Wow, it's getting cold isn't it? Perfect weather for curling up with a beverage of your choice, sitting in front of the heater and consuming a nice spicy novel.
SARA Members have loads out there, and more to come.
 Anne Oliver has been nominated for a R*BY - Romance Writers of Australia's Romance Book of the Year with Her Not-So-Secret-Diary. Fantastic news, Anne! We wait with baited breath for conference when we hear of the winners. Now, SARAs should absolutely correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that Anne is staring down the exciting barrel of her third win, following on from her 2007 win in the short category with Behind Closed Doors, and 2008 with One Night Before Marriage. Way to go, Anne. Other SARA winners/finalists in recent years include Trish Morey and Elizabeth Rolls. Check the RWA R*BY archive for the full list.
Dy Loveday has recently received a contract for her fantasy romance, Illusion. Congratulations, Dy. Very exciting for you and we can't wait to hear more. Bec Sampson continues her winning ways with second place in the Young Adult section of the Connecticut Chapter of RWA 'The Write Stuff' contest, with 'Fake'. Big congrats to you again, Bec. In more awesome news, Amy T Matthews has been shortlisted for the 2012 Dobbie Literary Award with End Of The Night Girl. Fabulous stuff, Amy. Best of luck. See Lilliana Rose's blog for a list of her recently published poems. She's been a busy girl. Tamara Gill has signed a contract with Crimson Romance for her single title regency time travel romance, A Stolen Season, to be published later this year. You're on fire, Tam! Congratulations. Tamara's blog hop to celebrate the release of A Marriage Made in Mayfair is fast approaching, so get thee to her webbie to get a piece of the action. Here's a blurb for A Stolen Season: Archaeologist Sarah Baxter had a clear directive: travel back to nineteenth century London to retrieve the measuring device she left behind. But her bungled attempt at thievery left an English Earl dead and his brother bent on revenge. Sarah must once again go back in time to find the device and return to her own time before her tragic mistake puts a noose around her neck. Unfortunately, the only way to get close to the device is to befriend the very man who wants her dead.Eric the new Earl of Earnston was determined to catch the woman who killed his brother, but she'd disappeared without a trace. Twelve months on and there are still no clues to her whereabouts. As luck would have it, he finds a distraction. A new family have arrived in town and Miss Sarah Baxter is a delightful diversion among the stale debutantes in the ton.Sarah knows it is madness to seduce the man who would want her dead should he know who she was, but the Earl is an alarmingly persistent gentleman. Can Sarah procure the device without her secret being revealed? And what will the Earl do when he finds out the woman he’s in love with is not the woman he thought he knew.Until next time, happy reading. Emmeline.
Big congratulations to our SARA members who have made the bestseller lists for March:
Amazon US
Harlequin Presents Top 100
A Royal Engagement – Trish Morey + Others
The Ex Factor – Anne Oliver
Forbidden: The Sheikh’s Virgin – Trish Morey
The Heir from Nowhere – Trish Morey
Amazon US
Anthologies Top 100
To Sin with Scandal – Tamara Gill
A Captain’s Order – A Duke’s Command – Tamara Gill
It is with great delight and much cyber-squeeing that we congratulate our own Trish Morey on her 2012 RITA final with her novella, THE STORM WITHIN! The RITAs are the Romance Writers of America's award honouring romance fiction published in 2011. According to the RWAmerica website, more than 1,200 novels and novellas were judged in twelve categories in 2011. Hence, the excitement! If you aren't familiar with the RITAs, think the Oscars of published romance. It's kinda huge. Head over to Trish's blog to hear her final "call story", wherein a family member is sure that early-morning calls must be telemarketers and not heralds of great news from RWAmerica... Here's the cover of the book you need to get your hands on, in the US Presents version: And the Australian/NZ/UK Version, titled A Royal Wedding:
From Trish's blog:
I loved writing this story, a dark little Gothic number with a scarred Count living in a crumbling castle atop a craggy island riddled with old pirate tunnels and lashed by storms. What a setting! So much fun to be had when this reclusive Count is shattered out of his contempt for the world by Dr Grace Hunter, a young and talented conservator. I am so thrilled to bits that this story has finalled in such a prestigious contest.
Huge congratulations to Trish!
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.comBec 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 OliverBorders US (Series Romance Top 100) THE HEIR FROM NOWHERE By Trish MoreyAmazon US (Romance Anthologies Top 100) A CAPTAIN'S ORDER - A DUKE'S COMMAND by Tamara GillAmazon US (Romance Anthologies Top 100) TO SIN WITH SCANDAL by Tamara GillCongratulations to our bestselling SARAs! More on Aussie bestsellers for August at the Romance Writers of Australia blog.
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!
We've just recently discovered that Trish's Harlequin Presents title THE HEIR FROM NOWHERE made the #1 position on the Borders Group Series Bestseller List for the week ending June 4th. Can't get much better than that. It's also a USA Today Bestseller as well! The Heir from Nowhere
‘You don’t know me, but I’m having your baby.’
Dominic Pirelli’s carefully ordered world falls apart when a female stranger phones with staggering news: an IVF mix-up means she is carrying the baby that he and his late wife dreamed of having! Though he distrusts her motives, Dominic is determined to keep waif-like Angelina Cameron close. Taking her to his luxury home, reluctantly the hardened tycoon begins to admire Angie’s strength and gentle beauty as her body swells with the precious life inside her. But when their baby is born, who will have custody of the Pirelli heir?
 If you check out the July lists, you'll see Anne Oliver has also featured in the Borders top ten for two weeks running with Harlequin Present Extra release HER NOT-SO-SECRET DIARY. This is the title that earned a 4.5 star review from RT Book Reviews!
Her Not-So-Secret DiaryFrom: Sophie BuchananSophie’s fantasy man is supposed to stay in her dreams…To: Jared Sanderson…until her diary detailing her saucy dream gets accidentally e-mailed to her sexy new boss!Subject: Red-Hot Dream!Suddenly Sophie has Jared’s attention! He’s not looking for commitment, and luckily that’s also the last thing on Sophie’s mind, so the stage is set for a sizzling no-strings affair. But as work, steamy nights and painful secrets all begin to build up Sophie soon knows she’s in a whole heap of trouble…
It's big news! Amy T Matthews will be featured on the ABC's 7:30 Report talking about her new Wakefield Press release, End Of The Night Girl. Tune in to the 7:30 Report on June 24th, and find the episode on the ABC website after that date.  SARAs abound in the Romance Writers of Australia's Bestseller list for May. * Trish Morey, The Heir From Nowhere (Borders US Series Top 100) * Elizabeth Rolls, His Lady Mistress (Amazon US Historical Regency Romance Top 100, Amazon UK Top 100, Amazon UK Historical) *Elizabeth Rolls and others, Delectably Undone (Amazon US Anthology) *Elizabeth Rolls, A Compromised Lady (Amazon UK Historical) *Elizabeth Rolls, Lord Braybrook's Penniless Bride (Amazon UK Historical) *Tamara Gill, To SIn With Scandal (Amazon US Anthology) More on Bestsellers at the RWA Blog.
 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!
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