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Speculative Romance Awards

Our mission is to recognize and encourage speculative romantic fiction. To that end, we honor both published and unpublished speculative romance authors with the Sapphire and the Zircon awards.

Sapphire Awards

The Sapphire Awards honor our readers' choices for the year's best speculative romance in both novel and short story formats.

The winners for the 2005 Sapphire Award for Best Speculative Romance Novel are...

First Place
Dark Lover : A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J. R. Ward

Second Place
Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughan

Third Place
The Ravencliff Bride by Dawn Thompson

The winners for the 2005 Sapphire Award for Best Speculative Romance Novella are...

First Place
Forever Mine by Linda Winstead Jones

Second Place
The City of Cries by Catherine Asaro

Third Place
Road of Adventure by Robin D. Owens

The nominees for the 2005 Sapphire Award for Best Speculative Romance Novel are...

Dark Lover : A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J. R. Ward

Sins of the Night (A Dark-Hunter Novel) by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughan

A Taste of Crimson (Crimson City) by Marjorie M. Liu

Master of the Moon by Angela Knight

The Ravencliff Bride by Dawn Thompson

The nominees for the 2005 Sapphire Award for Best Speculative Romance Novella are...

Road of Adventure by Robin D. Owens

Forever Mine by Linda Winstead Jones

Knightly Dreams by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The City of Cries by Catherine Asaro

Congrats to everyone, and good luck in the final round voting.

The 2004 winners of the Sapphire Award are:

Novel

Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris, Ace, First Place
Raven's Shadow by Patricia Briggs, Ace, Second Place
Jane's Warlord by Angela Knight, Berkley, Third Place

Short Fiction

?The Trouble with Heroes? by Jo Beverly, Irresistible Forces, NAL, First Place
?Winterfair Gifts? by Lois McMaster Bujold, Irresistible Forces, NAL, Second Place
?The Night Owl? by Emma Holly, Hot Blooded, Jove, Third Place

The 2004 nominees for the Sapphire Award:

Novel

Day of Fire by Kathleen Nance, Dorchester
Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris, Ace
Heart Duel by Robin D. Owens, Berkley
Jane's Warlord by Angela Knight, Berkley
Raven's Shadow by Patricia Briggs, Ace
The Scarlet Empress by Susan Grant, Dorchester

Short Fiction

?Dead Girls Don?t Dance? by MaryJanice Davidson, Cravings, Jove
?The Night Owl? by Emma Holly, Hot Blooded, Jove
?Originally Human? by Eileen Wilks, Cravings, Jove
?Stained Glass Heart? by Catherine Asaro, Irresistible Forces, NAL
?The Trouble with Heroes? by Jo Beverly, Irresistible Forces, NAL
?Winter Born? by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Stroke of Midnight, St. Martin?s
?Winterfair Gifts? by Lois McMaster Bujold, Irresistible Forces, NAL

Zircon Awards

SpecRom annually recognizes efforts of unpublished authors by hosting a short speculative romantic fiction contest.

Zircon Winners!

Our thanks to final judge Elizabeth Burton, executive editor of Zumaya Publications, and creatrix of the The Everdark Wars fantasy series.

READ SPECROM'S INTERVIEW WITH ELIZABETH!

And the winners are?

FIRST PLACE
THE FARMER'S BOY AND THE SOUTHERN PRINCESS,
by C. Mitchell O'Neal

SECOND PLACE (tie)
WAKING OPHELIA,
by E. Catherine Tobler

WITH HEART TO HEAR,
by Frances Robertson Gross

THIRD PLACE
AN ASSASSIN'S EDUCATION,
by Denise Ann Frost

The 2004 Zicron Winners:

First Place: Isabo Kelly, ?The Last Guardian?

Second Place: Joyce Ellen Armond, ?Attraction of Otherness?

Third Place: Karen Pleines Sterba, ?Miracles on the Sea of Blue Death?

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