Nominated for a Selah Award

I’m super excited to share with y’all that Ladies of the Fire (2020, Elk Lake Publishing) was just nominated for a Selah Award in the category of FIRST NOVEL.

It thrills me that the story of three women in the 1960s and 70s, each completely different than the other, could become best friends. Lily-Rose Pembrick … a red-headed, porcelain-faced beauty … owned a secret and fled her Lincoln Nebraska home in the dead of night with her children to ensure their safety. Fiona Kasey … with her exotic ebony-skin and blue eyes … struggled against all odds for an education to take her from her position of housekeeper/companion to a career in finance. Sugar Bowersox ... a blonde bombshell from the hills of eastern Kentucky … used her wit and sass to cover the fact that she suffers a deep depression from losing her identity and became only a mother and wife. The relationship between these three blooms into something they all hungered for and they finally found life to be perfect–until someone is killed.

 

Elk Lake Publishing

I was lucky enough to catch the eye of Deb Haggerty and Elk Lake Publishing, and she took a chance on me and my first novel. ELP was well-represented in the Selah Awards. this year:

Anthologies: The Men of Amish Fiction Present a Christmas Collection
Devotionals: God’s Intriguing Questions–Kathy Collard Miller;
Middle Grade Fiction: The Rubber Band–Christy Hoss;
YA Fiction: Freerunner–Kathy Cassel;
Short Stories: Lonestar–Murray Pura, The Light at St. Silvan’s–Murray Pura, The Silo–Thomas Nye;
First Novel: Ladies of the Fire–Robin Gilbert Luftig
Contemporary Romance: When Hearts Break–Jerry Eicher;
Speculative Fiction: Child of Destiny–T.E. Bradford

I encourage you to check out Ladies of the Fire. it’s filled with references that will take you back to a time; a time when there were no cell phones and the best coffee came from a percolator. It’s my hope that you’ll fall in love with them all.