Hints & Tips For New Writers #11

Recently I was chatting with a friend about keeping a writing journal. I’ve never been disciplined or practical enough to keep any kind of diary, but she made it sound...

Karen King: Writing In Different Genres

It is an honour to welcome not only a multi-talented, multi-published author to the blog today but our very own blog co-ordinator, Karen King. Karen has had over 120 children’s...

Victoria Cornwall: A World War 1 Story

I’m delighted to welcome Victoria Cornwall to the blog today. Victoria writes fabulous historical novels based in Cornwall, and today I’m excited to learn a little bit more about her...

Ros Rendle: Writing Historical Romance

Earlier in the year we were short on the ground for historical romance authors on the blog, so I put a call out to those amongst our members experienced in...

December 2018: Competition Monthly

Christmas: Resting or Writing? Christmas is fast approaching, which brings its own problems when you’re a writer, whether you’re entering competitions or writing for publishers. Most of us work at...

New Publications: January 2019

JANUARY PUBLICATIONS Louise Allen. The Duke’s Accidental Elopement Historical romance (Regency) Indie ebook December 1st, 2018 He’s a duke, she’s in disgrace and they never meant to elope… Her family...

Callie Langridge: Unearth Treasures In Archives

I’m really pleased to welcome Callie Langridge to the blog today. She’s the author of two historical novels – Keep You by My Side, a story about family secrets spanning...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #12

So we all know that writing is basically a repetitive cycle of optimism and self-loathing (and by the way, happy new year!) but now that the holidays are over we’re...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #13

I often feel like a fraud writing this blog, mainly because the title implies I know what I’m doing, so this month I thought I’d do a round-up of some...

Elaine Roberts: Moving Forwards With History

It’s great to welcome Elaine Roberts to the blog on the publication day of her novel The Foyles Bookshop Girls at War. It’s the second installment of her Foyles Bookshop...

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

Today, we’re welcoming Mel Gough to the blog. Chances are, if you were at the RNA conference last year you might have already encountered Mel’s work via a sampler of...

January 2019: Competition Monthly

Keeping Tabs on Competitions and Entries How do you keep tabs on both the writing competitions coming up, and those you’ve already entered? I have my own methods of dealing...