News of the Natasha Kern Agency and Clients February 2012


Touch of a Rogue - A Top Ten Romance

Mia Marlowe's Touch of a Rogue made Publisher's Weekly's list of Top Ten Romances for Spring 2012.


Two Nominees for 2011 Carol Award

The nominees for the ACFW Carol Awards have been announced, and two agency clients were nominated: Sandra Robbins in the Short Historical category for The Columns of Cottonwood; and Mary Connealy in the Long Historical Romance category for The Husband Tree.


Toby Hemenway Wins Nautilus Gold

Toby Hemenway's book Gaia's Garden has won a 2011 Nautilus Gold Award. The Nautilus Awards recognizes Books and Audio Books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living & positive social change,  while at the same time they stimulate the "imagination" and offer the reader "new possibilities" for a better life and a better world .


Two Christy 2011 Award Nominees

Two agency clients have been nominated for 2011 Christy Awards in the Historical Romance category. Tamera Alexander has been nominated for Within My Heart, and Siri Mitchell was nominated for She Walks in Beauty. The Christy Awards are awarded each year to recognize novels of excellence written from a Christian worldview. The winners will be announced in July 2011.


2011 RITA Finalists

Three agency clients are finalists for the 2011 RITA Award in the category of Inspirational Romance: Anna Schmidt for A Convenient Wife; Mary Connealy for Doctor in Petticoats; and Tamera Alexander for Within My Heart. The winners for the awards will be announced at the RWA Convention (July) in New York.


Tamera Alexander Wins 2010 RITA Award

RWA has awarded Tamera Alexander the 2010 Best Inspirational Romance RITA award for her novel The Inheritance. Congratulations Tamera!

(Margaret Brownley was a finalist in this same category for her novel A Lady Like Sarah.)


 
Promise Me This - A Book Club Selection

Cathy Gohlke's Promise Me This is the ACFW's Book Club Selection for May 2012.


Natasha Kern Honored at ACFW 2011

Natasha was honored by her clients with a special surprise luncheon at the ACFW 2011 Conference in St. Louis. See pictures of the event here ...


Three RT Award Nominees

Three agency clients are nominees for RT Awards (2011) ... Glynna Kaye's At Home in His Heart in the Steeple Hill Love Inspired Category; Anna Schmidt's Family Blessings in the Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical Category; and Linda Urbach's Madame Bovary's Daughter in the Historical Fiction Category.


Three PW Starred Reviews

This Spring (2011) three books by agency clients have received starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly (PW): Eliot Pattison's Ashes of the Earth; Pamela Clare's Breaking Point; and Mia Marlowe's Touch of a Thief.


Siri Mitchell Wins INSPY Award

Siri Mitchell's She Walks In Beauty was the winner of the 2010 INSPY Award in the category of Historical Fiction.


Mary Connealy Wins Carol Award

Mary Connealy's novel Cowboy Christmas won the ACFW's Carol Award in the category of Long Historical Fiction. The award was announced at the ACFW Conference in Indianapolis in September 2010.


Robin Lee Hatcher Wins Twice

Robin Lee Hatcher won in the Short Historical category of the 2010 Inspirational Readers Choice Awards for her novel Where Love Blooms. Her novel Fit to Be Tied took first place in the Inspirational category of the 2009 National Reader's Choice Awards (NRCA).


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