Hints And Tips For New Writers #2

...  Ensure the punctuation around dialogue is correct. As an exercise, copy type a published extract.   Understand that attributions to the dialogue aren’t capitalised, even after question marks and...

Linda Tyler: The Laird’s Secret

...and at the end of that November we exchanged our NaNoWriMo novels and commented on them. I took on board her critique, polished the book and sent it to Bloodhound....

Joan Hessayon Award 2019 – Meet The Contenders 2

...any entanglements with handsome dukes during the course of my studies, the overall experience probably helped inspire the background story for Annabelle. I’ve long been fascinated with women pioneers, because...

Jessica Redland: My Path To Selling One Million Books

My publisher, Boldwood Books, made two very special announcements during April. I’ve been sitting on them both for a little while with the, ‘Did that really happen?’ question whirring round...

Kate Johnson: Is Your Book Cover Right For Your Readers?

...impossibility of finding a cute stock image of a mixed-race couple). So I found an image of an engagement ring that looked like a crown. Perfect! Give that a plain...

RNA Industry Awards: Finalists For The Inclusion Award 2023

...readers with quality, accessible and page-turning fiction, with a particular focus on publishing underrepresented voices in commercial genres. In 2023 alone they have published a US-set LGBTQIA romcom, two uplifting...

Nicola Pryce: Searching For The Voice Of Opium Addiction In 1796

...‘Old Smelter Boy’s father, trying to buy him some class’. A youth who sought solace from the agony of toothache, who found he could distant himself from his fears and...

Packages and booking

...2024 Cancellation Policy If a delegate has paid in full, please note that because of contractual obligations with the venue that the RNA are legally bound to, that we will...

Ali Williams And Trish Wylie: The Pink Heart Society Magazine

...old friends. I love the PHS family! Ali: We sometimes organise an afternoon tea in London, for those of us who are around, but being spread out across the world...

LoRNA Cook: The Pain Of Blending Fact And Fiction

...one month later, Tyneham was taken. None of the residents of any of the villages would have known about each other’s requisition orders. Under the cover of official secrecy the...

New Releases January 2023

...        Helena Dixon: Murder at the Charity Ball cosy crime Bookouture ebook/audio/paperback 20th January 2023 Kitty Underhay is dancing… with death. Winter 1934. Kitty Underhay is enjoying...

The Romantic Novelists’ Association And Hodder & Stoughton Announce New Writing Prize With Bestselling Author Mike Gayle

...& Stoughton are excited to be launching a new writing prize for writers from a Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage background who want to write, or are already writing, fiction...