Fantastic news with two of our members finalling in Romance Writers of Australia competitions:


Maggie Mundy - Selling Synopsis


Francesca Joye (Sharon) - High 5


Well done!!! SARA is so proud of you both...

Trish Morey has just received the cover of what is dubbed 'the Santorini book' - that is  His Mistress for a Million. 

Pretty lovely cover eh? See Santorini in the background...

It will be out in the UK in February, the US in March, and Australia/NZ around that time too.

Congrats Trish!!

Claire Baxter has her new next book 'Her Mediterranean Makeover' coming out in the UK in December (not long) and in Australia/NZ in January.


Another lovely cover!


Congrats Claire!

Congratulations to Trish Morey and Anne Oliver for their placings in the
Best-selling romances compiled by the Borders Group for the week ending 26th September. 

Trish is at number 5 with 'The Latin Lover'.
Anne is  at number 10 with 'Hot Boss, Wicked Nights'


Yay ladies - well done!

The Best Love Stories of 2009 have six of the finalist books nominated for the R*BY including Claire Baxter's nomination, The Single Dad's Patchwork Family.


And also Trish Morey's R*BY (Sexy) winning title The Italian Boss' Mistress of Revenge.

It's out now!!


Go SARA ladies. 

Two of our SARA members have releases in Australia this month.


Anne Oliver with Memoirs of a Millionaire's Mistress, Sexy Sensation; and
Trish Morey with The Ruthless Greek's Virgin Princess, Sexy.


Enjoy!!

Check out some more photos from the Hot August Nights Conference on the Photos page. Here's a few of teasers....

Oh what a week we had in Brisbane. On Thursday, Elizabeth Rolls was on the panel at the Heart & Craft book launch. Congratulations.

The fab Trish Morey won the R*BY for the Short - Sexy category!!! Woohoo!!
Not only that but she was made a Honorary Lifetime Member of RWA.

Elizabeth Rolls & Claire Baxter were also R*BY finalists.

Tess LeSue came second in the STALI competition and won the Anna Campbell prize. As well as winning the Crab prize at the Friday workshop.

SARA members were asked for partials to send to agent/editors. So good news all round.

We also donated a prize to the Pink Sunday Lunch, raising money for Breast Cancer. We were delighted when we found out our donation would be considered the 2nd prize of the raffle. We are so honoured to have been a part of it. Thank you to SARA member Dianne, who suggested we collate a gift basket for the conference.


Congrats everyone. Thanks for making it a great weekend.

~Eleni

Join Valerie Parv, our Elizabeth Rolls and other contributors of Heart & Craft at the book launch on Thursday 13th August in Brisbane.


See this link for details.

Renowned romance writer Valerie Parv, has compiled a new book, called 'Heart & Craft'. One of the participants is our own Elizabeth Rolls.

Go Elizabeth!

To celebrate the upcoming release, the publisher, Allen & Unwin, will be giving away prizes to winners as part of online scavenger hunt. The hunt runs from the 1st to 30th July.

Please visit Elizabeth's website here for further details, including the questions (just scroll down).


Happy hunting!!