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Member News from 2006
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January 2006 News

--Barbara Bretton has been nominated for the Romantic Times 2005 Career Achievement Award in the Mainstream category.

Pam Burford attended a writers' retreat in upstate NY during the first weekend of December. Eye problems had kept her from her WIP for too long, but she's feeling better and hopes to finish the book sometime this century.

--Sunny Chen has been invited to speak at the prestigious Sun Valley Writers' Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, in August. She'll be speaking on the romance genre “in a high-brow literary sort of way.”

--Triskelion Publishing has offered Catherine M. Chernow a contract for her manuscript, THE FINE ART OF KISSING. The release date is April 2006.

--Doreen Orsini has signed a three book contract with Triskelion Publishers. NO ONE BUT MADISON is scheduled for a May 2006 release, to be followed by HUNTING DIANA in July 2006 and TANNER’S ANGEL in August 2006.
Doreen Orsini 's manuscript, TANNER'S ANGEL, is winner of Honorable Mention in the single title category this year's Romancing the Tome contest.

--Roberta Gellis has been nominated for a Reviewers Choice award by ROMANTIC TIMES in the Best Medieval Historical Romance Category for DESIREE. Roberta Gellis 's book, ROSELYNDE, the first book of the Roselynde Chronicles, will be reprinted in December 2005. If you've never read the Chronicles, they have won the prize for historical novel series from Romantic Times.

--Dina Hamlin’s novel THE SOUL NEVER FORGETS is being published in July by Triskelon Publishers. THE SOUL NEVER FORGETS is a work of contemporary, erotic, paranormal romantic fiction. She's publishing under the name Dina Hamlin.

--Michelle Lang is thrilled to announce her second contract with Triskelion. THE DEVIL INSIDE is scheduled for release in April 2006. Michele Lang 's futuristic, WATER MOON, is a finalist in the 2005 Wallflower contest, published paranormal category. Michele will also be part of another book talk, this one on Friday Dec 16 from 9:30 a.m -10 a.m. at the Roslyn Heights Starbucks 373 Willis Avenue

--Jen McAndrews 's manuscript, THE TRAIL OF THE TUDOR ROSE, is a finalist in the series contemporary category of this year's Romancing the Tome contest.

--Barbara Metzger 's book, THE DUEL, is nominated for Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Best Regency-set historical.

--Bertrice Small has been nominated for a Reviewers Choice award by ROMANTIC TIMES for her first venture into fantasy last year with LARA from HQN Books.