RNA 60th Anniversary – How To Write Romance – Heroes!

...“creating a deliberately romantic scenario. Romance is part of life, if you’re lucky. It either happens or it doesn’t in my books.” “Obviously you have to care about him otherwise...

Liz Fenwick: The Path To The Sea

...film ‘About Time’ by Richard Curtis and it stayed with me. When the ideas for the book began to come together there was only one setting possible, Porthpean House which...

Kendra Smith – A Year Of Second Chances

...your experiences and you are too earnest, you run the risk of losing your reader. You need to show a bit of light and dark – and there certainly have...

RNA Industry Awards: Named Cover Designer Of The Year

This month, we’re shining a spotlight on the 2021 RNA Industry Award nominees. Named Cover Designer of the Year recognises the designer of novels published independently or traditionally, whose covers...

RNA Industry Awards: Indie Editor Of The Year

This month, we’re shining a spotlight on the 2021 RNA Industry Award nominees. Indie Editor of the Year recognises an editor who has worked on an independently published novel that...

Mike Gayle

RNA Industry Awards: Indie Champion Of The Year

This month, we’re shining a spotlight on the 2021 RNA Industry Award nominees. Indie Champion of the Year recognises a person, group, organisation, association or company (such as a podcaster,...

RNA Industry Awards: Finalists For Publisher Of The Year 2023

...hands of readers across the globe. The company acquired romance publisher Choc Lit in March 2023, quadrupling sales, gaining bestseller tags and measurably increasing visibility for all Choc Lit authors...

Dorothy Koomson

Linda Tyler: The Laird’s Secret

...Weekly Pocket Novel, April 2020), The Laird’s Secret (Bloodhound Books, 2021) and Summer Intrigue (My Weekly Pocket Novel, March 2021). Author page: facebook.com/LindaTylerAuthorScotland Twitter: @LindaTyler100 Where to find The Laird’s...

Why We Should Take Romantic Fiction Seriously By Julie Cohen

...time. That’s something to take seriously in the era of #MeToo. But for me, the most important reason why we should take romantic novels seriously is a very simple one:...

Jenny Kane – Spring Blossoms At Mill Grange

...much re-writing do you normally do? Each of the Mill Grange novels took approximately four months to write, and then another two months to rewrite and edit. I tend to...