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Libby Book Awards is a book award contest put on by Libby. The first annual contest was held in 2024 and featured winners for Fiction, Nonfiction, Young Adult, Audiobook, Debut Author, Diverse Author, Comic Graphic Novel, Memoir & Autobiography, Cookbook, Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Fantasy, Romantasy, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, and Book Club Pick.
The RITA Award, presented by the Romance Writers of America (RWA) from 1990 to 2019, was the most prominent award for English-language romance fiction. [1] [2] [3] It was named for the RWA's first president, Rita Clay Estrada.
In 2019, Ryan was the first Black author to receive the RITA Award [4] by the Romance Writers of America for Best Contemporary Romance for her novel "Long Shot," a recognition considered one of the highest honors in the romance writing community. [6] [7] The novel was inspired by the domestic violence incidents around football player Ray Rice. [8]
Half a Soul is a Regency fantasy romance novel written by Olivia Atwater. It is the first installment in her Regency Faerie Tales trilogy. The novel follows Theodora "Dora" Ettings, a girl unable to feel and express her emotions since the faerie Lord Hollowvale stole half of her soul. After moving to London, Dora meets the royal magician Elias ...
In 1988, Beverley, who was actively writing science fiction as well as romance, was a finalist in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. That same year, she sold her first romance novel. That same year, she sold her first romance novel.
Fortune's Rocks is a 1999 romance novel by bestselling author Anita Shreve. It is the first novel in Shreve's tetralogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent. Chronologically, it is followed by Sea Glass, The Pilot's Wife and Body Surfing.
Arabella is a Regency romance novel written by Georgette Heyer. It records the plight of a relatively poor girl from the English gentry who captures the attention of a very wealthy man by claiming to be an heiress; although he disbelieves her, he is amused by her presumption and character. The story is set in the spring of 1817. [1]
The Romantic Novel of the Year Award is an award for romance novels since 1960, presented by Romantic Novelists' Association, and since 2003, the novellas, also won the Love Story of the Year (now RoNA Rose Award). [1] In 2018, awards were given to men under their own names for the first time in the organisation's 58-year history. [2]