New Releases: March 2022

...children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a secret. A hauntingly powerful, emotionally charged and unique dual-narrative novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity...

August 2019: Competition Monthly

...only to be praised, but it happens. If you receive a critique but disagree with some, or all, of what it says, please don’t go onto social media and around...

Ann Carroll: Hints And Tips For New Writers #13

...But because we’ve been in on those innermost secret thoughts from the very first moment they met, it’s perfectly believable. Finally – that happy ending. Of course, this isn’t a...

New Releases: December 2019

...1933. Independent young Kitty Underhay has been left in charge of her family’s hotel, The Dolphin, on the tranquil English coast. But when several rooms are broken into and searched,...

New Releases: September 2019

...knows Jane exists! Rose Wallace’s world revolves around all things Austen, and with the annual festival in Bath – and the arrival of dishy archaeologist, Dr Aiden Trevellyan – just...

The Silver Answer

New Releases: October 2018

...doorstep, needing a sympathetic ear. Tim thinks Harriet broke up his sister’s marriage all those years ago. His sister’s enemies are his enemies. When his niece runs away to Harriet’s...

Nicola Pryce: Searching For The Voice Of Opium Addiction In 1796

...and spiralled out of control – all because of his facial neuralgia, the ‘coercion of the severest pain’. Combining these two texts, Edgar Lilly started to become real. As with...

Conference Speakers: Debbie Young, Self-publishing For Romantic Novelists, Sat 3-4pm

...your rights for a limited period. Five to seven years is standard. This is why when signing a traditional publishing contract, you should never give away your copyright outright. Self-publishing...

RNA – Romantic Novel Awards Winners

...but when she realised she hadn’t asked enough questions, she raced around the country talking to women in their 80s and 90s who had been in the services during the...

Full membership

...work fit?* Contemporary Commercial women’s fiction with romantic elements Romantic comedy Romantic suspen*]}*se Historical Saga Regency Young Adult/Middle Grade Paranormal Fantasy Sci-Fi Commitment to romantic fiction Please provide evidence of...

Emma Cooper: Uplit

...a conventional happy ending that fixes all the flaws they have come to love. Although it may be trending, Up-lit in the sense I have described it is not new....