And the winners are:

Charnetta Dawston is our grand prize winner! Her cool gift package includes: a signed copy of Love T.K.O., gourmet chocolates, the ultimate Soul R&B CD (the love scenes were all inspired by this CD) a $25 Amazon gift card, and a little sumthin’, sumthin’ from Victoria’s Secrets AND that’s not all, one of my favroite DVD movies of all time!

The two other lucky winners who will receive signed copies of Love T.K.O. and Amazon gift cards are: Phyllis Sherer and Jane Squirers.

A big thanks for all of those great submissions. For those of you who didn’t win, check back here in the spring when I run my Super Sexy Romance givewaway! If you love all things romance, this contest is definitely for you!

Happy Holidays and Stay Blessed!

Pamela Yaye

Now that the nominees have finally been posted for the Romantic Times 2008 Reviewer’s Choice Award, I can share my good news. Or better yet, why don’t you read it for yourself? Below, are the five Kimani books being nominated for Romance Novel of the year, and Her Kind of Man is on the list! Yay! I have some very steep competition and have heard nothing but great things about all of the authors nominated. I’ll be sure to pick up a copy of these books to read in the New Year.

Kimani Romance

TENDER SECRETS Ann Christopher (Oct.)
TAME A WILD STALLION Deborah Fletcher Mello (Jun.)
MODEL PERFECT PASSION Melanie Schuster (Apr.)
SECRET AGENT SEDUCTION Maureen Smith (Sep.)
HER KIND OF MAN Pamela Yaye (May)

You don’t have to ask where I will be the weekend of April 16th. It’s Orlando, Florida here I come. If I’m lucky, maybe I’ll be able to squeeze in a basketball game while I’m there. (What? Ya’ll know I’m a sports junkie!)

Congratulations to my other Harlequin author friends, and CARWA members for their nominations as well. Carolyne Aarsen, for being nominated for best Steeple Hill Love Inspired with her book Finally a Family. Linda Ford for being nominated for best Steeple Hill LI Historical for her novel, The Road to Love. And my girl Vivi Anna has been nominated for best Nocturne for her novel, Veiled Truth.