Mar
06
RWA Announces 2008 Award Recipients

The Board approved the following 2008 Award Recipients:

  • RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award – Vicki Lewis Thompson (this used to be the Lifetime Achievement Award but was renamed to the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award)
  • RWA Emma Merritt Service Award – Linda Winstead Jones
  • RWA Service Award – Jill Limber, Nicole Burnham
  • RWA Vivian Stephens Industry Award – Sue Grimshaw, Romance Buyer, Borders Group Inc.
  • RWA Steffie Walker Bookseller of the Year Award – Dianne Defonce, Borders, Fairfield, Connecticut
  • RWA Librarian of the Year – Susan Gibberman, Schaumburg Township District Library, Schaumburg, IL
  • RWA Veritas Award — no nominations submitted.
  • The RWA Grant recipient for 2008-2009 is Sarah S. G. Frantz, Assistant Professor of Literature, Fayetteville State University (Woot! Dr. Sarah. We can’t wait to read your papers that come out of this grant).

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8 comments to “RWA Announces 2008 Award Recipients”

  1. 1 by Jayne March 7th, 2008 at 7:38 am Reply to this comment

    Congratulations to all the winners.
  2. 2 by Sarah Frantz March 7th, 2008 at 8:51 am Reply to this comment

    Hey, thanks! Me, neither! ;) I’ll post at Teach Me Tonight whenever they do get published, I promise.

    And congratulations to all the other winners, too!
  3. 3 by Shiloh Walker March 7th, 2008 at 9:47 am Reply to this comment

    The RWA Grant recipient for 2008-2009 is Sarah S. G. Frantz, Assistant Professor of Literature, Fayetteville State University (Woot! Dr. Sarah. We can’t wait to read your papers that come out of this grant).

    I thought that name looked really, really familiar.

    Congrats, Sarah.
  4. 4 by Sarah Frantz March 7th, 2008 at 11:06 am Reply to this comment

    Thanks, Shiloh! Yes, I get around! ;)
  5. 5 by Karen Scott March 7th, 2008 at 11:32 am Reply to this comment

    I’ve been reading VLT for years, and I love her book! Congrats to her!

    Congrats to Sarah too!
  6. 6 by Janine March 7th, 2008 at 12:10 pm Reply to this comment

    Congratulations to Sarah and all the other winners!
  7. 7 by Ann Bruce March 7th, 2008 at 2:12 pm Reply to this comment

    Adding my congratulations to Sarah and the other winners.
  8. 8 by Sherry Thomas March 8th, 2008 at 11:33 am Reply to this comment

    I was so impressed with Sue Grimshaw when I heard her at a bookseller’s panel in Dallas. Sunny got up to ask a question about how a bookchain judges how many copies they’d order of an author’s next book and Sue Grimshaw immediately named the number of copies Sunny’s last release had sold corporate-wide and gave an estimate of what they’d do based on that.
    Can’t imagine how much info she keeps in her head and she is ever so gracious.

    And now I covet that Lifetime Achievement Award even more with Nora Roberts’ name on it.

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