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The Best Five Pounds I’ve Ever Spent!

Read what Adrienne and Lizzie got up to on Thursday in Libdon!

Lizzie Lamb

One of the great things about living in Leicester – apart from The Foxes winning the Championship League, and finding The King in the Carpark (Richard III), is being on the main line to London. Yesterday, fellow New Romantic – Adrienne Vaughan – travelled with me to London for the best event of the summer, so far. For a mere 5 we bought a ticket to Romance in the Court, a fabulous event organised by David Headley’s...

Inspiration for The Little French Guesthouse #1 – Town and Country

Helen Pollard writes ...

I’ve read some lovely comments from readers of The Little French Guesthouse, saying how much they enjoyed the setting – that they were able to imagine themselves there, or if they have visited the Loire region of France, that it took them back there.

There are so many aspects to the setting of the book – the imaginary guesthouse, gîtes and gardens that make up La Cour des Roses;the imaginary local town of Pierre-la-Fontaine; and, of course, the very realcountryside o...

#FridayReads – If you like #Romance then you might like these…..#AmReading

Thanks to the ever wonderful Rosie Amber for this lovely shout out today –

Rosie Amber

If you like reading #Romance then I can recommend these books

Bella Abbascia has returned to Seaside Cottages in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, as she does every summer. Only this year, Bella has more on her mind than sunbathing and skinny-dipping with her girlfriends. She’s quit her job, put her house on the market, and sworn off relationships while she builds a new life in her favorite place on earth. That is...

How to self-publish your novel – a workshop is announced

Read about my success as an authority in self publishing

Lizzie Lamb

As some of you may know, I was a teacher for thirty four years before I became a writer. Now that I have co-founded an indie collaborative, published three novels, (one of which became a bestseller in its genre), reached the final of the prestigious Exeter Novel Prize, and written 52,000 words of my fourth novel – it seemed a natural progression that I should share what I’ve learned with other writers.

Overthe last year an...

Welcome to our blog – SUE MOORCROFT

New Romantics Press is thrilled to welcome successful author and fellow RNA member Sue Moorcroft to our blog. Lizzie has known Sue for quite a few years now (!) but thought some of our followers w…

Source: Welcome to our blog – SUE MOORCROFT

Welcome to our blog – SUE MOORCROFT

New Romantics Press is thrilled to welcome successful author and fellow RNA member Sue Moorcroft to our blog. Lizzie has known Sue for quite a few years now (!) but thought some of our followers would like to learn more about Sue and her books.

Sue, tell us all about yourself –

I write women’s commercial fiction and my current contract is with Avon Books UK, part of HarperCollins. I also write short stories, columns, courses, serials and novellas, and I’m a creative writing tutor. I love bei...

Guest post – Tamie Dearen

New Romantics Press would like to welcome a friend from across the pond onto their page. Drum roll – take it away, Tamie Dearen and welcome to the UK! Secrets Behind The Best Girls Series

Blurb from Her Best Match, Book One of The Best Girls Series. Feisty, stubborn, and bored with life in Texas, Anne Best is about to get more than she bargained for. The lovely widow heads off to the Big Apple for a job interview, expecting no more than a few days adventure in New York City, only to find he...

The Exeter Novel Prize – and a fabulous birthday weekend

Many thanks toIsabella Tartaruga for making this collage. Isabella is one of my beta readers and helped me with the Italian in SCOTCH ON THE ROCKS, which reached the final of the Exeter Novel Priz…

Source: The Exeter Novel Prize – and a fabulous birthday weekend

The Exeter Novel Prize – and a fabulous birthday weekend

A very special birthday weekend for Lizzie and a report of the Exeter Novel Prize for which she was a finalist.

Lizzie Lamb

Many thanks toIsabella Tartaruga for making this collage. Isabella is one of my beta readers and helped me with the Italian in SCOTCH ON THE ROCKS, which reached the final of the Exeter Novel Prize. I named a character in the novel after her – hence the plaque in the top left hand corner. Here’s my report of the Exeter Novel Prize & fabulous birthday weekend

First up...

PROMOTION COMMOTION – RNA CONFERENCE REPORT by Mags Cullingford

I love writing but confess when it comes to marketing and promoting the two novels I’ve published so far . . . This post about Hazel Gaynor’s excellent talk at last year’s RNA Conference is very much a case of ‘Do as I say, not as I do.’

HAZEL GAYNOR began with the lesson of E.L. James’s runaway success. ALL publicity is good publicity. What followed was effervescent.

As a reader Hazel needed to be told three things:

Tell me the book exists Give me a reason to care Convince me to buy it

She...