This RITA® Reader Challenge was written by KindleCookie. This story finaled in the Best Novella category. Plot Summary: Opting to spend the holidays in solitude, Emilie Sutherland has found the perfect place: a hunting lodge in Alaska! But when a hunky stranger comes seeking shelter during a blizzard, Emilie wonders if maybe isolation is overrated, after all. And now, KindleCookie’s review: I adore novellas. They are quick and satisfying, like a sitcom instead of a … Continue reading RITA Reader Challenge Review: Blame it on the Blizzard, by Jennifer Greene →
by SB Sarah · Jul 2, 2011 at 4:21 am ·
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Winner: “Shifting Sea” by Virginia Kantra in Burning Up (Berkley Sensation; Cindy Hwang, editor) Finalists: ▪ “Blame It on the Blizzard” by Jennifer Greene in Baby, It’s Cold Outside (Harlequin; Marsha Zinberg, editor) ▪ “A Dundee Christmas” by Brenda Novak in That Christmas Feeling (Harlequin Superromance; Paula Eykelhof, editor) ▪ “Friendly Fire” by Jill Shalvis in Born on the 4th of July (Harlequin Blaze; Brenda Chin, editor) ▪ “Love Me to Death” by Maggie Shayne … Continue reading 2011 RITA Winner for Romance Novella →
A lot of people try to see all the Best Picture nominees before the Oscars ceremony- so let’s do that for the RITAs, shall we? I looked at the list of RITA® nominated books from the RWA and there were a lot of books I was curious about. I’m not going to be able to read every nominated book before the ceremony… but I can read one in each category – and I invite you … Continue reading The RITA Reading Challenge 2011 →
Last night when I sat down to tell Hubby about the RWA Conference, I had to look at my calendar to remember where I was and at what time, because it was all one big exhausting blur. A big, exhausting, happy blur. But there are a few things that are popping right in the front of my brain, and since I stinketh at writing comprehensive summaries of things, I want to note a few things. … Continue reading Thirteen Things That Are Awesome About National →
This was meant to be posted last night, but it was hung up in the place where email goes and never comes out. —- The most powerful RITA moment for me was Jennifer Greene, who won for Best Novella. She told us that after the story was published, her mother asked her to read her story aloud. Her mother’s eyesight was failing, and the story was dedicated to her as part of a Mother’s Day … Continue reading And that’s our coverage →
The list is up, for the RITA and Golden Heart. I’ll be honest, and I’m not sure if this is a reflection of me, of something else, or just the way it played out this year but I have not been near or even in the same room as some of the books nominated for a RITA. I’ve never heard of some of them. But I am very pleased to see Elizabeth Hoyt, Anna Campbell … Continue reading RITA and GH Finalists Announced at RWA National →
An awesome librarian (is there another kind?) forwarded me a link to this article from the Reference & User Services Quarterly (THAT IS THE SEXIEST NAME OVER OMG *PANT*) article from “The Alert Collector,” which offers five librarians’ suggestions on building a romance genre collection: Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101. (Also, the sexiest title ever, and thank you Mr. MS. Wyatt (my apologies) for not writing something that referenced heaving bodices or … Continue reading Librarians Offer Romance Essentials 101 →
