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Recognitions

N'omi Rose

Welcome to RECOGNITIONS! A monthly column to recognize those students of Writers' Village University who have won recognition of their writing achievements!

Our Kudos to, Joan M. Fox, "Foxy", whose novel, THE RELUCTANT DUKE, was accepted by epublisher Treble Heart Books! The print version is due out in mid April. THE RELUCTANT DUKE is a Sensual Victorian Romance. She started sending The Duke to the NYC publishers about seven years ago. Then she forgot about him and went on to more three more romance books. When e-publishing really kicked in (with the urging of her WVU writing buddy, Dorice Nelson) Foxy started to send out The Duke again. THE RELUCTANT DUKE was revised at least 20 times, and rejected 19! "But I was determined that some one would love him." She says "deciding to sign up as a lifetime member has been probably one of the smartest things I've done in the past 10 years. The support in the study groups and lesson classmates has helped my writing immensely as well as brought me some very good friends whose faces I may never see. I started writing THE RELUCTANT DUKE in my F2K class, and now he's finally going to be published!" Foxy is a member of Word Slingers and Historical Romance Study Groups. Way to go Foxy!

Congratulations to Faye Whyte, whose workshop, "Goal Setting for Writers," débuted at Painted Rock (http://www.paintedrock.com) in January 2002! "I owe this to the encouragement of Jenny Turner and to Judy at WVU for giving me the opportunity". Jenny told Faye's study group about WriteFest during the planning process, when Jenny had agreed to help Judy plan and organize the workshops. Jenny asked if we would be willing to help her. Faye shared that she had been using techniques adapted from her husband's business as a strategic coach to organize Faye's writing and she would like to give a workshop along those lines. Jenny and Judy were both enthusiastic about the idea, so Faye designed the workshop. The workshop was a great success, as was WriteFest.

After WriteFest, Faye wanted to continue to offer these principles to help other writers. She queried the idea as a series of articles for Painted Rock's weekly e-zine, The Rock. Carmel Thomaston replied that she would rather offer it as a workshop through her site. The two-week workshop is offered once monthly.

"I have been a member of WVU since May 2000. WVU has been invaluable to my existence as a writer. F2K in spring 2000 was my first exposure to this friendly community. Rie Sheridan and Julie Jennings, my mentor, were particularly helpful and encouraging."

After Faye joined WVU, she took part in several courses where she learned the basics, met other writers and gained experience "shoving my words out there for others to see." More recently, Faye puts more energy into her study group, the Freestylers, "where the exchange of ideas and feedback constantly challenge me to question my assumptions and expand my horizons. I can honestly say I would not have been able to take these first faltering steps toward authorhood without the enthusiasm and support of the wonderful writers I have met at Writer's Village." Faye is also a columnist for National Association of Women Writers! http://www.naww.org/

Kudos to Charity Tahmaseb for her novel, FALSE IMPRESSIONS, winning best overall entry in the Golden Gateway Contest! The RWA (Romance Writers of America) Online Chapter, From the Heart sponsored the contest. http://www.theromanceclub.com/fth/home.htm

In which Charity included the first three chapters and the synopsis of a novel, FALSE IMPRESSIONS. Charity won first place in the romantic suspense/mainstream category, and went on to win best overall entry!

More Kudos to Charity, as she will have three pieces included in an anthology due out in May 2002. All proceeds go to support the 20th Century Veterans Memorial being built in North Platte, Nebraska. Her contributions to the anthology include: The Ring Knocker, a short story; A Short Account of the Gulf War; and a prose poem, Breakfast in the Desert, an excerpt from her novel "India Charlie." For more info, you can visit the page Charity has set up on her web site: http://www.charitytahmaseb.com/letus.htm Charity has been a member of WVU for more than three years, is very active in writing and peer-tutoring WVU courses, and hangs out at Consistents and Mythic Madness study groups!

To those of you who are excitedly looking at this column, expecting to see your writing achievements to be listed, and are disappointed to see your listing is not here, I am grievously sorry. I am sad to say I have had a computer crash, thereby losing all of December and January's Achievers. Please, will you forward our email conversations to me, so that I might list you in future columns?

N'omi Rose
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