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, 2010. And, 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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