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Posted by Elisa Beatty May 17 2012, 12:01 am
Today the Rubies are thrilled to host Laurie Sanchez, 2012 Golden Heart finalist in Single-Title Contemporary with her novel EARNING WINGS. Laurie’s a homegirl for Nationals this year—she grew up so close to Disney, she watched the fireworks from her backyard every night at 9:30, and she currently lives in the town where they film The Real Housewives of Orange County. “The awesome thing,” says Laurie, “is that my mom, who’s a voracious reader and big romance fan, lives so nearby that we can attend the RWA book-signing event together. She’s so excited!”
Laurie’s blog, http://mizwrite.com/, features her life with three teenagers and her own real-life hero, aka “Superman.” Laurie wrote their true-life love story in serial format one summer—G-rated because she knows her kids will read it—and you can swoon along at http://mizwrite.com/how-i-met-superman/.
Take it away, Laurie!!
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 So Why Aren’t You?
Sign up for first Nationals – check. Sign up for agent-editor appointments – check. Design business cards – check. Put Golden Heart pin in drawer for safekeeping – check. …
I’m slowly working through my list of things to do as a newbie Golden Heart finalist. But honestly – between you and me – I can hardly believe it’s happening.
I started writing romance fiction about six years ago, mostly because Oprah told me to.
I was standing in the kitchen one afternoon, drying dishes, watching her afternoon television show while I listened for my youngest to come downstairs and ask where his tennis shoes were for the millionth time. I was a stay-at-home-mom-who-freelanced, happy with my job(s), happy with where I was, happy with everything – or so I thought. Until, that is, Oprah stood up that day from her yellow studio couch and asked her viewing audience to imagine, for a second, what they would be if they could be anything.
My dishtowel hardly missed a swipe. “A novelist,” I said into the quiet kitchen, putting a glass away into the cupboard. But then I sort of froze: Where had that come from?
I grabbed the next dish a little slower as Oprah left a dramatic pause. Then she turned to the camera and said, “So why aren’t you?”
My dishtowel dropped to my side. I turned toward the TV and stared. I stared at Oprah. I stared at the other audience members, who looked similarly stunned.
Posted by Elisa Beatty May 11 2012, 12:01 am in 2012 finalists, Deborah Wright, golden heart, Lazarus Gambit, steampunk
Today we welcome Deborah Wright, 2012 Golden Heart Finalist in the Novel with Strong Romantic Elements category for her book THE LAZARUS GAMBIT. As a third grader, Deborah enraptured her classmates with installments from her first novel, Teddy Bear Invasion From Outer Space, but it wasn’t until 2002 (after a long, writing-free flirtation with computer [...]
Posted by Elisa Beatty May 10 2012, 12:01 am in 2012 finalists, golden heart, Kathleen Bittner Roth
Today we’re delighted to welcome 2012 Golden Heart finalist Kathleen Bittner Roth, who is nominated in the Historical Romance category. Kathleen was born in Minnesota but has lived everywhere: Washington, Idaho, California, Texas, New York, and currently Budapest, Hungary. Fittingly, she has a lot of personas: she’s a certified hypnotherapist but also a former choirgirl [...]
Posted by Elisa Beatty May 4 2012, 12:01 am in 2012 finalists, golden heart, Mary Danielson, YA
Today, as part of our series introducing 2012 Golden Heart nominees, we welcome Mary Danielson, who is nominated in the YA category. Mary is a medical student and YA writer from Austin, TX. She has a deep and abiding love for pumpkin pie, Broadway musicals, and unrequited love stories. All of these things make an [...]
Posted by Elisa Beatty Apr 30 2012, 12:01 am in 2012 golden heart finalists, golden heart, inspirational romance, Kristen Ethridge
Today we’ve got another in our series introducing members of the Golden Heart Finalist Class of 2012: I’ll be interviewing Kristen Ethridge, finalist in Inspirational Romance. Once she got the hang of using a pencil, Kristen Ethridge was bitten by the writing bug. She wrote her first poem on the back of scrap paper in [...]
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