2006 Grand Prize award from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest and one Dishonorable Mention.
Click on the BULWER-LYTTON, Tomato on the home page for details.

2010 Honorable Mention award from the Public Safety Writers Association for Published Article: Firearms and Writers. Click on the GUNS link above to read article.

2012 Third Place award from the Public Safety Writers Association for Non-Published Fiction Book: Under the Black Flag. Judges' Comments for Under The Black Flag: "This was a superb noir mystery -- with all the necessary elements, great characters, excellent dialogue, great descriptions of settings."

Bad News for a Ghost
a Bart Lasiter mystery
Bart goes underground.
17,800 word Kindle novelette
2013 PSWA Honorable Mention published novel 
2013 Readers Favorite Five Star Award

Blood on the Stairs
a Bart Lasiter mystery
Bart pencils in a murder.
7100 words
2016 PSWA First Place unpublished fiction short story

Looking for Mishka
a Bart Lasiter mystery
Bart solves a kidnapping.
4300 words
2017 PSWA Third Place unpublished fiction short story
Scheduled for publication in Rock and a Hard Place 2021 Issue 7

Just a Dream
5100 words
a John Moss mystery
John looks for his sister in Bicentennial San Francisco.
2018 PSWA Second Place unpublished fiction short story

Always Rings Twice
a Bart Lasiter mystery
Bart learns about will power.
9100 words
2018 PSWA First Place unpublished fiction short story