RNA 60th Anniversary – How To Write Romance – Motivation And Writer’s Block (part 1)

...and then you can start playing around with these … and polish up your prose.” She adds that “practising automatic writing can be useful … give yourself 10-20 minutes to...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #21

...dead ends which stop our crazy brains dead in their tracks. Some call this writer’s block, because you literally cannot move on. The engine of your story has died and...

Conference Speakers: Carrie Elks – From Failure To Fortune: Saturday At 9am

...other successful authors do (and why I do some things they don’t). Although nowadays I’m primarily a self-published author, almost all of these marketing tools can be used by traditionally...

Rosie Parker – Only Hummingbirds Fly Backwards

...write? The beginning. Too often I’ll go off at a lick and only then realise that the beginning needs fixing. Also there are so many options – should I start...

Ask An Industry Expert: Julie Morris

...limited basis by a charity, so there are far fewer opportunities for local people to get books, particularly the children. I live in a very rural area—all we have in...

Fenella J. Miller – The War Girls Of Goodwill House

...what I call “faction” – fictional books about real people. If I want to know about actual historical figures then I’ll read research books. I write World War II, Regency...

Ask An Industry Expert: Rachel Gilbey

...with you or even an extract from your book. This allows your book to be seen all over the world and means that you could be displayed in UK and...

Ask An Industry Expert: Annie Aldington

...It is a huge industry now. When I started it was seen as secondary to proper acting by some actors! Now all the ‘names’ are doing it. It is hard...

Jennifer Page – The Little Board Game Cafe

...own café in the small (fictional) town of Essendale in West Yorkshire. The only café she can afford is in a side street, a little way from the town centre,...

Pernille Hughes: Smartphones And Swoony Kisses

...Pernille Hughes is published on April 12th by HarperImpulse. Jen Attison likes her life Just So. But being fished out of a canal in Copenhagen by her knickers is definitely...

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

...Catherine and I write The Captivating Captains series (published by Pride). Each book is different from the last – the characters and even the sub-genres are different, although they’re always...

Ask An Industry Expert: Julian Friedmann

...is one of the main challenges, alongside trying to keep all colleagues and all clients happy. Agenting is a bit like informed gambling: can I sell this writer and can...