ARRA 2020 finalists announced
The finalists for the 2020 Australian Romance Readers Association's (ARRA) annual awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Favourite paranormal romance Alpha Night (Nalini Singh, Gollancz) Famine...
ANZ authors nominated for 2019 RITA Awards
Several Australian and New Zealand authors have been nominated for the 2019 RITA Awards for excellence in published romance novels and novellas, presented by the Romance Writers of America (RWA)....
Australian Romance Readers Awards 2018 winners announced
The winners of the 2018 Australian Romance Readers Awards, presented by the Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA), have been announced, with Kylie Scott named favourite Australian romance author. Scott’s novel...
Consenting adults: Kate Cuthbert on the romance novel and representations of sexuality after #MeToo
Escape Publishing managing editor Kate Cuthbert gave the keynote address at this year’s Romance Writers of Australia conference. This is an edited extract of her speech. I’d like to begin...
Harlequin launches website to promote romance titles
Harlequin has launched the website romance.com.au to promote romance titles to readers. The website features 23,000 titles from Harlequin imprints including Avon, Escape, Mira, and Mills & Boon, across a range of...
Isaac, Kelly win 2018 RITA Awards
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2018 RITA Awards, which recognise excellence in romance novels and novellas. Among the winners were two New Zealand...
Mills & Boon launches new romance range
Australian romance publisher Mills & Boon has launched a new range of novels, DARE, which the publisher describes as its ‘most explicit series yet’. The range was launched on 5...
Aussie, NZ writers make shortlists for UK Romantic Novel Awards
Australian author Janet Glover and New Zealand author Soraya M Lane have both been included in the 2018 Romantic Novel Awards (RONA) shortlists, administered by the UK Romantic Novelists’ Association. Glover’s...
Oz authors nominated for 2016 RITA Awards
Two Australian authors have been nominated for the 2016 RITA Awards, presented by Romance Writers of America (RWA) for ‘excellence in published romance novels and novellas’. M J Scott is...
RWA awards 2015 winners announced
The winners of the 2015 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the ‘RUBYs’, were announced on 22 August at the RWA’s 24th national...
PRH launches first local digital serial
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia will launch its first local digital serial in July.Lethal in Love, a six-part serialised suspense romance by Australian author Michelle Somers, is ‘the first of...
Australian academics awarded romance research grant
A group of Australian academics have been awarded funding from the Romance Writers of America’s (RWA) Academic Research Grant Program.Beth Driscoll from the University of Melbourne, Lisa Fletcher from the...
Oz romance authors nominated for 2015 RITA Awards
Three Australian authors have been nominated for the Romance Writers of America (RWA) 2015 RITA Awards.The RITA Awards, which recognise excellence in romance novels and novellas, are divided into 12...
‘Struck’ first YA novel to win UK Romantic Novel of the Year
In the UK, Struck by Joss Stirling (Oxford University Press) has become the first YA novel to be awarded Romantic Novel of the Year by the Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA),...
Australian Romance Readers Awards 2014 finalists announced
The finalists for the 2014 Australian Romance Readers Awards have been announced. Kylie Scott is once again in the running for Favourite Australian Romance Author after winning the award last...
Inaugural AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards winners announced
The winners of the inaugural AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards have been announced.The winners in each category are:Best new author:J L PerryBest established author:Amy AndrewsAuthor of the year:Annie Seaton Cover of...
Australian Romance Readers Conference 2015 program announced
The Australian Romance Readers Association has announced the program for its 2015 conference, to be held in Canberra from 6-8 March. The keynote speakers for the event are Canadian author...
New website, awards promote Australian romance writing
A new website and readers choice awards have been launched to promote Australian romance writing.The AusRomToday website, formerly called Creative Conversations, was launched in June by romance author J’aimee Brooker....
Ashton wins 2014 RITA Award
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2014 RITA Awards. Among the winners was Australian author Leah Ashton, who picked up the award for Short Contemporary Romance...
Australian rural fiction authors launch promotional website
A group of authors has launched a website to promote Australian rural fiction.The website, An Australian Rural Romance, ‘showcases the genre’s emerging, established and award-winning authors published by Australian publishers’,...