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October 20, 2009

LOS ANGELES – USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced the winners and finalists of  THE NATIONAL “BEST BOOKS”
2009 AWARDS (NBBA) on October 20, 2009. Awards were presented for titles published in 2009 and late 2008. The Award-Winner for the Historical Fiction category of the National Best Books 2009 Awards was THE KING'S DAUGHTER: A NOVEL OF THE FIRST TUDOR QUEEN by Sandra Worth. Sandra also was the Award-Winning Finalist both in the category of Historical Fiction and in the category of Romance for her novel LADY OF THE ROSES: A NOVEL OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES.

Winners and finalists traversed the publishing landscape: Simon & Schuster, Penguin, W.W. Norton, Revell, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons, Thomas Nelson, American Cancer Society, Greenleaf Book Group, Sourcebooks & hundreds of independent houses contributed to this year’s outstanding NBBA competition. Keen adds, “NBBA’s success begins with the enthusiastic participation of authors and publishers and continues with our distinguished panel of industry judges who bring to the table their extensive editorial, PR, marketing, and design expertise.”

THE KING’S DAUGHTER was named the Romantic Times Magazine 2008
Reviewers’ Choice Award Winner for Best Historical Biography. To all the reviewers of the Romantic Times Magazine, a big thank you for this most prestigious award.

LADY OF THE ROSES has been awarded Best Book of the Year (Historical Fiction) by the reviewers at Romance Reviews Today. A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful reviewers of Romance Reviews Today for making this award possible.

LADY OF THE ROSES   has  won  the  CataNetwork Reviewers' Choice
Award for 2008 as one of the best books reviewed on Single Titles last year! This is the story of Yorkist John, Lord Montagu who fell in love with Isobel, the beautiful ward of John’s enemy, the Lancastrian queen Marguerite d’Anjou. I am delighted that John and Isobel’s story has touched a chord in reviewers, and feel very privileged that CataNetwork has seen fit to honor my novel with their coveted award. My thanks to all who made this possible.


WINNER · FIRST PLACE · 2008 ROYAL PALM LITERARY AWARD
Mainstream Published category
THE ROSE OF YORK: FALL FROM GRACE


WINNER · FIRST PLACE PRIZE of $1,000
the Francis Ford Coppola/Ray Bradbury/ Moxie Fims-sponsored
2003 NEW CENTURY WRITERS AWARD
THE ROSE OF YORK: FALL FROM GRACE
Chosen from 490 entries for best unpublished and emerging writers. The final judges of the contest included top industry producers, directors, film marketing professionals, fiction writers, playwrights, fiction editors, screenwriters, executive producers, and literary agents. New Century Writer Awards is an annual screenwriting, playwriting and fiction writing competition and educational organization supported by Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope All Story. See Moxie Films, www.jasonmarchi.com, or this page for more info.


WINNER · GRAND PRIZE of fifteen hundred dollars
2003 OPEN MANUSCRIPT COMPETITION
the Bay Area Writers League
THE ROSE OF YORK: FALL FROM GRACE
The panel of judges included university professors of the University of Houston. Comment from the judges, “This is one fine masterful work, the true quill.”


WINNER · GRAND PRIZE of five hundred dollars
2000 AUTHORLINK NEW AUTHOR AWARDS
Awarded to only one First Place winner, THE ROSE OF YORK was chosen from among one hundred and sixty entries. Sandra was flown by Authorlink to the University of Georgia to receive her cash prize and award certificate.


WINNER · FIRST PLACE PRIZE of one hundred dollars
2000 AUTHORLINK NEW AUTHOR AWARDS
Historical/western genre · THE ROSE OF YORK


WINNER, 2005 GLYPH AWARD  ·  Best Fiction Book  ·  General
Arizona Publishing Association · THE ROSE OF YORK: LOVE & WAR


WINNER SECOND PLACE · 2004 ROYAL PALM LITERARY AWARD · 
Published Historical Fiction ·  Florida Writers Association
THE ROSE OF YORK: LOVE & WAR


WINNER THIRD PLACE · 
the 2004 MORE THAN MAGIC COMPETITION
Romance Writers Ink/Romance Writers of America
THE ROSE OF YORK: LOVE & WAR


WINNER THIRD PLACE · 2007 NORTH TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL COMPETITION for THE ROSE OF YORK: CROWN OF DESTINY. Sandra received her award at the April 18th 2008 Awards Banquet in Dallas, Texas.


WINNER THIRD PLACE · 2003 ROYAL PALM LITERARY AWARD ·
Unpublished Historical Fiction · Florida Writers Association  · THE ROSE OF YORK: LOVE & WAR


THE ROSE OF YORK: LOVE & WAR was voted one of top two Best Books of 2003 in the Preditors and Editors Readers Poll


Winner in the 2002 Gardenia Press Annual First NovelFest