Biography of Ramona Richards

Ramona’s first story featured a wild and crazy trip with her parents to her birthplace of Gadsden, Alabama. Ramona was three; her mother was mortified . . . because not a word of it was true. 

She’s not stopped since. After she handwrote her first novel at 10 (an enormous ten pages long), her mother gave in and bought her a typewriter. Now, after more years than Ramona wants to count, she's written everything from sales training video scripts to book reviews, and her editorial work has included novels, religious non-fiction, technical manuals, and poetry. Her latest articles have appeared in Today's Christian Woman, College Bound, and Special Ed Today, and she sold a story about her daughter to Chicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul. Secrets of Confidence, a book of devotionals, is available from Barbour Publishing.

A Murder Among Friends (Love Inspired Suspense) releases in February 2007, and she’s currently inundating her editor with new manuscripts.

Ramona is a frequent speaker at conferences around the country, and loves working with other writers. As an editor, she has worked on staff with a number of publishers and is now an editor with W Publishing. She’s freelanced with more than 20 magazine and book publishers and has won awards for both her fiction and non-fiction. 

In 2004, the God Allows U-Turns Foundation, in conjunction with the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association (AWSA), chose Ramona for their “Strength of Choice” award, and in 2003, AWSA nominated Ramona for Best Fiction Editor of the Year. The Evangelical Press Association presented her with an award for reporting in 2003, and in 1989 she won the Bronze Award for Best Original Dramatic Screenplay at the Houston International Film Festival. A member of the American Christian Fiction Writers and the Romance Writers of America, she has five other novels complete or in development.

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