Roxanne is the award-winning author of nineteen romantic suspense and heart-warming, emotional relationship novels for Superromance and Steeple Hill's Love Inspired Suspense. She also contributed to the trade paperback, ORCHESTRATED MURDER.
Her 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 Superromance) won RT Bookclub Magazine's award for Best Superromance of 2006. Roxanne was nominated for RT's Career Achievement Award in 2005.
Involvement in RWA not only helped her on the road to publication, but has provided a way to give back to those who helped her. She has given many workshops at national RWA conferences, at the regional and state level, and as online classes.
Roxanne lives in the country with her husband and a menagerie of pets that frequently find their way into her books--including her son Brian's snake, Igor. Both sons have recently graduated from college, and daughter Emily is now a freshman. 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 personal website at www.roxannerustand.com for news about her books, articles, a free cookbook, and a monthly contest. There, you can sign up for a free newsletter! It's sent just a few times per year, with fun recipes, information on contest prizes and winners, and news about any upcoming book releases.
