Romance Novel of Excellence!
My debut historical fiction novel, Gisborne: Book of Pawns (Darlington Press 2012), has been nominated for the RONE Book Award for excellence in pre medieval historical fiction.
RONE Award?
Rone stands for Romantic Novel of Excellence – a nice sounding title! And how wonderful it would be to be able to have the tag applied to one’s book!
In a pre-publication review of my book, InD’Tale magazine gave the novel a stellar five stars. Unbeknown to me, this meant that it was automatically nominated for a RONE Award which is divided into 3 stages:
1. Books reviewed by InD’Tale achieving the required star rating (4-5) go onto the second phase.
2. Books are subject to public voting within categories and must win to proceed.
3. Books will be subject to a panel of experts for review before a final book is chosen to receive the RONE Award in each category.
Where and how to Vote?
Public voting began on 26th April and is open for a mere sennight, (seven days and nights) readers! A mere short sennight! So if you loved the book and can’t wait till Gisborne: Book of Knights is released you are encouraged to give Pawns, Ysabel and Guy, a little push up the ladder of excellence.
Voting is quite simple and involves registering with InD’Tale and once you’re logged in, beneath the voting category , Gisborne: Book of Pawns will appear and you can vote. Or if you prefer, you can download and email or mail a voting form.
I realise I’ve given you a number of links here, but the really important ones are the two immediately above this line.
Thank you to any who go the extra league when they find stories they enjoy… and in particular who go the extra league and a half for me.
Oh PS: Richard Armitage, the inspiration for The Gisborne Saga is currently in Australia. How’s that for serendipidity and synchronicity? What do you think?
Congratulations on the nomination, Prue! Good luck!! And what a delightful photo of Richard you have included with your post. I didn’t know he was in Australia! I suppose it’s over East? No one comes over here. 🙁
Thanks Nikalee. It’s great for the novel,and it’s exciting for me. Re Richard Armitage, I suspect he’s on his way to NZ to finish filming the The Hobbit 2 and with Warner Bros. having a base in Sydney and The Hobbit being released on DVD here in OZ tomorrow, all the dots just joined up. No one comes to Tassie either, but that’s okay… we realise we’re often at the bottom of the map! 😉
I’ve voted – good luck Prue!
A word of warning to anyone registering – my validation email went straight to the ‘junk’ file. So if your email doesn’t turn up search the spam box.
Bollyknickers, thank you so much! And thanks for the warning to others too!
Oh – i forgot to say that i’m going to The Hobbit Q&A tomorrow night.
I am sooooo excited!
OMG, OMG!!!!! You lucky duck – it was just too expensive from Tasmania for one night for me. I should fast track a book to you and you can throw it to him! Can’t wait to hear about the event from you. You have to tell us all! Hope you have a wonderful view and that THE VOICE is just as good in reality as in recorded moments.
I will give you a blow by blow account but it will be late as i have to be at work at 8am the next morning. Some people are tweeting but i’m not a twitterer and i also wouldn’t want to take my eyes of the lovely man for long enough to tweet. He will have my full attention.
As it should be!
Hi Prue,
(I’m really NOT trying to generate publicity but you did ask..)
I put a full account of my experience of the Q&A on the Me+Richard Armitage blog if you are interested.
bolly x
I am quite happy for you to generate publicity and I am hot-footing it to see what you have to say. I couldn’t imagine anyone better to relay the detail than an Australian. Well done!
I voted for you! Best of luck – you deserve to win!
Phylly, thank you. Gosh, the RA girls are such loyal supporters!
Hurrah and congrats! I just voted, and can hardly wait for your next book!
Thank you, thank you. I am so thrilled that you are supporting me. It makes it all worth while and I have almost finished writing the second one – it’s at the bitter last chapters…
I’ve registered and voted, Prue. (Also sharing and tweeting this post.)
Bless you, Gerry and thanks. I hope you are well on the mend now after that dreadfully tough winter for your health. Cheers!