Congratulations are in order for Ruth Saberton, whose sparkling novel Katy Carter Wants a Hero, has been nominated for the Romantic Comedy Prize in the 2011 Romantic Novelists’ Association Pure Passion Awards. Fingers are crossed for Ruth, whose writing has proven to be ‘laugh-out-loud funny’. The winners for each category will be named at the Pure Passion Awards, 2011, Monday 7th March, at a champagne reception. Look here for the long list of all nominees.

The RNA press release confirms who Ruth is up against, the list included Jill Mansell’s ‘Take a Chance on Me’ and Lindsey Kelk’s ‘I Heart Paris’.

And in a huge leap into the century of Twitterspere, look how often the short list announcement was trended…..