Janu wins XO Romance Prize 2017
Friday, 2 February 2018 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
Xoum Publishing has announced Penelope Janu as the winner of the 2017 XO Romance Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her novel ‘On the Same Page’.
Janu receives a $5000 advance and a publishing contract with XO Romance, Xoum’s romance and women’s fiction imprint.
Guest judge Alexandra Nahlous described ‘On the Same Page’ as ‘a wonderful, captivating story about a writer desperate to keep her identity hidden, and the man determined to expose her—in every way’.
Janu was selected from a shortlist of four. The inaugural winner of the prize in 2016 was Jean Flynn’s Lovesick.
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