Here's the list of finalists from the Greater Detroit Chapter's Bookseller's Best Contest. I'm a Double Finalist! Awards to be given out in San Francisco during our Romance Writer's of America Conference.
All judges are booksellers or librarians!
Traditional
Best Friend… Future Wife – Claire Baxter
The Italian’s Wife By Sunset -Lucy Gordon
Hired By The Cowboy - Donna Alward
His Christmas Angel – Michelle Douglas
Millionaire To The Rescue – Ally Blake
Short Contemporary –
Breathless! – Trish Wylie
Trouble In Tennessee – Tanya Michaels
The Forbidden Enchantment – Nina Bruhns
Fortune’s Vengeful Groom – Charlene Sands
His Style of Seduction – Roxanne St. Claire
Long Contemporary –
Baby Makes Three – Molly O’Keefe
Could Been A Cowboy – Brenda Novak
The Soldier And The Rose – Linda Barrett
Danger At Her Door – Beth Cornelison
The Rancher Needs A Wife – Terry McLaughlin
Inspirational –
And Baby Makes Five – Gail Gaymer
Martin Over Her Head – Shelley Bates
A Treasure of the Heart – Valerie Hansen
Operation: Married By Christmas – Debra Clopton
Midnight Sea – Colleen Coble
Long Historical –
Beware A Scot’s Revenge – Sabrina Jeffries
Dark Rider – Kathrynn Dennis Claiming
The Courtesan – Anna Campbell
Southern Seduction – Alexandria Scott
The Cornstalk – Heather Garside
Short Historical –
Falcon’s Heart – Denise Lynn
Bodine’s Bounty – Charlene Sands
Ever My Love – Gretchen Craig
Sleepless At Midnight – Jacquie D’Alessandro
Seduction is Forever – Jenna Petersen
Single Title / Mainstream –
Tempting – Susan Mallery
Let’s Misbehave – Lisa Plumley
Who Wants To Be A Sex Goddess? – Gemma Bruce
Your Mouth Drives Me Crazy – HelenKay Dimon
There Goes The Bride – Lori Wilde
Paranormal / Time Travel / Futuristic –
Persecuted – Lisa Childs
Lord Of The Fading Lands – C . L. Wilson
Thirty Nights With A Highland Husband – Melissa Mayhue
In The Midnight Hour – Patti O’Shea
More Than Fiends – Maureen Child
Romantic Suspense –
Dead Giveaway – Brenda Novak
Dead Right – Brenda Novak
One Last Breath – Laura Griffin
Overkill – Linda Castillo
Count To Ten – Karen Rose
Erotic –
Slave To Love – Nikita Black
Raina’s Fantasy – Jo Carlisle
Born Again – Rena Marks
Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind – Karen Kelley
Everything Forbidden – Jess Michaels
These are the 2007
Award winners!