News for September

Congratulations to our members on their achievements!

• Robin Lee Hatcher’s novella, To Enchant a Lady’s Heart, won the 2024 Oklahoma Romance Writers Guild’s Heart Award in the novella category. The book was also a Selah Award finalist.
  
• Jo Ann Brown’s Love Inspired novel, An Unlikely Amish Inheritance, debuted at #4 on the Publishers Weekly Mass Market bestseller list.
  
• Nancy J. Farrier’s book, Center Point, is a finalist in the Book Buyer’s Best contest in the Inspirational Romance Category.
  
• Edwina Kiernan’s novel, The Letter, won the Silver Medal in the Christian Historical Romance category in the 2024 Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards.
  
• Darlene Corbett’s book Visible is the winner in the 2024 Storytrade Book Awards “Christian Fiction – Contemporary” category.
  
• Deborah Raney was humbled and honored to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at ACFW. “ACFW has been such a huge part of my writing life for the past 23 years, and to receive this award from an organization I have so much respect for means the world to me.”
  
• Carmen Peone’s book Broken Bondage, Seven Tine Ranch Romance, Book 2, won the WILLA Literary Award 2024 for Romance.
  
•  Their Holiday Secret by Betsy St. Amant Haddox won the Short Novel category for the 2024 Carol Awards.
  
• Lindy Jacobs was honored to be a finalist for her Contemporary Romance in the 2024 ACFW Genesis Awards.
  
• Sami Abrams’ Novella Christmas Snowstorm Standoff (Christmas in the Crosshairs Anthology) won a Carol Award. 
  
• Lisa Jordan signed a contract with Sunrise Publishing to write two more books for Hometown Hearts, their contemporary romance line.
• Lisa Jordan’s Love Inspired novel, Bonding with the Cowboy’s Daughter, landed on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list for mass-market paperbacks in September.
  
• Carrie Turansky’s novel, The Legacy of Longdale Manor, was the winner of the ACFW Carol Award in the Historical Romance Category.