Nora Roberts, past winner of nineteen RITA® and Golden Medallion awards from the Romance Writers of America (RWA), received her twentieth RITA award for her 2008 bestseller, Tribute, at the 2009 RWA conference. According to the Mitzi Writes blog, seeing Nora Roberts and her editor, Putnam’s Leslie Gelbman, “walk hand in hand up to the stage” to accept the award was one of the best moments of the conference.
Roberts' award winner, Tribute, tells the story of Cilla McGowan, a restorer of old houses whose current project involves bringing back from near ruin the Shenandoah Valley home in which her grandmother, movie legend Janet Hardy, once lived. A discovery of old letters in the attic leads Cilla and her attractive neighbor, graphic novelist Ford Sawyer, into an investigation of the 30-year-old mystery surrounding Janet Hardy’s death.
Lifetime Television included Tribute among the four adaptations of Nora Roberts novels that premiered in 2009. Lifetime’s Tribute features Brittany Murphy as Cilla, Jason Lewis as Ford and Christian Oliver as Cilla’s ex-husband, Steve.
The complete list of books receiving RITA awards at the 2009 RWA conference appears below:
- Best Contemporary Series Romance – A Mother's Wish by Karen Templeton
- Best Contemporary Series Romance: Suspense/Adventure – Danger Signals by Kathleen Creighton
- Best Young Adult Romance – Hell Week by Rosemary Clement-Moore
- Best Historical Romance – The Edge of Impropriety by Pam Rosenthal
- Best Regency Historical Romance – My Lord and Spymaster by Joanna Bourne
- Best Inspirational Romance – Finding Stefanie by Susan May Warren
- Best Romance Novella – "The Fall of Rogue Gerard" by Stephanie Laurens in It Happened One Night
- Best Paranormal Romance – Seducing Mr. Darcy by Gwyn Cready
- Best Novel with Strong Romantic Elements – Tribute by Nora Roberts
- Best Romantic Suspense – Take No Prisoners by Cindy Gerard
- Best First Book – Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs
- Best Contemporary Single Title Romance – Not Another Bad Date by Rachel Gibson
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