Ask An Industry Expert: Anna Davis

...philosophical pontificating. If you have a strong hook, try to get it across on the first page. Make sure your material has plenty of dialogue on it. Dialogue helps bring...

Aruna Vasudevan: The Literary Shed

Today’s guest blogger is Aruna from the The Literary Shed. Welcome to the RNA blog Aruna! * Can you tell us a little bit about The Literary Shed? What made...

New Releases: April 2019

...heaped disgrace on the family, and the man she loves rejected her when he discovered the truth about her powers. Neither will be forgiven. Fate, however, has a shock in...

Launching RNA Learning

...on a new educational strand. To that end we have developed RNA Learning, the RNA’s new online workshop initiative which is being inaugurated as part of the RNA’s Diamond celebrations....

Are You Making Writing Resolutions? Should You? (and What’s A Behag?) By Sue Moorcroft

...Christmas Skye but already up on online retailers as Skye Sisters Trilogy book 2). I even have a deadline to submit this post, though it’s a self-imposed one to leave...

Snow Days With You By Leonie Mack: Author Interview

...interest, an epic skiing lesson, an ‘only one sauna’ scene and a whole lot of gentle moments between two characters who slowly find each other. What was the inspiration behind...

May 2019: Competition Monthly

...on CB online course. Closing date: 1 August 2019 Entry: Free Details The Retreat West Novel Prize Theme: For new, unagented authors. First 7,500 words plus 500 word max synopsis...

Honno, Independent Women’s Press By Judith Barrow

...increase the next generation’s move to digital consumption of the written word, whether in the form of eBook or digital audio, and perhaps also encourage those of them who feel...

February 2020: Competition Monthly

...£100 (or critique) plus publication online Closing date: 31 March 2020 Entry: £5 Details   April Competitions Writer’s Digest Self-Publishing Book Awards Theme: For self-published books – several categories Prizes:...

Independent Bookshop Week

...delivery service. I have been saving up the books I want to buy for this week, but I know I will discover books I didn’t know I wanted or needed....

Marketing & Me By Suzanne Snow

...More Readers’, has made a huge difference to how I do this and improved my confidence in approaching people. Part of Anna’s philosophy is ‘demystifying communications with fun and effective...

Sandy Barker – The Dating Game

...At school, her teachers said that she lived with her head in the clouds and if she didn’t stop daydreaming she would never get anywhere. She never did stop daydreaming,...