Authors and Writing
The Romantic Novelists’ Association, for anyone who loves romantic fiction. If you’re an aspiring writer and would like feedback on your work, check out their New Writers’ Scheme.
I’m one of a quartet of writers who love, er, talking about love. We’re members of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, we live in and around London (although any offers of all-expenses-paid trips to do talks in the Bahamas will be given careful consideration) and we are passionate about writing romantic fiction. For further details, please see our website.
If you like Georgette Heyer, you’ll love Elizabeth Hanbury! Her first book, The Paradise Will, is a gorgeous Regency love story, and her second, Ice Angel, was published by Robert Hale on 30th June 2009. She’s also got a short story collection, Midsummer Eve at Rookery End, out with E-scape Press.
Abigail Reynolds’ writing is superb. The Pemberley Variations is a series of novels exploring the roads not taken in Pride and Prejudice, while Pemberley by the Sea is the first volume of her modern take on the same story, The Woods Hole Quartet.
Rosy Thornton gives romantic fiction a social conscience and a satirical edge. If you want ‘more than chick lit’, try More Than Love Letters, Hearts and Minds and Crossed Wires.
Winner of the RNA’s Joan Hessayon Award for new writers in 2007, Phillipa Ashley writes light-hearted, entertaining romantic fiction. Choose from Decent Exposure, Wish You Were Here, It Should Have Been Me and Just Say Yes.
Jenna Dawlish writes lovely romantic fiction set in the Victorian era. Her first novel, Love Engineered, is published by E-scape Press.
Victoria Connelly became a famous author long before she was published in her native UK. Reason? Her first book was published in Germany and has even been made into a film there. Fortunately for the many romantic fiction fans who don’t understand German, Victoria’s new book, Molly’s Millions, is available in English from Allison & Busby!
Jean Fullerton won the 2006 Harry Bowling Prize for the opening chapter of her East End saga. The first book, No Cure for Love, has now been published, with number two, A Glimpse of Happiness, due out in hardback in November.
Janet Gover’s debut novel, The Farmer Needs a Wife, was snapped up (shades of Crocodile Dundee - well she is Australian!) by Little Black Dress. Her next, The Bachelor and Spinster Ball, is due out in November 2009.
