Connie (Corcoran) Wilson's last book was named one of seven Best Books of the Year 2014 published by a Chicago author by the Chicago Writers' Association. She is also the winner of the Illinois Women's Press Association Silver Feather Award (Chicago chapter) as Best Writer of the Year (2012, 2014) and Midwest Writing Center Writer of the Year (2010). She is a member of International Thriller Writers)with her novel, Red Is for Rage, named a Pinnacle award winner in the Thriller category by the National Association of Book Entrepreneurs. A graduate of the University of Iowa and former adjunct professor at six IA/IL colleges, she maintains three separate series: a novel series (The Color of Evil, www.TheColorOfEvil.com), a short story series organized by the crimes or sins punished at each of the Circles of Hell in Dante's "Inferno" (Hellfire & Damnation, www.HellfireAndDamnationTheBook.com), and a children's illustrated rhyming Christmas series (The Christmas Cats series, www.TheXmasCats.com). Connie was named Yahoo Content Producer of the Year for her on-the-spot coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign with over two million hits on 1,000 articles. The first book in the Hellfire & Damnation series, published by the Merry Blacksmith Press, won a Gold Medal E-Lit Award and her work has won many other Jenkins E-Lit awards.