The fairy tale came true on October 17, 2003, when Tim de Young, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Dorchester Publishing announced her name as co-winner of the New Voice In Romance contest. She writes books about love!

She met and married her husband of 32 years in what people call a "whirlwind romance." he swept her off her feet -- before she even met him. She knew he was coming, but when he arrived, she took some convincing. Since he didn't have a lot of time, he had to resort to all the magic in the book -- a first kiss that prompted the voice in her head to tell her, "This is the man you're going to marry;" a subsequent kiss that made rain on a sunny day; and a star-studded dream that silenced all my fears.