Sandy Barker – The Dating Game

...My ‘advice’ is always two-fold – about the craft and about the biz. The craft: get the story down. Make time and tell your story in your unique way. Then...

Coming Home to the Sunflower Cliffs

Gabriel returns to the island of Jersey after ten years abroad to help his aging showbiz parents revive their failing Art Deco hotel, The Encore. He is stunned to discover...

Jane Wenham-jones Award For Romantic Comedy Category

...Portia MacIntosh – Life’s A Beach Portia is a best-selling author of twenty romantic comedy novels. This year she celebrates eight years since her first title was published. An ex-showbiz...

New Publications: January 2019

...Jill Barry: Melting Evie’s Heart Contemporary Romance DC Thomson My Weekly Pocket Novel 10th January 2019 Evie flees London, dumped by her showbiz boss Marcus and seeking a tranquil Christmas...

RNA Conference 2018 Round Up

...Serge Gainsborough version of J’taime loudly on the speakers as the delegates came in. Instead of putting them off, bizarrely that made them all smile. To our delight, our Jackanory...

New Releases: February 2020

...When former Olympic Swimmer, Michael Adams—now reluctantly Canada’s hottest reality TV star— insults his fake showbiz wife on social media, he escapes the ensuing scandal and jumps on the first...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #12

...the idea, think of those times when you’ve been put off reading a book because of a too-small, too bizarre font. Fonts matter. If that doesn’t work, maybe try printing...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #14

...authors have been accused of not writing romance because their books don’t include sex scenes. Which is a bizarre claim for a lot of obvious reasons (romance = sex?) but...

New Releases: October 2020

...health doctor with a foul mouth, pink streaks in her hair, and a bizarre world view, meets Barclay Lucas, straight-laced, conservative cabinet minister.             Samantha...