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Awards:

2025: Winner of the Amity Literary Award, Death Without Dignity (Fall of 2026)

2025: PenCraft Award: Best Sleuth, The Sydney Lockhart Mystery Series

2024: Kansas Authors Club Literary Contest Award for Best First Chapter, The Yellow-Wellie Incident: An Inspector Wigford Thorpe Mystery

2023: First Place Winner of the Chanticleer Mystery and Mayhem Award, Eagle Crossing

2023: Finalist for the Chanticleer Mystery and Mayhem Award, Murder at the Menger

2018: First Place Winner for Chanticleer Nonfiction Instructions and Insights, Do You Have a Catharsis Handy? Five-Minute Writing Tips