Merrillee is the winner of the 2006 Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Love Inspired of 2006 for her novel, AN UNEXPECTED BLESSING. Merrillee’s writing journey has had as many stops along the way as her life’s journey. She wrote her first novel while she was in high school and shared it with her friends. However, many years passed before she...
more »Merrillee is the winner of the 2006 Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Love Inspired of 2006 for her novel, AN UNEXPECTED BLESSING. Merrillee’s writing journey has had as many stops along the way as her life’s journey. She wrote her first novel while she was in high school and shared it with her friends. However, many years passed before she considered writing anything for publication. Finally in 2003, after writing and revising eight manuscripts, she won the prestigious Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award for best-unpublished inspirational manuscript. The following year, she made her first sale to Steeple Hill Books. THE HEART’S HOMECOMING was an August 2005 release. She has made four more sales to Steeple Hill Books. AN UNEXPECTED BLESSING, LOVE WALKED IN, THE HEART’S FORGIVENESS and FOUR LITTLE BLESSINGS, which is set on Amelia Island and will be in stores in February 2008. Because she loves stories with happy endings, she is thrilled to be writing romance for Steeple Hill Books where the stories have emotional and spiritual happy endings.
Merrillee is an active member of Romance Writers of America and President of one of its local chapters, First Coast Romance Writers, which meets in Jacksonville, Florida. She is also a member of American Christian Fiction Writers.
She is married to her own personal hero, her husband of thirty-one years, and has two grown daughters. She has lived in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas and Chicago but now makes her home on one of God’s most beautiful creations, an island off the east coast of Florida. When she’s not writing or working for her husband’s recruiting firm, she spends her free time playing tennis or walking the beach, where she does the plotting for her novels.
Please visit Merrillee at www.merrilleewhren.com; http://www.shoutlife.com/profile_view.cfm?uid=16193;
www.myspace.com/merrilleewhren
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