Downunder Contest Divas

Tessa Radley sent this picture taken at the after-Awards reception in Atlanta, showing the three down-under nominees who made the long trip to the other side of the world. That's me with Abby Gaines (GH nominee and now SuperRomance author) and Anna Campbell (dual GH nominee and now Avon author.) Notice that we'll still smiling broadly, thrilled to be nominated, and thrilled that 2 of trophies were going home to Australia, namely: Marion Lennox's RITA for Best Traditional Romance and Christine Diehm (writing as Christine Wells) who won a Golden Heart for Best Short Historical. A record 7 Aussies/Kiwis received a total of 11 nominations in the 2006 RITAs and Golden Hearts. Yay, us!

posted by Bronwyn Jameson @ 11:41 AM

Comments:

Hi Bron,

Great photo - love those smiles. You all deserve to celebrate after the nominations - what a thrill. Aren't Aussie and New Zealand writers on a roll at the moment?

Annie

posted by

Annie West : 7:53 PM

You and fellow Aussies look so happy and beautiful. That's great there were so many nomineees from down under. Hopefully next year there will be more of both![noms & winners]

posted by

Dena : 11:08 PM

wtg on everything

posted by

kim : 3:05 AM

Bron, isn't that a lovely photo of all of us? We all look so happy - I was still feeling slightly shellshocked after having to get up and accept Christine's award in front of 3,000 people! Wasn't it great there were so many Oz/NZ nominations this year? I'm still in awe of your triple nomination in one category. That's an amazing achievement. Wish you'd been at the local conference! I missed your smiling face!

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Anna Campbell : 8:33 AM

Gorgeous photo! Mind you, the subject matter made that easy, right?

I didn't realise that there were so many nominations for our precious corner of the world's great writers. Now I'm even more proud of you all!

posted by

Yvonne Lindsay : 5:12 PM

Hey, you guys. Aren't we beautiful and clever? *g* Ms Anna Campbell, you made the rockingest speech on Christine's behalf. You did us all proud!

posted by

Bronwyn Jameson : 6:40 PM

And I'm doing a quick maths check, hoping I didn't count some fingers twice, not no...3 nominees, 4 nominations in the GH. 4 nominees, 7 nominations in the RITAs. Phew.

posted by

Bronwyn Jameson : 6:41 PM

Congrats, ladies.

posted by

Pat : 11:17 AM