Announcing Our 2017 MAKE IT GOLDEN Winners!!

All the votes are all in, and it’s time to name our winners! We had an exceptionally good batch of entries this year, and the final voting was so so so close! The Rubies LOVED the expanded entries, which all delivered deliciously on the promise of the opening 50 words!!

For those of you who may just be joining us, the MAKE IT GOLDEN Contest celebrates excellent beginnings in unpublished romance novel manuscripts. Round 1 asks for entries of the first 50 words (max) of the very opening of the...