Review of Sarah Ban Breathnach's Simple Abundance winner of Jane's Stories Bite Size Review Contest.

"Shadow People" -3rd Place, The Writer in the Machine Fiction Contest #1, 2007

"The Asylum" -2nd Place, Adsagsona Paranormal Society Ghost Story Contest, 2007

"The Boy Next Door" -Honorable Mention, Writers' Journal July 2006 Romance Contest

"A Landmark Christmas" - 2nd Place, Writers' Journal November 2005 Travel Writing Contest

"Fate's Way" - Honorable Mention, Writers' Journal July 2005 Romance Contest

First line from The Ghost of Laurie Floyd - Finalist in the 5th Annual Best First Line Contest

Featured as one of 21 Intriguing Floridians - Florida Monthly Magazine, October 2005

"Leaving a Mark" (written as C. Le Mroch) - 2nd Place, Bitten Contest, 2005

"The Hammerhead" (written as C. Le Mroch) - 2nd Place, Twisted Shift's First Contest, 2005

Cellfish Ways (written as Courts Mroch) - #2 best-selling Dollar Download 2004 from Echelon Press

"Skin Ish Ca" (written as Courts Mroch) - #2 in the 2003 Preditors & Editors Readers Poll Short Story Other Category

"Cellfish Ways" - Finalist and Special Honorable Mention Recipient for 2003 New Century Writers Awards Short Story Contest

"The Judge's Bell" - Quarter Finalist in the 2003 New Century Writers Awards Short Story Contest

"The Clockmaker's Daughter" - Quarter Finalist in the 2002 New Century Writers Awards Short Story Contest

Awarded Certificate of Meritorious Achievement in the Galleria Eros 2002 Short Fiction Award Competition.

"Grandma Jo's Alligator Honeymoon" - 3rd place in the Glendale (Arizona) Public Library's 3rd Annual Short Story Competition, 1997.