Ask An Industry Expert: Donna Hillyer

...many young people trying to make sense of the current world and their sense of invincibility being challenged, and if we’ll see a spate of fiction exploring themes like loss...

The Goldsboro Books Historical Romantic Novel Award

...partaken of these activities. About the book: Anwen is devastated when Idris, discharged from the army in 1915, ends their engagement. Coping with family problems, Anwen starts an allotment scheme,...

The entry process

...author enters more than two entries the additional entries will be disqualified and no refund given. The total number of entries over the nine award categories is capped at 500....

The Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award:

...with all kinds of people has been a complete pleasure and delight. An interesting story: The Bookshop if Second Chances is set in Dumfries & Galloway, which is where I...

Callie Langridge: Unearth Treasures In Archives

...a multi-generational story spanning the 1930s to the 1980s, including a story thread set in Second World War London. Access to historical records has been crucial in my research. Each...

Ask An Industry Expert: Hannah Schofield

...the established tropes of the genre it’s in? Does it have a satisfying ending (HEA or otherwise)? If the answer to these questions is ‘yes’, I’d probably class it as...

Sandy Barker – The Dating Game

...I’d love to! Abigail ‘Abby’ Jones has a secret identity. While her dream is to be an investigative journalist, in her ‘day job’ she is the Anastasia Blabbergasted, Queen of...

Ask An Industry Expert: Becci Mansell

...is the seasonal timing of a book release and the campaign you build around it? We love a seasonal book at Avon and so do our readers! The strategy doesn’t...

November 2018: New Publications

...Other Wife. Contemporary HQ Digital ebook November 2nd paperback: January (A Janet Gover and Alison May collaboration) Two children taken from their homes. Two young women abused and alone. Their...

The Fantasy Romantic Novel Award – Finalists

...hidden treasure – who wouldn’t want to find one of those? – and it all came together perfectly!’ HIDDEN IN THE MISTS (Publisher: Headline Review) Skye Logan has been struggling...

Ask An Industry Expert: Eleanor Leese

...topic in so much depth. The Emotional Thesaurus and Emotional Wound Thesaurus are almost always on the reading list too.   My own experience of working with several different editors...

Adrienne Chinn – The English Wife

...move along their very unique paths to self-actualisation, ending up in Canada, Egypt and Italy at the end of the war. The sisters are inspired by my great-aunts, Ettie and...