Winner International Digital Award For Best Historical

Cheryl Bolen's My Lord Wicked, a $.99 Gothic Regency ebook, has won Best Historical in the 2012 International Digital Awards for books that were published in 2011 as ebooks.

Two of her other 2011 ebooks were finalists for the Best Historical award: her g-rated traditional Regency, The Earl's Bargain, and With His Lady's Assistance, a humorous romantic Regency mystery (which is Book 1 of the Regent Mysteries).

My Lord Wicked spent several weeks at number two in Amazon Regencies during 2011. The Earl's Bargain spent several weeks as the number one selling Regency historical on Amazon during and made the Kindle Top 100 Bestsellers. Both titles are still in Amazon's Top 50 Bestselling Regency ebooks.

With His Lady's Assistance, named to the Five Star Hall of Fame at the Historical Romance Critic site, received a 4 star review from Romantic Times magazine. Besides being sold at all online retailers as an ebook, it has recently become available as a trade paperback.

Publishing has certainly changed since Harlequin Historical published Bolen's first historical romance novel, A Duke Deceived, in 1998. Then, she won the award Notable New Author. In 2006, her mass market paperback One Golden Ring won the Holt Medallion for Best Historical. That bestselling, award-winning book is now out of print and has never been digitalized.

"I will be happy to get my rights back on that book so I can epublish it and its prequel, Counterfeit Countess," Bolen said.

The International Digital Awards contest was sponsored by the Oklahoma Romance Writers of America.