Ask An Industry Expert: Rachel Gilbey

...with you or even an extract from your book. This allows your book to be seen all over the world and means that you could be displayed in UK and...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #24

...a proper book?   Most romance writers have been asked this question or suffered similar jibes/put-downs/insinuations at some point. Most of us have been insulted, often by family and friends...

Ask An Industry Expert: Debi Alper

...input at all and have always had at least one trusted beta reader. I should also point out that many of the published alumni of the self-edit course also had...

Ask An Industry Expert: Emily Ruston

...these principles? A really important question for the publishing industry as a whole. We have been, and always are, open to hearing all voices. We have ongoing conversations within the...

The Romantic Novelists’ Association announces exciting new membership categories for aspiring writers

...entitles the new writer to submit a manuscript for critique from a professional author member and spaces are strictly limited to 250. Submissions to the NWS open on New Year’s...

Sally Malcolm: Austen With A Twist

...the publication of five reimaginings of Austen’s works, all with same-sex protagonists. So what is it about Austen’s novels that makes them so ripe for this type of retelling? “Austen...

RNA Conference 2018: Meet The Industry Professionals – Nicola Caws

...I work with not just Historical authors, but authors writing for all the UK acquired series: so that’s Modern, Dare, Medical, True Love and of course Historical too! There’s nothing...

Ali Williams And Trish Wylie: The Pink Heart Society Magazine

...books for review. We’d need a blurb to share with our reviewers, ideally sent two months before the release date (i.e. email sent in March, selected at the end of...

Joan Hessayon Award 2021 – Meet The Contenders 2

...been helped and supported by the fantastic organisation FASD Awareness, and in particular by its co-founder, Tracy Allen, who has been incredibly generous with her time, expertise, and encouragement. Writing...

RNA Conference 2018 Round Up

...of course, then we had no concept of how much the faintest whiff of sex sells! That auditorium was packed. Sensual Love Scenes Without Stuffing the Turkey was constructed amidst...

Ask An Industry Expert – Isobel Akenhead.

...Rhodes [our CEO] several years before and been impressed by his drive, but also having seen the amazing digital-led publishing they were doing from a retailer standpoint. There was no...

New Releases: March 2021

...Rural Scotland, English photographer Christina, holidays on the wild and beautiful north-east coastline of Aberdeenshire. There she meets the enigmatic local laird, Alex, who has a secret he wishes to...