Osiyo~

I haven’t blogged on my own Ranch for a while so I wanted to do a special today. As a lot of you are now aware, the Oklahoma RWA chapter hosts the National Reader’s Choice Awards and just finished with our 22nd (?) year of this awesome contest where readers choose their favorite authors. Those lucky winners are awarded their prizes at RWA Nationals each summer. That contest is for print books only.

We thought ebooks were not getting the recognition they and those wonderful authors deserved, so we decided to do something about that. Last year OKRWA started a new contest called International Digital Award (IDA) and it was a rousing success. This year was also a great success but we need to get the word out to more epublished authors. I want to introduce you to this year’s winners and their books. Now you know I don’t usually host erotica on the Ranch, but I’m gonna for this event so I apologize up front to those who might be offended. But for the sake of being fair to all our winners, I will post ALL ebooks including that category.

So here we go with our FIRST PLACE WINNERS!

Contemporary Novel

Playing the Game by Stephanie Queen – Publisher: Self-Published

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Contemporary Short

Those Violet Eyes by Vonnie Davis – Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

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Erotic Novel

Sharing Hailey by Samantha Ann King – Publisher: Carina Press

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 Erotic Short

Snow White and Her Seven Lovers by Jenna Ives – Publisher: Self-Published

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Historical Novel

Angel’s Assassin by Laurel O’Donnell – Publisher:  O’Donnell Books (Self-Published)

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Historical Short

Tumbleweed Letters by Vonnie Davis – Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

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Inspirational Novel

A Light in the Window by Julie Lessman – Publisher: Ten Talents Press

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Inspirational Short

First Place (TIE):

The Key to Charlotte by E.A. West – Publisher: White Rose Publishing (An Imprint of Pelican Books)

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Operation Breathless by Marianne Evans – Publisher: White Rose Publishing (An Imprint of Pelican Books)

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Paranormal Novel

First Place (TIE):

Rogues Pawn by Jeffe Kennedy – Publisher: Carina Press

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Chain Reaction The Phenom League by T.C. Archer – Publisher: Broken Arm Publishing

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Paranormal Short

Blood Moon by Silver James – Publisher: Silver James Books: Self-Published

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Suspense Novel:

Death Offerings (The Northland Crime Chronicles Book 2) by Alicia Dean – Publisher: Self-Published

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Suspense Short:

Skinbound (Tales of the Scrimshaw Doll) by Anna Kittrell – Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

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Young Adult (Combined Novels and Shorts)

The Captive Heiress by Blair Bancroft – Publisher: Kone Enterprises (Self-Published)

Happy CONGRATULATIONS to all our winners! Please help celebrate by Liking, Tweeting and Facebooking this post to show these talented writers how happy we are for them.

If you’d like to be one of these lucky people next year I invite you to go to the IDA website and find out how. It’s really easy! I’ll make it easier by giving you the golden link: http://okrwa.com/contests/international-digital-awards/rules-faqs/ 😆 We at OKRWA look forward to *seeing* you at next year’s sign-up.

If you can’t enter the contest, have no fear! You are ever so welcome to sign-up and be one of our treasured judges! Here’s the golden link for judging: http://okrwa.com/contests/international-digital-awards/judging-information/ 😀

Most of all, THANK YOU for visiting this post and showing our winners some Ranch love!

Dodadagohvi~