Kate Johnson: Is Your Book Cover Right For Your Readers?

...who will similarly challenge the traditional view of what a royal could or should be? As it stands, Tom and Scarlet are the last royal wedding I had planned. To...

Ask An Industry Expert: Emily Ruston

...me, the relationship between an author and editor should always be collaborative; after all we are all working to achieve the same goal – getting great books into readers’ hands!...

July 2018: New Releases

...and let time heal her emotional scars. But when dashing widower Alfred Nobel moves into her retirement village he turns her life upside down and her heart inside out by...

Marketing & Me By Suzanne Snow

...‘local’ feel to appeal to potential local readers. Anna was a great support leading up to my first online book launch and agreed to act as host, guiding me through...

Joan Hessayon Award 2021 – Meet The Contenders 1

Every year, the RNA presents the Joan Hessayon Award for New Writers to an author whose debut novel has been released after receiving a critique through the RNA’s New Writers’...

Jean Fullerton: Romance Is A Feminist Issue.

...often have a tortured past or broken relationship that they have to grapple with. None of it is romantic in the conventional hearts and flowers way. It is the internal...

The Romantic Novelists’ Association announces exciting new membership categories for aspiring writers

...entitles the new writer to submit a manuscript for critique from a professional author member and spaces are strictly limited to 250. Submissions to the NWS open on New Year’s...

Sally Malcolm: Austen With A Twist

...find that the heroine’s refusal to conform to social convention lies at the heart of all Austen’s novels. For me, this conflict is beautifully reframed for the 21st century in...

Fantasy Romantic Novel Award Category

...alone the final book nominated for such a fantastic prize.” CHILDREN OF SHADOWS BLURB (Publisher: BHC Press) Single mother Ella is struggling. About to turn forty, the last thing Ella...

Jessica Redland: My Path To Selling One Million Books

...of us could work out why things hadn’t taken off for me. I felt like such a failure and started to question whether I could write after all, although I...

Ali Williams And Trish Wylie: The Pink Heart Society Magazine

...more, making more space for the historical POC and LGBTQIA romances that have flourished in the last few years, as well as a continued engagement with neurodiversity and mental health...

Joan Hessayon Award 2021 – Meet The Contenders 2

Every year, the RNA presents the Joan Hessayon Award for New Writers to an author whose debut novel has been released after receiving a critique through the RNA’s New Writers’...