Author Sara Hartland wth #RWA signage and props

Reasons to sparkle

Winning a Romantic Book of the Year (RuBY) award would have been a great way to end 2021, but alas, it wasn’t meant to be. But I’m still in a high that my debut book Ryan’s Return:  A Granite Ridge Outback Romance was one of four finalists in a national romance writing award. The RuBY in the novella category went …

Fingers still crossed…

A little while ago I shared my emotions that my debut book Ryan’s Return was a FINALIST in Australia’s premier romance fiction awards. I get to stay excited a little longer as the ROMANTIC BOOK OF THE YEAR (RuBY) awards will now be announced in December at the Gold Coast, after Covid-19 restrictions caused the postponement of the Romance Writers …

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Third place in Valerie Parv Award

Woo hoo! My novel Sunset Surrender took home third in the prestigious Valeria Parv Award at the Romance Writers of Australia Annual Conference. Stella Quinn was a worthy winner for her Island Fling and second place went to talented AJ Blythe for Bite the Bullet. Highly commended went to Paquita Fadden for Captured by Aliens, Jillian Jones for #futurewife and Ree …

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Sunset Surrender has been selected as a finalist in the Valerie Parv Award for 2018! To paraphrase a certain US President, “that’s huge, people; a huge deal”, for this aspiring novelist. Champagne anyone? The winner will be announced at a gala dinner at the Romance Writers of Australia Conference in Sydney on August 18. I’ll be there to enjoy the moment …