I Was Just Nodded For my 50th Award! "Spooning Leads to Forking" is a Finalist in the Golden Leaf!

Huge thanks to New Jersey Romance Writers for honoring Spooning Leads to Forking as a finalist in the 2020 Golden Leaf Contest in the Romantic Suspense category. This honor is particularly sweet because it's my 50th award and my first award for Spooning Leads to Forking.

All of my books are a little autobiographical. In Spooning Leads to Forking, heroine Shea is a food critic (I used to be a food, wine and travel writer myself.) It was a great time in my life and I loved reliving it through writing the book. Going undercover, ordering a bunch of dishes and getting to try a zillion things at a single restaurant was loads of fun and I loved the process of writing many, many restaurant reviews. I also reviewed a lot of wineries and wine experiences and I put a lot of that experience into this book!

Spooning Leads to Forking is the second book in the Hot in the Kitchen series, though SLTF and its predecessor, The Secret Ingredient, can both be read alone. A third book—Romancing the Stove—will release in 2021! Thanks again to New Jersey Romance Writers. I’m thrilled about the honor!