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ANNOUNCING ACRA’S

FICTIONWRITERS’  BOOT CAMP



Anne Bonney Readers’ Choice Awards

Winners Announced

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Mary Reade Writers’ Choice Awards

Winners Announced

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See the individual contests’ pages for the current years’ rules, entry forms and deadlines.




Visit the Bookshelf to see recent and upcoming ACRA member novel releases!




Book-in-a-Month


ACRA members will be having another Book-in-a-Month writing challenge during the month of August, then another in November.  For information, contact Cheryl Norman.

 





Congratulations to:


Laura Barone and Heather Waters:  Congratulations on your new sale!  (See ACRA Summer 2009 newsletters for details and interview.)


Laura Barone:  Mr. Right Now, Finalist for the Short Contemporary Golden Heart Award.  And Winner of the Mary Reade Award, Stetons and Stilettos.


Vicki Hinze:  Sale of Crossroads Crisis Center, a new fiction series for the Christian market to Waterbrook-Multnomah.  The first book, FORGET ME NOT, will be released March 16, 2010And, Her Perfect Life, Finalist for the Mainstream Novel with a Romantic Element, RITA Award and the Mainstream Holt Medallion Award. 


Joan Kayse:  The Patrician’s Desire, Finalist in the PASIC, Book of Your Heart Competition.  (This title also was a Finalist in RWA’s Golden Heart Competition.)


Cheryl Norman:  Sale of Reclaiming My Life to Medallion Press.  This connecting story to Restore My Heart is scheduled for release in 2009.


Elizabeth Sinclair: Winner of the National Readers’ Choice Award for Baptism in Fire.  (The sequel, Touched by Fire will be released 10/2007.)


Dolores J. Wilson:  Winner of the Author Island Readers’ Choice Award for Barking Goats and the Redneck Mafia.  (Book #3, Jail Bertie and the Peanut Ladies was released 5/2007.)







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2008 WINNERS ANNOUNCED


ANNE BONNEY              MARY READE


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