ABOUT 
Author Wendy Dingwall
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​After five years as Operations and Sales Manager at Ingalls Publishing Group, a.k.a., High Country Publishers, Wendy Dingwall, left them in 2008. She transitioned to Parkway Publishers to co-publish two books by Southern authors, Edie Hand and Lin Stepp while ramping up to start her own company, Canterbury House Publishing, in July 2009.

​Since then her author's published books have garnered several literary awards, such as North Carolina Historical Society’s Clark Cox Award for Fiction, to a Communication Arts Award for Excellence in Cover Design, to the prestigious John Esten Cooke Award for Historical Fiction given by the Military Stars and Bars, and numerous High Country Writers’ Awards. In May 2013 she relocated her publishing house from Boone, North Carolina to Sarasota, Florida.

Since starting in the publishing business, Dingwall has created an Author's Handbook for Marketing, has been a guest speaker on Marketing Authors and Their Books at High Country Writers, was a guest on two publishing panels at Cape Fear Crime Festival in 2006, gave a dialogue workshop at the May We Write Conference in 2007, and moderated the Murder Goes South Mystery Panel at High Country Festival of the Book in 2013 featuring such authors as Cathy Pickens, Glenn A. Bruce and Jane Tesh. In 2022, she hosted authors at a Tea Time Celebration of Cozy & Traditional Mysteries that can be found on the following YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/@FloridaGulfCoastSistersinCrime 

​In November 2019, Dingwall sold the imprint and assets of Canterbury House Publishing to Dudley Court Press. 

When she was not devoting herself to publish and promote fellow authors, Dingwall fulfilled a lifelong dream by writing her own mystery series. Her first novel, Hera's Revenge: An Yvonne Suarez Travel Mystery was published in 2011.  It is the first in her series where Dingwall's love of travel, mystery, and story-telling melds and resonates. Library Journal reviewed it favorably, saying, “Both in tone and locale—to Mary Stewart’s The Moon-Spinners. The author’s love of Greece and her insights into a tour group’s dynamics make this light romantic suspense debut a welcome distraction for an armchair traveler. A series to watch.”

Dingwall’s second novel, Celtic Curse, also featuring amateur sleuth, Yvonne Suarez, was published in 2013. It is a cold-case mystery set in Scotland and has received excellent industry reviews. Both books won the High Country Book of the Year Awards for Fiction in their respective years published. Dingwall’s third Yvonne Suarez Travel Mystery, Toxic Cruise, is set on a ship cruising the Western Caribbean and was published in the fall of 2016. Her latest endeavor is set closer to home in Washington, DC. and is currently on the back burner as she works on a different novel.
 
Dingwall is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime,  and Florida Writers Association. In December 2015, Dingwall founded the Florida Gulf Coast chapter of Sisters in Crime. She was elected as their first President and served from 2016-2018. In 2020 she accepted the Presidency again from July to December as the current President was unable to finish her term. She currently serves as their Membership Chairperson.

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Writing Awards

• 2011 High Country Book of the Year for Mystery Fiction: Hera's Revenge
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• 2013 High Country Book of the Year for Mystery Fiction: Celtic Curse

Publishing Awards

• North Carolina Historical Society’s Clark Cox Award for Fiction

• Communication Arts Award for Excellence in Cover Design

• John Esten Cooke Award for Historical Fiction given by the Military Stars and Bars
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• ​Various High Country Writers’ Awards

Memberships

   ​Initiator/Co-founder of the Florida Gulf Coast chapter of Sisters in Crime; President 2016-2018, 
   Mystery Writers of America
   Florida Writers Association
   Florida Authors and Publishers

Professional Notables

• Developer and Presenter of Author's Handbook for Marketing
 
   Moderator/Panelist at Barnes & Noble, Agatha Christie's Birthday, Continued event as Presenter at Fruitville Library. 2019

   Moderator/Panelist at Barnes & Noble's Agatha Christie's Birthday Celebration. Continued event as Presenter at Gulf Gate Library. 2018

   Panelist at Bouchercon, St. Petersburg, FL "Interesting Day Jobs Lead to Interesting Stories." 2018  
  
   Speaker at Sarasota Fiction Writers, "Don't Wing It, Build Strong Scenes." 2017

   Moderator/Panelist, Inspire Sarasota, Mysteries to Die For, Selby Library, 2016
  
   Moderator/Panelist, Sisters Sizzle in Sarasota with Barnes & Noble and Gulf Gate Library 2016

​   Moderator at the Murder Goes South Mystery Panel at High Country Festival of the Book in 2013

   Facilitator for dialogue workshop at the May We Write Conference in 2007

   2 Panels on Publishing at the Cape Fear Crime Festival in 2006•




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