Biography of  Roxanne Rustand

Roxanne Rustand is an award-winning author of magazine articles and fifteen secular romantic suspense novels. She also contributed to the serial mystery, ORCHESTRATED MURDER (a trade paperback for Iowa Public Radio.) She now writes inspirational fiction, and is completely thrilled about this change in her career!  Her first Love Inspired Suspense books were slated for  December 2007, February 2008 and March 2008, followed by another in May, 2009.  

Roxanne's first manuscript won the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart in Long Contemporary, and her second was a Golden Heart finalist.  More recently, A Man She Can Trust (a February, 2006 release) won RT Bookclub Magazine's award for Best Superromance of 2006. Roxanne was nominated for RT's Career Achievement Award in 2005.

She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, International Thriller Writers, RWA, Novelists Inc., the Faith, Hope and Love chapter of RWA, RWA's Mystery & Suspense Chapter, Christian Writer's Group International, and the Heart of Iowa Fiction Authors.

Roxanne lives in the country with her husband and a daughter, who graduated from high school in 2007 and is in college. Two sons have already graduated from college. Out on their acreage, they have two horses, two border collie mixes (one newly adopted from a shelter--a sweetie named Elmo),  and an abundance of fat,spoiled barn cats who much prefer cat food to mice. The Rustands firmly believe in spaying/neutering all of their animals. But as in the old hobo days,there must be a secret feline code scratched on the barn door--"Stay here--good eats!" -- because newcomers are forever joining the barn cat population. If they stay, they get fixed, too...but apparently *that* message hasn't been shared!!

Roxanne has a Master's Degree in nutrition, is a registered dietitian, and works part-time at a residential psychiatric facility.   You can visit her website at www.roxannerustand.com  for news about her books and links to places for buy them, articles, a free cookbook, and a monthly contest.  She is also at www.shoutlife.com/roxannerustand.

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