Claire Fenby – Finalist In The Media Star Of The Year Category

...shortlists. The award categories are: The Romantic Bookseller of the Year, Inclusion Award, Indie Champion of the Year, Library or Librarian of the Year, Indie Editor of the Year, Cover...

A NEW DOCTOR AT THE ORCHARD COTTAGE HOSPITAL

...scar the land. It’s a far cry from London and towns narrow minds are not so welcoming of a young, female Doctor, but she’s determined to win through. At first...

A Changing World – Tania Crosse

...book clubs, book magazines, supermarkets, etc. Sadly, however, that wasn’t enough for them and they declined my next novel. However, by then I had signed with the lovely late Dorothy...

Juliet Bell: The Other Wife

...in another adaptation, this time, Jane Eyre. As some of you will know, Juliet Bell is the collaborative penname of RNA members, Alison May and Janet Gover. Here, I’m keen...

Lucy Mitchell And The New Writers’ Scheme

...Julie Cohen. Graduated 2003. Elaine Everest. Graduated 2013. Nikki Moore / Ella Allbright. Graduated 2013. Jules Wake. Graduated 2014. Emma Jackson. Graduated in 2019. For me the NWS fun starts...

New Releases: February 2019

...a voice whispering, ‘Dearie, promise you will never forget what you saw. Your Ma was killed deliberate . . . and someone oughter pay for it.’ When young, wealthy spinster...

Mel Gough: Reverse Harem – An Old Fantasy Turned On Its Head

...genres. Two, my guys and my gal aren’t spring chickens. Often (again, not always) the women in RH are quite young. This, again, isn’t a trope I enjoy writing much....

Eleanor Harkstead And Catherine Curzon: Writing Romance And Romantic Fiction Series

...dashing, brave, maybe selfless and quietly heroic, and who looks rather handsome in uniform. So although the sub-genres we plunder for the series vary widely, readers come back because ultimately,...

Nicola Pryce: Searching For The Voice Of Opium Addiction In 1796

Today on the blog, we welcome Nicola Pryce, author of historical fiction set in Cornwall. Her fourth novel, The Cornish Lady, was published in March this year. She told us...

Meet The Contenders For The Goldsboro Books Contemporary Romantic Novel Award 2020

...is living her best life. Thirty-eight years old, she lives on the twenty-five-acre Hope Farm in Buckinghamshire, surrounded by (mostly) four-legged friends and rolling hills. There’s Anthony the anti-social sheep,...

Single All The Way – Karen King

...trees; oranges, bananas, apples, pears, pomegranates amongst others as well as grape vines. It’s very pretty. My previous book, The Year of Starting Over, was inspired by many things that...

Ask An Industry Expert: Donna Hillyer

...Little, Brown, one of the very first digital lists in the UK – amazing to think how far, eight years on, digital publishing has come, and so great that ebook...