Young Adult Magical Realism Romance Novel

The Picture of Dulce Garcia

Young Adult Category 3rd Place in the 2011 RWA Stiletto Contest!

Young Adult Category 3rd Place in the 2011 RWA Launching A Star Contest!

Young Adult Category 3rd place in the 2011 RWA Heart of the Rockies Contest!

      Dulce Garcia, star of The Coven, would rather spend her days sketching dresses. Instead, she works to support her family and dreams of one day becoming a fashion designer. After Teen Vogue declares Dulce, “The Hottest Teen in America,” she is stunned by how amazing she looks in their photo. At sixteen, Dulce feels the pressure to stay youthful in Hollywood. When Dulce’s prop Book of Shadows gets destroyed, she substitutes her favorite Victorian Anthology, opened to Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and says her spell during the shoot over the anthology. Afterwards, in her trailer, she discovers that she has transformed into her Teen Vogue picture, and her real body is completely airbrushed.

 

Single Title Contemporary Romance Novel

Dancing Under the Stars

Classic category runner up in the 2008 RWA Stiletto Contest!

     Ballroom superstars Salomé Sanchez, Amy Ming and Diana Young vow never to participate in the hit television series, Dancing under the Stars. But when a producer makes them an offer they can’t refuse, the girls relent. Now they are in daily contact with Russian diva Viktoria Brooks and Salomé must confront Dmitri Pavlov, the lover she left behind to further her career. Enter the secret realm of competitive ballroom dancers and follow these girls as they navigate the perils of reality television, and enter an exciting world filled with hip hop moguls, aging rockstars, and NBA champions.