{"id":259,"date":"2011-03-26T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/inspirational-rita-award-nominees.html"},"modified":"2011-03-26T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T12:15:00","slug":"inspirational-rita-award-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/inspirational-rita-award-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspirational Rita Award Nominees!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congrats to the following Rita Award Finalists in the RWA’s Inspirational category:<\/p>\n

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\u25a0A Convenient Wife by Anna Schmidt (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical; Tina James, editor)<\/p>\n

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\u25a0Doctor in Petticoats by Mary Connealy (Barbour Publishing; Rebecca Germany, editor)<\/p>\n

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\u25a0Finding Her Way Home by Linda Goodnight (Steeple Hill Love Inspired; Allison Lyons, editor)<\/p>\n

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\u25a0In Harm’s Way by Irene Hannon (Revell; Jennifer Leep, editor)<\/p>\n

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\u25a0Maid to Match by Deeanne Gist (Bethany House Publishers; David Long and Julie Klassen, editors)<\/p>\n

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\u25a0Shades of Morning by Marlo M. Schalesky (WaterBrook Multnomah; Shannon Marchese, editor)<\/p>\n

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\u25a0The Wedding Garden by Linda Goodnight (Steeple Hill Love Inspired; Allison Lyons, editor)<\/p>\n

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\u25a0Whisper on the Wind by Maureen Lang (Tyndale House Publishers; Stephanie Broene, editor)<\/p>\n

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\u25a0Within My Heart by Tamera Alexander (Bethany House Publishers; Karen Schurrer and Charlene Patterson, editors)<\/p>\n

Congrats also to the following Inspirational author who finaled in the Rita Novella Category:<\/p>\n

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\u25a0”Mountain Rose” by Cheryl St. John in To Be a Mother (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical; Patience Smith, editor)<\/p>\n

Congrats to the following Inspirational authors for finaling in the Best First Book category:<\/p>\n

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\u25a0Firestorm by Kelly Ann Riley (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense; Tina James, editor)<\/p>\n

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\u25a0A Tailor-Made Bride by Karen Witemeyer (Bethany House Publishers; Karen Schurrer, editor)<\/p>\n

For a list of ALL CATEGORIES, ALL FINALISTS, see RWA’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congrats to the following Rita Award Finalists in the RWA’s Inspirational category: \u25a0A Convenient Wife by Anna Schmidt (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical; Tina James, editor) \u25a0Doctor in Petticoats by Mary Connealy (Barbour Publishing; Rebecca Germany, editor) \u25a0Finding Her Way Home by Linda Goodnight (Steeple Hill Love Inspired; Allison Lyons, editor) \u25a0In Harm’s Way by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-4b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}