Congratulations to our RITA and Golden Heart finalists!

 All hands on deck!

Brigade, it's time to recognize two of our fine writers who accepted the challenge, wrote amazing books, and who are now RITA and Golden Heart finalists!

Kay Hudson's JINN AND TONIC is Golden Heart finalist and Sharon Lynn Fisher's GHOST PLANET is a RITA finalist. Everyone gives these two fabulous authors a round of applause! We'll be cheering for them come RWA time.

VENGEANCE BORN...drum roll please!

BREAKING NEWS...

Book 1 in the Light Blade series

I can now share my cover and blurb of my debut book, VENGEANCE BORN: A Novel of the Light Blade with you!

This is the entry that won the 2010 Golden Heart (paranormal section & formerly entitled BLOODBORN).

The release date for VB is February 7th, 2012 and it can now be pre-ordered - I'll post all those details over on my blog if you're interested.

For now, here it is...thank you Berkley art & cover dept. - you did a fantastic job! I'm stoked!!!

It's Rita and Golden Heart Day!

Today's the day. The big day when the calls go out and the finalists for the 2011 RWA Golden Heart (unpublished) and Rita (published) Awards are named.

And it's a HUGE day for writers all over the world.

You can follow the latest buzz and join in the fun at these two sites:

The Ruby-Slippered Sisterhood

Judi Fennell

For those of us in the Twitter Squadron or with Twitter accounts, you can do searches on these hashtags:

#Ritagh   #GoldenHeart    #Rita     #GHRita

(Last year we had two Brigaders nominated and one winner!)