I both dread and ADORE the yearly Readers Choice awards. I dread it because...ugh, SO. MUCH. WORK. Literally days and days worth of free time (like the 5 hour stint tonight that made me late opening the polls!). But when I'm done, it is absolutely all worth it for so many reasons. I love recognizing the authors who work so hard on their craft and struggle to reach new readers. I adore finding new must-read books and instantly downloading them into my Kindle queue (I'm not even going to tell you how much I spent on ebooks while putting together the nominee list!). Seeing my fellow romance readers get excited about how their favorites are doing in the voting makes it so much more fun. [...]

What a great way to close out 2015! Before announcing this year's GraveTells Readers Choice Award winners, I want to give a huge shout-out to all the amazing fans of romance who nominated, shared, and voted for their favorite authors in this event. Half the fun of running a romance review blog is being able to recognize the efforts of all the authors, editors, and publishers who have worked so hard to entertain us throughout the year, so thank you to all my awesome GraveTells readers! Without further ado... Here are your 2015 GraveTells Readers Choice Award winners!

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In some categories, you can vote for two nominees! You’ll only be able to submit your vote(s) for each category once during the entire event, so be sure you’ve made your choices carefully! Voting ends at midnight Pacific time on Saturday, December 26th. Winners will be announced on Monday, December 28th here on GraveTells.com

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Meet your 2015 nominees!

You nominated and we tallied! The 2015 GraveTells Readers Choice Awards recognize 75 authors across 13 categories, and more than half of them are self-published! What an exciting time for the Romance genre and a special surprise for the nominated authors.

Note: if you nominated an author for a category not listed below, your vote wasn’t lost. Some categories had too few nominees for a fair vote and were removed. The leading authors nominated in the removed categories were shifted to other categories where possible.

Here are your 2015 GTRCA nominees!

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