Brentwood Series Launch Party Sunday, October 20, 2024
Brentwood Women Mystery Series Launch
Join Us for Books and Brunch
We're gathering at Levi Rollins' new nosherie Salt and Sugar, 1073 Silber Road, to celebrate my new Brentwood Women Mystery series. The first two books in the series are now available on Amazon, and I'll have copies at the event. Hope you can stop in...come early and get free mimosas with any brunch or lunch order. And of course, during my brief reading and discussion. Hope to see you there.
Cozy Series with Rambunctious Furry Friends
Brentwood Women Mystery Series #1 and #2
Join me for Deliver Us from Evil . . . and the Six O'Clock News and Deadly . . . as a Walk in the Park. Hildy Brentwood defies her university bosses to find her friend's killer. Her mother Victoria rallies her family to find the hit-and-run driver who killed her friend today and perhaps her husband 20 years earlier.
Brentwood Women Mystery #3
Murder...from Time to Time
Take one bored and pregnant investigative reporter confined to her bed. Add her wildly creative mother and grandmother. The result is a cold case from 100 years ago. Grace sets out to solve the murder of her great-great-grandmother, a pioneer reporter in 1928 Houston, unaware it will bring a killer to her doorstep.
Best Audiobook Award
My amazing audio team at BJS Voiceover created a compelling and chilling audiobook. Not surprising it was picked at the Gold Medal winner from BookFest. Thanks to Brent Schraff and Heather Setzler for their extraordinary work.
2024 BookFest First Place Audiobook
BookFest
Multiple Award Winner
Our Story
The BookFest Awards honors authors who create outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction. Books are judged in categories based on genre, theme, and aesthetics. Entries will be vetted by an initial team, then the final places will be determined by an elite team of experts in the literary and entertainment world.
Our Story
Multiple Award Winner
Our Story
The Broken Hallelujah tells the story of Martin Carter lost in Vietnam in 1969 and his granddaughter Robin determined to bring him home while her grandmother can still honor him.
Multiple Award Winner
Multiple Award Winner
Multiple Award Winner
The Broken Hallelujah was again honored with a national award. The 2024 Book Fest Contest just recognized the audiobook as the best in the nation for overall production and quality.
Thanks to Brent Schraff and Heather Setzler, the audio version is a tour de force audio play.
I hope you all take the opportunity to download it from Audible. It is available on Amazon at
2023 IPPY Bronze Medal Winner
The Broken Hallelujah has been awarded a Bronze Medal for Military/Wartime Fiction in the 2023 Independent Publishers Book Awards.
The awards were created to recognize the deserving but often unsung titles published by independent authors and publishers, and bring them to the attention of book lovers around the world.
2023 Page Turner Finalist
The international Page Turner Awards has one goal – to change the lives of as many writers as possible. Page Turner Awards gives unpublished writers and published authors the chance to get their fiction story or non-fiction book recognized by successful authors snd high-calibre industry professionals.
Finalist International Book Award
Now in its 20th year, The Best Book Awards are one of the largest mainstream book award competitions in the United States.
Fiction: Cross-Genre
Winner
The Last Professional by Ed Davis
Artemesia Publishing, LLC
Finalist
The Broken Hallelujah by Wendy Adair
Bungalow Books Publishing
Bridging 50 Years
THE BROKEN HALLELUJAH is a story of truth and lies over five decades. A granddaughter's quest to find her grandfather lost in Vietnam will bring peace and hope to herself and her family.
The Broken Hallelujah is a heart-wrenching tale of family, the lasting impact of lies and the human consequences of truth.