Activities

Today I’m delighted to welcome Madeleine Milburn, founder, director and agent of the Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency.
Hello and welcome, Madeleine. First of all, double congratulations in the realm of n

A huge welcome to Liz Fenwick to the blog today to chat to us about her new release, The Path to the Sea.

Liz, what was the inspiration behind your book? Can you tell us a little about it?

When my

I would like to welcome for today’s blog Catherine Jones. Catherine has also written as Kate Lace and Fiona Field. 
I will never forget the first time I met Catherine Jones. It had been several years ago at

I’m delighted to welcome Francine Beaton as our very first Hot Seat author to talk about her new release and to tell us something about herself. Francine’s new book, Taste For Wine, was released this week and is

New Writers’ Scheme member Linda Corbett is on the blog today to tell us about her experiences as an author, and how she balances her disability with the demands of writing.

I’m all in favour of character d

Jennifer Bohnet: Villa of Sun and Secrets

Boldwood Books
e-book; paperback; audio
8th August 2019

Carla Sullivan’s 50th birthday is fast approaching when her whole world is turned upside down. Discovering

Agents, editors, publishers and other industry professionals were well-represented at this year’s conference, held at Lancaster on a lovely July weekend. Some of them will be interviewed for the blog in the c

Today I’m delighted to welcome Keshini Naidoo, Co-Founder and Publishing Director of Hera Books.
 

Hello, and welcome Keshini. I notice we’re just a week or so away from Hera Books’ first birthday. Very best w

Eye catching beginnings and anonymous characters
My first tip for short story competitions this month is true of all short stories, and that is to start with the action. There isn’t time in a piece of fiction

Why do we call this period the ‘dark ages’?

So we all know about the ‘dark ages’, don’t we? A time when the civilised Romans left and Britain collapsed into chaos, with villas and towns destroyed

I’m delighted to welcome Sue Fortin to the blog. Sue’s latest release, The Dead Wife, is out today so I’m thrilled that she was able to come and talk to us about it.

I’m very excited to be here on the RNA blo

Today’s featured blogger is Vicki Leigh Sayer of The Welsh Librarian.
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Welcome to the RNA blog Vic, why don’t you start off by telling us a bit about yourself.
Hi, I’m Vic, 35, and have been a book ‘worm’ f

This month’s hints and tips is about the part of the editing process I hate most: deleting words! Personally I think writers can be divided into two categories – and it’s not early birds versus night owls or

Liz Eeles: A Summer Escape and Strawberry Cake at The Cosy Kettle

Romantic comedy
Bookouture
Ebook and paperback
July 1st

When Flora finds out about her husband’s secret fling, she escapes to the one

I’m delighted to welcome J.M. Snyder, founder of JMS Books to the RNA blog today.

Welcome JM. I understand that it’s your 9th Anniversary in July, can you tell us what made you set up JMS Books? How dif

When Catherine emailed me and said ‘we need to act fast’ to get my blog onto the RNA website, I felt excited, then immediately panicked because of the deadline. How to distil the year I’ve just had? So I thoug

Publication without payment?

The list of competitions seems rather a sparse month this time round, but for good reason. Four of the competitions I found declared they had the right to publish any entries,