Writing Award 2022

Lifeboat coxswain and local hero Jim Andrews has always commanded respect, that is until the night of his retirement when the events of just one evening threaten more than just his legacy.

When Julia agrees to mind her older sister’s flower shop, it soon becomes clear that she is expected to do far more than sell bouquets and, while a taste of Carmen’s life seems fun, too much could prove deadly.

Through seven phases like trusting intuition and speaking truth, I teach how to heal heartache and pain. My inspirational narrative, revisits personal experiences of abuse, teenage pregnancy, divorce, and clairvoyance. My charming touches of humor ease the intensity to a path of redemption.

Based on a true story, Ernie’s Bleachers is a vintage tale of baseball, family, and the American spirit

A street brat, who has a phobia of magic and hatred of mages, must live with and learn to trust a mage to avoid incarceration and condemnation at the hands of those in power.

When a virus infects the world’s adult population, a single adolescent becomes civilization’s only hope.

Reality comes unraveled for Grant Welling when he realizes that the delusions his father, Clay, believed during his battle with Alzheimer's are coming true. Grant's new affections for a woman named Moriah force him to face the uncertain future head-on as he trades his certainty for awe.

The DaVinci Code meets cult of the Golden Dawn in an adventurous and intellectually sophisticated exploration of mysticism, the phenomenology of the sixth sense, and the fantastic creatures of cryptozoology in a magical tale of derring-do set in the enchanted forests of the Adirondack Mountains.

God Quest–God Discovered in Everyday Places captures in a spotlight profound human stories: experiences of God by ordinary people in everyday places.

“But, sir, what if ET is listening and finds us? Maybe he likes grilled Homo sapiens chops for dinner,” Misha challenges her teacher.
In less than four hours, she’ll find out. The rest of Earth, 74 days later.

When Earth is reset by aliens, six neurodivergent teens are chosen to survive with an autistic whale-watching boat captain and his marine biologist tour guide.

Father entwines his vulnerable son into a crime spree with comedic consequences and heart warming moments. Dark humour is the core of this story with twists which are not for the faint hearted. The reader will go on a journey of laughter, tears and jaw dropping moments. Comedy Drama at its finest.

As teens, Maggie and Jake revisit a magic gate they discovered as kids in the hopes of traveling back in time to save Maggie’s dad from dying.

It's 1885 and 15 year old James O'Collins, underkeeper on a grand estate, is on the brink of a great future. When he is wrongly convicted of a devastating crime, he's banished to a Victorian reformatory. There he must overcome impossible odds to gain his freedom and reclaim what is rightfully his.

In 15th century Florence, convent-raised Caterina, forced to marry at fourteen, falls for charismatic Giuliano de Medici, who introduces her to secular art, literature, earthly pleasure, love, and tragedy, which sets her on a quest to the courts of Paris and London to find her long-lost father.

Five participants in a reality show filmed on a distant planet are mankind’s only hope when hostile aliens trace the program’s signal back to earth.