Alison May: Publication Days

Today I am delighted to welcome RNA Vice Chair, Alison May, to the blog. Alison’s latest novel, All that was Lost, is released tomorrow, Thursday 6thSeptember 2018, with Legend Press....

Hints & Tips For New Writers #21

...one finds or discovers something) you always had to experience aporia (an irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in text, argument or theory ie; the expression of doubt) first. During...

Meet The 2020 Joan Hessayon Contenders

...Joan Hessayon Award alongside other NWS graduates. Without the Elizabeth Harrison bursary I wouldn’t have been able to attend the RNA Conference last year, where I heard about Orion Dash...

RNA – Romantic Novel Awards Winners

...Novel Award (for the best romantic novel that includes paranormal or speculative elements) Milly Johnson, My One True North, Simon & Schuster Winner, The Goldsboro Books Contemporary Romantic Novel Award...

Christmas / Festive Holiday Romantic Novel Award Category

...a local landmark. Perched on the South Devon coast, its garden has begun slowly toppling into the sea, yet the elderly and infamously stubborn owner Stella refuses to leave her...

Top tips for a brilliant author newsletter by Anna Caig

...anyone who hears about your work, whether that’s through social media, events, the media or any other channel, can sign up and you don’t lose them. If you launch into...

New Releases: December 2018

...of middle England. In Little Woodford, no one has fingers in more pies than Olivia Laithwaite, parish councillor, president of the local WI, wife, mother and all- round queen bee....

Clare Ashton: Romance Between Women Who Love Women

...brilliant track record with queer women in thrillers. Just think of books by Val McDermid, Manda Scott, Stella Duffy and Mari Hannah, but my favourite for its romantic element is...

Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel

September 2018: New Releases

...whether home is where her heart has been all along.   Kathleen McGurl: The Drowned Village dual timeline – part historical part contemporary HQ Paperback and digital 20th September 2018...

A Question of Us

Guinevere Warrior Queen

It's been almost three years since Gwen, a 21st century librarian, fell back through time to become King Arthur's Queen Guinevere. Arthur’s drawn the legendary sword from the stone and...