Greensburg, PA – Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction master’s program welcomes award-winning author Shirley Hailstock to campus on January 8. Ms. Hailstock, past president of Romance Writers of America, will speak at 7 p.m. in Cecilian Hall on “Building a Network: The Key to Publishing Success.” The presentation is free and open to the public.

The winner of many awards including the Holt Medallion, the National Readers’ Choice Award, the Daphne DuMaurier Award, and the Golden Quill, Ms. Hailstock’s ethnic and romantic suspense novels have appeared on Waldenbooks and Amazon.com’s bestseller lists. Ms. Hailstock holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Howard University in Washington, D.C. and an MBA in Chemical Marketing from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ.

Seton Hill University, chartered in 1918, is a coeducational Catholic liberal arts university in Greensburg, Pa. with more than 30 undergraduate programs and 8 graduate programs, including an MBA. Seton Hill brings the world to its students through its distinguished lecturers and nationally and internationally renowned centers. Twice recognized by Entrepreneur magazine as one of the nation’s Top 100 Entrepreneurial Universities, Seton Hill has also been named one of the Best Mid-Atlantic Colleges by The Princeton Review and one of Pennsylvania’s Top 100 Businesses by Pennsylvania Business Central. For more information on Seton Hill please visit www.setonhill.edu or call 1-800-826-6234.