Virginia Nosky is an author, poet, and screenwriter. Besides publishing seven novels, her short stories and poems are in several antholgies. Most of my work is set in the Southwest which I find almost another character, with its dramatic landscapes and weather. I've won the Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Blue Turquoise, White Shell, which will have a sequel shortly. I have also won four first prizes with the Arizona Book Publishers Association, two with the Arizona Authors Association. I love love stories and can find them in almost any form or genre, but my historical, suspense, mystery and mainstream lean heavily to romance.I live with my husband Richard in Paradise Valley, Arizona with our two rescue dogs--Barkis, a golden retriever, and Peaches, a red fox Lab.