Sunday, November 27, 2022

Honored to be the only Reader’s Choice Couple

WOW!! Thank you so much to Community Reporter Megan Hussey and the Hernando Sun newspaper in Tampa Bay Florida for the awesome article about me and my husband, Elliott Smith entitled 'Reader's Choice Couple'. 

It all started back in May of 2022 when both my husband and I were delighted to find out that we were both nominated for the Hernando Sun Newspaper Reader’s Choice Awards. I was nominated for Best Author (www.RoslynFranken.com) and my husband for Best Entertainer (www.SeeTheMagic.com).

There were 16 categories total with 115 sub-categories including “Author” and “Entertainer”. There were 738,911 votes in total across all the categories both national and international so needless to say, Elliott and I were both thrilled to hear that we won. When we realized that we were the only married couple to be awarded GOLD winner in our respective categories, we were even that much more thrilled, as you can imagine. We are very grateful to all the people who voted for us. 

It's a few months later and here we are enjoying the thrill again with this wonderful article about me and my magical husband Elliott as the Reader's Choice Couple




   



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