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2021 Romantic Novel Awards
TV star Larry Lamb
Announcing the winners was TV legend Larry Lamb, full of his down to earth wit, he entertained throughout, alongside compère author and broadcaster Jane Wenham-Jones.
There were tears, giggles and a few technical hitches but nothing could stop the feel good factor of authors supporting each other. As Milly Johnson said, “It’s like being in a room full of mates.”
Unsurprisingly, one topic that most winners referred to was the difficulties that lockdown had posed – to authors, as well as readers.
Winner of the Katie Fforde debut award Clare Pooley said readers told her that her novel,
Staff, residents of Sayre Christian Village receive COVID-19 vaccine
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â Nearly 200 staff members and residents of Lexingtonâs Sayre Christian Village health care facility received the first round of their COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday morning, and while CEO Karen Venis noted that you couldnât see the smiles, (due to the masks) you could see the excitement in everyoneâs eyes. And you could certainly hear it in their voices.
âItâs heaven. Or itâs got to be the next best thing,â Venis said.
Sue Combs, whoâs being cared for in the health care center, was first to roll up her sleeve.
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Christmas novels are not a new phenomenon. Charles Dickens sold out of his first print run of A Christmas Carol in days in December 1843, while Agatha Christie played on seasonal stresses with titles including The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding in 1923 and Hercule Poirot’s Christmas in 1938. But these days, there are acres of festive crime and rags-to-riches romances under the mistletoe to choose from. All tastes are catered for, whether it’s a love of trains (Edward Marston’s Victorian railway detective story A Christmas Railway Mystery), religion (Unlikely Santa: An Amish Christmas Story) or even festive erotica. Ebook retailer Smashwords stocks romance titles including The Old Dragon of the Mountain’s Christmas, and the inventive-sounding A Cyborg’s Old Terran Christmas. (“Interstellar bride Nell and her three children are forced to enter space-sleep capsules in the hope of surviving a calamity. She wakes over 700 years l