Presenting…Maureen McGowan

Maureen McGowan is a fellow Canadian and Golden Heart Finalist ’07 sister who correctly ID’ed Lucienne Diver’s agent on my blog several days ago. To celebrate her cleverness, I’m pimping her today. Uh, by “pimping,” I mean Promoting Industrious Maureen-McGowan’s Publishing-Journey, not that, um, other sort of pimping. 

I first “met” Maureen when I judged the partial of her brilliantly funny women’s fiction novel, THE MISEDUCATION OF APRIL HILLSON, in a contest. I can no longer recall which contest it was (although I believe it was the RWA ChickLit chapter’s Get Your Stilleto in the Door contest). Maureen’s writing style, voice, and characterization of April blew me away. That manuscript also earned Maureen her finalist slot in the Golden Heart, Novel with Strong Romantic Elements category, last year, and, in the last few months, was a semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, where an excerpt is still available for free download. 

As an unpublished author, Maureen is doing everything right. It’s only a matter of Timing before some lucky editor snaps her up. She has a beautiful website, a presence on Publishers Marketplace, and she’s represented by the stellar Knight Agency. Please visit her solo blog and/or her group blog, Drunk Writer Talk (with a title like that, how can you not visit?) And don’t forget to check out the free download of THE MISEDUCATION OF APRIL HILLSON.