Ann Evans: Hints & Tips For New Writers #15

...writing everyone. Ann Ann Evans (Ann Carroll for romance) has almost 40 books published. She writes thrillers, romance, books for YA, children and reluctant teen readers. She is also a...

Echoes of the Runes

Follow Up On The Chase Bookfest

...volunteers for making a dream come true. And of course to all the readers who came along. We can’t wait to do it all over again next year! It’s lovely...

New Releases: April 2023

...Shameful Secrets on Coronation Close Historical Saga Boldwood Books All formats 20th April 2023 It’s a time of secrets – and also of lies. Someone is living a lie. Someone...

A Wedding At Café Lompar – Jacqui And Anna Burns

...our first book. It’s set in beautiful Montenegro again, and the mother-daughter relationship between Grace and Kat is tested as a rival restaurant opens next door. There’s also a wedding,...

Hannah Begbie: On Winning The Joan Hessayon Award

...held in Greenwich. I arrived at the Old Royal Naval College holding on to two things that were precious to me that year: an idea for a new romantic comedy,...

Ask An Industry Expert: Jane Dixon-smith

...unusual. Or simply ones which look like they’ve got a good deal of historical action in them, because that’s what’s most attractive to me. Different things will resonate with different...

Alison May: Publication Days

...also just a Thursday and I do still have work to do). Thanks, Alison, I totally agree that they are emotional days. I’ve also found mine to be a bit...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #21

...one finds or discovers something) you always had to experience aporia (an irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in text, argument or theory ie; the expression of doubt) first. During...

Meet The 2020 Joan Hessayon Contenders

...organisational skill. I’m still not sure how it was all done, but then I look around at the pile of clean clothes still to be put away and I can...

Christmas / Festive Holiday Romantic Novel Award Category

...a make-or-break marriage crisis, Christy desperately needs time alone with her husband, Seb. Her solution? Alix, along with Seb’s oldest friend, Zac, can take Christy’s daughter on the planned Lapland...

Top tips for a brilliant author newsletter by Anna Caig

...reliable way to build a long-term following – algorithms change all the time and sometimes platforms change beyond all recognition – but you own your mailing list and you’re in...