Congrats All Around!

Rita and GH calls are going out to Romance Writers of America folks today, and several friends and chapter mates of mine have gotten the jingle! Congratulations to:

• Teresa Elliott Brown, GH for Novel With Strong Romantic Elements, Remembering How to Make Music
• Kresley Cole, Rita for Paranormal, A Hunger Like No Other
  
• Kathleen O’Brien, Rita for Romantic Suspense, Quiet as the Grave
• Roxanne St. Claire, double Rita nominations for Romantic Novella “You Can Count on Me” in the I’ll Be Home for Christmas anthology and “‘Tis the Silly Season” in A NASCAR Holiday
• Kay Stockham, Rita for Long Contemporary, Man With a Past

Props to my girl Melynda Beth Skinner for her Unofficial Finalists weblink, a heavy favorite on call day.