Romance Writers of America announce the novel Now That It’s You by USA Today Bestselling author Tawna Fenske has been named as a finalist in the Mainstream Fiction with a Central Romance category of the 2017 RITA awards. The RITA, the highest award of distinction in the romance publishing industry, recognizes excellence in published romance novels and novellas.
Up to 1,200 romance novels and novellas from 13 different categories are judged each year in the RITA competition. After the first round of judging by fellow published romance authors, the competition narrows to approximately 100 finalists.
Fenske is a bestselling romantic comedy author who writes humorous fiction, risqué romance, and heartwarming love stories with a quirky twist. Her offbeat brand of romance has received multiple starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, noting, “There’s something wonderfully relaxing about being immersed in a story filled with over-the-top characters in undeniably relatable situations. Heartache and humor go hand in hand.”
Tawna is a fourth-generation Oregonian who lives in Bend with her husband, step-kids, and a menagerie of ill-behaved pets. She loves hiking, snowshoeing, standup paddleboarding and inventing excuses to sip wine on her back porch. She can peel a banana with her toes and loses an average of twenty pairs of eyeglasses per year.
www.tawnafenske.com