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.

 

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.

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!

We know you've been waiting for it!  Here are our bestselling SARAs for August:

Borders US (Series Romance Top 100) HER-NOT-SO-SECRET DIARY By Anne Oliver

Borders US (Series Romance Top 100) THE HEIR FROM NOWHERE By Trish Morey

Amazon US (Romance Anthologies Top 100) A CAPTAIN'S ORDER - A DUKE'S COMMAND by Tamara Gill

Amazon US (Romance Anthologies Top 100) TO SIN WITH SCANDAL by Tamara Gill


Congratulations to our bestselling SARAs!

More on Aussie bestsellers for August at the Romance Writers of Australia blog.  

Tamara's debut release To Sin with Scandal will be released on the 27th December (5 days away!) from Noble Publishing.


And look her fantastic cover! Not to mention her great book trailer featured below. (Enjoy!)


And wait, there's more- Tamara's second publication, a novella titled A Captain's Order - A Duke's Command will be released by Noble Romance on January 24th.  

Congrats Tamara. You are on a roll!