Well, another year is upon us.  Isn't that exciting?

SARA members have ushered in the new year with a variety of great news:

Claire Baxter has had at least one short story included in an anthology produced by the publishers of the South African magazine, You.  It contains their 40 favourite stories from the last ten years and is out now.

 
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Trish Morey has a new release: SECRETS OF CASTILLO DEL ARCO (HM&B Sexy).

Trish has also received a fabulous review from RT Book Reviews for one of her new books; FIANCEE FOR ONE NIGHT, which is out in the US now.  More on Trish's Blog.

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Lillian Grant got a 4.5star review from Book Wenches for MALE ORDER, aka The Man With The Big...Hat.  More on Lillian's Blog.



Bronwyn Stuart has sold her historical romance, Scandal's Mistress, to Carina Press.  Read about Bron's call story on her blog.  


Dy Loveday has had her short story, Game Play, accepted for an anthology by Wicked East Press.  It should be available mid-2012.  See more about Dy at dyloveday.com

Bec Sampson has finalled in the Southern Magic's Young Adult Section of the Linda Howard Contest for Excellence, with 'Lifer', and Linda Brown has finalled in the same competition in the Unique Genres Section with 'Enchanting the Duke'.  

Finally, Tamara Gill's TO SIN WITH SCANDAL made it to the Amazon US Top 100 Best-seller list again in December. 

Wishing you all a marvellous 2012!
 
 
Claire Baxter (Harlequin Mills & Boon) and her Harlequin Romance Series Author friends have banded together to donate a Kindle, complete with fourteen Harlequin series eBooks to Brenda Novak's Online Auction for Diabetes Research .  

There are now less than four days to place your bid!  

The successful bidder gets this awesome Kindle, fully loaded with sensational eBooks from your favourite Harlequin authors including Liz Fielding, Nikki Logan, Barbara Hannay, Donna Alward, Nicola Marsh and of course, our fellow SARA Claire, and her book PREGNANT: FATHER WANTED.  

Click here to see the listing, and browse the site to find more great donations.  What a great cause!

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Claire has published short stories with a South African magazine. Since then, the publisher has made them available as e-books on Kalahari.net (South Africa's equivalent to Amazon)!

You can view the titles
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Congrats Claire!!
 
 
Trish Morey has just received the cover of what is dubbed 'the Santorini book' - that is  His Mistress for a Million. 

Pretty lovely cover eh? See Santorini in the background...

It will be out in the UK in February, the US in March, and Australia/NZ around that time too.

Congrats Trish!!
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Claire Baxter has her new next book 'Her Mediterranean Makeover' coming out in the UK in December (not long) and in Australia/NZ in January.


Another lovely cover!


Congrats Claire!
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The Best Love Stories of 2009 have six of the finalist books nominated for the R*BY including Claire Baxter's nomination, The Single Dad's Patchwork Family.


And also Trish Morey's R*BY (Sexy) winning title The Italian Boss' Mistress of Revenge.

It's out now!!


Go SARA ladies. 
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Three of our members are finalists in the R*BY awards - THE awards for romance writing in Australia. These are for the best romances books in Australia and New Zealand as is judged by readers.

So a HUGE congratulations go to:

Trish Morey  for The Italian Boss's Mistress of Revenge
Claire Baxter  for The Single Dad's Patchwork Family
and Elizabeth Rolls  for A Compromised Lady

There will be mass cheering from SARA members at the Awards Dinner at the 
Romance of Australia's conference in August!!