Sue Moorcroft – A White Christmas On Winter Street

...She’s won the Goldsboro Books Contemporary Novel of the Year, Readers’ Best Romantic Novel award and the Katie Fforde Bursary. Her novels, short stories, serials, columns, writing ‘how to’ and...

Joan Hessayon Award 2021 – Meet The Contenders 2

...Close with her mum, Jenny Nicely, and loves her job, walking other people’s dogs. She’s a bit different, but as Jenny always tells her, she’s a rainbow person, a special...

The Men Who Write Romance: John Jackson

...historical romances based on his ancestors. His first novel, Heart of Stone, was published in 2017, and concerns his evil ancestor Grandfather, Robert Rochfort, Earl of Belvedere, “The Wicked Earl.”...

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....

New Releases: March 2021

...Dyer’s, ‘Yield’–thick socks, Glenfiddich, bathrobes, Swarfega, Swedish Meatball Wraps—and in the spaces between move families, friends, lovers, their interrelations astutely picked out as the unsaid is made solid.    ...

Meet The RNA Team – John Jackson

...the RNA’s New Writer’s Scheme! Just brilliant. Who were your favourite childhood authors? Very conventional! Kipling, Kenneth Graham, Robert Louis Stephenson, Rider Haggard, RM Ballantyne, and, of course Arthur Ransome....

Nicola Pryce – When A Standalone Book Turns Into A Series.

...would never get anywhere. She never did stop daydreaming, and after years of happily living in the clouds, decided to write the stories down.   http://www.rubymoone.com/ https://www.facebook.com/RubyMoone/ https://twitter.com/RubyMooneWriter https://www.instagram.com/rubymoone  ...

The Jane Wenham-jones Award For Romantic Comedy – Finalists

...bed. That baby is now 16 years old. Since then, she’s written eight novels about love, modern life and family, and most recently was longlisted for the Comedy Women In...

The Fantasy Romantic Novel Award

...the book: A dual-time story of Ceri, a Welsh noblewoman taken hostage by a Viking in the 9th century, and present-day Mia, who uncovers secrets at an archaeological dig. When...

Adrienne Chinn – Love In A Time Of War

...ardent suffragist, and is in love with her German tutor, Max. Jessie, a fraternal twin with Etta, is stubborn and strong-willed, and, wishing to explore the world, joins up as...

The team

...drama, and vibrant characters. When she’s not writing, she spends time with her husband, two children and two cats. Her hobbies include swimming, drinking prosecco with friends, and generally trying...

RNA 60th Anniversary – How To Write Romance – Dialogue!

...and Dinah Jeffries, who also says “best to keep the dialogue tags as limited as possible too. Said, bellowed, shouted, muttered, whispered, etc … “, but avoid things like “‘Come...