Favorite Quotes
I know the price of success:
dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to
see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Keep away from small people
who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you,
too, can become great.
Mark Twain
The trouble with the rat race is
that, even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lilly Tomlin
When you have a dream, you've got
to grab it and never let it go.
Carol Burnett
Yesterday I dared to struggle.
Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin
The secret of discipline is
motivation.
When a man is sufficiently motivated,
discipline will take care of itself.
Sir Alexander Paterson
It had long since come to my
attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things
happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
Elinor Smith
The fact that writers
will go through
so much to remain writers says something perhaps everything.
Maria Lenhart
The secret of discipline is
motivation.
When a man is sufficiently motivated,
discipline will take care of itself.
Sir Alexander Paterson
It's never too late in fiction or
in life to revise.
Nancy Thayer
The future belongs to those who
believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Act as if it were impossible to
fail.
Dorothea Brande
It takes a lot of courage to show
your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
It is good to act as if. It
is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
Charles Caleb Colton
Nurture your mind with great
thoughts;
to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Love doesn't make the world go
round;
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
My will shall shape my future.
Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing
but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be
lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility.
Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.
Elaine Maxwell
American Writer
You can do or be whatever you want
in your own life. Nothing can stop you, except your own fears.
Don't blame anyone else...you have the power to make the decision. Just do
it.
Nola Diamantopoulos
Greek-Australian
Creative Workshop Tutor
I'd rather be a could-be if I
cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.
I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;
for a might have-been has never been,
but a has-been was once an are.
Milton Berle
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Memberships
Golden Network
Romance
Writers of America
I have
also achieved RWA Pro status,
which is awarded by
Romance
Writers of America to unpublished
writers who are seriously pursuing a
career in writing romance fiction.
This year I have also had my
manuscript ALL MY TOMORROWS become a finalist - 2007 Romance Writers of America Golden
Heart©
Long Contemporary Category
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Gardner/1732377440
Manuscripts and Awards
(click on manuscript title to read a
brief synopsis of the story.)
Missing
Honorable Mention -
2004 Heart of the
Rockies
Long Contemporary Category
Colorado Romance Writers
4th - 2005 Romance Junkies Writing Contest
Contemporary Category
www.romancejunkies.com
2nd - 2005 Golden Rose Contest
Mainstream with Strong Romantic Elements
The Rose City Romance Writers
3rd
- 2006 Duel on the
Delta
Mainstream with Strong Romantic Elements
Contemporary Category
River City Romance Writers
3rd - 2006 Linda Howard Award of
Excellence
for unpublished authors
Single Title Category
Southern Magic RWA
Grand Prize - The 2006 Marlene Awards
Fiction with Romantic Element
Washington Romance Writers
Birthday
Surprise
2003 Barclay
Sterling Awards
for
Unpublished Authors Top
Ten
Contemporary Category
Lake Country Romance Writers
All My Tomorrows
(previously titled)
Promises
2nd runner up in the 2008 - Harlequin
Superromance®
Conflict of Interest Contest.
finalist - 2007 Romance Writers of America Golden
Heart©
Long Contemporary Category
1st -
2000 Melody of Love Contests
Short Contemporary Category
Music City Romance Writers'
(Entered as Promise Me Tomorrow)
3rd - 2000 Heart
of the West Writer's Contest
Contemporary Category
Utah Chapter of Romance
Writers of America
1st - 2001 Laurie
Contest
Long Contemporary Category
Smoky Mountain Romance
Writers
1st - 2001 Golden
Chance Contest
Central Florida Romance
Writers
1st - 2002 Duel on the
Delta
Long Contemporary Category
River City Romance Writers
1st - 2002 Heart of the
Rockies
Long Contemporary Category
Colorado Romance Writers
3rd - 2001 18th Annual Orange Rose
Contest
for Unpublished Writers
Long Contemporary Category
Orange County (California) Chapter
of RWA
2nd - 2002
Marlene Awards
Series Contemporary Romance
Washington Romance Writers
Memberships
Golden Network
Romance
Writers of America
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