Please join the New England Chapter of Romance Writers of America® in congratulating the finalists in the 2019 New England Readers’ Choice contest! At the Let Your Imagination Take Flight Conference Awards Luncheon on Saturday, April 27, 2019 we will be announcing winners in each category, as well as the winner of our Grand Prize: a $250 gift certificate from Penny Sansevieri, CEO of Author Marketing Experts!
ROMANCE SHORT STORY
*Elizabeth Chatsworth, Ten Minutes Past Teatime
Piper Malone, Fabulously Tanked
Charissa Weaks, “Silver Heart” in Once Upon the Longest Night
ROMANCE NOVELLA
Barbara Lohr, Christmas Dreams and Santa Schemes
*Jess Vonn, The Summer I Saw You
*L. A. Witt, Christmas Homecoming
EROTIC ROMANCE
V. H. Luis, Fading to Black
*L. A. Witt, Once Burned
*L. A. Witt, Sink or Swim
HISTORICAL ROMANCE
Grace Callaway, Enter the Duke
Margaret Locke, The Legendary Duke
Margaret Mallory, Kidnapped by a Rogue
ROMANCE WITH RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL ELEMENTS
Oliva Rae, Adoration
Laura Scott, Primary Suspect
Sherri Shackelford, No Safe Place
PARANORMAL/FANTASY/SCIFI/TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE
Cara Crescent, Wretched
Marie Johnston, A Shifter’s Second Chance
Allie Marie, Hands of the Healer
ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
Toni Anderson, Cold Blooded
Bev Pettersen, Along Came a Cowboy
Cari Z. and *L. A. Witt, Double or Nothing
YOUNG ADULT ROMANCE
Kilby Blades, Friended
Julia Day, Fade to Us
*Marissa Doyle, Between Silk and Sand
SHORT CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
Marie Johnston, Rancher in Training
Heather Novak, Headlights, Dipsticks, and My Ex’s Brother
Radclyffe, Dangerous Waters
LONG CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
Penny Jaeger, Dearly Beloved
Sandra Owens, Just Jenny
J. N. Welsh, In Tune
* denotes a NECRWA member