The 1999 All About Romance Reader Awards
Favorite Romance of the Year – The Lady’s Tutor by Robin Schone
- Honorable Mentions –
- Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The Proposition by Judith Ivory
Favorite Funny – Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Most-Hanky Read – Wicked by Jill Barnett
Most Luscious Love Story – The Lady’s Tutor by Robin Schone
Most Tortured Hero – Sebastian from Karen Ranney’s My Beloved
- Honorable Mentions –
- Jaques from Christine Feehan’s Dark Desire
Jericho from Suzanne Brockmann’s Heartthrob
Ramiel from Robin Schone’s My Lady’s Tutor
Feistiest Heroine – Emma from Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Lady Be Good
Favorite Hero – Roarke from J.D. Robb’s Loyalty in Death
Favorite Heroine – Eve from J.D. Robb’s Loyalty in Death
Favorite Couple – Eve and Rourke from J.D. Robb’s Loyalty in Death
Favorite Villain – Louis Ronsard from Linda Howard’s All the Queen’s Men
- Honorable Mentions –
- Lord Carr from Connie Brockway’s McClairen’s Isle: The Passionate One
Edward from Robin Schone’s My Lady’s Tutor
Most Annoying Lead Character – Meriel from Mary Jo Putney’s The Wild Child
Favorite Cabin or Road Romance – Ransom by Julie Garwood
- Honorable Mentions –
- Body Guard by Suzanne Brockmann
Secrets of the Night by Jo Beverley
Favorite New Author – Liz Carlyle
- Honorable Mentions –
- Diane Farr
Christine Feehan
Jacquie D’Alessandro
Favorite New Discovery – Julia Quinn
- Honorable Mentions –
- Stephanie Laurens
Robin Schone
Author Most Glommed (collected during 1999) – Nora Roberts
- Honorable Mention – Mary Balogh
Favorite Medieval Romance – Ransom by Julie Garwood
Favorite Regency Romance – Fair Game by Diane Farr
Favorite European Historical Romance – How to Marry a Marquis by Julia Quinn
Favorite American or Western Historical Romance – A Rogue in Texas by Lorraine Heath
- Honorable Mention – Breathless by Laura Lee Guhrke
Favorite Contemporary Romance – Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Honorable Mention – Heartthrob by Suzanne Brockmann
Favorite Romantic Suspense – Loyalty in Death by J.D. Robb
- Honorable Mention – All the Queen’s Men by Linda Howard
Favorite “Other” Romance – Loyalty in Death by J.D. Robb
- Honorable Mention – Dark Prince by Christine Feehan
Author You Gave Up On – Catherine Coulter
Author Others Love that You Don’t – Nora Roberts
- (Dis)-Honorable Mentions –
- Danielle Steel
Diana Gabaldon
Most Disappointing Read – Someday My Prince by Christina Dodd
Worst Read – Mad Jack by Catherine Coulter
Purple-est Prose – The Lady’s Tutor by Robin Schone
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