You’ll know from various blogs, twitter and Facebook, that the RNA Summer Party was a HUGE SUCCESS!! I took a great many photos throughout the evening, and I thought I’d show some of them to you. But first, CONGRATULATIONS to

Evonne Wareham, winner of the Joan Hessayon Prize with Never Coming Home, published by Choc Lit, and

Jane Lovering, winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year 2012 with Please Don’t Stop the Music, also published by Choc Lit.

 

Liz Fenwick and Sue Moorcroft, before the party began

 

Marina Oliver: Myra Kersner; Chris Oliver: Sue Moorcroft

Louise Allen; Brigid Coady; Anna Lucia Scamens

 

Maureen Alan Smith and me

 

Kate Lace; Emma Lee Potter

 

 

Laura E. James

 

Liz Fenwick with representatives from MIdas Publicity

Christina Courtenay; Eileen Ramsay; Rae Cowie

Susie Vereker; Becky Black; Rhoda Baxter; Me

 

 

 

Carole Matthews

Laura E. James

Katie Fforde; Sarah Broadhurst

 

 

Evonne Wareham, winner of the Joan Hessayon Prize; Cathy Mansell; Eileen Hathaway

Gilli Allan

Mandy Baggot

 

Catherine Miller; Talli Roland; D.J.Kirkby; Rhoda Baxter

Judy Astley; Rae Cowie; Melinda Hammond

Jane Gordon-Cumming; Edwin Osborn

 

Evonne Wareham, with her mother

Christina Courtenay; Sarah Tranter; Juliet Archer; Christine Stovell

Jenny Barden; Jean Fullerton

Jane Lovering, winner of the RNOTY 2012

 

Trisha Ashley; Marika Cobbold

Fenella Miller; Victoria Connelly

 

 

Roger Sanderson; Cara Cooper

Anna Jacobs and her husband, Dave

 

 

Linda Chamberlain; Denise Barnes

Marte, from Mir Photo

Margaret James; Jenny Barden; Jane Lovering

 

Lucie Wheeler

 

Lizzie Lamb

Lizzie Lamb; Liz Harris

Fanny Blake; Rosie Thomas

 

 

Jane Lovering; Margaret James; Liz Harris

 

I hope you’ve enjoyed meeting some of my friends in the Romantic Novelists’ Association.