Hints & Tips For New Writers #8

...finally get a book deal in 2015. Along the way, friends and family asked why I didn’t give up when my first novel got rejected a thousand times, when the...

Romatic Novelists’ Association Industry Awards 2023: Winners Announced

Photo caption: (l to r) Laura James, RNA Industry Awards organiser, Amanda Preston, (Clare Wade’s representative), Fiona Lucas, Birgitte and Nicholas Mager, Hannah Schofield, Ashley Copeland, Amanda Ridout, Nia Beynon,...

The Men Who Write Romance: John Jackson

...books. In recent times we have also had Roger Sanderson and Bill Spence. Roger, writing as Gill Sanderson, produced almost fifty medical romances for Mills & Boon, while Bill Spence,...

Ask An Industry Expert: Jane Dixon-smith

...unusual. Or simply ones which look like they’ve got a good deal of historical action in them, because that’s what’s most attractive to me. Different things will resonate with different...

Guinevere Warrior Queen

...so close to legend, all of Gwen’s fears seem likely to come true. While Arthur is away fighting Irish invaders in the far west, messengers arrive from the north, requesting...

Under a Summer Skye

...turns, she comes to the island in search of blue sea, endless skies, and mountains that make the heart soar. Here, she feels at peace. As head gardener at Rothach...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #24

...starting-block to bigger, better books (you know, ones that deal with important themes, not superficial ones like love), but it’s not LITERATURE!!! So how should we respond to such un-constructive...

Sophie Claire And Melinda Hammond: Authors On The Edge

...it as Haven Bridge, but the canal boats, the mills, the many cafés and pubs all feature.             But what would tie all our stories...

The Last Bookshop In Prague

...all in her power to help. But the arrival of two people in her bookshop will change everything: a young Jewish boy with nowhere else to turn, and a fascist...

Love, Squirrels and Other Diversions

Dr Elizabeth “Elle” Danby finds it hard to trust. Brilliant and focused when it comes to dark matter, the astrophysicist’s neurodivergence makes people a mystery and her social life a...

New Releases: February 2023

...when a drunken bet leads the new flatmates to (badly) recreate ‘the lift’ from Dirty Dancing, and the video goes viral (#EpicRomcomReenactmentFailure), they both realise there’s potential financial benefit in...

RNA 60th Anniversary – How To Write Romance – Motivation And Writer’s Block (part 1)

...write continuously whatever comes into your head … It’s activating the subconscious that feeds our writing and exercises the brain-to-hand process … Finding a writing pal and giving yourselves deadlines...