Corporate Clients

American Business Women’s Association ♦ American Academy of Family Physicians ♦ Elder and Disability Law Firm ♦ EDLF Publishing ♦ Felton Medical ♦  Ferrellgas ♦ Harmon-Smith Advertising ♦ Olathe Medical Center ♦ Walsworth Publishing Co.


Awards and Recognition

Marquis Who’s Who of American Women (2006-2007) ♦ Marquis Who’s Who in America (2000-2007) ♦ Marquis Who’s Who in the Midwest (1998-1999) ♦ American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Roundtable James P. Immroth Memorial Award (1996) ♦ Hydro Review magazine’s Author’s Award (2003,) ♦ Missouri Writers Guild first place, nostalgia (2006); best nonfiction book (2005); ♦ Kansas Authors Club first place, story for children (2006) ♦ National League of American Pen Women first place, free verse (2006) ♦ Ozark Creative Writers   first place Clouse Literary Arts and Theatre Award; first place, humor (2002) ♦ Springfield Writers Guild first place, humor (2002) ♦ Writer’s Digest Magazine Writing Competition fourth place (1990) ♦ National Mental Health Media Award (1989)

          
Professional Activities

Missouri Writers Guild, Board of Directors, publicity chair 2006, 2007 ♦  Kansas City Writers Group, co-leader ♦  Kansas Author’s Club: 2006 Chair Writers in the Community; 2005, 2006 Chair of the Kansas Author’s Club Youth Writing Contest; 2004 Chair of the Kansas Author’s Club District II Writers in Schools program; Writers conference speaker ♦ Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc., affiliate representative ♦ Continuing education teacher/writers conference speaker Avila University ♦ Volunteer for the Olathe Public Library Pre-school Outreach program ♦ Continuing education teacher/writers conference speaker Johnson County Community College ♦ Fiction editor, Potpourri literary magazine ♦  President Whispering Prairie Press ♦ Warrensburg Writers Circle