BOOKS AND AWARDS

In 2020, the editors of the BookLife Prize/Publishers Weekly ranked my contest entry, SWIMMING SIDEWAYS, a 77,000-word novel-in-progress, 8 on a score of 10. Read the review here. Note: CONTEST ENTRY ONLY. THE BOOK IS UNPUBLISHED, IN ANY FORM.

In 2005, an excerpt from FINAL CONFECTIONS, a novel-in-progress, was one of 30 winners in a field of 600 in the City of Boston's Poetry and Prose exhibit celebrating the life and lore of the Hub.

In 1993, under the pseudonym Mary Adams, I published FROM STREET TO STARDOM, a YA biography of Whoopi Goldberg (Dillon Press/Macmillan).

In 1992, Billboard Publications extended the William H. Donaldson Award for Editorial Excellence to BPI trade publication Photo Business for superb coverage of the photo retail industry. Associate Editor, Mary Cresse.