Stiletto Contest Winner!

In 2024, I entered my debut novel NEVER NOT YOURS in Contemporary Romance Writers' Stiletto Contest*. And I won! 

Unpublished writers submit the first 5500 words. I entered Never Not Yours as Contemporary Romance, but it ended up in the Women's Fiction category. My guess is that Contemporary Romance was full when I submitted, and it went into my second choice category. 

It was such an honor and an affirmation I sorely needed. After seven months of querying agents and only two full manuscript requests, I was doubting myself. 

*I entered under the pen name April Kelly, which another author published under in the time since. So, now I'm Juniper Kelly!