I am overjoyed to be able to announce that my Regency romance Fair Deception has been shortlisted for the Love Story of the Year 2010 administered by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Fair Deception is the first of my Newmarket Regencies. It tells the story of Kit Kydd, who rescues actress Susanna Fair from evil Rafe Warwick. They then pretend to be engaged in order to keep Susanna safe and out of the way. Needless to say, things don't quite go as smoothly as either of them had hoped due to Susanna's inability to say no and Kit's inability not to be a knight errant.It was published by Hale in October 2008 (qualifying period is July'08-June'09) and was sold out, but Hale have now reprinted it, so if you'd like a copy, click on the side panel!
Alongside me on the shortlist is one author that I am especially delighted to be ranked with. My very good friend and fellow RNACambridge chapter member Louise Allen has had her hot historical The Notorious Mr Hurst selected. Like Fair Deception, it also has a Regency-theatre setting and the love story between Maude and Eden just scorches the pages.Louise says "Wealthy, eligible, beautiful - Lady Maude Templeton can have any man in Society. But she wants to marry for love - and the man of her dreams is sexy, talented, intelligent - and impossibly ineligible. What is more, he doesn’t believe in love. Making theatre owner Eden Hurst realise he needs love, and her, seems hopeless - but when she puts her mind to it Lady Maude can be quite as shocking as any of her Ravenhurst friends."
Full list for the RNA Love Story of the Year 2010 is:
The Notorious Mr. Hurst - Louise Allen (Harlequin Mills & Boon)
Animal Instincts - Nell Dixon (Little Black Dress)
Always the Bridesmaid - Nina Harrington (Harlequin Mills & Boon)
Fair Deception - Jan Jones (Robert Hale)
The Wedding Party - Sophie King (Hodder)
Claimed for the Italian's Revenge - Natalie Rivers (Harlequin Mills & Boon)
The Award will be presented at the Pure Passion Awards luncheon at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington on Tuesday 16th March 2020.
23 comments:
Totally thrilled for you, Jan!
What a fabuloso achievement, Jan - really pleased for you and well done.
I'm so happy for you! Fair Deception was wonderful and fully deserves to win.
Also, I have the same black cat fridge magnets!
Jan, that's huge! Many congratulations. My fingers are tightly crossed for you to win, hence all these typos. I am so pleased for you.
Congratulations.
Congratulations thats amazing!!!!! How brilliant!!!
Congratulations, Jan - I am SOOOO pleased for you!!
Many congratulations, Jan! So pleased for you.
Congratulations! can't wait to tell you in person in March!
Congratulations! You rule!!
Jan - happy, happy news. Huge congratulations!
Oh gosh! Overwhelmed by all the lovely comments. Thank you all very, very much indeed,
Nell - congrats to you too!
K8 - I knew we had the same good taste!
Wonderful news, Jan. Congratulations! I love the book and I'm so thrilled for you!
Huge congrats!!!
lx
Brilliant news. Many, many congratulations.
Many Congratulations Jan - it's wonderful news. I'm not surprised - just thrilled for you
Kate
Many Congratulations Jan - it's wonderful news. I'm not surprised - just thrilled for you
Kate
Ooops - sorry - didn't mean to post twice . It's not just that I was excited for you (which I was) but that your word verification told me I hadn't entered the letters correctly. So being a good little author I did as I was told and wrote them in again . . . .
Brilliant news! Well done!
Check out my blog in about ten mins as I am going to mention this. See you next week!
Have just seen news of your shortlisting on Random Jottings, Jan! That is fantastic and you must be so thrilled. Hope you win!
Thanks for all the congratulations! I'm still very excited!
Congratulations! How exciting.
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