Adrienne Chinn – The English Wife

...deal with Harper Colllins and I had a deadline. There’s nothing like a deadline! I spend the month of January 2019 outlining and researching the WWII part of the story,...

Joan Hessayon Award 2021 – Meet The Contenders 2

...someone over email?! – knowing that telling off a random stranger online means she has reached an all-time low. Everything changes when her boss asks her to go to a...

Jenny Kane – Spring Blossoms At Mill Grange

...power through my first draft of a novel, before doing a line by line rewrite, followed by four separate edits. After that, I send the draft off to my agent,...

Glenda Young: Are Sagas A Feminist Issue?

...all are published by Headline. Thank you, Glenda, if you don’t mind staying with us, I’ve a few questions for you. The book sounds wonderful and searching for a lost...

Suzie Hull – In This Foreign Land

...RNA New Writers Scheme online, but it was still a few years before I finally joined. My first submission was a very long Maeve Binchy style, Irish contemporary saga –...

Ask An Industry Expert: Eleanor Leese

...line edits, also twice. It all took some time, but I guess the point was that the final inspection allowed the line editor to focus on the appearance of the...

Ask An Industry Expert: Annie Aldington

...or languages or place names you’ve never heard of and all narrators worth their salt will look everything up. There are some good sites on-line for research. And YouTube is...

Wait For You By Lianne La Borde

...of that moment was an enormous step. Yet, the story followed one linear timeline and didn’t feel as though I’d dug deep enough. Deciding to deconstruct the whole thing and...

New Releases: February 2020

...Weekly – DC Thomson 6th Feb 2020 It’s early in World War 2 when pretty Australian Nurse, Pauline Newton, arrives at Killymoor Hall, a makeshift military hospital in Lancashire, She...

New Publications: January 2019

...Jill Barry: Melting Evie’s Heart Contemporary Romance DC Thomson My Weekly Pocket Novel 10th January 2019 Evie flees London, dumped by her showbiz boss Marcus and seeking a tranquil Christmas...

May 2019: Competition Monthly

...Short Story Competition Theme: 1,500 – 1,700 words Prize: £200 plus publication in magazine / £50 plus publication online Closing date: 15 July 2019 Entry: £4 subscribers / £6 non...

Celebration For The Woolworth Girls By Elaine Everest: Author Interview

...to aspiring authors would be to make full use of the RNA, use the Facebook group, watch the online talks and chat with authors who are further on in their...