Hello lovelies and welcome back to Romancelandia, where it seems a little bit of lovin’ is just what the doctor ordered right now with Covid still rattling its chains at us. In last year’s July column, my thoughts were with everyone in VIC. This year, it is the residents of NSW who are hunkering down in their homes, that are snagging my attention. But, don’t worry, because romance novels have gotten many a reader through tough times including a pandemic. Can they make Covid disappear? Nope. But they can distract and transport to a place where everything works out okay in the end and hope, in the face of adversity, is not nothing.
With that in mind, this month I deviate from the usual course and bring you the Romance Writers of Australia 2021 Ruby award finalists for books that came out in 2020. The Ruby is the highest award in all the land for romance writing – think the Oscars! – and rewards excellence in the genre. The awards ceremony is being held on August 14th during the annual conference which happens every year around the same time – except last year when it was cancelled (as just about everything was in 2020). But, fingers crossed everything is okay for the ceremony, which I am very excited to be MC’ing!
There are six categories and, as always, if you see anything you like, just click on the titles to check them out!
Contemporary Romance
Her Cowboy Prince by Madeline Ash
Home From The Hill by Susanne Bellamy
Xmas Dust by Mel A. Rowe
Read Between the Lines by Belinda Williams
Historical Romance
How to Catch a Sinful Marquess by Amy Rose Bennett
The Tobacconist’s Wife by AnneMarie Brear
An Unexpected Companion by Janis Linford
The Gamble by S.E. Welsh
Romantic Elements
Charlotte Pass by Lee Christine
On a Starlit Ocean by Charlotte Nash
Caked in Dust by Mel A. Rowe
Just an Ordinary Family by Fiona Lowe
Romantic Suspense
Easy Target by Shannon Curtis
The Investigator by Anna Hackett
The Troubleshooter by Anna Hackett
Speculative Fiction
Breathing Water by Tanya Bird
High Flyer by Michelle Diener
Unseen by Cassie Laelyn
Crown Of Darkness by Bec McMaster
Novella
The Christmas Bride by Anne Gracie
Ryan’s Return by Sara Hartland
Blood Secret by L.J. Langdon
Purr-fect Pitch by Carolyn Wren
Congrats to all the 2021 Ruby finalists. I will let you know the winners next month! Until then, happy reading!
About Amy
Amy Andrews is an award-winning, USA Today best-selling Aussie author who has written eighty plus contemporary romances in both the traditional and digital markets. She’s sold three million books and been translated into over a dozen languages including manga. She has won three Ruby awards and is a triple RITA finalist.
In her other life, she was a paediatric intensive care nurse for twenty-one years. Amy lives near the sea with her husband of thirty years.
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