April seems to be the month for competition announcements. Following on from my Sunday post, about Choc Lit, there's now another oppor...

Interesting email received today from Mills and Boon; they've announced that in January 2015 they will be holding their first Romance Wr...

Mills and Boon have a writing tournament for historical heroes for the next three weeks, and you could win a detailed editorial consultation...

This week it's back to work. I'll be resuming the novella edit, as well as starting on with a few other projects. I've also si...

Happy Valentine's Day to you all. I was the happy recipient of a large Valentine's day card, and a box of Black Magic chocolates w...

2014... If you've made any resolutions about attending workshops, and you want to write romance, and you can get to Leeds in May, t...

I finally have time to share a few snippets from my visit to Bedford last weekend for The Festival of Romance. I had to write a piece abou...

First day of my resolution to write a minimum number of words each week- I should add I'm not counting my blog posts in that figure, oth...

The Pocket Novel replacement Easy Read is now available in stores, and it really is a different item in appearance as well as texture. It...

My post is a little late because I've been at the Kate Walker workshop on Writing Romantic Fiction at Nottingham Writers' Club  toda...

Beside the advice to write about what you know, the other suggestion for undecided writers seems to be to write in the genre you enjoy readi...

As I've been talking about romance novels in e-books this week, I thought you might like to know that there's a Writing Romantic Fic...

I've read a lot of romance novels over the years (apologies for the cliché) and they've been a mixture of both types of books. Eve...

I mentioned on Thursday that I was intending to go to a book festival, here in Nottingham on Saturday, so I could attend a short talk by Mil...

Not on me I'm glad to say... If you read any historical romance the only time the hero appears unshaven is when they have had a life t...

I was surprised to read an article in the Guardian   this morning reporting that "Psychologist says that 'a huge number of the issu...