Conference Speakers: Carrie Elks – From Failure To Fortune: Saturday At 9am

...same series during 2019. Even with all the expenses that come with being a self-published author, I still made more money than the average author by the end of the...

Industry Expert Interview: Kim Nash

...how to promote our books using Social Media, please? I think for me THE two most important things about social media are being authentic and being engaging. Don’t try to...

Rosie Parker – Only Hummingbirds Fly Backwards

...write? The beginning. Too often I’ll go off at a lick and only then realise that the beginning needs fixing. Also there are so many options – should I start...

Ask An Industry Expert: Julie Morris

...limited basis by a charity, so there are far fewer opportunities for local people to get books, particularly the children. I live in a very rural area—all we have in...

Fenella J. Miller – The War Girls Of Goodwill House

...what I call “faction” – fictional books about real people. If I want to know about actual historical figures then I’ll read research books. I write World War II, Regency...

Ask An Industry Expert: Rachel Gilbey

...with you or even an extract from your book. This allows your book to be seen all over the world and means that you could be displayed in UK and...

Ask An Industry Expert: Annie Aldington

...It is a huge industry now. When I started it was seen as secondary to proper acting by some actors! Now all the ‘names’ are doing it. It is hard...

Catherine Jones: The Little Woodford Series

...at eighteen, I wrote orders, signals, briefing papers, memos and the like; factual stuff. Flights of fancy weren’t encouraged there either. Apart from occasional letters home I didn’t indulge in...

RNA Industry Awards: Finalists For The Inclusion Award 2023

...publishing across the genres of women’s fiction, from romance to sagas and romcoms, as well as crime and thrillers and historical fiction. It was founded in 2018 and acquired by...

#IndieApril Author Spotlight: Liz Harris

...alone, though, I submitted a novel to a different publisher, whom I’d heard was excellent, and I was given an editor and looked set to sign with them. Then Covid...

Ask An Industry Expert: Laura Mayers

...of a trend towards digital and this has been especially relevant during the Covid pandemic, when most physical libraries were closed but still able to offer online content through our...

Annemarie Brear – The Market Stall Girl

...up with all that’s been happening while I’ve been asleep! So replying to emails and reader’s messages is the first thing I do while eating breakfast. Then I will do...