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Just named the Contemporary Romance winner of the Book Buyers Best! This award from the Orange County Romance Writers is extra special to me, because, once upon a time, I won their UNpublished contest when I was an aspiring writer.

I hope you enjoy this holiday tale of hope and healing as much as the judges did.

NEWS: Best Contemporary Romance, Book Buyers Best award!

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Business icon E.L. Taylor's book inspired Mallory Ames to change her life, but after surviving a plane crash, he no longer believes his own advice. Can Mallory inspire her hero to embrace life--and love?

4 days until the Book Buyers Best awards, hosted by Orange County RWA in California. This book is one of the finalists for contemporary romance. Very exciting! I'll give you a fun fact: cover models could not be photographed because Covid had just begun, so the art dept. recycled this photo from another book, changing the color of the heroine's outfit. It fits the story perfectly--they meet at the town's yule log.

Guess what? This book won!

I'm very touched it won the Stiletto Award for mid-length contemporary romance this weekend. This book has some very bittersweet moments in it, so it's not the cheerful rom-com kind of Christmas romance that is so popular. I like those, too, but I'm happy the judges enjoyed a Christmas romance with a little more pathos. It ends happily-ever-after, though! I wouldn't have it any other way.

I'm hearing "Christmas in July" on a daily basis, aren't you? But I've got this holiday romance on my mind because it is up for the 2021 Stiletto Award for Contemporary Romance, and the awards are given tonight!

You can watch the awards live here: https://www.facebook.com/events/27866... at 8:30pm eastern. So many good books in so many categories.