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A bit of acclaim for my Victorian romance:<\/p>\nA bit of acclaim for my Victorian romance:<\/p>\n
Six Weeks with an Earl won 2nd place in the Legend – A Man For All Reasons category of the Romance Through the Ages competition.<\/p>\n
AND in the preliminary round in the 2016 Golden Heart\u00ae Contest, Six Weeks with an Earl had a final score of 8.433333333. That’s well into the top quartile of scores in the Historical Romance category (>8.36).<\/p>\n
I told Grace and Everett about this.<\/p>\n
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“Shouldn’t that be a recurring three?” Grace\u00a0frowned and brushed a spec of dust from her wide, blue skirt.<\/p>\n
Everett rolled his eyes. “I think what my wife means is, shouldn’t that be first, not second, and ten out of ten.”<\/p>\n
“But they liked you,” I insisted. “Generally, the judges liked you.”<\/p>\n
“Not enough.” Grace raised her eyebrows. “What are you doing, still talking to us?”<\/p>\n
“She’s a writer, Grace, what do you think she does all day?”<\/p>\n
Everett and Grace shared a smile.<\/p>\n
“Well, actually, I have this other job…” I trailed off when they began to laugh.<\/p>\n
Grace nudged Everett.<\/p>\n
“What Grace means to say, is that she thinks you ought to get back to work on your book.”<\/p>\n
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Ah. Okay. That told me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A bit of acclaim for my Victorian romance: Six Weeks with an Earl won 2nd place in the Legend – A Man For All Reasons category of the Romance Through the Ages competition. AND in the preliminary round in the 2016 Golden Heart\u00ae Contest, Six Weeks with an Earl had a final score of 8.433333333. … <\/p>\n