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2008 Conference Booksigning
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The Utah RWA 2008 Conference BooksigningOpen to the public on October 4, 2008 from 4:30pm to 6:00pm
JULIA QUINN--- New York Times Best-Selling author, 2007 RITA Winner for Best Long Historical.
2008 RITA Winner for Best Regency Historical Romance. LYNN KURLAND--- New York Times Best-Selling author of 24 novels and novellas.
Awards: Three Romance Writers of America's RITA awards, two Romantic Times Career Achievement awards, several Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Awards,
three PEARL awards, and two Dorothy Parker Awards of Excellence. RAEANNE THAYNE--- Author of more than thirty books for Bantam Loveswept,
Silhouette Intimate Moments/Romantic Suspense and Silhouette Special Edition. Awards include: Two RITA nominations; a career achievement award from Romantic Times BOOK reviews Magazine
for series romantic adventure; the RIO Award of Excellence for Best Short Contemporary of 2006 from Reviewers' International Organization and best Silhouette Special Edition of 2006 from
Romantic Times. MELISSA MAYHUE--- Lives in Colorado in the shadow of the beautiful Rocky Mountains,
her writing is inspired by the mystical beauty she experienced on her trips to Scotland. She is the author of Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband, Highland Guardian and Soul of a Highlander.
Awards: Author of the Year by the Colorado Romance Writers. Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband -Double Finalist in the National Readers Choice Awards - Best First Book and Best Paranormal Categories
Finalist in the Book Buyers Best Awards. Finalist in the Book Sellers Best Awards. VICTORIA DAHL--- Victoria Dahl lives with her family in Park City. Her first published novel, winner of the coveted
Golden Heart for best long historical romance, debuted in 2007. Her first contemporary will hit the shelves in 2009. KYANN WATERS--- Multi-published author of contemporary, paranormal & erotica Romances.
www.KyAnnWaters.com LISA DAWN MACDONALD--- Multi-published author of American Historical and Contemporary romance novels.
www.LisaDawnMacDonald.com DENISE PATRICK--- Denise Patrick writes Inspirational and Historical Romances. She will be signing: 2007 CAPA Winner,
2008 EPPIE Finalist Inspirational, Adopting Alyssa. Its sequel, Strikes Don't Matter. And Romance Reviews Today's Best Regency Romance of 2007, The Importance of Almack's.
She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband of 24 years and two math and science wizards. CRYSTAL JORDAN--- Originally from California, but has lived and worked all over the United States.
Currently, she serves as a librarian at a large research university in the Rocky Mountains and writes paranormal, futuristic, and erotic romance. PHYLLIS CAMPBELL--- Multi-published local author. Publisher awards: 2005 Author of the Year and Best Selling Author of the Year. SHARI THAYN--- Lives in a small Utah town nestled at the base of the breathtaking Rocky Mountains.
She is co-owner of Grammar Punk, a company that offers innovative educational materials and is all about promoting literacy. Being a writer is all she ever wanted to be. Publishing credits include
The Chocolate Heiress, published by Black Lyon Publishing, A Convenient Cowboy, published by Wild Rose Press, and Worth Waiting For and Hide And Seek, published by Red Rose Publishing. TERRI J. LYNN--- An avid historian, spends much of her time researching the history and roots of her stories.
Always a devoted reader, particularly the history of the American West, she now joins the ranks of authors with her first published romance novel, Forbidden Fire. AWARD: Third place award in the
Paranormal Division of the 15TH Annual Heart of the West Writers' Contest for "Shadow of Time" to be released soon. JUDY BAKER--- writes mostly contemporary romance, but her first historical romance is soon to be released with The Wild Rose Press.
She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, but is originally from Tennessee and will always be a southerner at heart. She did an author highlight interview with MCRW at http://www.mcrw.com/lovenotes/judybaker.htm.
You can find her at www.judybakerauthor.com SARA FITZGERALD--- Best Selling Author for Champagne Books. She was also named Writer of the Year by the League of Utah Writers.
She writes sweet romance. ANN CHAMBERLIN--- Her Sofia series set in Ottoman Turkey was on Turkish bestseller lists for over a year. She has won many honors including best fantasy of the year from VOYA,
best foreign historical of the year from Affaire de Couer and best new play of the year from the Off-Off Braodway Review. MARY MARTINEZ--- Lives in the Salt Lake Valley, she will be signing her publisher best selling romantic suspense, Peek A Boo.
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