Congrats to our Brigaders - #winners & #finalists

It's been a good show for Brigade members in contests this year. So with huge thanks to Lea Kirk who compiled the details, here's a comprehensive lists of our latest winners and finalists. To the winners, congrats! To the finalists, congrats and good luck in the finals!


The Maggie

*Janet Halpin Finalist in Paranormal

The Molly

* Kathrine Matzen Finalist in Para/TT/Futuristic

Pages From the Heart

* Colleen Myers Finalist in Published Paranormal

* Lea Kirk Finalist, 2 entries in Unpublished Paranormal

LERA's Rebecca Contest

* Pippa Jay & Lea Kirk Finalists Paranormal/Speculative/Urban Fantasy Romance (announced 9/1)

LoneStar

* Rosalie Redd, Finalist Paranormal. Results not up yet. (announced 9/2)

Indiana Golden Opportunity

* Janet Halpin Finalist in YA. Results not up yet. (announced 9/3)

PRISM (ended)

* Anna Hackett co-Winner with Cheryl Brooks in Futuristic

* Nina Croft 3rd place Futuristic

* Misa Buckley Winner in Novella

On the Far Side (ended)

* Janet Halpin won first in Romantic Elements, and first in TT/Steampunk with Paranormal Elements.

* Lea Kirk 2nd place Romantic Elements

* Evelyn Berry 3rd place in Hard SF/SF/Futuristic

* Rosalie Redd 2nd place in Dark/Light/General Paranormal. (aliens on Earth.)

Congrats to our Brigaders - NERFA & Passionate Plume #finalists

We have three more Brigaders due congratulations for making the finals in a couple of contests. Firstly, congrats to Brigaders Kate Corcino and Carol Van Natta for being finalists in the National Excellence in Romantic Fiction Award in the Paranormal/Futuristic category!

Congrats also to Brigader Patricia Green for two of her sci-fi books being finalists in the Passionate Plume contest!

Best of luck to you all in the next stage of the contests.

Brigader News! A Final and a Release

D.L. Jackson has finaled in the Erotic Romance category of the Romance Writers Ink More Than Magic contest with her published novel, Slipping the Past.

Final placements will be announced July 9th at RWI’s meeting, with the results listed on the website.  You can check out the RWI More Than Magic contest at this link: http://rwimagiccontests.wordpress.com/.

Congratulations, D.L.!

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Desert Breeze Publishing released SFR Duty and Devotion by A. R. Norris on June 15th. And check out that gorgeous cover (designed by Jenifer Ranieri). 

A.R. Norris will also be releasing three upcoming novels in The Telomere Trilogy with Desert Breeze in October 2011, April 2012 and October 2012.

Click here to see the Duty and Devotion trailer.

Congratulations on your release, A.R.

 

2011 Aurealis Awards finalist!

This week has to be the week for good news!

to Brigader Sara Creasy

- her book, SONG OF SCARABAEUS (EOS Books)

has been chosen as a finalist in the 2010 Aurealis Awards

(Australia's own huge spec.fiction contest).

Way to go, Sara!

There were 600 entries in 13 categories! Sponsored by Harper Voyager, the winners will be announced at a dinner on May 21st, 2011.

For the full list of finalists and details here.

Michelle De Rooy Finals!

Brigader Michelle De Rooy is a finalist with a military SFR in the RWAustralia Emerald Award! 

Many congratulations, Michelle!

And she's really on a roll, because she also finaled with a Fantasy Romance

in the Emerald Award and in The Emily!   

We've added Michelle's name to our SFR Finals listing on the sidebar.

RWA FFP 2010 On The Far Side

The contest results for the RWA FFP Chapter On the Far Side contest are now up...and if you look closely, we have 2 Brigaders who've placed in the HSF/SF/F section!

Hard SF/SF/F: Danielle Rose Poiesz, Editor, Penguin
1st: Jennifer Hart - "Stellar Timing"
2nd: Elizabeth Struble - "StarWay to Paradise"
3rd: Laurie Green - "The Outer Planets"

Well done, Jennifer & Laurie!!!

To see the full results, use this link.

Cheryl Alldredge Finals in the Vixen!

Many, many congrats to Cheryl Alldredge who's manuscript, Unspeakable Acts (now retitled as Deadly Lover) finalled in the Reveal Your Inner Vixen Contest.  Way to go, Cheryl!

I'll update the finals standings on the sidebar.

(Psst, I've also updated our sidebar to show Cheryl as Cheryl, though she's also known as Charlie Allden.)