Hints & Tips For New Writers #3

...a final sentence, even a final word, or a final thought in your viewpoint character’s head – particularly when it reveals the emotional turmoil they are feeling at that moment....

Vivien Brown: Exploring Infertility In Fiction

...have had problems conceiving a child. Miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, still births and complications during delivery have always happened too, all devastating for those involved, and often (in the days before...

The Shorter Romantic Novel Award

...The Earl’s Mysterious Lady Louise Allen Mills & Boon Historical Romantic Novel of the Year Shorter Romantic Novel 2023 A Proposal to Risk Their Friendship Louise Allen Mills & Boon...

Ask An Industry Expert: Charlotte Ellis

...with the changing social times. M&B is always looking to stay current for readers. It’s also great that you encourage and take on new writers. I believe you had some...

The Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award:

...navigated the common feelings of not being enough, and of constant comparison with other, ‘better’ lives on social media. I wondered how an impulsive, chaotic individual would cope with such...

The Romantic Thriller Award

...process Register as a judge Gallery The Romantic Thriller Award For stories featuring a substantial thriller, suspense, mystery or crime story, alongside or fully entwined with a romantic story. The...

My Indie Journey – So Far So Good – Fiona Mountain

...indie with this musical story. It’s exciting and daunting. There are lots of decisions to make; structural edits, proofreading, jacket design and puff, formatting, marketing, how, where and when to...

Love In The Time Of Snobbery

...worth already yet it is almost a surprise to the industry when it happens and it’s as if they have no idea how to handle the upstart romantic novelists who...

Lucy Mitchell And The New Writers’ Scheme

...work to do first. Jules Wake I’ve been very fortunate, all of my reports, I have 8 in total (I got two reads in 2008 and 2012) have all been...

Ask An Industry Expert: Lindsay Ashford

...historical fiction and was picked up by American publisher Lake Union (my sixth book for them, ‘A Feather on the Water’, comes out in August 2022). I will always be...

RNA Industry Awards: Agent Of The Year

...include saga authors Libby Ashworth and Sheila Riley as well as heart-warming, thought-provoking, hilarious and historical women’s commercial fiction authors such as Kirsten Hesketh, Kerry Barrett, the inaugural winner of...

Eleanor Harkstead: Love Is Love At Christmas

Today Eleanor Harkstead is taking over the blog with her recommendations for LGBTQIA+ festive romance. Is it really nearly Christmas already? Apparently so. Over to Eleanor… All the sub-genres of...