New Releases: August 2020

...Dickens: The Broken Hearts Honeymoon Romantic Comedy. Contemporary Women’s Fiction Penguin Random House ebook 3rd July When disaster strikes, adventure calls… Charlotte calls off her wedding and sets off on...

Rachel Burton: The Things We Need To Say

...really know what to do when she grew up. She has worked as a waitress, a paralegal and a yoga teacher. She has spent most of her life between Cambridge...

RNA Learning By Jean Fullerton

...with depth, motive and internal conflicts that readers can identify and sympathise with. Of course, once you have your cast of characters you have to set about leading the reader...

RNA Joan Hessayon Award Contender: Angela M Sims – The Rose Of Florence

...but also to the enduring appeal of the romance genre. Well done to all of you.’ RNA Chair, Jean Fullerton, added, ‘Congratulations to all of the 2023 contenders for the...

The Historical Romantic Novel Award – Finalists

...www.alexbrownauthor.com Lorna Cook – The Dressmaker’s Secret Leigh on Sea author, Lorna Cook, has been shortlisted in the Historical Romantic Novel Award category with her novel, The Dressmaker’s Secret, for...

A Gentleman In Love – Arabella Sheen

...line without too much huffing and puffing. There are always editorial re-writes to be done, and for me, these corrections usually involve converting from UK English to American English. Pavement...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #16

...succeed. All writers need resilience and we all get rejections, but keep going. Your aim is to write a good story with nuanced, individual characters, not stereotypes. When sending a...

Ann Evans:  Hints & Tips For New Writers #17

...to love and be drawn willingly into. A tropical paradise perhaps, a Parisian art gallery, a windswept castle in the Outer Hebrides?   You could have all that worked out...

LoRNA Cook: The Pain Of Blending Fact And Fiction

...setting. I really did feel Tyneham had been all but forgotten. But it wasn’t alone in having been a village subject to a requisition order. Six villages in Norfolk were...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #14

...authors have been accused of not writing romance because their books don’t include sex scenes. Which is a bizarre claim for a lot of obvious reasons (romance = sex?) but...

Meet The Contenders For The Goldsboro Books Historical Romantic Novel Award 2020

...journals, received endorsements from NPR and Entertainment Weekly, has since been sold to three European publishers, and landed on several of the relevant Best Books / debuts / romances of...

Mollie Walton: Writing Sagas

...historical paranormal series The de Chastelaine Chronicles is published on 23rd April by Totally Bound. You can hear Catherine and Eleanor chat about writing on their Gin & Gentlemen podcast....