ARRT Romance Program Wrap Up and RITA Finalists Announced

As I mentioned here, ARRT hosted an awesome panel discussion all about romance on Tuesday afternoon. I was one of the people live tweeting the event.

If you click here you can pull up that Twitter thread [#ARRTReads] in reverse chronological order. We always use the same hashtag for all of our ARRT Programs, but that link will limit your results to the conversation by date so you only get the romance program Tweets.

Also, I kept everything I Tweeted in one thread which you can access in order here.

At the end of the program our moderator, Susan Maguire, asked the panelists to recommend other romance authors. The names were coming fast and furious, so we gave up trying to Tweet them and instead compiled this list:

ARRT Panel Authors Mentioned K. J. Charles Jeannie Lin Grace Draven Jeffe Kennedy Alisha Rai Naima Simone Alyssa Cole Jackie Lau Kennedy Ryan Melissa Blue aka Dakota Gray   Scarlett Peckham Alexis Daria Rebekah Weatherspoon Kathryn Nolan- Bohemia Priscilla Oliveras L. J Shen- Vicious Nana Malone L. Penelope Lucy Parker Tracey Livesay Sonali Dev Amanda Bouchet Lisa Berne Mina V. Esguerra Kate Clayborn- Chance of a Lifetime Series Jenny Holiday 

Finally, the 2019 RITA award finalists were also announced today. You can pull up the full list here.

And remember, awards announcements are a great RA and Collection Development resource [click here for more on that topic]. In fact, just yesterday someone was asking for non-speculative transgender fiction for an adult audience and I directed the person to the LAMDA Literary award finalists list that was also recently announced. They have multiple transgender categories, from this year and going back. The person was super excited to have so many choices when they thought they would struggle to find even a couple. Yay awards lists as our secret suggestion weapon.