Ask An Industry Expert: Lisa Firth

...books for their beautiful covers alone, like this gorgeous edition of Rebecca I own (actually even prettier in real life, with the metallic embossing): https://cdn.waterstones.com/bookjackets/large/9781/8440/9781844080380.jpg I also love a design...

RNA Joan Hessayon Award Contender: Emma-claire Wilson – This Child Of Mine

...would you do? ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Although not entirely autobiographical, This Child of Mine is inspired by Emma-Claire Wilson’s real-life experiences and tackles issues very close to her heart. Dealing with...

Ask An Industry Expert: Michael La Ronn

Today I’m delighted to welcome Michael La Ronn, Outreach Manager for The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi, pronounced al-eye). Hello and welcome, Michael. Many CONGRATULATIONS to you and all your...

Liam Livings: Writing, Publishing And Promoting

...Alison writes emotional fiction. She also writes modern retellings of misunderstood classics, in collaboration with Janet Gover, under the penname Juliet Bell. Alison is currently Vice-Chair of the Romantic Novelists’...

Meet The Contenders For The Jackie Collins Romantic Thriller Award 2020

Congratulations to the contenders for the Jackie Collins Romantic Thriller Award: The Uncompromising Lord Flint, Virginia Heath, (Mills & Boon Historical) Imprisoned by her past- set free by her enemy....

A New Start for the Wrens

Ruby Basu – Baby Surprise For The Millionaire

...wouldn’t be a published author now without the RNA. What does your writing ritual look like? Is it rigid or relaxed? Very relaxed. I don’t really have a ritual. The...

Book Signing with Ruth Goldstraw

Ruth will be signing copies of “The Witchfinder’s Assistant”, an historical romantic murder mystery adventure set in 17th Century Wem, Shropshire, during the English Civil War. A graduate of the...

Conference Speakers: Vicki Beeby – Using Scrivener, Friday 2-3:30 And Sat 1:30-3pm

Well over a decade ago, I was talking to a friend at my local writing group and complaining about the limitations of Microsoft Word when using it to write a...

New Releases: June 2019

...feat when you are surrounded by wild animals, sparring tribes and illegal poachers. Cole Armstrong is out of the British Special Forces for all of 23 days. On his first...

New Releases: June 2018

...is all it takes to put Alicia’s carefully organised world in a spin.   Anna Jacobs: Peace Comes to Honeyfield, #3 of Honeyfield series Historical family/relationships Allison & Busby (Trad)...

Clare Ashton: Romance Between Women Who Love Women

...particularly the fixation on a male hero, or any reader who enjoys relationships of all kinds between strong female characters, f/f romances can appeal to everyone. Literary works with queer...