Love military heroes?
Always had a yen to write romance? Then sign up for Romance Writers of America's annual conference in Anaheim running July 25-28, 2012. Super authors Rogenna Brewer and Geri Krotow will draw on personal experience to present one of the workshops - Not Every Man in Uniform is a Navy SEAL! Developing Military Characters to Steal Readers' Hearts - along with fellow expert authors AJ Brower, Heather Nickodem, Jo Anne Pinney and Taylor Reynolds.
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| The Kensington crew shooting the cover of Burning Up by Anne Marsh, the first in a new series of romance novels about smoke jumpers. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2100116,00.html#ixzz1j1YNd1WR |
Mitzi's Marine by Rogenna Brewer garnered a mention in the December 5, 2011 issue of Time Magazine in an article titled Veteran Affairs: For romance readers, a hardy man is good to find by Belinda Luscome.
"These heroes promise strength, safety and military grade sex. They also offer their heroines (and, by proxy, their readers) the opportunity to nuture a wounded, handsome, decent guy back to wholeness--as in Rogenna Brewer's tale Mitzi's Marine, wherein one point of the central love triangle is a gunnery sergeant who lost much of one leg in Iraq."
"These heroes promise strength, safety and military grade sex. They also offer their heroines (and, by proxy, their readers) the opportunity to nuture a wounded, handsome, decent guy back to wholeness--as in Rogenna Brewer's tale Mitzi's Marine, wherein one point of the central love triangle is a gunnery sergeant who lost much of one leg in Iraq."
Superromance author Tracy Wolff's first contemporary YA novel, The International Kissing Club, written as Ivy Adams hit the shelves January 3rd. For information on all this prolific author's releases this year, (including three Supers) click here.
Romantic Times Magazine has announced its 2011 Reviewers Choice Best Books Awards. Nominated in the SuperRomance category are:
Kimberly Van Meter for The Past Between Us (March 2011)
Debra Salonen for Return To The Black Hills (April 2011)
Helen Brenna for Redemption At Mirabelle (Sept 2011)
Helen Brenna for Her Sure Thing (Aug 2011)
Debra Salonen for Return To The Black Hills (April 2011)
Helen Brenna for Redemption At Mirabelle (Sept 2011)
Helen Brenna for Her Sure Thing (Aug 2011)
Karina Bliss for Here Comes The Groom (Jan 2011)
And Superromance author Tracy Wolff’s alter ego, Tessa Adams, is nominated for Hidden Embers (April 2011) for Best Erotic Paranormal Romance.
Winners will be announced at RT’sChicago
Romantic Times Magazine's Career Achievement Awards honor authors for their entire body of work throughout their career. The winners and nominees are selected by its staff of over 50 reviewers. In 2011, SuperRomance has two nominees in the series category, Linda Warren and Helen Brenna. See the full list here.
And Superromance author Tracy Wolff’s alter ego, Tessa Adams, is nominated for Hidden Embers (April 2011) for Best Erotic Paranormal Romance.
Winners will be announced at RT’s
Romantic Times Magazine's Career Achievement Awards honor authors for their entire body of work throughout their career. The winners and nominees are selected by its staff of over 50 reviewers. In 2011, SuperRomance has two nominees in the series category, Linda Warren and Helen Brenna. See the full list here.
Darlene Gardner sold two connected books to SuperRomance, bringing her number of sales to the line to an even dozen. The first book is about a woman who doesn't want to know if she was abducted as a child and the man who could make her face her past. Darlene also updated three of her single-title romantic comedies for the ebook market. More information is available on her website.
Mega congratulations to Helen Brenna who won a RITA (we're talking the romance world's equivalent of the Oscar's, people!), in the Contemporary Series Romance: Suspense/Adventure category for The Moon That Night. Helen also won the Readers’ Crown for Best Short Romantic Suspense with Along Came A Husband.
Abby Gaines won the Romantic Novella section of The Readers' Crown awards for No Ordinary Man (in One in a Million).
Linda Warren's Skylar's Outlaw won The Book Buyers's Best Award in category romance. It's a hat-trick for Linda who also won the Holt Medallion in long contemporary and the Colorado Award of Excellence. But wait, there's more. Skylar's Outlaw also won The National Reader's Choice Award in Long Contemporary. Go, Linda!
SuperRomance has two winners in the 2011 Booksellers' Best Award. A Cowboy's Plan by Mary Sullivan won the long contemporary section and Brenda Novak's Body Heat took the single title category.
The Best Laid Plans by Sarah Mayberry came 5th in the Cover Cafe's annual cover contest. The artist for this cover, Steve Brennan, has been represented in the contest many times, according to the site. Judges liked the red umbrella and were also pleased with the "connection of cover and content" as the cover depicts a scene from the book.
When life gets too serious read a romance novel! Check out this 'for fun' romance promo on YouTube from best-selling authors Jill Shalvis, Robyn Carr, Kristin Higgins, Deanna Raybourn, Susan Andersen, Sherry Thomas, Victoria Dahl and SuperRomance author, Karina Bliss.
Lenora Worth's Love Inspired Suspense novel, Body of Evidence, made it to the New York Times Bestseller List at # 33 on the Extended List for Mass Market Paperbacks. The second book of a suspense continuity, the other writers in this series include Terri Reed, Valarie Hansen, Margaret Daley, Lynette Eason, and Shirlee McCoy.
Sarah Mayberry has a FREE on-line read, Worth The Risk, available at eHarlequin.
This story is linked to her Feb 2011 book via the advice column both characters read
every day - the author of the column is the heroine in The Last Goodbye.
