Awards

• 2024 – FundsforWriters.com – 101 Best Websites for Writers, Writer’s Digest Magazine – year 24
• 2024 – Edisto Bullet – Imadjinn Award for Best Mystery
• 2023 – Badge of Edisto – Finalist – Silver Falchion Award for Best Mystery
• 2023 – FundsforWriters.com – 101 Best Websites for Writers, Writer’s Digest Magazine – year 23
• 2022 – Edisto Heat – Imadjinn Award for Best Mystery
• 2022 – FundsforWriters.com – 101 Best Websites for Writers, Writer’s Digest Magazine – year 22
• 2021 – FundsforWriters.com – 101 Best Websites for Writers, Writer’s Digest Magazine – year 21
• 2021 – Salkehatchie Secret – Imadjinn Award for Best Mystery
• 2020 – FundsforWriters.com – 100 Best Websites for Writers, The Write Life
• 2020 – FundsforWriters.com – 101 Best Websites for Writers, Writer’s Digest Magazine – year 20
• 2019 – FundsforWriters.com – 100 Best Websites for Writers, The Write Life
• 2019 – FundsforWriters.com – 101 Best Websites for Writers, Writer’s Digest Magazine – year 19
• 2018 – FundsforWriters.com – 101 Best Websites for Writers, Writer’s Digest Magazine – year 18
• 2018 – Edisto Stranger – finalist in the EPIC Ebook Competition, mystery category.
• 2018 – FundsforWriters.com – 100 Best Websites for Writers, The Write Life
• 2017 – FundsforWriters.com – Booksie Top 100 Writing Site
• 2017 – FundsforWriters.com – 100 Best Websites for Writers, The Write Life
• 2017 – FundsforWriters.com – 101 Best Websites for Writers, Writer’s Digest Magazine – year 17
• 2016 – FundsforWriters.com – 101 Best Websites for Writers, Writer’s Digest Magazine – year 16
• 2016 – Murder on Edisto – Route 1 Reads – – chosen to represent the state of South Carolina
• 2015 – Palmetto Poison – Winner, Mystery – Silver Falchion Award, Killer Nashville Conference
• 2015 – FundsforWriters.com – 101 Best Websites for Writers, Writer’s Digest Magazine – year 15.
• 2015 – Murder on Edisto – First place – East Texas Writers Guild Book Award
• 2014 – Tidewater Murder –  Winner, Mystery – 2014 EPIC E-book Awards
• 2014 – FundsforWriters.com – 101 Best Websites for Writers, Writer’s Digest Magazine – year 14.
• 2013 – Lowcountry Bribe – Winner, Mystery – EPIC E-book Awards.
• 2013 – FundsforWriters.com – 101 Best Websites for Writers, Writer’s Digest, year 13.
• 2013 – Tidewater Murder – Winner, Mystery – EPIC Ebook Awards. Finalist, Ariana Cover Awards.
• 2013 – The Shy Writer Reborn – FInalist, Nonfiction – EPIC Ebook Awards
• 2012 – Lowcountry Bribe – Winner – The Silver Falchion Award for Crime Fiction, Killer Nashville Conference.
• 2009 – Lowcountry Bribe‘s opening chapter – First place –  Phillip Mangelsdorf Award.
• 2009 – Lowcountry Bribe – Third Place – Alabama Writer’s Conclave Competition
• 2009 – Lowcountry Bribe – Honorable Mention – The Writing Show, judged by bestselling author C. J. Box.
• 2009 – Lowcountry Bribe manuscript – Finalist – Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense sponsored by Romance Writers of America.
• 2009 – Lowcountry Bribe – Semi-finalist (top 100 of 10,000) – Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.