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Barbara Casey's two middle-grade/young adult novels, Leilani Zan and Grandma Jock and Christabelle (James C. Winston Publishing Co., Trade Division) were both nominated for awards of excellence by the SCBWI Golden Kite Award, the National Association of University Women Literary Award, and the Sir Walter Raleigh Literary Award. Shyla's Initiative (Crossquarter Publishing Group), a contemporary adult novel (occult romance/mystery), received a 2003 Independent Publisher Book Award and also an award of special literary recognition by the Palm Beach County Cultural Council. The Coach's Wife (ArcheBooks Publishing), also a novel for adults (contemporary/mystery), was semi-finalist for the 2005 Dana Award for Outstanding Novel and listed on the Publisher’s Best Seller List. The House of Kane (ArcheBooks Publishing), released in 2007, was considered for a Pulitzer nomination. In 2009, Ms. Casey’s contemporary novel for adults, Just Like Family, was released. Most recently, her young adult novel, The Cadence of Gypsies, was released in March 2011, and is being reviewed by the Smithsonian for its List of Best Books. The Gospel According to Prissy, her latest adult novel, is scheduled for release in March 2013 and will be distributed nationally.

Barbara Casey is the author of seven award-winning novels and numerous articles, poems, and short stories. In addition to her own writing, she is an editorial consultant and president of her own literary agency which she established in 1995. She lives in Trion, Georgia, with her husband, her 6-pound Maltese named Hemingway, and Benton, a hound-mix who adopted her.