Battle of the Books between Superromance and Special Edition! Harlequin's deciding its book club read for May and Karina Bliss's A Prior Engagement is duke-ing it out with Special Edition's Allison Leigh's A Weaver Vow. The editors have to compelling arguments for why you should read these books, then readers vote. If you'd like to support a Superromance author vote here.
Vicki Essex is doing a public speaking event next Tuesday, May 7th at the Toronto Public
Library's Annette Street Branch. Details are here. And she's campaigning to get actor Tahmoh Penikett as the cover model for her next release. Tahmoh is the inspiration for the hero, Kyle Peters, in Vicki's upcoming romance tentatively titled What Defines Her. When she tweeted the star he was open to the idea. Let Tahmoh and Harlequin know you want to see him on a Harlequin cover by adding to Vicki's petition (she's hoping for 5,000 signatures). All details here: 
Emmie Dark is adding another string to her writing bow with the release of an erotic novella called Spellbound, published by Destiny
Romance. Here's the link. Her 2012 Super release, In His Eyes was
nominated in the Dear Author/Smart Bitches DABWAHA contest. It was the only
Super nominated in the “category” section. Sarah
Mayberry’s self-pubbed Her Best Worst Mistake also made the cut. The the list of finalists makes a great suggested reading list. 
Cathryn Parry's debut Superromance, Something to Prove, finaled in the long contemporary category of the Colorado Romance Writers 2013 Award of Excellence. She was also thrilled to see it released in French this past February as Week-end Sous La Neige.Drumroll please!
Huge congratulations to the following Superromance authors
who finaled in the Long Contemporary Category of the RITA's, the romance
world's equivalent to the Oscars! The winner will be announced in
July.
Out of the Depths by Pamela Hearon - Debut book!
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Life Rebuilt and A Texas
Chance by Jean Brashear, a
double finalist!
From
Father to Son and Making Her Way
Home by Janice Kay
Johnson, another double finalist!
Protecting Her Son by Joan Kilby won a Cataromance 2012 Reviewer's Choice Award. And she's on a roll with another accolade. Her March release, Maybe This Time is a recommended read on Dear Author.
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princess, a toad and a shipwreck... Rogenna Brewer's next release is The Frogman, Prince, a contemporary retelling of the Grimm's classic, The Frog
Prince. The hero is a scarred Navy SEAL and the heroine is a salvage ship's
captain. "Their daughter's story was my first Harlequin Superromance, SEAL It
With A Kiss," recalls Rogenna.
Check out the blurb and her redesigned website by clicking here.
Vicki Essex's latest release, Back To The Good Fortune Diner was the January book club pick on reader site smartbitcheslovetrashybooks.com Read the full transcript here.
Nothing could surprise an Alaskan bushpilot. Except a plane crash and the
mysterious woman who comes to his rescue. Could be he crashed into something
bigger than a mountain range...
Link to Kay's site here for details on this and her current new release, Blind Man's Buff.
Link to Kay's site here for details on this and her current new release, Blind Man's Buff.
Superromance
welcomes a new debut author next year. Kris Fletcher’s novel A Better Father,
and will release in April 2013. Find out more about Kris on
www.krisfletcher.com Meanwhile, Pamela Hearon will follow her debut Out Of The Depths with The Summer Place, scheduled for an
April 2013 release.
The
three single-title romantic comedies from Darlene Gardner's non-Harlequin
backlist have yet another Superromance connection. Kimberly Van Meter,
Superromance author and graphic designer, redid the covers. Check out the beautiful
new covers for The Misconception, Snoops in the City and Bait and Switch on
Darlene's website.
Congratulations to Linda Warren whose book, The Texan's Bride won a 2012 Bookseller's Best Award. It also finalled in the 2012 RITA's, the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence and the Golden Quill.
Ellen Hartman’s recent release, The Long Shot, was picked for May’s Sizzling Book Club Chat over at www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com. Here's the link to the transcript. Karina Bliss's continued the Super theme the following month with Bring Him Home. Here's the transcript.
Sarah Mayberry’s first Indie release is Her Best Worst Mistake, a spin-off from her Blaze novel, Hot Island Nights. Check out an excerpt and buying links here.
Superromance author Tracy Wolff's first contemporary YA novel, Tempest Rising, finaled in the FF&P RWA Prism contest.
The sequel, Tempest Unleashed, hit shelves on Tuesday, June 5th. For further information on all Tracy's releases click here.
Sarah Mayberry's novel, The Best Laid Plans, was a finalist in Romance Writers' of Australia's 2012 The Romantic Book of The Year Awards.
Mary Brady's SuperRomances Promise to a Boy 2/11 and Winning Over the Rancher 9/11 were 2012 Colorado Romance Writers' Award of Excellence Contest finalists in the Long Contemporary category.
Kate Kelly's December 2011 SuperRomance A Deliberate Father won the long series contemporary section of the 2012 RWA Wisconsin's Write Touch Readers Awards. And Holly Jacobs won the Long Contemporary Section of the
Holt Medallion contest with A Father's Name.
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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."
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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.
