Marilyn is The Finalist in the 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award in the Romance category for her novel, The Alibi and The Finalist in the 2017 Georgia Author of the Year Award in the Romance Category for Stumble Stones: A Novel.
Other Contest Wins and Finals
The Colonoscopy Club (Now the published novel STONES) finaled in the GRW Unpublished Maggie Awards for Excellence in 2005 in the Single Title category.
Sixth Sense won the GRW 2012 Unpublished Maggie Award for Excellence in the Paranormal/Fantasy Romance category.
Significant Others was a finalist in the 2014 GRW Published Maggie Awards for Excellence in the Novel With Strong Romantic Elements category.
The Case of the Missing Botticelli received 3rd Place in the 2023 Orange County Romance Writers Book Buyers Best Contest in the Romance Category and The Case of the Forgotten Fragonard, received 2nd Place in the Romance Novella Category in the 2024 Book Buyers Best contest.
