Yvonne is an award-winning, best-selling author of 56 novels, founded and directed the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference for 25 years, and is now director of the Blue Ridge "Autumn in the Mountains" Novelist Retreat (htp://). She has joined Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas as Acquisitions and Managing Editor of Candlelight Romance and Guiding Light Women's Fiction. She earned a Master's Degree in English from Western Carolina University and has taught English and Creative Writing on the college level. Recent releases are a novella in Reluctant Brides and Name that Tune in A Gentleman's Kiss (Barbour). Her 50th novel is Hearts that Survive - A Novel of the TITANIC (Abingdon), which she signs periodically at the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge TN. Her non-fiction compilations (Grace Publishing) are Divine Moments and Christmas Moments (2014), Spoken Moments, Childhood Moments, and Christmas Moments Book #2 (2015). She blogs at and Novel Rocket Blog.