Jane Wenham-jones Award For Romantic Comedy Category

...is a love letter to my family and my community. Many of the big parties described are inspired by real-life events I’ve attended! Although I fictionalised these events, I wanted...

New Publications: January 2019

...and Paperback January 2019 Escape to a tropical paradise in this epic story of hidden pasts and family secrets: When successful jewellery designer Isla Ashton unexpectedly inherits her eccentric Aunt...

Ask An Industry Expert: Lisa Firth

...your book has a cover that makes it look like it belongs with the best in its genre. Also, if budget is an issue for you and you were willing...

RNA – Romantic Novel Awards Winners

...I am delighted and proud to be part of an industry that gives so much happiness to so many people.” Romantic Novel of the Year Category Winners (Further information follows...

The Romantic Saga Award:

...the RNA award because it is very special to me. My son Bo died when I was halfway through it and I didn’t know if I was able to finish...

Kate Ryder – Into A Cornish Wind

...that it was an important house to include in the story, and by doing so, I hope I’ve gone some way in acknowledging its former existence. What was your journey...

New Writers’ Scheme

...will advise and support authors whose report indicates that their novel is ready, or almost ready, to be submitted to a publisher or agent. If a manuscript is entered into...

New Releases: August 2022

...Press ebook and paperback “A wonderful story of an illicit affair in Ladakh (a territory west of Tibet) in the 1950s. There is some terrific cultural detail in a splendid...

Lynda Stacey: Romantic Suspense – Inside The Mind Of The Villain

...desire to curl up and sleep. I try to think rationally. Tomorrow I have to work. I have no choice, I can’t stay at home. So, while I’m there I’ll...

August 2018: New Releases.

...Oast Theatre, Steeple Martin, followed, inevitably, by murder. Libby, Fran and their friends naturally become involved in the investigation.       Phillipa Ashley: Summer on the Little Cornish Isles...

The Matchmaker, The Milliner And The Man From Maastricht By Ali Simpson

...novel, I’ve discovered that writing is the easy bit … it is the marketing and developing of your ‘brand’ which is the tricky part, and I suspect that applies equally...

New Releases: January 2020

...stealthily around him is to make their arrangement appear real. A Practical Arrangement is the eighth Newmarket Regency by Jan Jones. It is also the fourth and final story in...