The Popular Romantic Fiction Award – Winner

Norfolk bestselling author, Heidi Swain, has WON the Popular Romantic Fiction Award with her novel, A Christmas Celebration, for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s (RNA) annual Romantic Novel Awards for 2023....

RNA Romantic Novel Awards 2023: Winners Announced

...Romantic Novel Award, the Christmas/Festive Holiday Romantic Novel Award, the Shorter Romantic Novel Award, the Romantic Saga Award, the Jane Wenham-Jones Award for Romantic Comedy, the Historical Romantic Novel Award,...

Kathleen Whyman – Wife Support System

...for a debut novel. I edited like crazy, being ruthless to the point where sometimes the dialogue seemed stilted and the narrative didn’t flow as naturally as I felt it...

Lottie Cardew: Love On A (very Big) Spectrum

...North Wales with her husband, not-very-small-children and a ball of fluff masquerading as a Pomeranian. Unsurprisingly, she often takes refuge at her desk. Social media links: linktr.ee/LottieCardew Amazon: viewbook.at/AXmasWishOnACarousel  ...

A Wedding At Café Lompar – Jacqui And Anna Burns

...we had to Google Montenegrin names for inspiration. The character names have to feel right and suit the individual personalities. We were also aware of the reader being able to...

Sheila Norton – Escape To Riverside Cottage

...I know well – although that has sometimes happened by mistake as I don’t associate my characters with people in my real life! The settings of all my recent books...

Jo Lyons And Her Hilarious Debut Novel: Benidorm, Actually

...my children in a German International Mindfulness School in the hopes they’d become over-achieving, multi-lingual, all-round caring global citizens. We were there for nearly four years, but they were tough...

Lynn Johnson – Wartime With The Tram Girls

...local libraries and archives, to look at census material and I delved into piles of books and old photographs of Stoke-on-Trent. For The Girl from the Workhouse I visited Southwell...

Helen McAlpine

Meet The RNA Team – Sheila Riley

...off, everybody pitched in to help anybody less fortunate. That sense of community, and ‘we’re all in it together’, has had a renaissance in the past few months, I feel....

Meet The RNA Team – Ella Matthews

...hundred years before they were invented! Along with some serious books about the medieval period I’ve also got my kids’ Usborne ‘lift the flap’ book on castles, which was very...

Winter at Cliff’s End Cottage