We all love an excuse to dress up in our glad rags and enjoy a special event. The RoNA awards in March is one that every romantic novelist looks forward to attending. It's so exciting to watch and applaud as writers we admire accept awards for their novels. However, without entries there would be no awards event to attend. Anne Stenhouse Graham has come along today to tell us more about the RoNAs and to remind us all to enter.
March 7th 2016 will see many RNA members, agents and publishers gather in London’s glorious The Gladstone Library, Royal Horseguards for the presentation of the Association’s Annual Awards. By that time excitement will have been mounting. The publication of the shortlist earlier ensures that. Some rather nervous people will be assembled.
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| Last year's winners with special guest Barbara Taylor Bradford |
However,
Nicola Cornick and I hope to be a little more relaxed by then since you’ve all
been very good and followed the rules/instructions/suggestions and made the
deadlines.
Haven’t
you?
The Awards
recognise the effort of all our members. So if you’ve written the best
contemporary, epic, historical, romantic comedy or young adult novel and it was
published between 1st January and 31st December 2015,
then consider submission, why don’t you? You know the adage - You’ve got to be
in, to win.
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| Our outstanding achievement awards 2015 went to Jill Mansell and Carole Matthews |
The RoNA Rose
embraces the shorter novel where the focus of the book is on the relationship
between the two central characters, and magazine serials. It shares the same
dates as the others.
For
the first time digital first books are eligible and because it’s the first time
the dates are extended to include those books first published digitally between
1st January 2014 and 31st December 2015.
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| The magnificent Gladstone Library |
The
rules, submission buttons and all that sort of stuff are found on the website.
Here:
Check it out - Sorry, but no title may be entered more than once.
The
Discipline of the Deadline:
We
all, whatever we write, have deadlines and we’re very disciplined about meeting
them. So that leads me to…
RoNA
awards 2016
Closing
Date 1st October 2015 for the 2016 Awards…
Is
your entry on its way?
Anne
Stenhouse Graham
Thank you, Anne (and Nicola). We hope you will both be kept very busy processing entries and we look forward to news of shortlisted books in 2016.
If you would like to write for the RNA blog please contact us on elaineeverest@aol.com
Thank you, Anne (and Nicola). We hope you will both be kept very busy processing entries and we look forward to news of shortlisted books in 2016.
If you would like to write for the RNA blog please contact us on elaineeverest@aol.com
5 comments:
What a shame neither of my serials can be considered for the RoNA Rose award but I had to keep them below 30,000 words to be eligible for the NWS.
But, Wendy, a full length published serial would make you eligible to be a full member of the RNA
I know, Jan, but I wanted to take by novel through the RNA scheme to be able to have it looked at by the reader. If was a difficult choice.
I'd love to enter, but I can't find an address anywhere!
Christina, if you email the address on the entry forms, Anne will give you her address.
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