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The award-winning novel Hands of Gold capitalizes on Roni Robbins’ nearly four decades as a published writer: a staff reporter for daily and weekly newspapers; and a freelancer for national, regional, and online publications. She is currently a freelance reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Medscape/WebMD, where she was previously an editor after serving as associate editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times. Robbins’ articles have appeared in The Huffington Post, Forbes, the New York Daily News, Adweek, WebMD, and Healthline. She was a staff writer for Florida Today/USA Today, The Birmingham News, and the Atlanta Business Chronicle/American City Business Journals. She also wrote for Mother Nature Network, Daily Report/American Lawyer Media; The Forward, FromTheGrapevine, and Hadassah magazine, among others. In addition to major CEOs and politicians, she interviewed celebrities such as Wolf Blitzer, Andy Gibb, Hank Aaron, and Usher. Hands of Gold won the 2023 International Book Awards for multicultural fiction and the 2023 Global Book Awards gold medal for biographical survival. The novel was a finalist in the 2024 American Legacy Awards for multicultural fiction, earning a 5-star rating in the 2023 Readers’ Choice Book Awards, best adult book, and was a finalist in the 2022 American Fiction Awards, family saga.@ https://www.tiktok.com/@handsofgoldnovel#RoniRobbins#FamilyHistoryNovel#HistoricalFiction #FamilySaga#GenealogyStories#AncestryNovel