News of upcoming speaking engagements, contest wins, and release information.
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Southern Fried Wiccan has finaled in the young adult category of the Launching a Star contest sponsored by Spacecoast Authors of Romance! (12/07) |
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I've recently finished a new young adult novel, Southern Fried Wiccan. The feedback so far has been great! (11/07) |
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My 3-part editorial, Egyptian Myths in Harry Potter, has been published on Mugglenet.com. Check out each of the three parts (7/07):
Harry of the Two Ways
The Contendings of Harry and Voldemort
Harry's Sacred Egyptian Triangle. |
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Along with several other authors from The Plot Thickens...Harry Potter Investigated by Fans for Fans,
I will be answering questions for the month of June 2007 at Barnes and Noble's Waiting For Harry Book Club Boards. |
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I will be presenting Writing With Magic (for Muggles) and Seeking Egyptian Myths in Harry Potter at
Sectus, an Unofficial Harry Potter Conference, July 19-22, 2007 in London, England. |
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On Grandma's Porch has been released! I hope you enjoy my memories of "Grandma's Cupboards" in this great collection of
heart-warming Southern stories. (6/07) |
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I will be presenting Writing With Magic (for Muggles) with Pam Ahearn at The Fourth Annual Writers’ Jubilee Jambalaya and Book Fair April 14, 2007 in Thibodaux, Louisiana |
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Foreign Wives Club recently finaled in the mainstream category of the Marlene Contest sponsored by Washington Romance Writers! (3/07) |
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Illegally Yours recently finaled in the Great Expectations contest sponsored by North Texas RWA! (2/07) |
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One Last Memory; published as a Featured Editorial on Mugglenet.com; February 2007 |
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Writing with Magic (for Muggles); to be presented as an online workshop in March 2007 for Heart of Carolina Romance Writers. |
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Started a blog on my other
passion--healthy eating. Check out
TurkishDiet at Blogspot.com; August 2006. |
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Writing with Magic (for Muggles) presented at RWA National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, July 2006. |
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Speaker for The Witching Hour Symposium
2005 in Salem, MA, presenting "The Chamber of Thoth and the Hall of Records:
Ancient Egyptian Legends and Harry Potter." |
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Papers presented at Accio UK 2005 at
the University of Reading, UK, "From Online to Paperback: The Making
of The Plot Thickens" and "Geomancy and Alchemy in Harry Potter." |
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Finalist in the 2005 Book of Your Heart
contest, sponsored by the Published Authors Special Interest Chapter, with
The Foreign Wives Club. |
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Workshop speaker at the Romance Writer's
Association National Conference in Dallas July 2004 on "Conflicts of Myth:
How to Use Classical Conflicts in a Contemporary Novel." |
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First and second place winner in the
2004 Lories
Best Proposal Contest from a published author with
Bridging the Bosphorus
and The Artemis Key as judged by Susan Pezzack at MIRA. |
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Speaker at Duel on the Delta Regional
Writers' Conference, March 2002, in Memphis, Tennessee. |
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Winner of the 2001 Winning Beginnings Contest,
historical category, with Sinfully Delicious, as judged by Alicia
Condon at Dorchester Publishing. |
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Second Place Winner of the 2001 Merritt
Contest, historical category, with Sinfully Delicious, as judged by Micki Nuding at Avon Romance. |
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