2023 Book Releases:
#5 Hearts in Peril series – Dangerous Prospects (May)
#12 Hearts in Peril series – TBA (Dec)
Love’s A Mystery in Last Chance – TBA
2022 Book Releases:
#1 Jingle Bell Mysteries – Boughs of Folly (July)
2021 News:
Join me online at Write Canada 2021 Aug 7th, 10th, and 12th for a writing intensive
Essential Techniques to Master the Craft of Writing Compelling Fiction
Aug 9th onward – online auction for Niagara Children’s Centre will include several of my books
2021 Book Releases:
Paying the Piper (April)
Dangerous at Heart (April)
Settling Auld Scores (July)
Hidden Threats (November)
2020 Book Releases:
Lass and Found (April)
Yule Be Sorry (September)
2019 Book Releases:
Absent Without Leaf (July)
Weeds of Doubt (January)
2019 Appearances:
Hospice Niagara in Welland, ON ~ Oct 3 at 1 pm
ACFW Colorado Springs Chapter ~ Workshop on Subtext Nov 2nd 10-12pm
Upper Deck Vendor Show Fundraiser, Vineland ~ Nov 9th 9-2pm
2018 Book Releases:
Digging Up Secrets (May)
On Pens and Needles (June)
2017 Appearances:
Boucheron 2017 – a popular international conference for mystery writers and fans comes to Canada! October 12th-15th in Toronto, Ontario
Southern Ontario Book Signing Tour – July 8
10 am in London @ Creation Bookstore 900 Oxford St E
1 pm in Burlington @ Family Bookstore 750 Guelph Line
4 pm in St. Catharines @ Heritage Christian Bookstore 400 Scott St
June 14 – Speaking at Hospice Niagara (day program)
A Niagara Hamilton Baptist Women’s Event – “Finding and Sharing God in Unexpected Places” @ Harmony Baptist Church, 1763 Upper James St., Hamilton.
Saturday, April 08, 2017 – 9:00 a.m.-12 noon
Keynote Speaker at a Women’s “Creativity for the Soul” Retreat @ Wesley United Church, 244 First Avenue, Welland 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 22
Registration at 9 a.m. Cost is $15 and includes lunch
Speaking @ Winterlude – Friday, March 10, 7:30 pm @ the Vineland Free Reformed Church
2017 Book Releases:
Over Maya Dead Body (Book 3 Serena Jones Mysteries from Revell; July 4)
The Hound and The Fury (Book 17 Amish Inn Mysteries from Annie’s Attic 10/27) For subscription information, please visit https://www.anniesfiction.com/home.php?program_id=AIM
2016 Contest News
Desperate Measures won the 2016 Word Award for suspense
2016 Appearances:
Talk & Book Signing @ Librarians Night at The Gospel Lighthouse Bookstore, Brantford Thursday, November 28th 6-8 pm
Talk & Book Signing @ Librarians Night at The Gospel Lighthouse Bookstore, Dunnville, October 19th, 6:30 pm
Library Talk @ Fort Erie Public Library Centennial branch 136 Gilmore Road @6:30PM on April 6th
Creativity Workshop @ St. Catharines Public Library (downtown) with Canadian Authors Association Saturday, March 19th, 10:00 am to 12:30 in Rotary Room
March 24 7 pm with Pennsylvania Chapter of ACFW webinair on writing romantic suspense
2016 Book Releases:
A Fool and His Monet (Book 1 Serena Jones Mysteries from Revell; March 1)
Another Day, Another Dali (Book 2 Serena Jones Mysteries from Revell; Oct 1)
2015 Contest News
Emergency Reunion is a 2015 RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Nominee
Identity Withheld won the National Readers’ Choice Award for Contemporary Series-Action/Adventure
Blind Trust won The Word Award for mystery and is a Selah Awards finalist
Identity Withheld also won The Word Award for romance, and an Award of Merit in the Holt Medallion Contest
December 12, 2015 1 PM
Speaking at R&B Novel-Teas, Queenston St., Niagara Falls
June 19, 2015 7 PM
Author Night Coffee House at Heritage Christian Bookstore, Grantham Plaza, St. Catharines
June 11-13, 2015
I will be teaching at Write!Canada–a 5 hour continuing class on writing fiction
2015 Book Releases:
Desperate Measures (Book 3 in Port Aster Secrets series from Revell; June 2015)
Emergency Reunion (connected to Perilous Waters & Identity Withheld from LIS; July 2015)
2014 Book Releases:
Perilous Waters from Love Inspired Suspense (April 2014)
Blind Trust (Book 2 in Port Aster Secrets series from Revell; June 2014)
Identity Withheld (connected to Perilous Waters; Nov 2014)
June 12-14, 2014
I will be teaching at Write!Canada–a continuing class on writing fiction, a workshop on writing romantic suspense, and a workshop on writing a synopsis
December 7, 2013 @ 10 am to noon
Book Signing at The Log Cabin Pharmacy on Hwy 20 in Fonthill
Saturday, September 28, 2013 @ 9 am to 4:30 pm
Speaking at Write!Kitchener, St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 54 Queen St. North
June 12, 2013
Critical Condition won the 2013 Canadian Christian Writing Award for the Romance Category
June 8, 2013 @ 1 pm to 3 pm
Book Signing at Heritage Christian Bookstore in Grantham Plaza, St. Catharines
June 5, 2013 @ 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
Speaking at Prime Time Group @ St. Ann’s Community Church
June 3, 2013 @ 4 to 5 pm
Sharing Writing Tips at Thorold Public Library
April 2013
Critical Condition won the RT Reviews 2012 Reviewer’s Choice Award!
