Winner for Best Opening Hook at Maple Leaf Awards!

I don't often blow my own horn, but I just have to in this case. My humorous contemporary romance ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID received a Maple Leaf Award for Best Opening Hook. Yay! AAB also received Honorable Mentions for Favorite Heroine and Favorite Novel, just behind Brenda Novak, no less! I'm totally thrilled!

Here’s what the judges had to say about ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID:

“The characters of Dani and Zach grow so beautifully from beginning to the end. The whole story grows – from the lighter, catchy beginning, to passionate scenes, to heartbreak, to something deeply emotional wherein Zach, especially, comes through. The author dealt with the heroine’s personal choice to have surgery with sensitivity and understanding and good reason – and when the hero acts with compassion – that’s where I started to get tears. The writing is quite lovely… I was not expecting so much depth in the story, especially when the author graced us with such phrases as ‘Chantal entered the dining room on a wave of perfume”. Good work!”

Thanks Trans-Canada Writers!

Maple Leaf Awards 2015
Judges Favorites and Honorable Mentions
Trans Canada Writers:

Favorite Opening Hook – Always a Bridesmaid (Jana Richards)
Honorable Mention – The Heart of Christmas (Brenda Novak)
Honorable Mention – A Cowboy’s Fate (Gini Rifkin)
Honorable Mention – A Woman of Honour (Marlow Kelly)

Favorite Hero – Dearest Darling (Andrea Downing)
Honorable Mention – Heather for a Highlander (Gail MacMillan)
Honorable Mention – A Cowboy’s Fate (Gini Rifkin)
Honorable Mention – Something Good (Darlene Deluca)

Favorite Heroine – Heather for a Highlander (Gail MacMillan)
Honorable Mention – Always a Bridesmaid (Jana Richards)
Honorable Mention – Dearest Darling (Andrea Downing)
Honorable Mention – Off the Grid (Karyn Good)

Favorite Misty Moment – New Year’s Promise (Anna Clifton)
Honorable Mention – The Heart of Christmas (Brenda Novak)
Honorable Mention – Something Good (Darlene Deluca)

Favorite Ending – Something Good (Darlene Deluca)
Honorable Mention – A Cowboy’s Fate (Gini Rifkin)
Honorable Mention – The Heart of Christmas (Brenda Novak)
Honorable Mention – Heather for a Highlander (Gail MacMillan)

Favorite Cover – The Heart of Christmas (Brenda Novak)
Honorable Mention – Six Geese for Monica (Brenda Gayle)
Honorable Mention – Christmas Clash (Dana Volney)

Favorite Short Story – A Cowboy’s Fate (Gini Rifkin)
Honorable Mention – Holiday Disaster (Vicki Batman)
Honorable Mention – Unlocked Treasure (Linda Carroll-Bradd)
Honorable Mention – Dearest Darling (Andrea Downing)

Favorite Novel – The Heart of Christmas (Brenda Novak)
Honorable Mention – Always a Bridesmaid (Jana Richards)
Honorable Mention – Something Good (Darlene Deluca)
Honorable Mention – Dearest Darling (Andrea Downing)