News

I've included most of this information in my newsletters, but here's a chronology of the most important events, starting with the most recent.

April 2013 The large print edition of Waiting for Spring is available from Thorndike Press.
March 2013 Christmas Roses is on the CBA fiction bestseller list.
December 2012 Summer of Promise is tied for the best selling book at the Fort Laramie bookstore.
November 2012 The entire print run of Christmas Roses has sold out. The e-book version is still available.
November 2012 A German publisher bought the rights to a German language edition of Summer of Promise.
September 2012 The large print edition of Summer of Promise is available from Thorndike Press.
June 2012 The Kindle versions of the Texas Dreams trilogy continue to be among Amazon's bestselling Christian romances.
January 2012 Costumed staff from Fort Laramie helped make the Summer of Promise launch party a success.
September 2011 Summer of Promise is featured in an interview from Christianbook.com.
September 2011 The large print edition of Tomorrow's Garden is available from Thorndike Press.
May 2011 Scattered Petals is a finalist for the Booksellers Best Award.
March/April 2011 Tomorrow's Garden was on Amazon's Top 50 list for Christian Fiction for more than a month.
December 2010 The large print edition of Scattered Petals is available from Thorndike Press. As was true of Paper Roses, they kept the original cover design.
November 2010 Thorndike Press, one of the country's premier publishers of large print editions, has released Paper Roses in large print.
August 2010 Paper Roses is a finalist for the Carol Award. This is the highest honor given by American Christian Fiction Writers.
May 2010 I have a Facebook page. My "Wednesday in Wyoming" posts are designed to provide friends with a bit of information about the state that'll be the setting for at least three books.
May 2010 Paper Roses is a finalist for the Booksellers Best Award. This contest, which is sponsored by the Greater Detroit chapter of Romance Writers of America, is special because its judges are booksellers and librarians.
March 2010 Scattered Petals went on a blog tour. More than forty bloggers read and reviewed the book, their posts generating some interesting conversations among followers.
March 2010 I was featured on "Off the Page," a Denver-area cable network show. My interview begins around minute 12.
March 2010 The Cheyenne Barnes & Noble hosted a launch party (complete with homemade gingerbread in honor of the hero's favorite dessert) for Scattered Petals.
March 2010 Scattered Petals is available in bookstores and at all major online retailers.
December 2009 Paper Roses has gone into a third printing.
October 2009 Have car, will travel. October was a whirlwind of research and booksignings.
March 2009 The Crossings and Rhapsody Book Clubs have chosen Paper Roses as one of their selections. They will produce special hardcover regular and large print editions.
March 2009 Paper Roses has gone into a second printing. (You can tell the difference, because the cover isn't embossed.)
January 2009 The Laramie County Library hosted a launch party for Paper Roses.
December 2008 Paper Roses is available in bookstores. Although the official pub date is January 1, 2009, Christmas shoppers are already finding it in their favorite online and brick-and-mortar stores.