From the Heart: Lena Nelson Dooley wins award!

Friday, July 1, 2011

Lena Nelson Dooley wins award!

ANNOUNCEMENT

Joyce's client Lena Nelson Dooley just won the Will Rogers Medallion for western fiction. Lena is an award winning author that has over 650,000 books in print.

A reviewer said of the book, "Orphaned Madeleine Mercer finds herself being ramrodded into marriage with her father's shady business partner. She heads from Boston to Golden, New Mexico, to answer Philip Smith's ad for a mail order bride. Honor, integrity, forgiveness, faith--issues of many kinds stand between Madeline and the man God has for her.

Dooley creates a new and compelling story with unique twists that set it apart from other mail order bride stories. A stand-out volume in the Love Finds You series."
- Darlene Franklin

Our congratulations to Lena on receiving this honor. Find out more about her at http://lenanelsondooley.blogspot.com

8 comments:

Valerie Comer said...: Congrats, Lena! :); July 1, 2011 at 11:24 PM
Bonnie S. Calhoun said...: Congratulations Lena! That is awesome that we now have two Hartline authors that have won that prestigious award.

You and Terry Burns make great role models for this award.; July 2, 2011 at 12:10 AM
Raquel Byrnes said...: Congratulations, Lena! You must be on cloud nine. :); July 2, 2011 at 2:11 AM
Lena Nelson Dooley said...: Thanks, everyone. I feel really blessed by this. A real gift from God.; July 2, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Carrie Fancett Pagels said...: Congrats, Lena! That is wonderful and well-deserved!; July 2, 2011 at 1:46 PM
Jeanette Levellie said...: I'm so happy for you, Lena!

Western romance is one of my faves. Something about cowboys and horses and sagebrush...

May the Lord use you to bring light to many darkened corners of His world, dear.; July 2, 2011 at 4:18 PM
Linda Glaz said...: Congrat, Lena. What wonderful news!; July 2, 2011 at 9:59 PM
Jennifer Taylor said...: Congratulations, Lena! So proud of you.; July 4, 2011 at 4:13 PM

Joyce Hart, Owner and principal agent

Joyce Hart, owner and principal agent of Hartline Literary Agency has been a literary agent for more than a decade. She was formerly the vice president of marketing of an inspirational publishing company and as the president of Hartline Marketing has nearly thirty-two years of successful experience marketing and promoting books. Joyce has been a pioneer in selling high-quality fiction to the inspirational market and has built an excellent rapport with leading inspirational publishers. A member of ACFW, and the National Association of Professional Women, Joyce is a graduate of Open Bible College, Des Moines, IA now merged with Eugene Bible College in Eugene, Oregon. Joyce is based at Hartline Literary's Pittsburgh headquarters.

joyce@hartlineliterary.com
http://www.hartlineliterary.com

Jim Hart, Agent

Jim Hart is looking for authors who can write unique and engaging fictional suspense, romance, women’s fiction, historical fiction and some sci-fi. Jim is also interested in non-fiction regarding church growth, Christian living, and self-help. Keep in mind that non-fiction topics require a certain level of credentials, experience and expertise. The author will need an appropriate platform to present a non-fiction proposal.

Currently Jim is not looking at children’s, young adult or Biblical fiction proposals.

He holds a degree in Production Journalism and worked for twenty years in direct mail advertising before taking a job with an urban social services agency, where he worked for twelve years. All during his professional career, Jim has served with the local church doing youth ministry and music/worship ministry. He is a credentialed minister with the Assemblies of God, and serves part-time as Worship Pastor in his local church in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

Linda Glaz, Agent

Linda is an experienced editor, reviewer and writer, and for a couple of years was a final reader for Wild Rose Press, then for White Rose Publishing and she worked as an editorial assistant for Hartline Agent Terry Burns. She has judged for numerous contests including the Genesis for the American Christian Fiction Writers, as well as the Emily Award for the West Houston Chapter of the Romance Writers of America. She has been on the faculty for Faithwriters.com annual conference, Maranatha, and is slated for numerous others in 2013. Linda understands writers because she's a writer herself with 4 books releasing in 2013.
linda@hartlineliterary.com
http://lindaglaz.blogspot.com/