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A Gentle Rain was awarded the Grand Prize and Best Mainstream novel in The Heart Romance Writers Lories competition.

A Gentle Rain was named the Best Contemporary Fiction of 2007 by Romance Reviews Today.

Audio versions of our titles will be coming! Download and listen to a FREE sample of Mossy Creek, read by author Deborah Smith.

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A Gentle Rain by Deborah Smith has been nominated for the Romance Writers of America prestigious RITA award!

A Gentle Rain by Deborah Smith has won the Romantic Times BOOKreviews Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Small Press Romance.

A Gentle Rain by Deborah Smith has been selected as a Finalist for Foreword's Book of the Year Award.

Sweet Tea series author Lynda Holmes' play "Beyond Jesse James" has been selected as one of the winning plays in the SNCA Playwrights Showcase Competition.

A Gentle Rain just won a Reviewer's Choice Award from singletitles.com!

The Crossroads Café won the 2007 HOLT Medallion award for Best Mainstream/Single Title (sponsored by the Richmond, Virginia chapter of Romance Writers of America).

The Crossroads Café won the 2007 Write Touch Readers' Awards sponsored by the Wisconsin RWA Chapter.

Bra Talk author Susan Nethero is opening three new shops in her mega-successful lingerie chain, Intimacy. Locations are Boston, Aventura, Florida, and Westchester, New York.

The Crossroads Café has been awarded a RIO as Favorite Long Contemporary Romance of 2006 by Reviewer's International Organization.

Creola's Moonbeam author Milam McGraw Propst was interviewed on local Atlanta radio at BookTalk with Gail Cohn, and you're invited to listen right here.

The Crossroads Café is a finalist in the "Award of Excellence" contest sponsored by the Colorado Romance Writers organization and in the Book of the Year awards sponsored by Foreword Magazine.

Blessings of Mossy Creek author, Missy Tippens, has made her first full-length novel sale to Harlequin Book's Steeple Hill Love Inspired line. Look for her book in 2008.

Thorndyke Press, a publisher specializing in large-print editions of popular books, is offering our Mossy Creek Howntown series to readers! A Day in Mossy Creek was published by Thorndyke's "Clean Reads" division in November, with other titles in the series to come out this year!

Deborah Smith's The Crossroads Café will be published in translated editions this year by French and Finnish publishers. Here's hoping for deals with even more foreign presses!