RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Awards 2024: Winners Announced

...spelling, grammar and style suggestions to improve your writing, and even join our writing community to connect with other writers and participate in free events with bestselling authors. Website: https://prowritingaid.com/...

January 2021: Competition Monthly

...the prize is publication, is the publisher concerned one you feel you can work with? It’s always advisable to read the small print for hidden conditions, so you don’t get...

Ask An Industry Expert: Editor Kate Bradley

...what your current role is and what it involves? I am a senior commissioning editor working on the Women’s Fiction team at HarperFiction. Part of my role is quite traditional,...

R J Gould: Finding The Man In Romance

Let’s face it, when it comes to the romance genre, women dominate. Most romance writers are female, as are most readers. Plots commonly centre on the female point of view,...

Lizzie Lamb – Finalist In The Indie Champion Of The Year Category

Leicestershire indie author, Lizzie Lamb, is a finalist in the Indie Champion of the Year category for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s (RNA) annual IndustryAwards for 2022. The awards celebrate the...

Deborah Carr: Character Connections In Timeslips

...the First World War. The connection between the two timelines is the nurses. Gemma Kingston, works in a trauma unit and is suffering from burnout and Alice Le Breton, a...

Mel Gough: Reverse Harem – An Old Fantasy Turned On Its Head

...the people you see, they all come together in these little snippets in your head. I’ll study the people (covertly from behind a cover of the Metro) and wonder what...

Jo Lovett – The House Swap

...later, I’d learned that a lot of people loved the story as it was but didn’t think it had a saleable hook, and that a lot of other people thought...

January 2019: Competition Monthly

...Excel spreadsheet. On this I have ten columns which I label: Date of entry / Title of story / Competition name / Theme / Word limit / Closing date /...

Emily Shelton Poole – Finalist In Indie Editor Of The Year Category

...EC3N 2BQ, on Friday 11th November 2022 at 6.30pm. Editors Website: midnightowleditors.com This year’s awards are sponsored by ProWritingAid, a manuscript editing software programme with in-app video learning for writers....

Contemporary Romantic Novel Award – Jane Lovering

...me and who will now have to put up with my general levels of over-excitement.’ Jean Fullerton, the RNA Chair, commented, ‘Once again the judges have had the almost impossible...

Anne Dover – Finalist In The Narrator Of The Year Category

...Row, London EC3N 2BQ, on Friday 11th November 2022 at 6.30pm Website This year’s awards are sponsored by ProWritingAid, a manuscript editing software programme with in-app video learning for writers....