For the second consecutive year Maureen McKade has won the Romantic TImes Reviewer's Choice Award for the best American-set Historical Romance. Her winning novel was A Reason To Believe. Her winning novel in 2006 was A Reason to Live.

Tamera Alexander's Remembered is a finalist in the Inspirational Category of the National Reader's Choice Awards (2008) Contest.

Natasha Kern has been nominated for Agent of the Year by the ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers). The winner of the award will be announced September 20, 2008 at the ACFW Conference in Minneapolis.

Lutishia Lovely's book Sex in the Sanctuary has been nominated in the Contemporary Fiction category by Afr’Am Fest’s Literary Café. In support of its literacy campaign, “Reading is a Family Affair,” Afr’Am Fest announced its first ever Literary Award Program nominations. The Literary Award Program will highlight some of the best of the best in African-American literature published in 2007.

Two of Robin Lee Hatcher's books won ACFW awards in the category of Contemporary Novella. A Carol For Christmas won 2nd place, and Diamond Place won 3rd place. The winners were announced at the ACFW Conference in Dallas (September 2007).

Two agency clients Pamela Clare and Kimberly Raye were announced as 2007 RITA Award finalists. Pamela Clare was nominated in the Best Long Historical category for her novel Surrender. Kimberly Raye was nominated in the Novel With Strong Romantic Elements category for her story Dead End Dating.

Clyde Ford won the Hurston/Wright Award for contemporary fiction for his novel The Long Mile. The awards were announced November 3, 2006 at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. See the Washington Post article for details.

Nikki Arana's Winds of Sonoma won the Best Book of the Year in Women's Fiction from the ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) group. Nikki appreciates the honor from over 1,000 fellow writers. The announcement was made in September 2006.

Robin Lee Hatcher won 1st place in the inspirational / traditional fiction category of the 2005 Write Touch Readers' Award with her novel Catching Katie. Robin's novel Beyond the Shadows won 2nd place in this same category.

Michael Joens won the Rosebud award from Rendezvous Reviews for his mystery An Animated Death in Burban. He is the second male author to receive this award in its five year history. This was awared in recognition of the launch of his Sandra Cameron mystery series.

Three agency clients have become finalists for this year's Romance Writer's of America RITA Awards: for Contemporary Series Romance, Night Mischief, by Nina Bruhns; for Contemporary Series Romance: Suspense/Adventure, Untouched, by Samantha Hunter; and for Contemporary Single Title Romance, Sexiest Man Alive, by Diana Holquist. Winners will be anounced at the RWA 2008 Convention at the end of July.

Pamela Clare's Unlawful Contact is an Romantic Times Top Pick (4 1/2 stars) in romantic suspense for April 2008.

Their review states ... "Clare's impressive novel is rife with gripping suspense, secrets masterfully revealed and characters in whom readers can become emotionally invested. The sexual tension between the protagonists is deliciously steamy, and the skillful plotting makes this thrilling book one readers won't be able to close until the final page."

Julie Lessman has won first place in a bookmark contest in Stepping Stones Magazine for Writers. Authors have been sending in their bookmarks and each month a winner is chosen. Julie is the first winner! She is featured in the May issue. You may view the winning bookmark by clicking here.

Natasha Kern and her agency will be busy in the Spring and Summer of 2008. In addition to running the agency Natasha will be meeting clients and editors, and giving workshops as she attends the following list of writer conferences: Mount Hermon Conference (Santa Cruz) March; Book Expo America (Los Angeles) May; Romance Writer's America (San Francisco) July; American Christian Fiction Writers Conference (Minneapolis) September.

Nikki Arana won the first place ACFW award for Women's FIction for her novel Fragrance of Roses. The award was announced at the ACFW Conference in Dallas (Sepetember 2007).

Diana Holquist's Make Me A Match is a finalist for the National Readers' Choice Awards for Best Single Title.

James Gardner's Intelligent Universe was listed as the current #3 best-selling book in the Cosmology category ( May 1, 2007 issue).

Lutishia Lovely's Sex in the Sanctuary has been selected by Black Expressions book club in 2007.

Christopher Cokinos author of Hope Is the Thing With Feathers (Tarcher/Warner) was awarded the coveted Glasgow Prize for an Emerging Writer in Nonfiction 2002. Along with a monetary prize, two of Cokinos' essays will run in Shenandoah and he will spend a week at Washington & Lee University in Virginia as a writing mentor.