Joan Hessayon Award 2019 – Meet The Contenders 3

...exploring medieval ruins. Coed Bedwen, the castle featured in Bound to Her Blood Enemy, is fictional but heavily inspired by Carreg Cennen Castle in Carmarthenshire. And what does the New...

November Releases 2017

...that fills a gap in Arthurian material available to the general public. LINDSAY TOWNSEND One Yuletide Knight Medieval Historical Romance Ebook and Print Prairie Rose Publications 3rd November 2017 Find...

Lynda Stacey: Romantic Suspense – Inside The Mind Of The Villain

...through it all she comes over as a very independent lady. The attack has left her needing time recover but her thought process in the first chapter shows that once...

Charlotte Betts:  The Fading Of The Light

Toda y, please welcome Charlotte Betts. Charlotte how did you decide on the names for your characters and the setting for your book? I always choose names for my characters...

Stranger In My Bed – Karen King

...domestic abuse isn’t that simple. How did you research Freya and Phil’s characters and was it uncomfortable at times? The emotional and mental effect of domestic abuse is something that...

Hodder & Stoughton Announce The Takeaway Girl As Winner Of Love At First Line Writing Prize

...year. She has received several accolades already including reaching the final of Funny Women ’22 as well as being a semi-finalist in British Comedian of the Year 2022. She was...

Meet The RNA Team – Sheila Riley

...from my early childhood – people who knew generations of the same families from cradle to grave. Names seem to pop into my head unbidden. There are many times a...

Julia Ibbotson Tells Us About Her Self-published Time-slip Novels

...board’ for characters and historical contexts. Sometimes there’s a particular person I think of for that ‘role’. For example, I have pics of James Norton as the Rev Sidney Chambers...

Ask An Industry Expert: Robbie Guillory

...the way that they look after authors’ careers rather than focussing on the individual books, and so when I got the offer to join the Kate Nash Literary Agency I...

Suzie Tullett – Holly’s Christmas Countdown

...of fun coming up with names for this novel, although I’d known from the start that my main character would be called Holly Noelle. Of course, as her parents are...

Ask An Industry Expert: Emily Ruston

...all the major publishing houses, and also with self-published authors. I’m wondering if you have found any differences between working with traditional published and Indie authors. In terms of the...

RNA 60th Anniversary – How To Write Romance – Dialogue!

...they’re speaking from a script. We all have conversational ticks, a background that give us the words that make our voice our own. Think about where your character comes from,...