Rachel Brimble: A Filled Page Is Always Better To Perfect Than A Blank One

...frustrating but, also, incredibly rewarding. Your novels to date include several romance sub-genres including historical and suspense, as well as contemporary. Which is your favourite to write in and why?...

Anita Faulkner – A Colourful Country Escape

...a flagging paint business, and used our local Cotswold town of Tewkesbury as their backdrop. It’s full of black and white Tudor buildings to tie in with the colour theme...

RNA Joan Hessayon Award Contender: Linda Corbett – Love You From A-Z

...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...

Annemarie Brear – Beyond The Distant Hills

...edit and send it to an author friend to read and critique. I also send it to my kindle for another read through. Finally, it has a last polish and...

Meet The RNA Team – Bella Osborne

...to Hogwarts and have dinner in the great hall with all the staff and pupils. I would love to know more about Professor McGonagall and her background. I would also...

Single All The Way – Karen King

...YA books and 120 children’s books published. She has also written several short stories for women’s magazines. Karen, I am a Christmas addict and ‘Single all the way’ promises to...

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...

RNA Learning By Jean Fullerton

...RNA Learning. https://romanticnovelistsassociation.org/rna-learning-intro-page/ The workshops cover both the craft and business side of publishing and are designed as flexible study modules. This allows students to access the teaching material around...

Ask An Industry Expert – Jm Snyder

...almost imperative for an author to have social media of some type. Unless you’re JK Rowling or Stephen King, you aren’t going to sell many books on your name alone....

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...