One again it’s time for the RWA awards and on Saturday 12th of August we can celebrate our nominees at our Gala Dinner at the Wentworth Sofitel.
Kudos to our contest team, reader judges, organising committee and contest co-ordinator Sarma Burdeu!
You can read along with the #RubyReadalong for 2023 on social media, where you mention one of the books in any category on social media, and tag it with #RubyReadalong.
Please put your hands together for the Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year finalists for 2023! Congratulations everyone, what an amazing effort!
And the finalists are…
Romantic Suspense
Nyssa Kathryn – Blake
Nyssa Kathryn – Jackson
Caitlyn Lynch – Rangers Blood
Anna Hackett – Hades
Contemporary – LONG
Francis Cowie – Hampton Lane
Annie Seaton – Larapinta
Fiona McArthur – The Opal Miner’s Daughter
Katrina Coll – Twice Baked
Contemporary – SHORT
Dakota Harrison – Hometown Cowboy
Amy Andrews – Nurse’s Outback Temptation
Rachel Armstrong – Reunited with the Millionaire
Historical
Samara Parish – How to Win a Wallflower
Maddison Michaels – The Bachelor Betrayal
Susanne Bellamy – Under the Dark Moon
Romantic Elements
Kaye Dobbie – The Keeper of the Lighthouse
Janet Gover – The Library at Wagtail Ridge
LJ Perry – Under the Covers Cop
Speculative Fiction
Tanya Bird – Kingdom of Chains
Anna Hackett – Emperor
Kaaren Sutcliffe – Undercover Mage
Novella
Pamela Hart – The Captain and the Lady
Alivia Fleur – The Portrait Sitting
Charlotte Anne – Violet Evergreen Seduces a Rogue
