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.
This is a group of authors whose passion for all things Austen is shared through their writing! Prequels, sequels, modernisations, mash-ups - we either write them or talk about them. And there are regular quizzes with a great selection of prizes.
If you like Georgette Heyer, you’ll love Elizabeth Hanbury! Her first two novels are The Paradise Will and Ice Angel and she also writes short stories - see Midsummer Eve at Rookery End.
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, Crossed Wires and Tapestry of Love.
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.
Victoria Connelly has been published in Germany as well as the UK and is currently writing a trilogy about romance among Austen addicts. The first book, A Weekend with Mr Darcy, was published in 2010 and the next, Dreaming of Mr Darcy, is due out in 2011.
Jean Fullerton won the 2006 Harry Bowling Prize for the opening chapter of her East End saga. The first two books, No Cure for Love and A Glimpse of Happiness, have now been published, with number three due out in February.
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 two were The Bachelor and Spinster Ball and Girl Racers. Janet has recently moved to New York, so expect some new settings in her future novels!
