PERMISSION TO FORWARD GRANTED
AND ENCOURAGED
The North Texas Romance
Writers of America Chapter is proud to announce the
2017 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: Brittany Lavery, Assistant Editor, HQN
Discovering
Serenity
by
Haley Burke
How a
Heart Beats
by Stacie Kaye
Take Me
Away
by Jessie Gussman*
What He
Wants
by Jessie Gussman*
HISTORICAL
Final
Round Editor: Elle
Keck, Assistant
Editor, Avon Books
The Art of
the Deal by Suzanne Turner
Love’s
Redemption by Jeanine Englert*
The
Runaway Bride
by Elizabeth King
The
Seduction of Mrs. Smith by Elizabeth Everett
INSPIRATIONAL
Final
Round Editor: Raela Schoenherr, Acquisitions Editor, Bethany House Publishers
At Bealtaine’s Bidding by
Mary-Teresa Heath
Fresh
Brewed Love
by Amanda Wen
Stolen
Vows
by Darlene L
Turner
A Texas
Lady by Elizabeth
Lukinuk
MAINSTREAM with ROMANTIC ELEMENTS
Final
Round Editor: Marla
Daniels, Assistant
Editor, Simon and Schuster
The Nine
Lives of Eric Merry by Aubrey Wynne
Simple
Acts of Grace
by Adriana Allegri
Soul Song by Rayn Ellis
What Would
Ginger Do?
by Kimberly MacCarron*
ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
Final
Round Editor: Lexi
Smail, Assistant
Editor, Grand Central Publishing
Emerald: Drone by
Alan Chaput
Forbidden
Paradise
by Barbara Forlenza
Hit and
Run by Lori Matthews
Lovely
Digits
by Jeanine Englert*
SINGLE TITLE
Final
Round Editor: Madeleine Colavita, Associate Editor, Hachette Book Group
Game On by PJ Ryley
Miracle on
Tenth Avenue
by Gabrielle Luthy
Take the
Lead
by Alexis Daria
Tame My
Racing Heart
by Kelly Duff
SPECIALIZED (Alternate Earth, Dystopian, Fantasy,
Futuristic, Paranormal, Time Travel)
Final Round Editor: Kristine
Swartz, Associate Editor, The Berkley Publishing Group
Awaken the
Dragon by Christal Murphy
Bless Your
Heart, and Other Southern Curses by Heather Leonard
Leap of
Fate
by Kimberly
MacCarron*
Praetorian
Rising by Lisa Knight
YOUNG ADULT
Final Round Editor: Alice Jerman, Associate
Editor, HarperCollins
All the Feels by
Kimberly MacCarron*
Covenant
Park
by Christine Gunderson
Loving
Outside the Lines
by Kimberly MacCarron*
Mouthful by C.R. Grissom
Unconditional by Kimberly MacCarron*
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL GREAT EXPECTATIONS FINALISTS!
Fenley Grant
2017 Great
Expectations Contest Chair
GECoordinator@NTRWA.org
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