I have been writing professionally since 1990, with articles in well over a hundred issues of various national, regional and local business publications. Magdalenes, my first published novel, was a finalist in an America’s Best novel competition sponsored by the Writers Foundation, as was another of the my novels, Soul Searching. My short story, Seventeen Minutes Toward the End of Winter, was a finalist in an America’s Best short fiction competition and earned honorable mention in a Writer’s Digest short story contest.