Writing Award 2022

This rollicking rhyme tells the story of a wacky uproar that happens to eleven animals living in the Neck that creates a ruckus when owl lets out a HOOT! The call sets off a chain reaction of animal antics the likes of which have never happened in the neck before. A rebus read along story.

This rollicking rhyme tells the story of a wacky uproar that happens to eleven animals living in the Neck that creates a ruckus when owl lets out a HOOT! The call sets off a chain reaction of animal antics the likes of which have never happened in the neck before. A rebus read along story.

A historical romance set in the exhilarating art worlds of London and Paris between 1897 and 1917. As a student at the Slade the artist Gwen John’s affairs with men and women end disastrously, until on a bright spring morning in 1904, she meets Rodin and begins a tumultuous relationship

It is the 1960s in a British fishing port on the east coast. Danny lives with his almost blind brother, prostitute mother and drunken pimp father. He loves his mother and she loves him but there seems no way ahead. Mother and Danny fight to give the brothers a better life. How will they succeed?.

Ukrainian-American, Mykola, finds lost nuke in Crimea. A beautiful spy, Oksana, is sent to recover the coordinates. They fall in love & she defects. Russia takes Crimea and poisons Oksana with Novichok. She survives. Story follows buildup of Russian troops from fall of USSR to present day.

An ex-prisoner and a revolutionary are hunted by powerful enemies sworn to destroy them— escape is impossible unless they can unmask their protagonists’ true identities.

U.S. Embassy, Baghdad, 2003-7: Both historical saga and philosophical thriller, RETURN TO BAGHDAD tells of the dangerous clash of ambitions among four people, American and Iraqi, on the diplomatic fringes of war, a clash resolved only through a tragic sacrifice, and the understanding earned from it.

Alex Bryant, a man distressed by his memories of his emotionally distant father, finally bonds with his stepson, Matt, while attending the execution of his birth father.

After falling in love in college, Hans and Sofia are separated by war and can see no path to reunion. Hans plays in Hitler's orchestra and Sofia plays music to survive in the besieged city of Leningrad. As the tide of war turns and Berlin burns, Sofia makes a decision from which there is no return.

After losing his job and his girlfriend, a man with nothing more to lose follows the instructions in a mysterious email, leading him to a long-lost friend, and on to a potentially lethal adventure across time.

Dash is a friendly tabby cat who lives in a school. He likes to explore and make sure the children are happy. At the same time, he enjoys sleeping on the Head-Teacher's chair but Dash knows he should never sit there!

Twenty - five year old Charlotte Brundle wants to die. She's been unable to come to terms with her Mother’s death fourteen years ago. When her attempted suicide goes wrong, Charlotte is faced with rebuilding her life again and working through her grief.

A Victorian girl becomes an early motion picture pioneer. Haunted by fires both accidental and deliberate, spurred on by professional betrayals and fleeing an infatuation that leads to heartbreak, Izzy Bailey’s ambition and flair for comedy propel her west to a small town called Hollywood.

The naive daughter of a powerful enchantress--seduced and abandoned by
young King James VI--suffers the destruction of her family by the Church, survives to give birth
from her own grave, and sets off, crippled and half-blind, on a quest to introduce his daughter
to the king.

When the Vietnam War thrust me into unwanted leadership as a young officer, I had to find a motivation strong enough to cope with introversion and timidity.

Rookie teacher Annie scores a job in a school where rumor has it, the kids drove their last teacher ‘cuckoo birds’. When things get tough she's got to learn to channel her inner punk rocker to stand up for her kids, face crushing anxiety, and take a chance on love.

Heartbroken over the betrayal of her boyfriend, a 51 year old woman suffering from corporate burnout sets out to work at an orphanage in a remote village in South America. When her bad judgment triggers a horrific event, she battles between leaving or discovering why she must stay.

Men lie. Men cheat. And now men should be very afraid.

Reformed gangster embarks on journey through lawless territory to rescue his childhood sweetheart from a violent drug lord.

Jeremiah survives five minutes that alters the shape of the world and changes the destiny of humanity. On the personal level he is thrown into dealing with events and lost relationships he has run from for 30 years; as the world wrestles with the devastation. (A Journey to Understanding)