The
Australian Romance Readers of Australia converged at Cello's Restaurant in Sydney last weekend (March 22nd).
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| What a setting! |
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| The lovely Cello's Restaurant. |
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| The chandelier |
A wonderful bunch of volunteers organised and ran the 6th Annual ARRA awards and celebrated all that's great in Aussie romance!
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| Bec & I enjoying the ambiance at Cello's! |
The night was full of entertainment (the keynote speaker was Helene Young and accompanied by a cast of wannabe author-actors, they enacted a murder mystery complete with a "dead" body capably played by Anna Campbell) and the food was absolutely scrumptious!
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| M.J.Scott & Bec McMaster |
One of the highlights was catching with ARRA friends I'd met at Fremantle, WA last year at the RWA/ARRA Book-Signing and putting names to faces of other ARRA members and bloggers I'd only ever met online.
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| I finally met Helen S. (ARRA reader). |
This year
Allegiance Sworn was nominated in two categories -
Members Choice Favorite Cover Award and
Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Futuristic Romance.
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| Dakota Harrison & I enjoying the night. |
I'm thrilled to announce that
Allegiance Sworn is Australia's ARRA Favourite Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Futuristic Romance 2013! An awesome moment all round as last year
Alliance Forged won this award, so it's a back-to-back win in this category.
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| A proud moment! |
At the table were Dakota Harrison & hubby, Amy Andrews, Kelly Hunter, Tina Marie Clark, M.J.Scott, Bec McMaster & myself. Table 6 must have been the one to sit at this year as three of our number took out awards - Amy Andrews, Kelly Hunter & me!
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| Allegiance Sworn - Fav.Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Futuristic Romance Award 2013 |
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| Kylie Griffin, Kelly Hunter & Amy Andrew's ARRA trophies! |
You can find
the full list of 2013 ARRA winners here.
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