Festival of Romance Award Winners

This weekend was the Festival of Romance in Hertfordshire.
I would love to have attended as a reader, but family comes first.  My dear partner has said that when the next one comes up I can go. :) 
I kept up with the tweets and author facebook posts and it looks like a fun time was had by all.


I posted the shortlist for the awards back in Sept.   
Here are the shortlists again and the winners.

For the Total-E-Bound Best Romantic Read Award:

Juliet Archer - Persuade Me (Choc Lit)

Fiona Harper - Swept off her Stilettos (Mills & Boon, Riva)

Carole Matthews - Wrapped up in You (Sphere) Guest author here 25th Oct

Sue Moorcroft - Love and Freedom (Choc Lit)

Talli Roland - The Hating Game (Prospera Publishing)

and the winner is.... Love and Freedom by Sue Moorcroft. Congrats Sue!

It was a favourite of mine this year.

For the Choc Lit Best Historical Read Award:

Charlotte Betts - The Apothecary's Daughter (Piatkus)

Annie Burrows - Captain Corcoran's Hoyden Bride (Mills & Boon, Historical Regency)

Christina Courtenay - The Scarlet Kimono (Choc Lit)

Jean Fullerton - Perhaps Tomorrow (Orion)

Jan Jones - The Kydd Inheritance (Robert Hale)

and the winner is....Perhaps Tomorrow by Jean Fullerton. Congrats Jean!

Another book I really enjoyed this year.

New Talent award:

The award winner was Henriette Gyland. Congrats!

Runners-up were Rosemary Dun, Sarah Callejo and Debbie White

Hall of Fame Award: 

An Hall of Fame Award was given to  Carole Matthews. Congrats, Carole!

A second Hall of Fame Award was given to  publisher  Harlequin Mills and Boon.

Calling members of UK reading groups

Little, Brown have this offer on their blog, 


http://www.littlebrownbooks.net/win-a-copy-of-the-things-we-cherished-by-pam-jenoff-for-you-and-every-member-of-your-reading-group/


from the Author Pam Jenoff




Dizzyc

National Chocolate Week/WMH Day

photo SimonJamesKent

It is National Chocolate Week (10-16th Oct) .


I will be celebrating with a chocolate each day this week.  Has to be done!


Chocolate, reading and blogging keep me sane!




I found this snippet  online today.......



ChocLit Publishers are celebrating National Chocolate Week by offering some of their titles on Kindle E-books, at Amazon, for under £1 each.

Choose from the titles here

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It is also World Mental Health Day.

Many of us have been affected, at some point in our lives, personally or have a family member who has suffered Mental Health problems.

Keep yourselves well and seek advice when you need to .

Mental Health issues are not a sign of weakness.

Take care of yourselves, folks.

DizzyC

Mother nature is confused!

Phew!  I am sitting here in a Summer dress and wondering how to keep cool.  

 Yes, I am at home in the UK and yes, it is the last few days of September!

We are enjoying an Indian Summer.  It is 28 degrees today and expected to stay that way into the weekend.   The weather folk are predicting SNOW for October.  The weather has gone mad.  

Mother Nature knows that this is Autumn, as the trees are changing colours, shedding leaves and the conkers are on the ground, BUT horticulturists are noticing that some flowering shrubs that normally flower in April, and did so this year, are flowering for a 2nd time now.  That is 6 - 8 months early.

Read the full story here - BBC news

DizzyC  

Choosing books to suit your mood

Supermarket chain Tesco's have a new-ish book blog.

They are looking to catagorise books in a new way, rather than by genre or A-Z.
They want to catagorise books to suit our mood.

http://booksblog.tesco.com/2011/08/handpicked-to-suit-your-moods-a-new-exciting-way-for-you-to-find-great-books/

Take a look

DizzyC

Telephone library

You have heard of telephone banking........


now the great British Red Telephone boxes, which are now sadly redundant, are being put to good use.


This is my favourite..........




http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Phone-box-library-is-seeing-loads-of-interested-callers-19072011.htm




I want one in my garden :)


DizzyC