Romance Writers of America announces the 2017 RITA Award Winners

ORLANDO, FL —Romance Writers of America (RWA), the trade association for published and aspiring romance fiction authors, announced the winners of the 2017 RITA^® Awards on Thursday, July 27, at a black-tie awards ceremony at its 37th Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida.

The RITA^® Award is the highest award of distinction in romance fiction and recognizes outstanding published romance novels and novellas. 

Up to 2,000 romance novels and novellas from 13 different categories are judged each year in the RITA^® competition. After the first round of judging by fellow published romance authors, the competition narrows to approximately 100 finalists. Then, final round judges, also published romance authors, select one winner in each category from among the finalists. 

The 2017 RITA^® Award winners are:

Winners

I have winners. I will try to be better at posting winners (key word try). In past giveaways I had contacted the person about them winning. So, previous giveaways have had winners and they have been contacted. 

So the winners are:

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Nicole Huffman

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Shelley Summers

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Joseph Hawkshaw

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