Diane Perkins http://www.dianeperkins.us

Diane Perkins has been a member of WRW since 1995 and has served as Vice President, Marlene Coordinator, Membership Chair, and Elections Chair, as well as serving on the refreshment committee and the taping committee. In 2001 and 2002 Kathy Caskie named her "The Contest Empress" because of the number of contest finals and wins she racked up. In 2002, Diane took first and third in the Marlene, first and third in the Fabulous Five, and first and second in the Fool for Love, as well as winning the Royal Ascot. She was a Golden Heart finalist in 2001 and 2003 for her Regency Historical manuscript, Unmasked. In 2003, the Mills & Boon editor who judged Unmasked for the Golden Heart, bought the book. The manuscript Diane was once told "would never sell" went on to win the 2003 Golden Heart for best Long Historical manuscript. It was released by Mills & Boon in July 2004 as The Mysterious Miss M, written under the name Diane Gaston, and quickly became a hard-to-find title. Shortly after selling that first book, Diane received a two book contract from Warner. Her first Warner Forever, The Improper Wife (November 2004), was nominated for a Romantic Times BOOKclub Reviewers Choice Award for Best First Historical of 2004 and was a finalist in Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence contest. Diane is now writing full-time.