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Cat — Out of the Bag!

3/20/2025

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Whoop! Time to let the cat out of the bag!

I am proud and incredibly grateful to announce I signed a traditional publishing contract in the fall with Orange Hat Publishing (imprint TEN16 Press) for my full-length women's fiction — FINDING SUTTON'S CHOICE.

Release date TBD (May 2025), but I'm so excited about the next steps in my writing journey.

For decades, I've made a career of writing nonfiction for newspapers, magazines, nonprofits, and businesses. BUT I was always that little girl with a dog-eared novel in her hands. Knowing my fiction will finally be on a bookshelf is so humbling.

That my first novel is set in my beloved #lakesideohio makes this announcement all the sweeter. More information about the resort setting may be found at lakesideohio.com. 

Thank you, Editor Michael Braun for taking a chance on me. This also would not have been possible without the support of so many family and friends, my first (2nd? 32nd? 132nd?) readers throughout this process. A special "thanks" to #WFWA writing buddy and soon to be debut author, Susan Poole, who pushed me to submit my manuscript. This post would be far in the future if it weren't for you!

More details coming soon. Keep an eye on www.powerofpages.com. A new author page is also under construction at www.brendahaas.com.

#writinglife #NaNoWriMo #debutauthor
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    Brenda Haas is currently a feature writer for Leisure Living Magazine, covering the Shores & Islands Ohio region. She also freelances for nonprofits and is well-versed in public relations, marketing, and editing. She spent many years as a reporter and columnist for a Pittsburgh press. Her writing has appeared in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and My Outer Banks Home magazine, among other publications.

    Brenda lived in the Pittsburgh, PA area for more than 20 years. She now resides in Lakeside, OH, a circa-1870s Lake Erie community attracting generations of annual vacationers, artists, and educators. It serves as the vintage setting for her debut novel — Finding Sutton’s Choice (Orange Hat Publishing/Ten16 Press, release May 2025).

    Works-in-Progress
    Women's Fiction:
    - Sutton's Second Chance
    - Here or There on Beddington Bluff

    Young Adult:
    - Hells of Southgate
    - Forest for the Trees


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