Helen McAlpine – Finalist In The Narrator Of The Year Category

South Lanarkshire audiobook narrator, Helen McAlpine, is a finalist in the Narrator of the Year category for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s (RNA) annual Industry Awards for 2022. The awards celebrate...

Single All The Way – Karen King

...YA books and 120 children’s books published. She has also written several short stories for women’s magazines. Karen, I am a Christmas addict and ‘Single all the way’ promises to...

The Romantic Novelists’ Association And Hodder & Stoughton Announce New Writing Prize With Bestselling Author Mike Gayle

...prize of £2500 and a 45-minute virtual feedback session with brand author and repeat bestseller Mike Gayle to discuss their writing. In addition, they will get 4 x 1hr virtual...

Glenda Young: Murder At The Seaview Hotel

...Glenda also has a unique claim to fame, she’s the writer of Riverside, a weekly soap opera published in The People’s Friend magazine since 2016.   http://bit.ly/MurderAtTheSeaviewHotel Glenda’s website is...

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

...Edinburgh Writers’ Forum, a monthly event offering professional development for writers, since 2019. We three are passionate believers in the importance of commercial fiction (Alison is a published crime writer...

Kendra Smith – A Year Of Second Chances

...Aria/Head of Zeus, was a day that I knew it had all been worth it, involving much crying and drinking of champagne. I also want to thank the RNA’s New...

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...

Joan Hessayon Award 2019 – Meet The Contenders 2

...be someone who crosses boundaries. Getting a higher education and demanding a political voice was a rather radical thing to do in 1879, but when I went into the archives...

Meet The Contenders For The Sapere Books Popular Fiction Award 2020

...tide of champagne and scandal, socialite Selina Lennox encounters penniless painter Lawrence Weston, changing both their lives forever. 1936: Alice is left with her distant grandparents, piecing together clues from...

Meet The RNA Team – Clare Flynn

...story, it all fell into place. But to be honest, until then, I kept thinking I wouldn’t be able to write it and several times almost gave up. Speed was...

Liam Livings Considers Language And Diversity

...no different to using heterosexual and homosexual – terms people are likely to be more familiar with. Although no one is going to force people to use new words when...

Meet The RNA Team – Susan Leona Fisher

...mark’, if you like, in my romantic historical fiction is that I like to include the economic, political and social context of the day, so I always consult contemporary sources,...