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2009 – The Case of the Bouncing Grandma – Finalist in the Mystery Category  – ACFW The Book of the Year Award (Carol)

2010 – The Case of the Mystified M.D. – ACFW Carol Award Winner in Mystery

2011 – Mirrored Image – Finalist in the Mystery Category – ACFW Carol Award

Firebird Book Award July 2021:
First place Romantic comedy for Royally Confused
Second place for Romantic Comedy for Perfectly Imperfect
Second place for Harte Broken in Chick Lit
Third place for A prescription for Beauty in Chick Lit
Selah Award Finalist 2022:
Royally Confused
Royally Engaged
Angel Book Awards
Third Place in the 2021 Selah Awards for “Let Him Go” in Contemporary Romance.
Wings of Love, the first novel in the Lilac small town romance series, won a 2017 Romance Writers of America Golden Heart® Award.
Love Found in Cranberry Cove – Southern Christian Writer’s Notable Book Awards – finalist January 22, 2022
The Inn at Cranberry Cove – Blue Ridge Mountains Writers Conference – Selah winner in romantic suspense – June 2021
Ryan’s Father – Oregon Christian Writers Cascade Award finalist August 2014

The Encounter and Restoration were both finalists in Selah2020.

The Dress Shop got a certificate grand prize in Everyone’s a Reader by Worship, Write, Witness, ACFW Colorado Springs Chapter 2014.

Christmas Inheritance got third place in Florida Tapestry Awards 2021. 
 
Flash Fiction:
Finalists: Cold and Calculating 2015, Infirmary in Moonlight 2015, these two published: In A Flash magazine ACFW North Denver Chapter
Mishap On I-70 in 2014, and Boarding Pass2013 both Harpstring magazine, ACFW North Denver chapter
 
People’s Choice Award went to Turmoil in the Dining Car.2015 In A Flash magazine ACFW North Denver Chapter
 
A certificate: Award of Excellence Finalist in Wild Atlantic Writing Awards 2021 flash fiction and printed in their on-line magazine, Ireland Writers Retreat Wild Atlantic Writers for: Smell The Prey.

Keara’s Escape – First Place Selah 2018

Recipe For A Husband, FHL Reader’s Choice 2019 3rd

Her Reluctant Hero – International Digital Awards IDA 2019 First Place

Avoiding the Mistletoe – IDA 2019 2nd place – International Digital Awards

Rebecca’s Hope – 2019 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Best First Novel Award Finalist
Killer Nashville Finalist 2021
Selah Award Finalist 2023
Carol Awards (Jungle Fire)
Author of the Year for collected works 2022
Selah award finalist at Blue Ridge in 2020 for Pigtails and a Tool Belt
2023 American Writing Awards winner – Religious Fiction
2024 Regal Summit Awards  winner – YA
2024 American Fiction Awards finalist – Religious Fiction
2024 International Impact Book Awards winner – Christian Fiction
2024 POTY Book Awards winner – Fiction Religion
2024 POTY Book Awards winner – Fiction Spirituality
Carol Awards Semi-Finalist
Carol Awards Finalist

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TURNING TOWARD EDEN

Winner — 2025 IAN Book of the Year Award, Cross Genre Fiction
Finalist — 2025 IAN Book of the Year Award, General Fiction

   

2017 – DOMESTIC ENEMIES (Prologue) – Semi-finalist – ACFW Genesis Contest (Romantic Suspense)

2018 – DOMESTIC ENEMIES (First Chapter) – Semi-finalist – ACFW Genesis Contest (Romantic Suspense)

2018 – EARS TO HEAR – Finalist – RWA Kiss of Death Chapter, Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense (Inspirational Romantic

  Mystery/Suspense)

2019 – SEEING BEYOND – Finalist – Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writer’s Conference – Selah Award (First Novel)

2022 – DOMESTIC ENEMIES – Finalist – Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writer’s Conference – Selah Award (Speculative)

 

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