March 2021: Competition Monthly

...Entry: £8 Details *     Francesca Capaldi Burgess has been placed or shortlisted in a dozen competitions including Winchester Writers’ Conference, Retreat West, Meridian Writing, Wells Festival Book for...

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...

Claire Wade

Francine Beaton: Taste For Wine – Book 2 In The Taste For Love Series

...for lunch and a short nap. I usually start at 15:00 then carry on until 17:30. When my husband and daughter are away, I often work until 9 at night....

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

...to modernise him to some extent because men of his type back then were rather inflexible and not necessarily all that likeable. It’s a balance between reality and fiction. Somehow...

Charlotte Ledger

Are You Making Writing Resolutions? Should You? (and What’s A Behag?) By Sue Moorcroft

...lucrative publishing contract than the one you have? Finding an agent? Changing your agent? Entering the entrepreneurial world of publishing independently? A goal can turn into a dream come true....

Meeting Via Zoom

...Lizzie Lamb as our special guest calling all the way from Leicester. Lizzie had asked me about Zoom and also decided to try it as well. As an experiment, she...

Aruna Vasudevan: The Literary Shed

...We do review a lot of women’s fiction/literary fiction, too. When we first set up our initial reviews were pretty much all romance/historical romance and the interviews were with authors...

Meet The Contenders For The Jackie Collins Romantic Thriller Award 2020

...that I have been listening to all my life. I wrote a number of original songs and lyrics for the book in the Celtic tradition which was a very enjoyable...

Sheila Norton – Escape To Riverside Cottage

...conservatory, or – in the summer – in the garden. I always keep a notebook too, so that I can jot things down when I’m not in a writing session....

Francesca Capaldi – Hope In The Valleys

...RNA and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists. Francesca currently lives in Kent with her family and a cat called Lando Calrissian.           Social Media:...