Vicki Beeby – The Ops Room Girls

...turning freelance to give herself more time to write. In her free time, when she can drag herself away from reading, she enjoys walking and travelling to far-off places by...

March 2021: Competition Monthly

A new assortment of writing competition to enter There’s another good selection of competitions this month, including one to win a week’s free place at Swanwick Writers’ Summer School this...

May 2018: Competition Monthly

...a literary organisation or a writing residency? A publishing contract and free copies of your book? These are all prizes I’ve come across as I’ve looked through competitions currently open....

The Keeper – Diane Saxon

...dad was in the RAF and we lived in Zambia and Germany. We had so much freedom as children, but we were taught that with that freedom comes an essential...

Competition Monthly: August 2020

...paper is the order of the day. Some competitions ask entrants not to use certain formatting, presumably as it makes it easier for them to use their own formatting if...

Elaine Everest: Wartime At Woolworths

...her success in series writing and her wealth and knowledge as a freelance writer and author, I am keen to know to what she contributes her continuing success.   Thank...

November 2018: Competition Monthly

Some different competitions to enter There aren’t so many competitions to enter the beginning of the next year, though there are three free ones to have a go at. The...

Ask An Industry Expert: Alice Lutyens

...a range of genre-based short online courses—including a brand new one on Writing a Romance Novel, with Jenny Colgan, which is open for enrolment now and runs next in late...

Catherine Jones: The Little Woodford Series

...at eighteen, I wrote orders, signals, briefing papers, memos and the like; factual stuff. Flights of fancy weren’t encouraged there either. Apart from occasional letters home I didn’t indulge in...

Judy Leigh – Chasing The Sun

...had started, it occurred to me that so many people were looking forward to going on holiday, whether jetting off to somewhere warm or simply travelling around the UK. Then...

The Romantic Novelists’ Association announces exciting new membership categories for aspiring writers

Start your new chapter with the RNA’s brand new Aspiring Writer membership Are you an unpublished writer of romantic fiction? Would you like access to writing tips and advice and...

Ask An Industry Expert: Emily Ruston

...a brand-new book and it’s just wonderful when it happens – like magic! I saw that Boldwood has been awarded Fox Williams Independent Publisher of the Year Award and an...