Kate Johnson: By Royal Appointment

...RONA in the Paranormal category last year, congratulations. What three tips would you advise for authors thinking about self-publishing? Rather like Hamilton’s Angelica Schuyler, I’ve realised three fundamental truths at...

New Releases: May 2023

...      Catherine Tinley: A Laird for the Highland Lady Regency Romance Mills & Boon Print and ebook 25 May 2023 Becoming a laird… worthy of the Highland lady?...

New Releases: February 2019

...Happiness Project Commercial Women’s Fiction Bookouture Ebook 12th Feb Alison has always carefully planned everything in her well-ordered life, but her head is left spinning when her beloved larger than...

July 2018: New Releases

...At a ball, she forgets his warning and voices a controversial opinion to Lady Sefton, one of Almack’s powerful patronesses, who can ruin a debutante’s reputation. Horrified by her indiscretion,...

The Keeper – Diane Saxon

...paramount to the case. In a move designed to protect both her professional reputation and the case’s integrity, Chief Crown Prosecutor Adrian Hall is assigned to shadow her and ensure...

This Year’s for Me and You

RNA Industry Awards: Agent Of The Year

...their authors’ careers, the genre in general, and the RNA in particular. Lorella Belli Lorella Belli has worked in publishing since 1996, for publishers as well as literary agencies. In...

Miss Rose And The Vexing Viscount By Catherine Tinley

...names containing ‘Belle’ or versions of it – Annabelle, Isobel, and Rosabella. So I can call them The Belles collectively, and Anna, Izzy, and Rose individually. In terms of setting,...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #7

...have to give is that, in commercial fiction at least, the story is king. I feel sometimes we can get so caught up in the details that we forget to...

RNA 60th Anniversary – How To Write Romance – Plotter Or Pantser?

...adds. “I can’t start until I know the direction of travel but never really plan in a detailed way.” For Barbara Erskine, who writes dual period novels, it’s a case...

The Jackie Collins Romantic Thriller Award:

...win in 2017 for Max Seventeen in the Fanatasy/Paranormal category. Blurb: Molly Higgins never expected to be caught up in a murder investigation. All she’d hoped for this year was...

Eleanor Harkstead And Catherine Curzon: Writing Romance And Romantic Fiction Series

...Catherine and I write The Captivating Captains series (published by Pride). Each book is different from the last – the characters and even the sub-genres are different, although they’re always...