I received four book award announcements in the last month for my newest book, Time Measured Out!: Navigating Life’s Journey Through Poetry. In the whole year of 2026, I have received six awards for this book this year, and it’s only September!

Here are the four awards I won this last month:

• Bronze Award in the Readers’ Choice contest, September 2026
• 2nd Place Award in the Next Best Reads contest, August 2026
• Gold Award in the Global Book Award, August 2026
• Honorable Mention Award at BooksShelf.com, August 2026

The other two awards I’ve received this year for this book:

• 2nd Place Award in the AllAuthor.com nonfiction book cover
• 3rd Place Winner at BooksShelf.com, April 2026

Why Do I Enter Book Awards Contests?

I was told early on in my writing career—enter book award contests because they elevate your book’s exposure. So I have!

Over the years, I’ve entered many contests and I’ve won many as I alluded to in my blog, An Award Winner: Coronavirus Reflections And More!.

At that point my book, Coronavirus Reflections: Bitter or Better? had won two prestigious awards from the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. But my most decorated book was A Time to Grow Up: A Daughter’s Grief Memoir with five awards.

So, my newest book, Time Measured Out! takes the lead with six.

Finally,

The last month has been outrageous for me with all the awards. But it feels so gratifying to have this book recognized.

UPDATE ON MY BOOK I’M WORKING ON: Eyewitness to Healing is to the editor. We have extended the date of my receiving the edited manuscript to the first of October. We had an email exchange this week, and she asked, “do you want to receive it back before you go to Germany?”

I had been pondering that very idea because originally, I was to receive it tomorrow.

“No,” I responded strongly, “because I won’t be able to just let it sit on my computer. I would want to be working on it, and that could ruin my Germany trip.”

I could almost hear her laughing with my response. But the good news, it’s getting closer. Then my work begins again to look at her revisions and hope there aren’t too many of them.

You may wonder why I have a poetry chapbook, Is My Truth Universal?: A Woman’s Poetic Odyssey, free all the time. It’s one of the promotional foundations for an author today—have something free to entice the reader to sample your writing and then buy your books.

Does it work for you?

If poetry isn’t your genre, here is a short story to sample my writing:

• Never Too Late For Love

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