PUBLISHED WORKS
NOVELS
- ECSTASY RECLAIMED, contemporary romance by (aka) Brandy LaRue, Berkley/Jove; subrights to Harlequin: Yugoslavia, Holland, Finland, Germany and Australia
- BAD CATHOLICS, A NOVEL OF DARK SUSPENSE, by Judy Douglas Knauer, ISBN 1-59286-025-7
SHORT STORY
- THE BIG CHANGE, Over My Dead Body magazine
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
- YOU CAN BE AN UNFORGETTABLE BREADMAKER, Times Mirror magazines
- MOMMY, WHERE DO CALVES COME FROM? Countryside magazine
- THE TRUTH ABOUT 4-H MOTHERS, Buckeye Farm News
JOURNALIST 1988 - 1995
- Editor (reporter, photographer) of The Citizen owned by Cornbelt Press, Inc., covered Livingston County, IL
- Feature Editor, The Blade, Cornbelt Press, Inc., Fairbury, IL
- Columnist, "Thoughts that Breathe...and Gasp and Wheeze!" The Blade, Cornbelt Press, Inc.
- Editor, Reporter, Sports Editor, Managing Editor, Photographer, The Blade; El Paso (IL) Record
- Investigative Reporter, Daily Leader, Pontiac, IL
AWARDS
As a weekly newspaper Regional Editor, Columnist, Feature Writer, Sports Writer, Investigative Reporter, News Hound, Photographer and General Public News Lackey from 1988 to 1995 {and, oh yeah, I worked for a daily for several weeks before I ticked off the managing editor because he didn't know how to write a headline if his life depended on it and was otherwise a psychotic idiot - the worst kind;)}. But despite four different newspaper publishers, including one who also headed a daily, had me call/fax the Illinois Press Association attorney a headline story I did in my weekly about a year-old, at-that-time unsolved murder and included an interview with the victims fiance/witness, which his daily did not pick up until I beat their publication deadline. I was able to tell the publisher that the attorney said he saw nothing wrong with what he called "...a helluva story. I'd say it's a good reporting job." By the way, the publishers owner out of Canada awarded me a 3rd place for Best Hard News Story for my work. At the company's Christmas party, the publisher awarded me a roll of toilet paper for Most Likely to Write for a sleeze magazine. Ya gotta love it!
Awards won include:
- 1995 - 1st place, EDUCATION REPORTING, Illinois Press Association (IPA)
- 1995 - 1st place, HEADLINE WRITING, IPA
- 1995 - 1st honorable mention, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING, IPA
- 1994 - 3rd place, FEATURE STORY, IPA
- 1994 - 1st honorable mention, SPORTS FEATURE, IPA
- 1994 - 1st place, SPORTS STORY, American Publishing Co. (APC) (multi-newspaper owner)
- 1994 - 2nd place, BEST FEATURE PHOTO, APC
- 1994 - 3rd place, BEST HARD NEWS STORY, APC
- 1993 - 3rd place, NEWSPAPER COLUMN, IPA
- *1993 - 1st place, BEST HARD NEWS STORY, APC (This one got an oak plaque w/a golden eagle on it!)
- 1993 - OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT presented for news coverage of local FFA prgrams
- 1989 - Both 2nd and 3rd places for two different FEATURE STORIES, IPA
- 1989 - Honorable mention in FEATURE STORY contest, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
MEMBERSHIPS
- * MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA, MIDWEST
- * SISTERS IN CRIME
- * INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS
- * A past president/member of CENTRAL ILLINOIS BRANCH OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PEN WOMEN
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