2012 RITA Winners Announced

Submitted by Jennifer A [1] on Mon, 08/13/2012 - 1:29pm

RITA awards Last month the winners of romance’s biggest award, the RITA©, were announced. The award recipients in these 12 categories, taken from more than one hundred finalists, represent the best of published romance for the year 2011. I look forward to reading the winning novels, as they include several authors I have not read before as well as some of my old favorites. Did any of your favorites win?

2012 RITA© Award Winners:

The Black Hawk The Measure of Katie Calloway A Night to Surrender Enclave Doukakis's Apprentice New York to Dallas
Dragon Bound [2]by Thea Harrison – Best Paranormal Romance
How to Bake a Perfect Life [3] by Barbara O’Neal – Best Novel with Strong Romantic Elements
First Grave on the Right [4] by Darynda Jones – Best First Book
The Black Hawk [5] by Joanna Bourne – Best Historical Romance
The Measure of Katie Calloway [6] by Serena Miller – Best Inspirational Romance
A Night to Surrender [7] by Tessa Dare – Best Regency Historical Romance
Enclave [8] by Ann Aguirre – Best Young Adult Romance
Doukakis’s Apprentice [9] by Sarah Morgan – Best Contemporary Series Romance
New York to Dallas [10] by J.D. Robb – Best Romantic Suspense
I Love the Earl by Caroline Linden – Best Romance Novella
Soldier’s Last Stand by Cindy Dees – Best Cotemporary Series Romance: Suspense/Adventure
Boomerang Bride by Fiona Lowe – Best Contemporary Single Title Romance

Flickr CC [11]: RITA award #6 in 2010 for The Lost Recipe for Happiness by Barbara O'neal [12] Photo by: A writer afoot [13]

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