Well, the results came in late in the evening on August 14th for the Outstanding Creator Awards. I placed in eight categories and received two honourable mentions!  Here are the results: (Super-Category) Best Non-Fiction Book of Summer 2024: 3rd place Autobiographies & Memoirs: 3rd place Biographies: 2nd place Addiction / Alcoholism: 2nd place Mental Health / Mental Illness Books: 2nd place Romance: 3rd place  Health / Healthcare/ Medical / Pharmaceutical Books: 3rd place Grief and Coping / Trauma: 2nd place Honourable mentions: Best couple - Me and Mark Best Moment: The moment they loved was when I sang “Anywhere” by Evanescence and “Can’t Help Falling in Love” by Elvis when Mark was on comfort care (among other songs). They also included when I got a small gold pirate chest for Mark's foreign currency he’d collected over the years when he panhandled. To say I am over the moon is an understatement. This book was written out of my grief over Mark. I started it as a website...

 So, I submitted my book to The Outstanding Creator Awards competition a couple of months ago, and they also provide you with an editorial review. I've had a lot going on so I'm only now making a blog post about it here.  So along with the nomination for the contest, I'm sharing a link to the review. I was thankful to them for referring to Mark as my husband as I had explained what had happened in the book. We never got to get "officially" married but we wanted to and I consider him my husband to this day. I took his last name as my own and wear a ring in memory of what could have been on my left hand. There really is no recipe for how to be considered married within scripture. There are sacred  traditions  both within Judaism and Christianity (that it's probably safer to adhere to if you can.) But we thought we had longer and well...you can read it in the book 😉 I was once told by a Priest, that God is not bound by His sacraments and ordinances and so for me...