Heidi Swain – The Christmas Wish List

...would make a great book setting – especially over the festive season – and The Christmas Wish List is the result! The book features the wonderful friendship between elderly Dolly...

Jane Wenham-jones Award For Romantic Comedy – Emily Kerr

...Emily is an author of feel-good romantic comedies and has been scribbling stories on bits of paper ever since she could write. She studied Classics at the University of Oxford,...

Ann Evans: Hints & Tips For New Writers #16

...your protagonist be in some sort of predicament – emotionally, physically or both. If you have more than one viewpoint character, make them as interesting as each other. If a...

The Lumberjills – Mick Arnold

...Girls books out there, but only a few (and very recently) for the Timber Corps (where the nickname comes from). As soon as I found out one simple fact, I...

New Releases: April 2019

...his new life, Matt eventually discovers that there has been a 200-year-old feud between his family, the Trevelyars, and another local family, the Penhallows. When Matt learns that one of...

Ask An Industry Expert – Isobel Akenhead.

...And secondly: very simply, I absolutely love editing itself. I genuinely get such a thrill reading a book for the first time, and then puzzling over which areas of the...

Anita Faulkner – A Colourful Country Escape

...email bounced and I didn’t receive it! It could have ended badly. Thank goodness Bec politely chased me one week later. I’d spent the week thinking my submission must be...

Press Release: Romantic Novelists’ Association Romantic Novel Awards 2023 Shortlists

...include Santa Montefiore, Joe Heap, Julie Cohen and Milly Johnson. The awards are unique in that they are judged entirely by readers, without input from any industry professionals. Jean Fullerton,...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #20

...page. Perfection is impossible. We’ll never reach it, but as writers we’re compelled, sometimes masochistically, to get as close to it as we possibly can. And that’s not easy. And...

The Ex-mas Holidays By Zoe Allison

...other emotionally. Even if they might begin their journey as enemies… To Buy The Ex-Mas Holidays US: http://bit.ly/40kpUks UK: https://rb.gy/f9vxk Twitter: https://twitter.com/zoeallisonauth1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zoe.allison.9279 Insta: https://www.instagram.com/zoeallisonauthor TikTok: tiktok.com/@zoeallisonauthor Website: www.zoeallison.co.uk...

Sally Malcolm: Austen With A Twist

Today we welcome Sally Malcolm to the blog with her take on Jane Austen and LGBTQIA+ romantic fiction. Sally Malcolm was bitten by the male/male romance bug in 2016 and...

Kate Kenzie: From Under The Duvet

...blogging meet ups and events around, my health means I have not attended them yet, so I have only met one blogger in real life. Luckily, there is a strong...