RITA

I'm not going to review these as I think that would break the whole 'don't talk about them' policy with judging the books. I will however list the ones I read for this year (since they count toward my goal), and I wish much luck to all of the finalists.

Books #9 through #16:

We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog bash for an important announcement and a rousing SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!

Several of our authors made the list of this year's finalists for the 2008 RITA Awards®. The 2008 RITA honors romance fiction published in 2007, and over 1,000 novels and novellas were judged in 12 categories. Winners of the awards will be announced August 2nd at the RITA and Golden Heart Awards Ceremony to be held at RWA's Annual Conference in San Francisco, California.

Got this list from another site and thought it was pretty interesting.  So have you read any of these or do you plan to try and read some in the future?

 Me, I have read 15, but hope to try and find a couple more this year.   Good luck to all the nominees.

2008 RITA for Best First Book Finalists

PURE PASSION...

As I've made mention on my author site blog, I'm not buying any new books this year and am reading instead from my massive TBR pile. (Yes, it's over 1000, but I have no idea of the true number.