Meet The RNA Team – Bella Osborne

...Dalmatians by Dodie Smith was my favourite book as a child and I also loved I Capture The Castle which I read in my teens. I was also a big...

Single All The Way – Karen King

...mother Sally are cancelling Christmas, and running away to a tiny cottage on the Cornish coast. For Meg, it is the perfect place to heal, away from all the mistletoe,...

RNA Joan Hessayon Award For New Writers 2023 – Eight Contenders Announced

...is not only a testament to the success of the scheme but also to the enduring appeal of the romance genre. Well done to all of you.’ RNA Chair, Jean...

Recipe For Mr Christmas By Anni Rose

...festival. The singer scheduled for the headline spot has gone missing, believed to be in a rehabilitation clinic or on a celebrity’s private island somewhere in the Caribbean, depending on...

RNA Learning By Jean Fullerton

...with depth, motive and internal conflicts that readers can identify and sympathise with. Of course, once you have your cast of characters you have to set about leading the reader...

The team

...commas, her personal interests include archival research of domestic life in the 18th century, notions of social identity, and all things French. Ali Henderson Management Team Member/Secretary Ali joined the...

Honno, Independent Women’s Press By Judith Barrow

...increase the next generation’s move to digital consumption of the written word, whether in the form of eBook or digital audio, and perhaps also encourage those of them who feel...

RNA Joan Hessayon Award Contender: Angela M Sims – The Rose Of Florence

...but also to the enduring appeal of the romance genre. Well done to all of you.’ RNA Chair, Jean Fullerton, added, ‘Congratulations to all of the 2023 contenders for the...

RNA Joan Hessayon Award Contender: Katy Turner – Let’s Just Be Friends

...but also to the enduring appeal of the romance genre. Well done to all of you.’ RNA Chair, Jean Fullerton, added, ‘Congratulations to all of the 2023 contenders for the...

The Secret Sister By Jan Baynham

...Claudia, Maria, Rosa. As always, the setting of my novel is fictional but based on real places. When the novel is taking place in mid-Wales, I choose place names that...

RNA JOAN HESSAYON AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS 2024 – SIX CONTENDERS ANNOUNCED

...Writers’ Scheme to secure publishing contracts this year are not only a testament to the success of the scheme but also to the enduring appeal of the romance genre. Well...

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

...hit on the best way to write a novel from the start if I can …” but “… it can be a case of trial and error and sometimes it’s...