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Meet 2019 Golden Heart Finalist Sharon M. Peterson!!!

Today we’re welcoming Sharon M. Peterson, another of the fabulous Omegas, whose book THE LEARNING CURVE has been nominated for a 2019 Golden Heart in the Mainstream Fiction with Romantic Elements category. Sharon M. Peterson grew up in Oregon, just a few minutes away from Multnomah Falls. (Google it and be awed.) As a child, she was a voracious reader, using books to escape her real life and discover new friends. Every Mother’s Day, she thanks her mother for letting her read when she should h...

2019 Golden Heart Sara Whitney on What She’s Learned from Doing It Scared!!

Today’s Omega guest is Sara Whitney, a 2019 Golden Heart Finalist whose manuscript TEMPTING TALK is nominated in the category of Best Contemporary Romance! Sara Whitney writes witty, sexy contemporary romance novels packed with breezy charm, crackling dialogue, and want-to-root-for-them characters. Sara worked as a radio deejay, a newspaper reporter, and a film critic before she earned her Ph.D. and landed in academia, where she teaches courses on communication theory and media/race/gender. U...

Christmas in July

Hello, Team Ruby!  I don’t want to steal the Omega thunder – have you been reading these posts?  I love learning about this fabulous Golden Heart class! – but since this screaming good deal is time sensitive I wanted to sneak in a weekend post to let you guys know about it.  

It’s Christmas in July!  11 award-winning and best-selling authors came together to offer a limited-time deal on 11 brand new holiday releases – including two by Rubies: Montana Mistletoe by the fabulous Kim Law and An U...

2019 Golden Heart Finalist Claire DeWolf on the Book That Surprised Her

Today we’re welcoming another Omega, Claire DeWolf, a 2019 Golden Heart Finalist whose book LOLITA’S MUSE is a finalist in the Mainstream with Romantic Elements category.

Claire DeWolf (seen below in her role of Golden Heart Finalist and Hollywood wife) is a former actress turned editorial writer and community organizer. The mother of a grown son, she lives in the Santa Monica Mountains above Malibu with her husband, a forty-year Hollywood veteran. When she’s not attending Hollywood functions...

Meet 2019 Golden Heart Finalist A.Y. Chao!!

Today’s Omega guest is A.Y. Chao, a 2019 Golden Heart Finalist for Best Young Adult Romance with her manuscript SONG OF THE SOPHOS. A.Y. Chao (aka Alice) is a recovering lawyer, expat Canadian, adopted Londoner, lapsed knitter, runner, hobonichiplannerphile, procrasti-online-shopper, foodie, and coffee addict. Her Victorian terraced house in London, UK is chaotic HQ for her family, affectionately known as her “circus of monkeys”—a ginger-haired hubby, Hong Kong rescue mutt, imperious elderly...

2019 Golden Heart Finalist Kellie Parker on What She’s Packing for Nationals!!

Today we’re joined by another lovely Omega, Kellie Parker, a 2019 Golden Heart Finalist whose manuscript THE INN AT MILL CREEK has been nominated as Best Romance with Religious or Spiritual Elements. Kellie Parker writes inspirational romance and young adult fantasy novels about flawed characters finding courage to face hardship, love in unexpected places, and a dash of danger. In her quest for adventure, she earned college degrees in biology and nautical archaeology before figuring out what...

2019 Golden Heart Finalist Denise Williams on Life Lessons Writing Has Taught Her!

Today we’re welcoming Denise Williams, another of the fabulous Omegas, a 2019 Golden Heart Finalist in the Best Contemporary Romance category with her book THE OPPOSITE OF ORDINARY. Denise Williams wrote her first book in the 2nd grade. I Hate You and its sequel, I Still Hate You, featured a tough, funny heroine, a quirky hero, witty banter, and a dragon. Minus the dragons, these are still the books she likes to write. After penning those early works, she finished second grade and eventually...

Meet 2019 Golden Heart Finalist Courtney Maguire!

We’re excited to welcome another newly minted Omega to the blog, Courtney Maguire. Her manuscript, WOUNDED MARTYR, is a 2019 Golden Heart Finalist in the Contemporary Romance: Short category. Courtney Maguire is a University of Texas graduate from Corpus Christi, Texas. Drawn to Austin by a voracious appetite for music, she spent most of her young adult life in dark, divey venues nursing a love for the sublimely weird. A self-proclaimed fangirl with a press pass, she combined her love of mus...

2019 Golden Heart Finalist Angie Hockman on Motivation!

Today we’re welcoming Angie Hockman, another of the Omegas, whose manuscript THE HUSTLER is a 2019 Golden Heart Finalist in the Romantic Suspense category. Angie Hockman writes modern romance with sizzling thrills…because what’s life without love and adventure? Her professional background includes stints in law, government, and education, but these days you can find her burning up the keyboard in the late hours of the evening, working her day job as a conservation manager for an expedition cr...

Meet 2019 Golden Heart Finalist Ann Chaney!!

Today we’re welcoming another Omega, Ann Chaney, a 2019 Golden Heart Finalist in the Regency Historical category with her manuscript DANGEROUS PURSUIT. Born and raised in in rural southeastern NC, Ann Chaney is a Southern belle who once wore combat boots. Moving from duty station to duty station taught her home was where ever she was. While stationed at Ft. Irwin, CA, her life took a turn far too corny to be believed. Surrounded by 100 military officers and NCOs, she saw a man checking out th...