Jennifer Page – The Little Board Game Cafe

...own café in the small (fictional) town of Essendale in West Yorkshire. The only café she can afford is in a side street, a little way from the town centre,...

Ann Evans: Hints & Tips For New Writers Blog #1.

...Potter Shop and buy yourself a magic wand… no, only joking! It’s all about relationships As we’re all members of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, we’d better start with those all-important...

The Inaugural Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival 2023: October 6-7

...and Kristin and I write contemporary and historical romance). When Jenny Colgan came to speak to our writers, she was incensed by the lack of festival opportunities for romantic fiction...

Katy Turner Wins The RNA Joan Hessayon Award 2023

...a fabulous crop of books has been an almost impossible task, as this year’s entrants in the awards were all cracking page-turning reads. Well done to all of you, and...

The Perfect Librarian By Award Winning Author Milly Johnson

...always in there too; it was a social hub for us. It was also entertainingly dangerous for the designers had put in a nylon carpet and a metal handrail on...

Meet The RNA Team – Clare Flynn

...used to running my own business, having had almost twenty years of doing that before I became a fulltime writer. What was the inspiration behind your latest book? Can you...

Meet The RNA Team – Susan Leona Fisher

...Susan Leona Fisher, who started doing the RNA Industry Professional interviews for the Blog in March 2019, is in the Hot Seat. Susan’s latest historical romance novel, His Philanthropic Lady,...

RNA Letter To Government Regarding Plr Payments

...on authors in real terms. There has been no change to the PLR cap of £6,600 for several years yet inflation has risen at an alarming rate. We respectfully ask...

Hannah Begbie: On Winning The Joan Hessayon Award

...catastrophic consequences: the nature of Mia’s illness means that Cath’s betrayal endangers not just her marriage but the life of her baby. Can she stop herself before it’s too late?...

Kirsten Hesketh – Another Us

...I’d love to be called Emma; everyone knows how to spell and to pronounce it – unlike my own name! The setting for my book is a fictional town called...

RNA Joan Hessayon Award Contender: Katy Turner – Let’s Just Be Friends

...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 Secret Sister By Jan Baynham

...soon turn into love letters and a connection neither of them can deny. As their love grows, so does the danger all around them. Twenty-five years later, their daughter, Claudia,...