Debbie Macomber Wins Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award

Debbie Macomber, the best-selling author of the Cedar Cove series (set in a fictional town on the Kitsap Peninsula - Port Orchard, Washington), and over a hundred other books, will be awarded the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award by Romance Writers of America (RWA) later this summer at the annual conference.

From the Romance Writer's of America Website

One of the highest honors RWA bestows is the RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. This award is presented to a living author in recognition of significant contributions to the romance genre. To qualify for the award, the recipient's career in romantic fiction must span a minimum of 15 years. Recipients must in some way continue to promote the romance genre, teach romance in fiction, or publish romantic fiction. In 1994 a new requirement was added, that recipients must maintain active RWA membership. Authors are nominated for the award by RWA members and selected by the Board of Directors.

2010 RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
Debbie Macomber

Debbie Macomber is the best-selling author of the Blossom Street series, among her other popular books and series. Debbie sold her first manuscript, Heartsong, to Silhouette Books in 1982, and she now has more than 100 million copies of her books in print worldwide—with her novels translated into 23 languages. RWA will award Debbie Macomber the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award on July 31, 2010 at the 30th Annual Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. www.DebbieMacomber.com

RWA Veritas Award - Ron Charles

RWA's Veritas Award may be given annually for the article that appears in print or in another medium that best depicts the romance genre in a positive light.

2009 RWA Veritas Award Recipient
Ron Charles
Washington Post, "Heating Up the Stacks"

This appeared in The Washington Post, a very intertesting article, Romance Novels Still Fighting for Respect

Romance Novel TV and RWA 2007 Convention

Check this out......for those of us who would have loved to attend the 2007 convention in Dallas, here is it live on Romance Noval TV. Check out your favorite authors on their site and enjoy the Red Carpet!

Romance Novel TV:
http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=715960957

RWA:
http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=1119304303


Rita Awards Red Carpet
http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=1119130919


After Party Rita awards:
http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=1119219190

2007 RWA Conference as seen by author Trish Wylie

I invite you to pop over to the Pink Heart Society and see Harlequin author Trish Wylie's diary and others inputs on the 2007 RWA Conference held in Dallas. It's extremely informative and entertaining. Bravo Trish!

http://www.pinkheartsociety.blogspot.com


The photo is from Harlequin author Sandra Marton's website and here's what she says about the photo.

We had the party in my room. (That's me, on the far right. Jennie Lucas is next to me.) You see, the hotel's (tiny) Italian restaurant was packed and we were in no mood to wait, so we ordered in pizza. Some of us (I'm posting no names but that's Fiona Harper and Melissa McClone and Trish Wylie on the left) went for wine and glasses; Olivia Gates, in the center of the photo, brought baklava all the way from Egypt.