RNA Joan Hessayon Award Contender: Angela M Sims – The Rose Of Florence

...Florence. The award is for authors whose debut novels have gone through the RNA’s New Writers’ Scheme (NWS) and are subsequently accepted for publication. Angela’s professional background is in healthcare,...

Julia Ibbotson Tells Us About Her Self-published Time-slip Novels

...they’ve all finally just come out in ebook and paperback – relief! It’s too early to say how successful the venture will be. Having had a publisher before, I found...

April 2018: Competition Monthly

...cover sheets are requested, or your details will go on an online form or on your email. If a competition has a theme, stick to it. That may sound obvious,...

New Releases: June 2021

...Bound ebook and print 22/06/21 Valentino has to keep his identity—along with the existence of vampire-kind—secret. Victoria needs to hide the fact that she’s in love with Valentino. However, that’s...

Ros Rendle: The French Influence

...lived near the battlefields of the Somme and visited many times for memorial services and reburials of soldiers found during building works, for example. I also visited the National Records...

Ros Rendle: Writing Historical Romance

Earlier in the year we were short on the ground for historical romance authors on the blog, so I put a call out to those amongst our members experienced in...

Ask An Industry Expert: Leah Koch

...out a list of the best romance of the year. Our judges come from all around the romance community, we have bloggers, bookstagrammers, reviewers, teachers and booksellers!   How did...

Book Marketing with Heart & Creativity

...writers want to find and connect with readers for their work at some point, and that’s where marketing comes in. But misconceptions abound – often we feel like marketing is...

Rachel Dove: It Takes A Village

...as a busy writer, plus you are currently writing under two publishers! What’s next on your writing agenda and how do you try to get that writer-career-mummy-all-round-plater-spinner balance? I work...

Juliet Greenwood – The Girl With The Silver Clasp

...story is mainly set in a traditional harbour community just outside St Ives, whose fate is bound up with that of the once grand, now fading, mansion that overlooks the...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #7

...viewpoint or tense changes and dialogue that just doesn’t sound right. Nicola Cornick (The Phantom Tree) One of the best writing tips I was ever given was: “Trust in your...

Claire Wade – Finalist In The Inclusion Award Category

...Claire has severe ME and was bedbound for six years; her only escape was through her imagination. She writes about people trying to break free from the constraints of their...