Ask An Industry Expert: Anna Davis

...do check the individual course descriptions on our website. To summarise: On our ‘selective applications’ three-and-six month Writing Your Novel courses (both London and online), you get loads of feedback...

A Nurse’s Tale

A Nurse's Tale is inspired by the real life story of Nigerian Princess Adenrele Ademola who worked at Guys hospital during the second world war and the journey of her...

Independent Bookshop Week

...conversation about people’s favourite bookshop in person or online If able, visit them and post pictures of your visit Post on social media with the hashtag #IndieBookshopWeek and tag @booksaremybag...

Sandy Barker – The Dating Game

...Snark and illustrious recapper of British reality television shows for online magazine, Feed Your Mind. When her recap of reality dating show, The Stag, goes viral, the show’s producers practically...

Deborah Carr: Character Connections In Timeslips

...the First World War. The connection between the two timelines is the nurses. Gemma Kingston, works in a trauma unit and is suffering from burnout and Alice Le Breton, a...

Launching RNA Learning

...RNA’s very own on-line workshops which are now being rolled out. Jean’s popped onto the blog today to tell us all about launching RNA Learning. Thanks, Karen. One of the...

New Releases: February 2020

...Weekly – DC Thomson 6th Feb 2020 It’s early in World War 2 when pretty Australian Nurse, Pauline Newton, arrives at Killymoor Hall, a makeshift military hospital in Lancashire, She...

Ann Evans: Hints & Tips #4

...over your tags, it draws the reader’s attention to it, rather than the dialogue itself. Avoid using adverbs too often at the end of speech tags, E.g. he said merrily....

New Releases: September 2023

...Novel 31st August 2023 Emma opens a nursery next door to grumpy Jake and fills it with children, determined not to let him put her off. Although their mutual suspicion...

Jean Fullerton: Romance Is A Feminist Issue.

...novels within the feminist narrative. There are now university courses on how to write romance in the 21stcentury and there is even an online academic periodical, The Journal for Popular...

From The Chair Of The RNA…

...and online. However, we expect our members to disagree respectfully and while being mindful of the words they use, particularly online, and we should not allow ourselves to be oblivious...

Honno, Independent Women’s Press By Judith Barrow

...rise of new formats seems unstoppable. Streaming will, I think, be the next big thing. And I wonder if the current pandemic-driven move to online teaching for children will further...