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Rivers is also a member of the Romance Writers of America's Hall of Fame. She has won four RWA RITA Awards, the highest award given in romantic fiction. Her first RITA was for Best Historical Romance in 1986 for Not So Wild a Dream. Her subsequent ones, in 1995, 1996, and 1997, have been for Best Inspirational Romance. [9]
The Romance Writers of America was founded in 1980 in Houston, Texas, by romance editor Vivian Stephens and 37 authors in the romance genre, including the original co-founders Rita Clay Estrada and Parris Afton Bonds, first President and Vice President, [7] [12] According to their by-laws, the organization's purpose is to “advance the ...
She has won three Romance Writers of America RITA Awards,–the highest award given to romance novelists– in 1992, 1995, and 2006. Her third win, for The Texan's Reward , led to her immediate induction into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. [ 5 ]
Vivian Lorraine Stephens (born September 23, 1932) is an American editor of romance novels, literary agent, and founder of Romance Writers of America (RWA). While at Dell Publishing, she created and was the editor of Candlelight Ecstasy, a romance line that revolutionized the genre in the 1980s.
In 2000, Wiggs began writing single-title women's fiction stories in addition to historical romance novels. The first, The You I Never Knew , was published in 2001. [ 6 ] After writing mass-market original novels for several years, Wiggs made her hardcover debut in 2003 with Home Before Dark .
After 21 years of penning stories for her own enjoyment, she submitted a novel for publication which was very successful. She currently lives in Gadsden, Alabama with her husband, Gary F. Howington, and two golden retrievers. She has three grown stepchildren and three grandchildren. Her first work was published by Silhouette in 1982.
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Ruth Ryan Langan (born December 12, 1937 in Detroit) was an American writer of romance novels.She is a New York Times Bestselling author of over one hundred novels, both historical and contemporary under the penname Ruth Langan.