IRIS DORBIAN
UPDATE: 1/23/26: An Epiphany in Lilacs is winner of the 2026 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award Winter Competition for Fiction - Realistic Genre. Thank you PenCraft!
UPDATE: 4/9/26: An Epiphany in Lilacs is now available for sale as an audiobook via Beacon Audiobooks!!! Want to take a listen or buy? Click here.
UPDATE: 4/14/26: Fabulous news! I just found out that my new manuscript "One More Encore" will be published by the Sunbury Press imprint Milford House Press either later this year or early next year! I'm tickled pink. I think this is my best story yet!! Thank you Sunbury!!!
UPDATE: 7/1/26: An Epiphany in Lilacs has been selected for a BookBub Featured Deal on July 6 and will be available for free that day. BookBub is one of the most selective ebook promotion services, so I’m thrilled that the book was chosen. UPDATE (7/7/26). It did very well. When I woke up this am, the rankings were as follows: #5 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store); #1 in Historical European Fiction; #1 in War Fiction (Kindle Store); and #1 in Coming of Age Fiction (Kindle Store).
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