VENGEANCE BORN wins Cover Cafe contest!

I came home to some awesome news this arvo - Vengeance Born has won the 2012 Alternate Reality section of the Cover Cafe's cover contest. I'm stoked!

Gene Mollica (cover artist) will be thrilled. The cover was 1/100 entries in this section! Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote and/or spread the word!

Reader's comments can be seen over at the Cover Cafe!

And a huge shout out to fellow Aussie romance authors, Fiona Lowe & Nikki Logan who took out their sections with Boomerang Bride (Contemporary) & Wild Encounter (Series) respectively.

2012 RWA RITA & Golden Heart winners!

Congratulations to the romance world's Best of the Best for 2012.

A special shout out to fellow Aussie, Fiona Lowe, who took out a RITA for her contemporary single title BOOMERANG BRIDE (which was featured here a little while ago).

And a big woohoo for fellow paranormal author, Darynda Jones, for winning a RITA for FIRST GRAVE ON THE RIGHT as Best First Book.

AND a special woot for 2012 Golden Heart winners:

Elizabeth Bemis - Romantic Suspense novel Edge of Deception
Elisa Beatty - Historical Romance novel The Devil May Care

Both are fellow 2010 Unsinkable GH finalists - so good to see them succeed this year!!!

Full results of the night can be viewed here.

From the Bookshelf...Boomerang Bride

Taken from the bookshelf this week...a stand-alone new release - BOOMERANG BRIDE by Fiona Lowe.

FIONA LOWE is an award-winning, multi-published author with Harlequin and Carina Press. Whether her books are set in outback Australia or in the mid-west of the USA, they feature small towns with big hearts, and warm, likeable characters that make you fall in love.

When she's not writing stories, she's a weekend wife, mother of two 'ginger' teenage boys, guardian of 80 rose bushes and often found collapsed on the couch.

A previous RuBY, ARRA and RT Book Reviewers' Choice Award nominee, and a current RITA® finalist, you can find her at her website, facebook, Twitter and Goodreads.

Title: BOOMERANG BRIDE
Publisher: MIRA (also available as eBook from Carina Press & Amazon).
Release Date: July 1st.

Hero bio: Twelve years ago, Marc Olsen, New York City architect escaped his needy family and he only ever comes back to Hobin for a quick visit at Thanksgiving. But this year his sister is seriously ill and needs him to stay and care for her and her moody teenage son, pulling him right back into the heart of a family and a town he wants to avoid.

Heroine bio: Matilda Geoffrey, in the tradition of her WW2 war-bride grandmother, left Australia for love and marriage, only to find that love over the internet is a big-time con. Now she’s stuck in small town Hobin, Wisconsin, at Thanksgiving, without a cent to her name, and not even a jar of Vegemite to keep her warm.

Interesting feature/s of this book: The utter confusion that takes place when two people think they both speak the same language.

BOOMERANG BRIDE

Matilda Geoffrey risked it all for love. She left Australia to be with Barry—the man who had swept her off her virtual feet. Now, wearing a wedding dress, she's alone on Main Street in small-town Wisconsin, and things aren't working out exactly as planned...

In town for his annual family visit, Marc Olsen had never seen a bride quite like Matilda—staring into a storefront window, holding a tottering wedding cake, and looking desperately in need of a groom. He may not have any warm feelings for his hometown, but meeting Matilda just as she discovers she's been scammed by her online "fiancé" stirs something in him.

Matilda is not the kind of woman Marc imagined himself with, and Marc is anything but the romantic hero that Matilda has always dreamed of. But as unlikely circumstances throw them together, can they let go of their misconceptions and risk their hearts for love?