🎶A Fine Romance (with lots of kisses!)🎶
– a great hero, the 'Silver Duke', & a wilful girl who becomes a heroine under the auspices of love. RegencyAuthor writes about love, desire & the #Regency with dashing authenticity, wit & style. What a delight! Boldwood Books Romantic Novelists' Association

The #iamwriting competitions are OPEN FOR ENTRIES!

Here’s a little #writinginspiration from our literary friends sharing their post competition success!

You have until (10 minutes before 1pm!) 28 May to enter!

Good luck! Let all your talents emerge ✨ ✍️ 📚

#WritingCommunity

Just popping on to say The Push is only 99p today but just for today - a thriller about a murder in a pre-natal class, where every couple has a dark secret. amazon.co.uk/Push-Claire-Mc…

So excited to have Diana Beaumont as Judge for our #writingcrime / thriller competition! Diana has a wealth of experience and represents some fabulous authors (and their books!). She loves the genre and is looking forward to seeing ALL your entries.

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Really excited to be judging the #IAmWriting #CrimeFiction competition for I Am In Print which is now live… I can’t wait to see your crime and thriller entries:

I'm delighted that I'm now working with the team Fane Speakers - and I can't wait to start speaking about creative confidence, nurturing your nosiness, some life changing happy habits, and how to embrace imposter syndrome...

fanespeakers.co.uk/speaker/daisy-…

Spent a very enjoyable morning with Truth Truth Lie from Claire McGowan. Flows so smoothly between characters, secrets, lies, complicated loyalties and hints of betrayal, that I can’t wait to see where it’s all going…

If you're a writer on a low income take a look at this - it may get you some help! arvon.org/writing-course…

Violet Hamilton is back 🚲

#HowToSolveMurdersLikeALady by Hannah Dolby is now available to request on NetGalley!

Jane Austen meets Sherlock Holmes in this delightfully quirky historical mystery 👉 bit.ly/3IC86L5

Do you have a gripping #plottwist in your #crimethriller novel? Have you built tension to keep readers hooked? Enter our Crime/Thriller #competition judged by Diana Beaumont.

Competition opens 15 April at iaminprint.co.uk/competitions-2…

#writingcompetition #crimefiction #amwriting

The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral theguardian.com/education/2024…

Exceptional! ⁦Annie Garthwaite⁩ is a master of historical fiction. Bravo! ⁦Viking Books⁩

It’s not long now till A Duke of One’s Own is published - I’m excited and nervous! It’s had some great reviews on NetGalley (and some others🤪)but it’ll be out in the real world soon. 📚💓🌶️☺️👩‍❤️‍👨👩‍❤️‍👩👨‍❤️‍👨 #regencyromance #romancebooks #amwritingromance

My daytime reading book. Daytime because if I read it before bed I can’t sleep but I’m too invested to stop because I NEED TO KNOW. Help! 🆘

That should be my blurb: scared sh*tless but I couldn’t put it down! 😆 Thank you Finn Cotton for sending.

Also: sun’s out ☀️🕶️

Happy book day to one of our all-time favourites - the legendary Helen Lederer! Get Not That I'm Bitter here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/not-th… and then listen to her wonderful You're Booked episode here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/27-…

Happy publication day to Helen Lederer 🩷

Not That I’m Bitter is on sale now 🩵

As seen on BBC Breakfast and in the Daily Mirror, Daily Express and the Guardian, the books are now available in all good bookshops!

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Happy Thursday!! Seven Exes from Lucy Vine is todays choice #BookTwitter

Just ONE month left to wait till Lucy Vine's BRILLIANT new novel #DateWithDestiny publishes!

Don't delay, pre-order TODAY!

'Fun, feisty and fabulous. Perfect escapism - I love Lucy Vine' MILLY JOHNSON

simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Date-wit…

I am going on a little day trip to Hastings and St Leonards, where my books are set. 👀Bookshops, are you ready for me?!

The Hastings Bookshop Thirdly, Bookbuster BlueGreenEarthBOOKS - a brilliant selection of used books as well as some new ones by local authors. Thanks to Tim for the quality book chat and to his dad for kindly taking the picture! 🥰💞