Lillian Grant's Speak To Me Of Abduction was recently awarded a Top-Pick at The Romance Reviews.  

Here are some snippets of Rho's review:

'Lillian Grant has another hit with SPEAK TO ME OF ABDUCTION. A gripping plot with excellent writing and dialogue as well as very memorable characters make this one impossible to put down.'

Lillian Grant's Siren BookStrand release Speak To Me of Abduction recently received an awesome 4.5 stars out of 5 review from BookWenches.  

Here's a snippet:

If you are looking for a story featuring a little bit of glamour, a fair share of danger, and love scenes that are hot enough to make you squirm, then I recommend you give Speak to Me of Abduction a shot. Ms. Grant has penned a very readable, enjoyable story here. And if you enjoyed these characters, you’ll be happy to know that Ms. Grant has just released Jonathan’s story. I can’t wait to see what kind of situation he finds himself in next.


Read the full review at the July reviews page at BookWenches.

Amy T Matthews' End Of The Night Girl was very favourably reviewed by Gillian Dooley on Writer's Radio/Radio Adelaide.  

'I can see I'm going to have trouble reining in the superlatives for this review. How can anyone
complain about the state of Australian fiction when novels like Amy Matthews' End of the Night Girl are being written, winning awards and getting published? Let's just hope they're also being bought and read widely, and will find their way onto curricula in universities - because novels like this have limitless capacity for stimulating deep thought and intelligent discussion.
End of the Night Girl is a novel of ideas in the best possible sense. It's a
novel that asks questions it doesn't know how to answer about the most profound issues humans have ever faced.
It's also witty, dry, unsentimental and sharply observed.'

This year, the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) celebrates it's 20th anniversary.  To commemorate this occasion and just to generally party, The RWA held 20 Years of Romance Covers contest.

We're very pleased to announce that two of our members made the top fifteen!  

Trish Morey (THE STORM WITHIN, in A Royal Wedding) and Tamara Gill (A Captain's Order, A Duke's Command) will now have to wait until the RWA 20th Annual Conference "From Here to Eternity" to see if they took out the top spot--the best cover of the last 20 years.  

Congratulations, everyone!

Lillian Grant is celebrating the release of Speak to Me of Abduction with a website giveaway!  Head to www.lilliangrant.com for details.  

If you miss out on the giveaway, go to Siren-Bookstrand to pick up your copy. 

Congrats, Lillian! 

Trish Morey's The Heir From Nowhere is now in it's second week at Bookscan at #24, and debuted at #86 on the latest USA Today Bestseller list.  What an achievement!  Congrats, Trish!

In more Trish Morey News, Trish's FORCED WIFE, ROYAL LOVE-CHILD is available now in the #1 Bestsellers Collection 2011.  She's keeping great company alongside one of SARA's great friends, Yvonne Lindsay.  

Grab your copy at eHQ!

It's that time again.   Have you got your beverage and your bicky ready as we prepare to delve into the wonder that is the recent SARA news?  Actually, you've got my permission to grab two bickies - there's lots going on in SARAville.  

*MORE FLASH*

Just hold off on sipping your coffee while I make this announcement.  Eleni's flashing again!
Eleni Konstantine's latest piece of flash fiction, Dragon's Quest, is online now at Antipodean SF.  Stay tuned for the AntiSF Radio Show podcast as well, recently recorded by Eleni.  Looking forward to your next piece, Eleni (you flasher, you).

*NEW RELEASES*

Check out the SARA offerings in June new releases.  

Amy T Matthews
END OF THE NIGHT GIRL
(Wakefield Press)

Anne Oliver
One Night Before Marriage
in RULED BY THE RICH MAN (HM&B Specials) (Alongside Lucy Monroe & Susan Napier)

Hit the covers to link up.  More Aussie June releases at the RWA blog.  

*PREORDER NOW*

Lillian Grant's SPEAK TO ME OF ABDUCTION (SirenBookstrand) isn't available until next week, but you can preorder it now at the SirenBookstrand webbie.  

Somebody hand Bec Sampson a sceptre and a tiara, because the contest queen's done it again!  This time Bec has finaled in the Romance Writers of America's Wisconsin Chapters' Fabulous Five Writing Contest.  And not only that, she does it in style, taking out the Silver Quill (first place) in the Young Adult section, with Alli's Playground.  

Congratulations, ladies!  

There's been some big news coming out of SARA in recent weeks.  Grab a beverage, nab a chocolate biscuit, take a seat and enjoy!

First cab off the literary rank is Amy T Matthews' impending Wakefield Press release, END OF THE NIGHT GIRL.  This is the manuscript that saw Amy taking out the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Unpublished Manuscript Award last year .  Check out that awesome cover.  Big congrats Amy, and all the best with the upcoming launch!

Two novels teasingly combine in one as End of the Night Girl explores the shadow cast by the Holocaust across centuries, continents, and cultures. Molly’s story, set in Adelaide and told in the first person, is a sassy modern drama of a young woman’s search for purpose amid confused family, sexual and social relationships. Under Molly’s pen emerges, jigsaw-like, the third-person Holocaust story of Gienia, a murdered young Polish Jewish woman who may or may not be fictional. Winner 2010 Adelaide Festival Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript.


Amy will also guest spot on the 7:30 Report soon about her novel.  Stay tuned!

Cover love continues as we take a look at Lillian Grant's upcoming release from Siren Bookstrand, SPEAK TO ME OF ABDUCTION, due out in June.

Congrats, Lillian!  Here's a blurb:

After accepting a movie role, Charlene Page, worries she might be the next rising porn star.  On reflection, that might have been safer.

Stuck in Rio and desperate for cash, Australian backpacker Charlene accepts a minor movie role. When her co-star, Holly wood hunk and serial womanizer, Jonathon Deveraux is abducted from the set she turns to his older brother for help.

Oscar winner and Hollywood good guy Jacob Deveraux is a recluse. However, when his brother goes missing, he agrees to help the hapless backpacker who appears to have been deceived into taking a movie role so that Jonathon could woo her into his bed.  The more determined he is to keep his distance the more he is drawn to her.  When it becomes obvious his bother’s kidnapping is designed to punish Jacob he worries Charlene may be next.  Despite his best efforts to keep her safe she is grabbed off the street. Can he find and save his brother and Charlene or will he lose another woman he loves?

Now, you know Rebecca Sampson?  You've heard of her, right?  Well, big congrats to Bec, who has officially taken out the numero uno spot in the Yellow Rose RWA Winter Rose Contest for unpublished writers in the YA section, with her story ALLI'S PLAYGROUND.   Go you, Bec!

Congratulations also to our bestselling authors for April, Tamara Gill AMAZON US Anthology) & Elizabeth Rolls (AMAZON US Anthology/Historical/Regency, Book Depository Overall Bestsellers).  More at the Romance Writers of Australia Blog.  

Go SARAs!