Finalists: Historical Romantic Novel Award 2024

Congratulations to all the finalists in the Historical Romantic Novel category! For stories set in the past showing historic worlds, where romance forms a substantive and crucial part of the...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #22

...ago between a gardener and a poet, talking about inspiration and where they found it. The poet said he had to turn off all his technology every so often, just...

Kate Frost On Writing An Island In The Sun

...away. After a year of bouncing from place to place she ends up on Madeira, house sitting a cat and two gorgeous Cavaliers in a luxurious villa with a tropical...

Victoria Springfield – The Italian Holiday

...crashing around in my head overnight by going for a walk in the park or for a swim. I then handwrite, maybe in the garden if it’s sunny. After a...

Amy Richards

Meet The RNA Team – Ann Evans

...Carroll was my first inspirational author because my maiden name was Carroll, and when I spotted Alice in Wonderland in the library, I was amazed and excited that there was...

The River Between Us

Rosie Travers

...becomes very clear Kitty is being far from benevolent. Too late, Tara realises helping Kitty will signal the end of an already tarnished career, unless she can pull off the...

Kate Thompson: Crossing The Fiction/non-fiction Divide

...influence her fictional writing…   Three letters is all that stands between fiction and non-fiction, but in practical and emotional terms, the gulf is immense. This year, after completing four...

Two Metres From You

Winter at Cliff’s End Cottage

Juliet Bell: The Other Wife

...and Alison’s preoccupation with misunderstood classic fiction, and stories that explore the darker side of relationships. Alison also writes commercial women’s fiction and romantic comedies and can be found at...