Author Donan
Berg’s three winning stories dominated the 2014 short/long series romance
category at the 9th Annual Dixie Kane Memorial Writing Contest.
Coordinator Nicholas Genovese of the sponsoring RWA SOLA Chapter announced the results today.
Author Berg’s
entries were “Twice Tempted,” second place; “Ashley - A Lake Series Romance,”
third place; and “Love in Lilac,” honorable mention.
For inspirational
novels, Author Berg’s “Rosemary’s Awakening” won third place.
In “Twice
Tempted,” shrewd businesswoman Cherry Everex inherits a New Orleans hockey
club. An acrimonious annulment from the team’s star forward, Shane Hull, is
nullified by a state law change. It wrecks havoc with their personal
relationship and clashes with their divergent ideas for whether to sell the hockey team.
“Ashley - A Lake
Series Romance.” Ashley Ulrich saves Peter Edwards from drowning and they fight
a ruthless real estate developer for love and money.
“Love in Lilac.”
Connie Nunnley fights to save her dementia-inflicted grandfather’s newspaper
from bankruptcy. She falls in love with new advertiser, Lucas Knowles, whose
business interests conflict with Connie’s.
“Rosemary’s
Awakening” is a fictional account of a courageous young Iowa woman’s battle to
regain life and love after a competitive horse race mishap confines her to a
wheelchair.
“I’m honored to be
in a great circle of talented writers,” said Berg. “The Dixie Kane competition
annually ranks as one of the premier United States writing contests. To be
recognized for a third year in 2014 is a great thrill.”
Author Donan Berg
has five murder/mystery novels, a stand-alone short story and a short story
collection in print and electronic formats, published by DOTDON Books, Moline,
IL. He previously cracked the Dixie Kane winner’s circle in 2010 and 2013.
CASI, Davenport,
IA, Book Club selected his novel, Adolph’s
Gold, a murder/mystery police procedural, as its October 2014 selection.
His 2009 debut
novel, A Body To Bones, debuted at number 27 in the top 50 most popular
books, all genres, at AuthorsDen.com, an online literary community visited by a
million plus authors and readers every month. A year later on September 19, 2010,
his novel held its top 50 ranking as the 32nd most popular. His novels are in
libraries nationwide, including Davenport, Iowa City, Moline, Rock Falls, and
Rock Island. A Writer’s Digest judge wrote: “Donan Berg writes a nice, clear,
consistently readable prose, and he manages to create a winning character in
Sarah Hamilton.”
Following A
Body To Bones, he’s authored The Bones Dance Foxtrot (2009), Bubbling
Conflict and Other Short Stories (2010), Abbey Burning Love (2011,
E-book only), Baby Bones (2012), Amanda (2014) and Adolph’s
Gold (2014).
The Dixie Kane
Memorial Contest is named for the late New Orleans writer Linda Kay West, who
wrote under the pen name Dixie Kane. The sponsoring New Orleans chapter is a
non-profit literary organization dedicated to the craft and business of writing
book length fiction with a focus on romance.
