Oh, I love doing this. Fellow blog mama Therese Walsh‘s debut, The Last Will of Moira Leahy, is a finalist for the Romance Writer’s of America’s coveted RITA award for Best First Book! And Barbara Samuel (AKA Barbara O’Neal) is a finalist in the RITA’s Novel with Strong Romantic Elements category for The Lost Recipe for Happiness. WOW!

RWA will announce the winners of the 2010 RITA Awards at its 30th Annual Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

Congratulations, Therese and Barbara! We have our fingers and toes crossed for you!

P.S. I make no apologies for excessive exclaimations! WHOO!!!!!

Kathleen Bolton is co-founder of Writer Unboxed. She has written two novels under the pseudonym Cassidy Calloway: Confessions of a First Daughter, and Secrets of a First Daughter--both books in a YA series about the misadventures of the U.S. President's teen-aged daughter, published by HarperCollins.
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