I entered a few contests this spring. The results are now all in. My unpublished novel Ice Magic, Fire Magic took second place in the 2008 Gold Acorn Excellence in Writing Award. My unpublished novel Shrine of the Heavens took second place in the Central Florida Romance Writers' Touch of Magic contest and third place in the Southern Lousiana Chapter of the Romance Writers of America's Dixie Kane contest.

My short story "Elessa the Restless" was published this month in the anthology Barren Worlds from Hadley Rille Books.

My unpublished novel Ice Magic, Fire Magic is a finalist in the 2008 Gold Acorn Excellence in Writing Award. Winners will be announced at the end of June.

My novelette "The Hunt" is in the current issue of Continuum Science Fiction magazine. The issue is available for purchase at http://www.continuumsciencefiction.com/.

"The Hunt" takes place at a spaceport called Rimifar Station and intertwines the stories of an assassin hunting for a bag of stolen pearls and two spoiled teenagers taking part in a scavenger hunt while their mothers' spaceship is in port.