Sue Cook – Tara’s African Adventure

...open-sided vehicle? Was the guide mad? No, but I had the best time once I accepted that the top predators saw just a vehicle, not lunch. And our guide always...

RNA Conference 2018: Meet The Industry Professionals: Julia Silk

...and bad advice (helpful, right?). It’s good advice in the sense that there’s never any point in forcing it – if it doesn’t feel right to you, it won’t feel...

Sandy Barker – The Dating Game

...Snark and illustrious recapper of British reality television shows for online magazine, Feed Your Mind. When her recap of reality dating show, The Stag, goes viral, the show’s producers practically...

The Goldsboro Books Contemporary Romantic Novel Award

...grief as I lost my father just after I had completed it – which is why it was dedicated to him. I also ‘had’ to take a cruise (research purposes...

RNA 60th Anniversary – How To Write Romance – Setting!

...Johnson – “I have whole villages and towns in my head.” They can be very important but not always. She’s “had books where the settings aren’t really that much of...

Sam Eades: Searching For The Next, Great Love Story

...of relationships – continuing a tradition that began with Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell. And that’s great because like those millions of crime addicts out there I love reading dark...

2021 RNA Industry Award Winners

...they provide trusted advice, supportive guidance, and a range of resources within a welcoming community of authors and advisors. Founded in 2012 by Director, Orna Ross (a bestselling and award-winning...

Kate Baker: Awards First Timer

...seven categories. They had each been, at some point, where I am now. Some authors may be better known while others are at the start of their writing careers, but...

Sarah Hardy: By The Letter Book Reviews

...to turn many review requests down as I just don’t have the time to read every book that I’m approached to read. Definitely a case of not enough hours in...

Seven Writers, Seven Novels

...on the blog. In 2017, I enrolled onto the RNA’s New Writers’ Scheme. I was editing the manuscript of a romantic comedy novel about online dating and hoped the scheme...

Joan Hessayon Award 2021 – Meet The Contenders 2

...Smith, You’ve Got Mail (Orion Dash) When Grace Wharton is dumped by email from a relationship she isn’t even in, she adds it to the list of ways her life...

Jean Fullerton: Romance Is A Feminist Issue.

...ridicule romantic fiction haven’t actually read any for decades. They rework the ‘It’s just fantasy, escapism and gives women an unrealistic expectation of men,’ angle which belittles women who read...