Award-Winning Author of Laugh-Out-Loud Inspirational Fiction
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Sandra D. Bricker
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Awards & Recognition
The Write Touch Readers' Choice
IRCC
Inspirational Readers' Choice
National Readers' Choice
Winter Rose Award
for Excellence
Booksellers' Best
Awarded Nov 2011
BREAKING NEWS: Moody Publishers has just contracted two contemporary romantic comedies from Sandra D. Bricker for their River North imprint. Each book will be based on a well-known fairy tale.
Working titles:
If the Shoe Fits (Cinderella)
Rise & Shine (Sleeping Beauty)
Abingdon Press has contracted the author for a new novel in their Quilts of Love series of books.
The untitled novel will center around a memory quilt for ovarian cancer survivors.
For more than a decade, Sandra D. Bricker lived in Los Angeles. While honing her chosen craft of screenwriting in every spare moment, she worked as a personal assistant and publicist to some of daytime television's hottest stars. When her mother became ill in Florida, she walked away from that segment of her life and moved across the country to take on a new role: Caregiver.
"I guess most people would see my career as a publicist as a sort of dream job. But giving it up turned out to be the best thing that could have happened to me!" she declares. "Not only was I given the gift of getting to know my mother as an adult woman before she passed away, but I was also afforded the blessing of being able to focus completely on my dream of a writing career."
One of Sandie's passions revolves around the rights of animals. She's been involved in fundraising for Lost Angels Animal Rescue for several years now; in fact, a portion of the proceeds of Love Finds You in Holiday, Florida went to help the non-profit group with their expenses. And Lost Angels paid her back in a big way: After the loss of her 15-year companion, Caleb, they brought a free-spirited Collie named Sophie into her life.
In addition, Sandie's real-life role as cancer survivor has parlayed into her steadfast commitment to raising awareness and funds for ovarian cancer research. Spearheading a series of devotionals for Summerside Press (such as the popular Delight Yourself in the Lord...Even on Bad Hair Days), the author has stipulated that a portion of each contributor's
proceeds will go to the
Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.
Sandie says that it was her 8th novel that opened the door to finding her way as a writer.
"I'm a Christian woman, first and foremost," she says. "So it was a bit of a dream-come-true when Summerside Press chose me as one of two authors to launch the new Love Finds You line."
Love Finds You in Snowball, Arkansas
is a romantic comedy, Sandie's first foray into the inspirational market. The novel delivered the best reviews of her career, not to mention finaling in three readers' choice awards in 2009.
Love Finds You in Holiday, Florida and Be Still ... and Let Your Nail Polish Dry (a devotional co-written with three other authors) were released in December 2009.
The Big 5-OH! was released by Abingdon Press in the Spring of 2010, and the novel was very well-received.
Love Finds You in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, another offering in Summerside's Love Finds You line of books, was released in the fall of 2010. This particular novel combines three of the author's greatest loves: The Pacific Coast, classic film and animal rescue.
Always the Baker, Never the Bride was released by Abingdon Press in September 2010,
and with its phenomenal reviews, it spawned a series of at least three more novels based on the popular cast of characters at The Tanglewood Inn, a wedding destination hotel in historic Roswell, Georgia, cementing Sandie's spot in publishing as a flagship author of
Laugh-Out-Loud Romantic Comedy for the Inspirational Market.
"Being allowed to combine my faith and my humor with my writing dream," says Bricker, "well, that's the best of all worlds, as far as I'm concerned!"
