August 2019: Competition Monthly

...only to be praised, but it happens. If you receive a critique but disagree with some, or all, of what it says, please don’t go onto social media and around...

Girl, Goddess, Queen

The Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award – Finalists

...former business and real estate journalist in Vancouver, under her “other identity” as Joannah Connolly, who has also appeared many times on local TV news shows. She is also the...

Romantic Novelists’ Association Industry Awards 2023 – Shortlists Announced

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New Releases: January 2020

...in the Furze House Irregulars series featuring women of spirit, women of courage, women who don’t see why, in this male-dominated Regency era, they should not also play their part...

New Releases: January 2020

...the Furze House Irregulars series featuring women of spirit, women of courage, women who don’t see why, in this male-dominated Regency era, they should not also play their part in...

Ask An Industry Expert: Sara-Jade Virtue

...responsibility is to help shape S&S’s commercial women’s fiction list. Could you explain to our readers what that entails, please? Hi Judith, thank you for having me back! Yes, I’ve...

Francesca Capaldi – Hope In The Valleys

...medical discharge several months later, while still training, due to severe tachycardia. I wondered how he might have felt about being left behind when his pals were going off to...

R J Gould: Finding The Man In Romance

...and social commentary to describe the tragi-comic journeys of protagonists in search of love, that fundamental need for all of us, male or female. My readers, definitely substantially women, tell...

Press Release: The Romantic Novelists’ Association Honours Katie Fforde With Lifetime Achievement Award

...recipients of the bursary so far, almost all of them have gone on to subsequently secure publishing deals. Katie also sponsors the RNA’s Debut Romantic Novel Award. Locally, she works...

New Releases: August 2020

...Dickens: The Broken Hearts Honeymoon Romantic Comedy. Contemporary Women’s Fiction Penguin Random House ebook 3rd July When disaster strikes, adventure calls… Charlotte calls off her wedding and sets off on...

Rachel Burton: The Things We Need To Say

...really know what to do when she grew up. She has worked as a waitress, a paralegal and a yoga teacher. She has spent most of her life between Cambridge...