Sandra's Awards
Sandra Worth is an internationally published author of six historical novels on England's Wars of the Roses chronicling the demise of the Plantagenets and the rise of the Tudors, three with Penguin U.S.A. She has won dozens of awards and prizes and each book is an award-winner.
Pale Rose of England: Finalist, 2011 Romantic Times Magazine Reviewers Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction
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Pale Rose of England: awarded Honorable Mention in the Great Southeast Books Festival for Best General Fiction
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The King’s Daughter: A Novel of the First Tudor Queen won the Romantic Times Magazine Reviewers Choice Award for Best Historical Biography of the Year (2009)
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The King’s Daughter: A Novel of the First Tudor Queen won the National Best Books Award for Best Historical Fiction of the Year (2009)
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Lady of the Roses won the Romance Reviews Today Reviewers Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction of the Year (2008)
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Lady of the Roses won the Catanetwork Reviewers Choice Award for Best Single Title of the Year (2008)
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Lady of the Roses: Finalist, National Best Books Awards for Historical Fiction of the Year won by The King’s Daughter (2009, above)
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The Rose of York: Fall From Grace won the $1,500 First Place Prize of the Francis Ford Coppola/Ray Bradbury/ Moxie Films-sponsored 2003 New Century Writers Awards. The prize was awarded at Sundance.
490 novels were entered into the 2003 contest. The final judges included top industry professionals, directors, film marketing professionals, fiction writers, playwrights, fiction editors, screenwriters, executive producers, and literary agents.
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The Rose of York: Fall From Grace won the $1,500 Grand Prize in the 2003 Open Manuscript Competition of the Bay Area Writers League. Comment from the judges, “This is one fine masterful work, the true quill.”
The Rose of York: Love & War won First Place in the 2003 Gardenia Press Competition (Publication declined)
The Rose of York swept all nine categories of the 2000 Authorlink New Author Awards Competition to win the $500 Authorlink Grand Prize and an all-expenses-paid trip to the University of Georgia after winning the $100 First Place Prize in the Historical/Western genre. Grand Prize Judge was Tom Colgan, Executive Editor at Penguin Publishing Group
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Love & War
The Rose of York: Love & War won the Arizona Publishing Association’s 2005 Glyph Award for Best Fiction Book
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Fall from Grace
The Rose of York: Fall From Grace won First Place in the 2008 Royal Palm Literary Awards
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Love & War
The Rose of York: Love & War won Second Place in the 2004 Royal Palm Literary Awards
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Crown of Destiny
The Rose of York: Crown of Destiny won Third Place in the 2003 Royal Palm Literary Awards
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The Rose of York
Love & War
The Rose of York: Love & War won Third Place in the 2004 More Than Magic Competition of the Romance Writers of America’s Romance Writers Ink
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Crown of Destiny
The Rose of York: Crown of Destiny won Third Place in the 2007 North Texas Book Festival Competition
Honors
The Rose of York: Love & War received Honorable Mention in the 2009 New York Book Festival
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The Rose of York received Honorable Mention in the 2009 New England Book Festival
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The Rose of York was a Runner-Up in the General Fiction category of the 2008 Beach Book Festival
