Celebrating again - Trish and Me

It's the Awards time of year so I am truly happy to announce that another special friend of mine has won a major award -

Fanfare and trumpets . . .

Trish Morey, a lovely Australian Modern/Presents author has won the
Short Romance section of the
Romantic Book of the Year Award (R*BY)

with her novel The Italian Boss's Secret Child
Many many congratulations, Trish! I'm so happy for you.

I'm also feeling smug because when I read this book last year - and it's only Trish's 3rd book! - I remember saying to her that I felt that with this title she had truly found her voice. It seems a lot of readers thought so too.



And today I also have a small trumpet of my own to blow - you see that nice gold star on this post?

Well yesterday I learned that both The Italian's Forced Bride and The Married Mistress had been nominated for the Cat Romance Reviewers' Choice Awards. this is a real honour - the Cata Romance Reviewers read many many books each year and so even to be nominated as one of the best is a great thrill for me.

Extra good news is that reading through the nominations, I found many friends of mine there too - Anne McAllister, Liz Fielding, Kate Hardy, Trish Morey, Julie Cohen, Michelle Styles, Natasha Oakley, Trish Wylie . .

You can find a full llist of all the nominees here

And the awards ceremony takes place on Friday in a special Pink Carpet presentation on the Cata Romance message boards. They've brought in a hostess, Stacy Dawn (meet her here ) to announce the awards in Oscars style.

This will be a huge event. CataRomance are inviting authors and readers from around the globe (and every group and community on the web) to join them in a day of celebration, fun, and reminiscing the great books they've read this year. And they're giving away goodie bags full of bookmarks, pens and other goodies. So why not come along and join in?