Judy Leigh – Chasing The Sun

...the night. The laptop is like a magnet – I’m always going back to change or improve something. A new story is irresistible and I’m the tinker lady… What kind...

New Releases: April 2022

...guide to be a gorgeous and all-round wonderful human being, Gianluca. But she’s been hurt before and knows her career must come first, and she would hate to leave Gianluca...

RNA Conference 2018: Meet The Industry Professionals – Sareeta Domingo

...I acquire across all the lines we work on out of the UK (True Love, Medical, Historical, Dare and Modern), and have authors across all those lines, I work with...

Ask An Industry Expert: Nia Beynon

...liberating – you can set everything up exactly how you want to, with no baggage. It really is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Of course you can’t be a...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #21

Because I’ve managed to overwhelm myself again, this month’s Hints & Tips is a guest post on a subject we can probably all relate to by RoNA nominated historical romance...

RNA Industry Awards: Romantic Bookseller Of The Year

...Plans for a physical bookshop remain high on the agenda, but the website continues to grow in the meantime. As an avid reader and writer, Alex thinks books are an...

Vivien Brown: Exploring Infertility In Fiction

...most challenging. I always find it hard to pin a genre label on my novels. Yes, they have been called psychological thrillers but I think they lack the truly dark...

RNA 60th Anniversary – How To Write Romance – Motivation And Writer’s Block (part 2)

...my behaviour reflects that.” For Sheila O’Flanagan it helps to “remind myself that it’s my own time I’m wasting!” Elaine Everest has a daily wordcount goal and tries to stick...

Ask An Industry Expert: Clare Wallace

...London. How do you go about judging the commercial viability of a new submission, in whatever category? Character is all! That’s the motto. We are always looking for exceptional characters,...

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

...the Galle festival was huge and unbelievably supportive. A few days later, elsewhere in Sri Lanka, I ended up in hospital with gastroenteritis. Awful. Just awful.” Is there anything you...

Location, Location, Location!

...books are not pure romantic fiction. In fact, I dislike being categorised as a writer of historical romance. I prefer to say that I write historical novels with a romantic...

Sheila Norton – Winter At Cliff’s End Cottage

...you much, as we all know how much a story can change during the editorial process! But as always, my focus is on my characters and their emotions, with a...