And now I must squee for my RT Award winners: P.N. Elrod, who received an award as a Pioneer in Genre Fiction, Rachel Caine, who was honored with a Career Achievement Award for Urban Fantasy and N.K. Jemisin, who won a Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Fantasy: THE BROKEN KINGDOMS.  You go, gals!

First, I want to say a huge congratulations to Rob Thurman, Shannon Aviles and the fine folks at More than Publicity, who've just won a Pixie Award for Outstanding Creativity in Motion Graphics, Effects and Animation for the music video "Paint it Red" for her Trickster series of novels.  Rob has also just launched a fabulous new website.  You can ( Read more... )

                                    
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Quick congrats before I move on to the Girlfriends' Cyber Curcuit interview with Eileen Cook.  Crazy lots of kudos to Patti O'Shea for winning the 2009 Fiction Writer of the Year Award from the Midwest Fiction Writers!  (And the crowd goes wild!)

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Two really phenomenal award announcements:

Carol Berg's Breath and Bone won the 2009 Colorado Book Award for genre fiction!

Beth Cornelison's Under Fire is the Grand Prize winner in the Lories Best Published contest!

You go, girls!

Harlequin Books hits 60 this year and celebrates with an upswing in earnings (yes in the midst of all the gloom and doom) and free e-books.  Check out the PW article or click here for your free download!

In the category of awesome award news, Rosemary Clement-Moore's excellent novel HELL WEEK won the YA category of the Galye Wilson Award of ( Read more... )

I want to give a shout out to my nominees for the 2008 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards.  Let's hear it for them!

Shapeshifter Romance
THE LAST TWILIGHT Marjorie M. Liu Leisure (Feb.)

Fantasy Novel
SHADOWS RETURN Lynn Flewelling Bantam Spectra (Jul.)

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THE IRON HUNT Marjorie M. Liu Ace (Jul.)

Urban Fantasy Protagonist
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