The North Texas Romance Writers of America is
proud to announce the
2015 Great Expectations Finalists
Congratulations
to all who entered and put your work in the hands of strangers. Best
of Luck to the finalists as they submit their work to our final round editors.
*denotes
double finalist
(Listed in alphabetical order by title)
CONTEMPORARY SERIES
Final
Round Editor: KAREN REID, Associate Editor, Harlequin
SuperRomance
Cordelia and Her Cowboy by
Deborah
Vlahakes
The Right Sister by Sharla
Francis
The Trouble With Freddie by
Diana Waldhuber
Wrong Side of Love by Susan
JP Owens*
HISTORICAL
Final
Round Editor: GABRIELLE KECK, Editorial Assistant, Avon / William
Morrow
A Lady In Shadow by Robin
Delany*
Love’s Triumph by Jeanine
Englert
*
Love’s Wager by Jeanine
Englert*
Rescuing Mr. Gracey by Eileen
Barnes
The Secret Affairs of a Duke's Daughter by Janna
MacGregor
INSPIRATIONAL
Final
Round Editor: RAELA SCHOENHERR, Fiction Acquisitions, Bethany
House
Healing Grace by Anna Taylor
Lead Me Home by Natalie
Monk
Reclaimed by Jennifer
Rodewald
The Sacrifice by Megan Besing
MAINSTREAM with ROMANTIC ELEMENTS
Final
Round Editor: ALEX LOGAN, Editor, Grand Central Publishing
Between Nowhere and Lost by
Alexandra
Christle
Cave Girl by Liz McClure
Waking The Dead by D.B. Sieders
What You Wish For by
Gina Wynn
NEW ADULT
Final
Round Editor: JULIE MIANECKI, Assistant Editor, Berkley Publishing
Group
A Cruel Kind of Beautiful by
Michelle
Hazen*
A Not So Sleeping Beauty by
Sheryl Kaleo
Branded by Robin Delany*
Feel Again by Carilyn
Ballentine
ROMANTIC
SUSPENSE
Final
Round Editor: LAURA FAZIO, Assistant Editor, NAL/Penguin
Group
Broken River: Redemption
by Lindsay
Cross
Forsworn by Michelle Hazen*
Stalker by Sidney
Bristol
Wrong Side of Love by Susan
JP Owens*
SINGLE
TITLE
Final
Round Editor: MADELEINE COLAVITA, Editorial Assistant, Grand Central
Publishing
The First Word by Isley
Robson
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
by Nicole Evelina
How Not To Be A Tabloid Cover Story by CA
Speakman
If I Should Remember by Kirk
Van Brunt
SPECIALIZED
(Alternate Earth, Dystopian, Fantasy,
Futuristic, Paranormal, Time Travel)
Final
Round Editor: KRISTINE SWARTZ, Assistant Editor, Berkley Publishing Group
Awake and Dreaming by Andrea
Contos
The New London Marriage Stipulation by Margo Bond Collins*
Not His Dragon by Annie
Nicholas
Skin Deep by Margo Bond
Collins*
YOUNG ADULT
Final
Round Editor: ALICE JERMAN, Assistant Editor, HarperCollins
Beest by Debbie Van Brunt
Colliding Skies by Debbie
Koristz
The Nascent Bloom by Janet
Halpin
Song of The Sirens by Carolyn
Rogers
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL GREAT EXPECTATIONS FINALISTS!
Fenley Grant and Angi Morgan
Great
Expectations Contest Coordinators
PERMISSION TO FORWARD GRANTED AND ENCOURAGED
