

| The ad on COFW MySpace page-Ohio Romance Authors for our 2008 Valentine's Day contest. Cottonwood Place is the very bottom left book! My first official contest ad. |
| Me and fellow COFW members, next to me and on the far right, at my first signing at a bookstore, February, 2008. We signed at a Columbus, Ohio Barnes & Noble. Below is the endcap display of my book, Cottonwood Place, that day. My first book on display at a giant Barnes & Noble-imagine that! |


| Me at my first official booksigning, the September, 2007, COFW Readers and Writers Holiday in Columbus, Ohio. |
| My first review was from Fallen Angel Reviews for Cottonwood Place. Click the link below to read the review! See the review here! |

| Writers bring worlds into being and populate them with fascinating people! |

| Like a new parent proud of baby's first step and word, I'm humbled by my first official steps as a published author! The road to being published is hard. To celebrate, my "first events"are below: |


| Above is a shot of revelers at the Intergalactic Bar and Grill hosted by Linnea Sinclair at the April, 2010 Romantic Times convention in Columbus, Ohio, my first one. I won the Best Sci-Fi Death scene, ala Star Trek. That's author Jade Lee second from left top row. I had a blast! . To the right is Mr. Jamie Ungaro, the 2010 Mr. Romance and I was there to see him be crowned! He's from Coshocton, Ohio, originally, and was on the cover of GQ and did a romance novel cover, among other things. He was quite handsome and polite! |
| Check here in 2012 for booksignings of my newest novel soon to be released from Soul Mate Publishing, The Diamond Road. Meanwhile, enjoy the bits of wisdom above and my "Firsts" pictured below this box. |