicago-area newspaper
• 3 years as a reporter producing 4-6 stories a week for publication
• 3 years as a copy editor/copy desk chief
• 2 years as a features editor generating ideas and editing stories
Worked 7 years as a technical writer at a Chicago-area software firm
• Wrote two user's manuals
• Wrote a 75-page training manual
• Wrote many test plans and design-specification documents
1/15/2010
