I had to put that in the title line because, as far as titles go, it is so very grand. What it is... The Colorado Romance Writers annual contest for published romance books, which they've called
The Award of Excellence. Authors enter their own books so you're judged against the other entered books. Correspondence says that entries were high and competition fierce in the Short Contemporary category, and given the other finalists I choose to believe that is true.
Wedded in a Whirlwind ~ Liz Fielding
The Daddy Dilemma ~ Karen Rose Smith
The Tycoon's One-Night Revenge ~ Bronwyn Jameson
The Billionaire' s Bought Mistress ~ Annie West
And Baby Makes Four ~ Mary J. Forbes
The winner is announced at the Romancing the Rockies conference on May 1-2. Quade: The Irresistible One and The Rugged Loner also were finalists in this contest so I'm hoping for third time lucky.
Labels: Award of Excellence, Colorado Romance Writers, contests, Quade: The Irresistible One, The Rugged Loner, Tycoon's One-Night Revenge
With many thanks to Maxine Sullivan for passing on the link, I've learned of some fun releases in the UK in 2009. In April my first hardcover release,
Tycoon's One-Night Revenge. I believe these are printed mostly for the library market and therefore sales are limited but my mates who write for M&B London often give me one of these as an advance read and now I'm getting one of my own. Tickled pink.
Same month I'm listed in an anthology titled
Irresistible Attraction with Suzanne Brockmann and Justine Davis. Yes, I know!!! Cool factor=subzero. I have no idea which of my books this is, and am playing the guessing gamne. Perhaps Quade, my irresistible one, and my bestselling book in the UK to date. Perhaps the lovely cover had something to do with that.
In May
Tycoon's One-Night Revenge will have its paperback release in a duo with a fab and stylish Leanne Banks number. Leanne just happens to be one of my favourite Desire authors.
My face she is smiling.
Labels: foreign translations, Justine Davis, Quade: The Irresistible One, Suzanne Brockmann, Tycoon's One-Night Revenge
...I will be on a beach like this. Well, perhaps not *exactly* like this. Chances are there will be a lot more people. And waves. I won't be sitting on the beach playing kissyface either, I will be standing with my camera recording the efforts of certain intrepid authors on surfboards. It has been pointed out that money could be made keeping those pictures private but that would be blackmail, right? One of my least favourite ploys.
The beach, BTW, is the cover of
Quade: The Irresistible One in Lithuania. For the second time. Here is the first cover as a single ===>>>; this latest one is a duet with Amy Fetzer's Taming The Beast. Seemed strange to get two translations in the one country relatively close together so I double-checked and it's the same title, Zavusis Kveidas, and the same blurb.
It's a pretty cover and it could be Chantal and Quade. On their honeymoon. I think they'd have chosen an isolated island beach somewhere. How about you? Where did you spend your honeymoon? I have your choice from my available back titles as a giveaway. (Prize drawn July 15.)
Labels: foreign translations, Quade: The Irresistible One
