HOME THE HARD WAY by Z.A. Maxfield was first runner-up in Rainbow Award’s Best Gay Mystery/Thriller.

Robin D. Owens, author of HEART FIRE, did a Q&A in USA Today’s Happy Ever After Blog on December 18th.

VENGEANCE by Denise Tompkins (who also writes as Kelli Ireland) comes out in print next week. It has already received a 4-star review from RT magazine.

Nalini Singh’s SHIELD OF WINTER made the Kirkus list of Best Romance Novels of 2014.

Gena Showalter’s THE DARKEST TOUCH rose to #3 on the New York Times bestseller list. She is also the Featured Paranormal Author on EverAfter Romance (a new eBookstore app) for the month of December.

R.S. Belcher’s THE SHOTGUN ARCANA was featured in The Washington Post as a top pick science fiction book.

Booklist has awarded BOTH OF ME by Jonathan Friesen a starred review.

Gena Showalter’s THE DARKEST TOUCH and Robin Owens’s HEART FIRE were both on Amazon’s Best books of month list.

Ramez Naam won the Endeavor Award for NEXUS, tying  with Ken Scholes for his novel REQUIEM.

RT Bookreviews announced the contenders for the 2014 RT Awards, and seventeen Knight Agency authors made the cut. Leading the pack with a Book of the Year nod is New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine’s PRINCE OF SHADOWS. Winners will be announced during the RT Booklovers Convention next May.

Book of the Year News

PRODIGAL SON by Debra Mullins won first place in the paranormal category of the Orange County Chapter/RWA Book Buyers’ Best Contest.

THE CIPHER by Diana Pharaoh Francis will be a Science Fiction/Fantasy Kindle Daily Deal on Oct. 24th.

Deidre Knight’s Parallel series is being spotlighted as a NOOK First title this month.

BOUND BY NATURE by Cooper Davis and Shirley Jump’s Sweet and Savory series are now available in Audible.