Multi-published, award-winning author Lena Nelson
Dooley is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, her
local chapter in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, the Christian Authors’
Network, and Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas. Her forty-plus
books have sold more than 875,000 copies. Lena’s books have
appeared on the CBA, ECPA, and Publisher Weekly bestseller lists,
as well as some Amazon bestseller lists. She also writes a popular
blog, A Christian Writer’s World, that features other
authors’ books. The blog received the Readers’ Choice Blog of the
Year Award from the Book Club Network.
Lena is a three-time finalist in the Carol Awards ACFW contest. Her
2010 release, Love Finds You in Golden, New Mexico, won the
2011 Will Rogers Medallion Award for excellence in publishing
Western Fiction. Her next series, McKenna’s Daughters: Maggie’s
Journey appeared on a reviewers’ Top Ten Books of 2011 list. It
also won the 2012 Selah award for Historical Novel. The second,
Mary’s Blessing, was a Selah Award finalist for Romance
novel. Catherine’s Pursuit, released in 2013, was the winner of the
NTRWA Carolyn Reader’s Choice contest, took second place in the CAN
Golden Scroll Novel of the Year award, and won the Will Rogers
Medallion bronze medallion. Her book, A Heart’s Gift, won
RWA’s Faith, Hope, and Love Readers’ Choice Award in July
2017.
Lena is also the host of The Lena Nelson Dooley Show on the
Along Came a Writer blogtalk radio network. She has experience in
screenwriting, acting, directing, and voice-overs, and currently
serves on the board of directors of Higher Ground Films. She has
been featured in Christian Fiction Online Magazine, ACFW
Journal, Book Fun Magazine, Charisma Magazine,
and Christian Retailing.