Ask An Industry Expert: Clare Wallace

...London. How do you go about judging the commercial viability of a new submission, in whatever category? Character is all! That’s the motto. We are always looking for exceptional characters,...

Ask An Industry Expert: Carrie May

...people started commissioning me for and it continued from there. And just to give our readers a flavour of the romance covers you’ve illustrated, below are some examples. All the...

RNA Conference 2018: Meet The Industry Professionals – Jo Bell

...Reading stories that come from the heart, telling the lives of emotional and engaging characters both fictional and real. When working with authors, I most enjoy the submission process; shaping...

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...

Karen Aldous: Veering Off-piste – A Romance For Older Women

...basing my characters on my real friends or anything personal to them, I worked with the core idea of five life-long friends having that special bond – but it begged...

Christmas / Festive Holiday Romantic Novel Award Category

...a make-or-break marriage crisis, Christy desperately needs time alone with her husband, Seb. Her solution? Alix, along with Seb’s oldest friend, Zac, can take Christy’s daughter on the planned Lapland...

Ask An Industry Expert: Sara-jade Virtue

...some of the usual processes associated with acquiring novels and look at digital-first or digital-only in a very different way. Initially we were inspired by the success of digital-only publishing...

Kate Ryder: Summer In A Cornish Cove

...also she possesses a God-given healing light that leaves no one untouched. However, life has not always been kind to Cara and she is slowly coming to terms with the...

Deborah Carr- An Island At War

...reality of life under Nazi rule. Interspersed with diary entries from Rosie back on the mainland, the novel is also inspired by real life stories from the author’s own family...

RNA Conference 2018: Meet The Industry Professionals – Hattie Grunewald

...open to submissions across women’s fiction, general fiction, crime, children’s and YA. I’m particularly keen to find fresh and funny commercial novels about young people in their twenties; epic love...

Kate Ryder – Into A Cornish Wind

...way I met some wonderful people who guided me in all things nautical.   Where did your research for the book take you? I wrote this book during several periods...

New Releases: December 2020

DECEMBER RELEASES 2020 Merryn Allingham: Ladies Who Dare Regency Romance The Verrall Press Ebook 1 December 2020 A Regency Romance Collection. Scandal and Betrayal. Mystery and Adventure. Amid the elegance...