Below are a list of winners of the 2002 REVIEWERS' CHOICE AWARDS. 

    BOOK OF THE YEAR

    A CHANCE AT LOVE

    Beverly Jenkins

    Avon - September 2002

    FAVORITE AUTHOR OF THE YEAR

     Beverly Jenkins 

     Avon - St. Martin's Press

     BELLE AND THE BEAU/A CHANCE AT LOVE

     NEW AUTHOR OF THE YEAR

     Maureen Morah Smith

     GHOSTS OF FIRE

     iuniverse - May 2002

    CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE OF THE YEAR

     DOCTOR, DOCTOR

     Carmen Green

      BET/Arabesque - May 2002    

     ROMANCE/FICTION ANTHOLOGY OF THE YEAR

     GETTIN' MERRY - St. Martin's Press - October 2002

     Francis Ray | Beverly Jenkins

     Monica Jackson | Geri Guillaume

    NOVELLA OF THE YEAR

    "Homecoming" - GETTIN' MERRY

     Beverly Jenkins

     St. Martin's Press - October 2002        

     ARABESQUE BOOK OF THE YEAR

     DOCTOR, DOCTOR

     Carmen Green

     BET/Arabesque - May 2002    

    GENESIS PRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR  

     NO APOLOGIES 

     Seressia Glass

     Genesis Press/Indigo Love Story - April 2002    

    CONTEMPORARY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR  

     TIES THAT BIND 

     Brenda Jackson

     St. Martin's Press - November 2002    

     MAINSTREAM FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

     LIKE BOOGIE ON TUESDAY

     Linda Dominique Grosvenor

     BET/Sepia - January 2002

    INSPIRATIONAL ROMANCE/FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 

     NO REGRETS

     Patricia Haley

     BET/New Spirit - June 2002    

     INTERRACIAL BOOK OF THE YEAR

     SOMETHING REAL

     J. J. Murray

     Kensington Dafina - May 2002    

    ROMANTIC SUSPENSE BOOK OF THE YEAR  

     GHOSTS OF FIRE 

     Maureen Morah Smith

     iuniverse - May 2002