Location, Location, Location!

...It was also a tragic event in the private lives of the Churchills that I discovered on that initial visit that gave me the overriding theme that is woven across...

Meet The Contenders For The Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award 2020

...Khokher). The Million Pieces of Neena Gill is Emma’s first novel for young adults. How does it feel to be a contender for the Romantic Novel Awards 2020? It’s such...

New Releases: August 2019

...allow the Marquess to pretend to seduce her for all to see! Horatia knows it’s not real—she’s a plain spinster after all—but as the danger grows so does their desire…...

Ask An Industry Expert: Dominic Brendon

...almost all digital.   Now I understand why modern audio covers often display the word ‘unabridged’! I notice Simon & Schuster has its own ‘audio store’ from which readers can...

Helen McAlpine – Winner – Narrator Of The Year Award

South Lanarkshire audiobook narrator, Helen McAlpine, has won the Narrator of the Year award for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s annual Industry Awards for 2022. The awards celebrate the hard work...

LoRNA Cook – The Dressmaker’s Secret

...fictional assistant Adele and the role she plays in Paris during Nazi Occupation.         All three (soon to be four!) of your novels are dual-timeline. What attracted...

RNA Industry Awards: Narrator Of The Year

...vocal range’, and has narrated more than 100 audiobooks across a wide range of genres. She loves to tell stories in all ways – as audiobooks, for ELT providers, video...

Francesca Capaldi – Hope In The Valleys

...a novel, so I went on to do Elaine’s novel class. I joined the RNA New Writers’ Scheme around this time, started writing Young Adult novels and was shortlisted with...

Victoria Springfield – The Italian Holiday

...fictional Hotel Sea Breeze is located, back in 2015 and liked it so much that we ‘eloped’ there to get married two years later. Minori is so small that we...

Clare London: Zest – An Accidental Baker Story

...accidentally brought new romance to four gay men. All very different, all at different stages of their life, but all in need of some loving care. I enjoyed writing The...

Competition Monthly: May 2021

...sure I follow all the rules of a competition is to print them up. I read them several times then underline them if they’re all in one paragraph. As I’m...

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

...At that point I go back over what I’ve written, checking all the dialogue.” Almost all the authors agreed that reading dialogue out loud is the best, including Prue Leith...