News and Events | Vancouver Island Romance Authors

Member News:

♦ Suzan Lauder’s book cover for Letter from Ramsgate was a runner up for monthly best historical book cover at Pam Lecky’s Vintage Treasures blog. This is the second award for this cover, which won Author Shout Out’s Cover Wars in February 2017. The cover designer was Meryton Press’s Zorylee Diaz-Lupitou.

♦ Kay Gregory has sold a short Christmas story, “Blue Christmas,” to Woman’s Weekly magazine in Australia. It will be released in the Women’s Weekly Fiction Special on November 1, 2018.

♦ Suzan Lauder’s latest book, The Mist of her Memory, a Regency romantic suspense/mystery novel, was accepted for publication in early 2019 by Meryton Press. The letter of offer came five days after submission!

♦ Rachel Goldsworthy is delighted that her novella Kiss in the Wind, the second book in the Corsair’s Cove Chocolate Shop series, is in the Greater Victoria Public Library’s Emerging Local Authors collection. The novella is available as an e-book and the anthology of four novellas and a Christmas short story is available in paperback.

Upcoming Events:

November 6, 2018: Susan Lyons will be appearing on the panel “Embracing Diversity in the Modern Love Story” as part of the Writer in Residence program at the Vancouver Public Library.