February 2013
Signed new 3-book contract with Love Inspired Suspense for Killer Cruise +
February 13, 2013
Speaking at Hospice Niagara
October 30, 2012 @ 6pm
Speaking at dinner meeting at the Lakehouse restaurant for the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce
Saturday October 20, 2012 ~ 1 to 3 pm
Signing books with other local authors at the Thorold Public Library
Thursday Sept 20 to Sunday Sept 23, 2012
Attending the American Christian Fiction Writer’s Conference in Dallas
Deep Cover won the 2012 Canadian Christian Writing Award for the Romance Category
Thursday June 14 to Saturday June 16, 2012 @ Write!Canada
I’ll be taking appointments, and (for those who book them in advance) doing critiques
Saturday May 5, 2012 2:15 pm
I’ll be joining a panel of authors for a Q&A at the Church Library Association of Ontario conference
April 30, 2012 – Family Fiction Christian Readers’ Choice Awards
A huge thank you to all my readers who voted. Your support is such an encouragement to me. Thanks to you, Deep Cover is #5 in Novel of the Year, and… I made the debut author and author of the year lists!
Friday, April 27, 2012 ~ Contracted by Revell Publishing!!
Received my contract for a three-book romantic suspense/mystery series. Port Aster Secrets #1: Deadly Devotion will release in summer 2013.
April 26, 2012 ~ 2012 Canadian Christian Writing Awards
Deep Cover has been short-listed for the romance category.
Saturday March 24, 2012 from 1 to 3 pm
Joint Book Signing with Love Inspired Historical author Eva Maria Hamilton at Heritage Christian Bookstore in Grantham Plaza, St. Catharines
Saturday March 17, 2012 from 2 to 4 pm
Joint Book Signing with Love Inspired Historical author Eva Maria Hamilton at Coles in Limeridge Mall, Hamilton
February 14, 2012
I’ll be speaking at 2 pm at the Pelham Public Library in Fonthill on life as a writer and at 6:30 pm at the Thorold Public Library on tips for spiring novelists
October 17, 2011 – Lincoln Library Fundraiser
Join author Elizabeth Mittler and myself for readings and anecdotes from our writing experiences at the Lincoln Centre in Beamsville, 7 to 9 pm. Live music, light refreshments, door prizes, book sale and signing Tickets $10 all proceeds go to the library
September 27, 2011 – It’s Official!
I received the contract for the third book in my Undercover Cops series, but… it’s been retitled Critical Condition
Friday, September 9, 2011 – 6-9 pm – Book Signing at Chapters
Fairview Mall, 285 Geneva St., St. Catharines, Ontario
Saturday, September 17, 2011 – 10 am – noon –
Book Signing at Believer’s Bookshelf,
5205 King St., Beamsville, Ontario
August 2011 – Sold a Third Book!
Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense has bought the third book in my series Undercover Cops: Fighting for justice puts their lives–and hearts–on the line. Dose of Deceptionwill release in the fall of 2012.
April 2011 – I’m a grandma!
And no, I am so not old enough … but I’m not complaining
February 2011 – Sold a Second Book!
Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense (formerly Steeple Hill) has bought the second book in my Undercover Cops series. Shades of Truthwill release in March 2012.
September 7, 2010 – I got the call!
Steeple Hill will publish Deep Cover in their Love Inspired Suspense line September 2011. Deep Cover is the first book in a series featuring undercover cops.
July 2010 – I won!
Escape to Terrortook top spot in the inspirational category of the 2009 Daphne DuMaurier contest for unpublished novels AND it won the Daphne DuMaurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense given to the entry with the highest score across all categories!
Agent Joyce Hart of Hartline Literary Agency judged the inspirational category and has since signed me as a client.
No Turning Back (aka Escape to Terror) and Shades of Gray (since retitled Deep Cover) took second and third in the 2009 Colorado Romance Writers’ Heart of the Rockies contest!
