LITERARY AWARDS: Finalist, June 2014 San Diego Book Awards For Claudia, Wife Of Pontius Pilate ; Finalist, September 2014 ACFW Carol Awards For Claudia, Wife Of Pontius Pilate ;Writer Of The Year, 2010, San Diego Christian Writer’s Guild; Gold Medallion Winner, 2012, For Mary Magdalene; Silver Medalion Winner, 2011, For Martha: Gold Medallion Winner, 2010, House Of The Forest, Unpublished Manuscript Category, Christian Fiction, Gold Medallion Winner, 2010, Smoke Before The Wind, Christian Romance, Reader’s Favorite Review And Book Awards Contest; First Place, San Diego Book Awards, Short Story Category “Phipps And The Jay” (May,2009); Silver Medallion Winner, Unpublished Manuscript, A Distant Mountain, (now Shadows On The Mountain) Christian Fiction, Reader’s Favorite Book Review And Awards Contest. 2009;