“Weina stands out as one of the hardest-working authors I've ever had the privilege of editing," said Anna Michels, editor at Sourcebooks. It took Dai Randel ten years to write the RITA awarded novel, The Moon in the Palace, and its follow up, T he Empress of Bright Moon. Dai Randel received eighty-two rejection letters before Sourcebooks Landmark picked up the duology. in English from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, and has worked as a journalist, magazine editor, and adjunct professor, before becoming a writer. for the first time at twenty-three. After becoming fluent in English and writing, Dai Randel earned an M.A. Dai Randel is a Chinese American writer who came to the U.S. The RITA is the most prominent award given throughout the genre of romance fiction. Roughly, 2,000 romance writers entered in the RITA competition, and the winners were announced on July 27 at the Romance Writers of America (RWA) Annual Conference in Orlando, FL. We are so pleased to share that The Moon in the Palace by Weina Dai Randel was selected as the RITA award winner for Best Mainstream Fiction with a Central Romance!
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