Ask An Industry Expert: Dominic Brendon

Today I’m delighted to welcome Dominic Brendon, Audio Publisher & UK Sales Director (Online and Digital) with Simon & Schuster, with special responsibility for Audio sales.   Hello and welcome,...

Claire Wade

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

...the hardest part of the book to write? The ‘intimate’ scenes are always the most difficult, including sex scenes. To me, intimate also includes those scenes where the characters expose...

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

...a little in love with each of them – although some turn out to be a total disappointment, as in real life!!” She believes that “good looks are a bonus,...

Charlotte Ledger

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...

The Romantic Comedy Novel Award

...neighbours to meet, a show-stopping theatrical procession, and a missing sapphire ring in this sparkling new romcom from Kiley Dunbar. This sequel to One Summer’s Night can also be read...

Rachel Dove: It Takes A Village

...change. I thought Chic Boutique was destined to be a standalone, and now I have four books, each weaving more into my little fictional village. Now all I need is...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #24

...take nerve since we all know the kind of looks that can get, and they ask arguably the MOST IRRITATING QUESTION IN THE WORLD: When are you going to write...

Joan Hessayon Award 2021 – Meet The Contenders 1

...so grateful for everything they have done to help my career.” Lucy Morris, The Viking Chief’s Marriage Alliance (Mills & Boon Historical) A challenging wife – for a warrior Viking....

The Romantic Novelists’ Association announces exciting new membership categories for aspiring writers

...entitles the new writer to submit a manuscript for critique from a professional author member and spaces are strictly limited to 250. Submissions to the NWS open on New Year’s...

Sally Malcolm: Austen With A Twist

...find that the heroine’s refusal to conform to social convention lies at the heart of all Austen’s novels. For me, this conflict is beautifully reframed for the 21st century in...