Wait For You By Lianne La Borde

...second chances. I grew up adoring Romeo and Juliet, Noah and Allie, Tristan and Isolde. Couples where there was a sense of inevitability in their love story, yet tragedy and...

Ann Evans: Hints & Tips For New Writers #7

...story: characters, setting, viewpoint, plot, conflict, dialogue, narrative, ten*]}*se, theme, editing and presentation. The décor is your personal style and flair: your descriptions, the depth of the emotion woven into...

Ann Evans: Hints & Tips For New Writers #11

...totally unbelievable, because two people who love each other and then have an almighty fall out perhaps because of betrayal, will also be terribly hurt, and that hurt and vulnerability...

Ann Evans: Hints & Tips For New Writers #6

...is always last to know. And usually, the final dramatic point is where it seems that these two people who the reader knows absolutely adore one another, seem beaten by...

Ann Evans: Hints & Tips For New Writers #8

...emotional and physical. Inner (emotional) comes from a character’s own moral standing, their beliefs, background, upbringing, personality, etc. Outer (physical) conflict comes from things beyond their control such as other...

Hints And Tips For New Writers #2

...I’ve always been a firm believer in that idea because it is something of a golden rule. But of course, rules are made to be broken, and when I was...

Ann Evans: Hints & Tips For New Writers #9

...all work differently, there is no right or wrong way. We find our preferred way of working – often through trial and error. Maybe you allow an idea to germinate...

Ann Evans: Hints & Tips For New Writers Blog #1.

...Freddie Mercury, maybe ‘It’s a Kind of Magic’. He probably wasn’t thinking of writing a book when Queen guitarist Roger Taylor wrote those lyrics for the film Highlander but there’s...

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....

Ask An Industry Expert: Susan Yearwood

...feels quite different to when I worked for Penguin Books, though, of course, I hope to use all that I learned there and in publishing generally to further encourage debut...

RNA Industry Awards: Indie Editor Of The Year

...she worked as Editorial Assistant at W.H. Allen, now part of the Virgin publishing empire. She then became self-employed and worked for some of the big publishing companies as a...

The Sapere Books Popular Romantic Fiction Award

...been setting stories for over a decade that I created links between the two and moved Hannah and Nico between those special places as their story unfolded. As always, there...