July News
Jane Toombs's Dragon's Pearl received a 4 1/2 Book Review from Long and Short Of It Romance Reviews
and is eligible for their Best Book of the Week Award!
Lyn Cote's Her Patchwork Family is a finalist for the Carol Award (Book of the Year) in the short
historical category of American Christian Fiction Writers.
Ann Aguirre and Carrie Lofty, writing as Ellen Connor, sold Nightfall, Midnight, and Daybreak
to Cindy Hwang at Berkley Sensation, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency (World English).
Carrie Lofty sold Flawless to Lauren McKenna at Pocket, by Kevan Lyon at marsal Lyon Literary Agency (World) in
a two-book deal.
Carrie Lofty will be presenting two workshops at the national conference. In the first, Beyond Britain: Writing, Selling
and Promoting Unusual Historicals, Carrie joins a group of panelists to discuss how to write, sell and promote unusual historicals in today's romance
market. It will be presented on July 30, 3:15 - 4:15pm.
The second is The Tiny Art of Elevator Pitches: How to Craft Them & How to Use Them. That one is on July 29, 4:30 - 5:30pm.
Helen C. Johannes has a book signing at Book World, in Marshfield, on July 24th.
Kathee Jantzi's first short story "Why Not Me?" was published on July 9 at Every Day Fiction.
Roxanne Rustand's Final Exposure is a Daphne finalist in the inspirational category.
Mary Jo Scheibl, writing romantic suspense as Casey Clifford, won the Holt Medallion Award for Best First Book for Black Ribbon Affair.
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Christie Craig's Divorced, Desperate and Deceived is a finalist in the OCC/BBB Orange County Bookseller's Best contest.
Roxi Romano has signed a contract for her second book with Ellora's Cave. No release date has been set yet for Two Grooms for Dani.
Barbara Raffin's novella, The Scarecrow and Ms. Moon, will be part of the Jewels of the Quill Halloween anthology. Halloween Treasures will be released in September by Whiskey Creek Press.
Mary Brady is a finalist in the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence Contest and in the Romance Writers of America RITA Awards, Best First Book category, with her Harlequin SuperRomance He Calls Her Doc. Mary has also signed a new contract with Harlequin for two more SuperRomances.
Rowena Cherry received the EPIC Award for Friend of ePublishing for all that her Passionate Internet Voices Talk Radio show "Crazy Tuesday" has done
for authors both e-published and print published.
Anna Schmidt just signed a 3-book deal with Barbour Publishing for a series of mainstream books set in the Mennonite community of Pinecraft, Florida to be published in 2011-2012. The series is entitled The Women of Pinecraft. Her books
Home at Last and An Unexpected Suitor are both finalists for the RT Reviewer's Choice Award.
Lyn Cote will be presenting a workshop at RWA National titled "Conflict Grid, Tool for Success." The Conflict Grid was created by Kathy Jacobson and is a great tool for making certain every possible type of conflict has been developed in your romance. A great planning tool.
Pamela Ford's October 2009 Harlequin Superromance, Her Best Bet, is a finalist in the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence Contest.
Donna Kowalczyk (writing as Donna Marie Rogers) placed second in the NEC Reader's Choice Bean Pot Awards with Meant To Be.
JL Wilson won the Science Fiction category of the Eppies with her novel Endurance.
Sandra Turriff (writing as Meg Hennessy) won the Eppies' Historical Romance category for Shadows of A Southern Moon.
Mary Hughes's Bite My Fire is one of ten finalists in the
Favourite Erotic Romance category of the 2009 Australian Romance Readers Awards.
Christie Craig's
Divorced, Desperate and Deceived won first the Houston Bay Area RWA Best Cover contest in Single Title and Gotcha! took second place in the Romantic Suspense category.
Barb Raffin recently received
a 4 star review from RT for The Mating Game.
Ann Curtis placed 6th in the 2009 Preeditors & Editors Reader Poll for Best Editor.
