RWA announces 2024 Ruby winners
Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2024 Romantic Book of the Year Awards, known as the Ruby Awards.
The winners in each category are:
Romantic elements
- Awaiting Annie Jones (Bernadette Eden, self-published)
Romantic suspense
- The Protector’s Mistake (Leah Ashton, self-published)
Historical romance
- Curled Up with an Earl (Amy Rose Bennett, Sourcebooks Casablanca)
Contemporary short
- Cinderella Assistant to Boss’s Bride (Ally Blake, Mills & Boon True Love)
Contemporary long
- The Man from Shadow Creek (Rachel Armstrong, Pink Paws Publishing)
Novella
- The Bride Said No (Catherine Bilson, self-published)
Speculative fiction
- The Falling (Angelica Grymm, self-published).
The Ruby Awards are for novels and novellas published by Australian or Aotearoa New Zealand authors in the previous year. Other awards presented alongside the Ruby Awards were:
Lynne Wilding Meritorious Service Award
- Rachael Johns
Emerald Award for an Unpublished Manuscript
- ‘A Farm in Silver Skies’ (Leearna Shaw)
Opal Award
- ‘Just Press Play’ (Brooke Crawford)
Diversions
- ‘The Science of Love’ (Charlotte Anne)
Spicy Bites (joint winners)
- ‘Batteries Desperately Required’ (Laura Amey)
- ‘Cupid on Wheels’ (Annika Johansson)
- ‘Batteries Advance’ (M A Slade)
Sweet Treats (joint winners)
- ‘The Bubble Prophecy’ (Fiona McKenzie Kekic)
- ‘Coming Home’ (Marie-Louise Willis)
First Kiss (joint winners)
- ‘Billionaire in Barcelona’ (Sylvia Leigh)
- ‘Hope Never Dies’ (Victoria Brown)
Ripping Start
- ‘Finding Home’ (Jacinta Peachey).
The winners were presented with their awards at the gala dinner of the RWA annual conference, held on 17 August in Glenelg, South Australia. More information about RWA and its awards categories can be found on the RWA website.
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