BIO
Lois Winston straddles two worlds. She's an award-winning
author of romance, romantic suspense, humorous women's
fiction, and mystery under her own name and as Emma Carlyle.
She's also an award-winning designer of needlework and
crafts projects for magazines, craft book publishers, and
craft kit manufacturers. Like Anastasia, the protagonist in
her ANASTASIA POLLACK CRAFTING MYSTERIES series,
Lois worked for several years as a crafts editor. A graduate
of the prestigious Tyler School of Art, she often draws on
her art and design background for much of the source
material in her fiction. She lives with her husband a stone's
throw from Manhattan (assuming you can throw a stone
across the Hudson River.)

WRITING AWARDS
- 2012 Daphne du Maurier Award, finalist
- 2012 ForeWords Book of the Year, finalist
- 2012 Salt Lake City Library System Readers' Choice Award, finalist
- 2012 Canyonland Press Readers' Choice Award, finalist
- 2008 Winter Rose Award for Excellence in Romantic Fiction, 1st Place
- 2008 Laurie Awards, 1st Place
- 2008 More Than Magic Award, 1st Place
- 2008 Beacon Awards, 2nd Place
- 2008 Golden Quill Awards, Finalist
- 2007 Readers and Book Buyers Best Award, 1st Place
- 2007 Beacon Awards, 2nd Place
- 2007 Laurel Wreath Awards, 2nd Place
- 2007 Golden Leaf Awards, Finalist
- 2006 Golden Leaf Awards, Finalist
- 2006 Reviewers' Choice Awards, Finalist
- 2005 Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award, Finalist
- 2004 St. Martin's Press Malice Domestic Competition, Finalist
- 2004 Dorchester Publishing American Title Competition, 1st Runner-up
- 2004 Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award, Double Finalist

FUN FACTS
- Favorite color: black because it's so slimming <G>
- Favorite drink: vanilla latte
- Favorite dessert: creme brulee
- Favorite city: Manhattan
- Favorite vacation spot: a cruise to anywhere
- Favorite activity (other than writing): going to Broadway shows
- Favorite mystery author: Janet Evanovich
- Favorite modern movie: Shakespeare in Love
- Favorite classic movie: Casablanca
- All-time Favorite TV show: M*A*S*H
- Favorite Broadway show: Wicked
- Favorite song: just about anything written by George and Ira Gershwin
- Favorite singer: Andrea Bocelli
- Favorite actor: Pierce Brosnan (that man can star as the hero in any of my books!)
- Favorite actress: Meryl Streep
- Pet peeves: reality TV, people who don't answer their emails or return phone calls
- Person I'd most like to meet: Leonardo da Vinci