Awards

• Winner of Coeur Du Bois Love of Romance Award
  
  Christy Lockhart is the winner of Romance Writers of America's Emma Merritt Award--RWA's highest award for volunteerism.
  
  
• Christy Lockhart is the recipient of the CRW Writer of Year Award (1997)

Contact Information

Christy Lockhart
e-mail address: click here

Represented by:
Irene Goodman
Irene Goodman Literary Agency

Romance Writers

Who are Romance Writers?

Romance Writers of America has 8,200 members. Most of these members reside in the United States and Canada, although there are members world-wide. Of RWA's 8,200 members, approximately 1,200 are published in book-length romantic fiction.

Romance writers are a diverse group, librarians, school teachers, business people, accountants, mothers, grandmothers, attorneys, even military personnel.

Who reads these novels, anyway?

The Romance Writers of America recently commissioned a survey on American reading habits. The survey was conducted by Denver, Colorado's BBC Research. Among the interesting things that were discovered, it was learned that:

• 41.4 million people (aged ten and older) have read a romance in the past year. Of those, 3.5 million were men, leaving 37.9 million women readers.
  
  
• 23% of romance readers earn between $50,000 - $75,000 per year, while another 7% earn between $75,000 and $100,000.

• There were 2,218 romances released in 1999.
  
  Romance novels account for 54% of all popular paperback fiction sales in the United States.
  
  
• Romance novels generate about $1 billion in annual sales.