Sara-Jade Virtue – Winner – Publisher And/or Editor Of The Year Award

...the Brand Director for the Simon & Schuster (S&S) women’s fiction community Books and the City, which launched on Valentine’s Day 2011, and works across the commercial women’s fiction list,...

August 2019: Competition Monthly

...from the RNA, she’s also a member of the Society for Women Writers and Journalists. Francesca runs a writing blog along with RNA member Elaine Roberts called Write Minds.  ...

May 2019: Competition Monthly

...at the end of 2018. Apart from the RNA, she’s also a member of the Society for Women Writers and Journalists. Francesca runs a writing blog along with RNA member...

May 2020: Competition Monthly

...Writer’s Circle, Retreat West, Cordelia.net, Meridian Writing, Flash a Famous Phrase, Wells Festival Book for Children, Writing Magazine and The People’s Friend serial competition. She’s had stories and a serial...

The Goldsboro Books Historical Romantic Novel Award

...partaken of these activities. About the book: Anwen is devastated when Idris, discharged from the army in 1915, ends their engagement. Coping with family problems, Anwen starts an allotment scheme,...

Meet The RNA Team – Celia Anderson

...be allocated their books and can get in touch with any concerns very easily. We have a wide range of enthusiastic readers/romance-lovers on board. The list is growing all the...

Ask An Industry Expert: Charlotte Ledger

...division to reach our readers online and we’ve also been able to keep publishing without interruption as we don’t need to rely so heavily on physical sales – though we’ve...

Chapters

...a chat, but several have speakers. We also have a number of special-interest online chapters active on Facebook. Contact details for chapter leaders are available to our members in the...

Full membership

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RNA Industry Awards: Romantic Bookseller Of The Year

...ground bookselling and then as a marketing manager for a nationwide chain. He started Bert’s Books in 2019 to prove that an online bookshop can still offer a personal service....

Hints & Tips For New Writers #10

Most of you probably already know that November is Nanowrimo aka National Writing Month, when people all over the world set themselves a target of 50,000 words (1667 per day...

June 2018: Competition Monthly

...time inventing stories for a cast of fictional characters. Even if you’ve never written a true life piece for a magazine or newspaper, there are times when you need to...