Writing Magazine

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Champagne Books is a Canadian indie publishing electronic and trade paperback books specialising chiefly in romance and its sub genres, as well as SF, fantasy, NA and YA. The editorial team want entertaining exciting stories ‘to transport readers to

Writing Magazine

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Stories Rule Press is a small, family-owned Canadian publisher, established in 1999. They publish genre fiction and non-fiction ebooks and print books. Their publishing list has been thrown out by the pandemic and they ask authors who are interested

NPR

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As the weather turns cooler and we start to emerge from summer's torpor, it's time for some faster-paced romances with plenty of exciting twists and turns on the way to the happily-ever-after.

Writing Magazine

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You can pretty much judge a book by its cover. Everyone knows that. But what if you just can’t work out what the cover should be? This is the problem I had when I self-published a romance novel at the end of last year. It was the bookseller who reall

TIME

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AS IN THE REGENCY-ERA ENGLAND OF JANE AUSTEN’S novels, women in the city of Kano in northern Nigeria are on the cusp of radical social changes, as globalized development pulls against conservative Islamic traditions. To help make sense of changing ti

The Writer

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We seldom think “beauty walk” when considering a writing conference, but just before the Chicago Spring Fling Conference – sponsored by Chicago-North’s chapter of the Romance Writers of America – novelist Elizabeth Kingston will escort interested att

Writing Magazine

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There’s an old adage that says the easier something looks, the more work has gone into it. It definitely applies to the kind of feelgood fiction that leaves its reader feeling warm, emotional, satisfied and uplifted – the kind of fiction that Cathy B

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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The mum-of-two lives in Whangaparaoa, near Auckland. She’s a Weekly senior sub-editor who also writes romantic thrillers under the name Brynn Kelly. This novel was inspired by… “A hankering to set a story on a tropical island, to get that trouble-in-

Writer's Digest

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Your idea is too cerebral and issue-oriented for today’s romance,” read the polite rejection letter. I came to realize this was high praise indeed. That was 1986. I was a 20– something newlywed living in Hawaii, dreaming of being a romance novelist,

NEXT

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If I had a page of text for every time I’ve heard something along the lines of, “I would totally write a romance novel, if only I had a spare weekend,” I’d have a workable draft by now. It’s not that easy, of course. But like the genre itself, the li

Woman & Home

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This is the best handbook for ordinary life in the 19th century and one of the greatest Victorian reads. Aside from giving us an insight into the human struggle for pleasure, it explores all of life, from art to science, politics and romance. A 20th

SFX

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▶ RELEASED OUT NOW! 432 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook ▶ Author Anna Kashina ▶ Publisher Angry Robot As a romance, Shadowbladeisn’t particularly romantic, and as a fantasy it isn’t fantastic either. The setting, all deserts and schools of scholars

The Christian Science Monitor

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Reading a good romance novel need not be a guilty pleasure. The longings for connection, for happy endings, for overcoming loneliness and isolation are universal desires. So there’s no reason to hide that novel under a more “serious” piece of literat

Writing Magazine

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Melissa Oliver has won the RNA’s Joan Hessayon Award. Melissa’s debut, The Rebel Heiress and the Knight, was awarded the RNA’s £1,000 prize for new writers, which is given to a writer whose first novel has been completed after passing through the Rom

NPR

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In Mike Chen's debut novel, a time-traveling secret agent is stranded in the past and has to live out a normal life — including a family — that becomes a problem when he returns to his own time.

Writing Magazine

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Romances of 50,000 words that are filled with adventure, intrigue and drama are invited for publication as a My Weekly Pocket Novel. ‘We want you to excite and thrill, charm and alarm the reader, and have her (or him) gripped, unable to stop reading

SFX

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RELEASED 2 APRIL 384 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Claire McKenna Publisher Harper Voyager Not into romance in your fantasy novels? Fear not. Despite the title, this is very much a tale of Gothic passion, more akin to Rebecca or Jane Eyre i

Literary Hub

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I met Supergroup for the first time in the fall of 2008. Or rather, I met the members of Supergroup that fall, in a class at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis called “Working on Your Novel.” We wouldn’t officially begin to call ourselves Superg

Writing Magazine

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you might remember that the Fiction Focus pages in November 2021’s Writing Magazine discussed writing about different kinds of love, but didn’t mention romantic/sexual/grown-up love in all its many guises. So, in this column, I’m going to put that ri

NPR

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This month's romance roundup includes the latest in Lucy Parker's London Celebrities series, an older woman chucking convention in Victorian England, and a reworking of The Taming of the Shrew.

Writing Magazine

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It will soon be St Valentine’s Day, so I decided to check out the Romantic Novelists’ Association and find out about the state of romantic fiction in 2020. Luckily the current chair, Alison May, was happy to chat to me. ‘The RNA is sixty years old th

Writing Magazine

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The team at The Writer’s Block are looking for short stories for an anthology for YA and NA readers but you’ll have to write fast: the deadline is 10 March. Aesthetic: A Dark Academia Anthology is to be published as an Amazon ebook and print version.

Literary Hub

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It’s a rule of publishing that you don’t complain about your blurbs. If a fellow author is going to take the time and effort to read your book and offer a quote, you accept their words gratefully and graciously. So, I kept my mouth shut when I got a

Writing Magazine

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US-based TouchPoint Press publishes across genres and styles. They currently seek short stories for two anthologies and novels for the international section of the Love Abroad romance series. The romance imprint is a clean series for all types of rom

Woman & Home

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Hare’s bestselling debut novel This Lovely City, set in the aftermath of the Second World War, was a touching love story and enthralling mystery. Her new book,  Miss Aldridge Regrets, is another compelling historical murder mystery set aboard the Que

Writing Magazine

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Dark Edge Press is a new independent digital-first fiction publisher. ‘We publish full-length genre (crime, romance, historical, contemporary, up-lit) and literary fiction,’ said publishing director Louise Mullins. Hybrid author Louise originally set

Writing Magazine

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Golden Fleece Press publishes ‘exemplary, amazing stories across all genres and subjects, about all kinds of people’. They ‘love the quirky, and the fantastic, and the weird… We love subtle stories, and stories about everyday people who do extraordin

Writing Magazine

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Pressed Clover Books is a new indie determined to publish lots of books with happy endings. They love romance and are looking for more, especially stories which show ‘how love really can and does transform this big, beautiful, world’. Submit by email

Woman NZ

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A true, feel-good romance can be hard to come by in the literary section of your local bookshop. However, the underlying theme of many great books is the examination of complex relationships. While they are not always romantic, the nitty gritty reali

Writer's Digest

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In publishing, “The End” is just a lie. Once those words appear on the page there is celebrating to be done, for sure, but also an acknowledgment that new work is just beginning. Writers are, generally, not salespeople (although you may be surprised