Novel YOUR GIFT TO ME Wins MWSA Gold Medal in Military Super Romance

ByPhyllis Zimbler Miller

Congrats to authors Bonnie B. Latino and Bob Vale for their Military Writers Society of America gold medal win for novel YOUR GIFT TO ME. I am personally very excited about this well-deserved honor.

Adding to my excitement over this win, YOUR GIFT TO ME is one-third of the experienced-based military fiction triad featured on this site. The other two novels of the triad are THE FINAL SALUTE by Kathleen M. Rodgers and my novel MRS. LIEUTENANT.

Click here to read about this triad.

Here is the list of all of the MWSA Award winners.

And here is Katherine Boyer’s Midwest Book Review of YOUR GIFT TO ME.

You can buy the novel now on Amazon.

© 2012 Miller Mosaic LLC

Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the author of fiction and nonfiction books/ebooks. A new nonfiction ebook of hers is TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO MARKET YOUR BOOK ON AMAZON AND FACEBOOK and her newest fiction ebook is the thriller CIA FALL GUY.

Click here to visit her Amazon author page at amazon.com/author/phylliszimblermiller

She also has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is the co-founder of the online marketing company www.MillerMosaicLLC.com

12 Comments

  1. I loved all three of these books. As a military wife, naturally, they struck home; however, I truly believe that anybody would like these books, because they are also about marriage and family and love and patriotism — subjects that interest just about everybody.

    1. Thanks so much for this lovely comment. I had not previously thought of what you wrote but you are so right — all three books are about “marriage and family and love and patriotism”!

  2. Phyllis, thank you kindly for your words about “Your Gift to Me” . . . you are such a generous author to share news of other writers. And honestly, I don’t know ANYONE who knows more about marketing than you do!

    BTW, I saw the new header, which Miller Mosiac created, on your Twitter account yesterday. It is IMPRESSIVE.

    Thanks, also to Ellie Rae for your comment about “Mrs. Lieutenant,” “The Final Salute” and “Your Gift to Me.” Bob and I are proud to be associated with two books we enjoyed so much–and two authors who GET the military WAY OF LIFE — and get it right!

    1. Bonnie —

      Isn’t sharing news of other authors’ books an extension of supporting other people — a way of life that we learn as military spouses?

      Although I was a military spouse for only two years, I suspect I learned many lifelong lessons during that time.

  3. You are exactly right about sharing news of other authors books being an extension of supporting other people!

    One thing that “Mrs. Lieutenant” illustrates so well is the importance of the bonds of friendship between military spouses…the women (and today, some male spouses) who don’t form those bonds are lonely and sometimes terrified when their husband (or wife) is deployed, and they are all alone…and if they are sick or injured or their children are, having real friendships becomes even more important.

    I was often angry at active duty personnel who didn’t WANT their spouses to get involved with other spouses–for fear the women would go somewhere that would cost him money-or out of misplaced jealousy (something else “Mrs. LT” illustrates!)…..For an active duty person to take such a position is the height of selfishness…and I saw it way too many times.

    I always went out of my way to know the spouses in Tom’s squadrons and groups , especially overseas where the isolationism is magnified….Military spouses need to make friends before you NEED friends, especially in the military where family and childhood friends are often thousands of miles away.

    Oops. Sorry! I digressed. I surely, surely did!

    ~Bon

    1. You may have digressed, but you brought up some very important points! In fact, you brought tears to my eyes remembering the initial isolation I felt before I connected with other military spouses.

  4. When I was a new Air Force 2/Lt’s wife living in Lubbock, Texas, it was all so new to me and so strange…I had been an independent and strong college girl–but as a newlywed, home alone, I became so frightened I wouldn’t even answer the door if it was someone I didn’t know…and I didn’t know anyone but Tom–and he was flying. I became a recluse–we lived off base in a huge apartment complex.

    All that changed when I met other military spouses. We were all in the same situation…and all praying our husbands didn’t get orders for Vietnam . . . so very similar to “Mrs. Lieutenant.”

    1. More tears at “all praying our husbands didn’t get orders for Vietnam…”

  5. I remember those early military days well. I was only 17 and already living in Germany, working as a secretary at USAA Frankfurt, for some reason (probably from vivid history lessons in high school) always aware that I was living in a place where Nazis had ruled, not many years before. Connecting with other military spouses is what got me through. Having a job kept me connected with other military wives, since we did not live in housing, but on the economy. I did worry a lot about my husband getting orders to Vietnam. That was hanging over all our heads, wasn’t it?

  6. To Ellie Rae, Phyllis, and Bonnie,

    I am so honored to be included in your circles of light. Many thanks to Ellie Rae for being so supportive of all three books. We salute you, Ellie Rae.
    To Phyllis, for helping all of us authors find our way in the “internet” jungle.

    And a huge thanks to Bonnie for being so supportive of fellow authors. I know how much she has helped me.

    Happy writing and reading from this old Air Force wife turned Army mom,

    Kathleen

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