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2012 Award of Excellence Finalists & Winners

Colorado Romance Writers is pleased to announce the Winners of the Award of Excellence!

Short Contemporary

**Winner** How a Cowboy Stole Her Heart  ~ …

2012 Award of Excellence Finalists

Colorado Romance Writers is pleased to announce the following Award of Excellence finalists!…

This is my last post as your PRO-Liason. I want to thank CRW for a wonderful year as PRO liason and let you know how fun it has been to post here every month. Just a few last words and then I’ll be officially off to PAL.

PRO is an opportunity for authors who are serious about being published to have a group of like-minded authors for support and encouragement. You have to have taken the risk of rejection to get into PRO. You might be someone who succeeded, and…

    When I walked into my first meeting of the local RWA chapter two years ago, it felt like walking into a brand new school. It was filled with friendly faces, but they all had their own groups. It seemed like everyone had known each other for years. Could I fit in here?

    Members rushed around to get things done. I have since found out that while many of our members are founding members or have been with CRW (Colorado Romance Writers) a long time, many of the busiest people…

When I joined RWA I did it because I decided not just to write. I  decided to be a professional writer. To write for a living. To be published. Joining a professional group and accessing the resources and minds available was a big decision for me. Originally I had decided to wait to join until I finished a complete full length manuscript. But it became apparent to me that that would be taking a long, long, long time. So I gave up, gave in and got involved.

And I’m incredibly grateful…