The RNA RoNA Awards...the pictures...and the shoes

The RNA RoNA Awards at the RAF Club.....an amazing night with Richard and Judy!

Jane Costello

Jane Costello's shoes

Susanna Kearsley, Charlotte Betts, Nicola Doherty and Liz Fenwick

Victoria Connelly, Susanna Kearsley and Belinda Jonez

Scarlet Wilson's shoes

Veronica Henry's shoes

Veronica Henry

Jan Springer and Giselle Green

Mary Nichols and Carol Townend

Janie Millman, Jan Jones and Jo Thomas

Evelyn Ryle's shoes

Lesley Cookman, Hazel Cushion and journalist

Rowan Coleman's shoes

Mandy Baggot and Lin B Halton

The Transworld team and Belinda Jones

Kate Furnival on the right

Abby Green's shoes

Matt from Waterstones and Jenny Colgan

Judy Astley and Janet Gover

Bernardine Kennedy's amazing bag!

Susam Lamb's shoes

Sarah Mallory receiving the RoNA Rose award with Judy and Richard

Katie Fforde receiving the Contemporary Romantic Award with Judy and Richard

Rowan Coleman receiving the Epic Romance award with Judy and Richard

Charlotte Betts receiving the Historical Romance award with Judy and Richard

Tony Muliken, Liz Harris and Luigi Bonomi

Victoria Lamb 

Victoria Lamb receiving the award for Young Adult Romance with Judy and Richard

Jenny Colgan receiving the Romantic Comedy award with Judy and Richard

Sophie Kinsella receiving her Outstanding Achievement Award

Sophie Kinsella's shoes

Sue Moorcroft, Liz Fenwick, Susanna Kearsley, Brigid Coady, and Pia Christina Courtenay

Jenny Colgan with her publishing team

The room beginning to empty

Caroline Hogg- Pan MacMillan, Charlotte Betts and Cath Burke - Sphere

Susanna Kearsley's fabulous bag and shoes

Independent Releases for November

Talli Roland CONSTRUCT A COUPLE
ebook
£1.49
Is any relationship strong enough to survive a string of secrets?
www.talliroland.com

Mary Nichols THE DANBURY SCANDALS
ebook 
£2.17
When Maryanne Paynter is ten, her beloved mother dies and she is taken by her great uncle to live with the Reverend Mr Cudlipp at Beckford. Her life is unexceptional until, a little before her twenty-first birthday, Viscount Danbury takes her to Castle Cedars, the country estate of the Duke of Wiltshire where she is taken to see the Dowager Duchess. It is the beginning of a new and bewildering life, not made easier by old scandals and the occasional reappearance of the intriguing man she met in the wood, who seems to have a string of pseudonyms and disguises. There is mystery and danger, a proposal and more scandal and Maryanne, in the thick of it, does not know whom to trust. 
www.marynichols.co.uk

Susan Palmquist HOW TO WRITE A ROMANCE NOVEL
ebook
13th November
$4.99
Do you have an idea for a romance story but don’t know where to start? How To Write A Romance Novel will show you how to get ideas, shape them into a story that’s unique, and guide you on steps to creating memorable characters. It also covers two crucial aspects of the genre, emotion and sexual tension. Whether you want to write for Mills and Boon/Harlequin or pen more erotic stories like Fifty Shades of Grey, How To Write a Romance will get you started and help get you published.

http://susanpalmquist.com/how-to-writing-books/

Victoria Connelly Postcard from Venice and Other Stories
ebook
11 November
£1.59
The third collection of short stories by the author of A Weekend with Mr Darcy and The Runaway Actress.
www.victoriaconnelly.com

Liz Fielding A STRANGER'S KISS

eBook

7 November 2012

£2.55 (launch price 77p)

When Tara Lambert appeals for help from a stranger, it's an "out of the frying pan" moment and things go downhill from there when she encounters him for the second time.

http://lizfielding.blogspot.com

October Independent Releases

Janice Horton HOW DO YOU VOODOO?

Thornhill Print

Kindle Ebook Novella

26th October 2012

77p

Blurb: Loveless and lonely, top fashion model Nola Nichols, thinks being beautiful is a curse; that is until she is cursed and her looks begin to fade.

www.janicehortonwriter.blogspot.com

Victoria Connelly CHRISTMAS WITH MR DARCY
Cuthland Press
Ebook
1 st October
£1.99
Blurb - The Austen Addicts return for a special Jane Austen Christmas conference at Purley Hall but, when a first edition of Pride and Prejudice goes missing, the guests have to forget the fun and games and turn detective...
www.victoriaconnelly.com

Helen Scott Taylor A FAMILY FOR CHRISTMAS

Kindle ebook
Oct 2012
77pence
A lonely career woman stranded in a blizzard, a disillusioned man who has cut himself off from women. When he rescues her from the snow and takes her into his home, the spirit of Christmas and his little girl's love work their magic.
www.helenscotttaylor.com

Fenella J Miller BARBARA'S WAR

KDP and Create Space

Kindle & Paperback

Kindle £1.99

Book £8.50

As war rages over Europe, Barbara Sinclair is desperate to escape from her unhappy home which is a target of the German Luftwaffe. Caught up by the emotion of the moment she agrees to marry John, her childhood friend, who is leaving to join the RAF, but a meeting with Simon Farley, the son of a local industrialist, and an encounter with Alex Everton, a Spitfire pilot, complicate matters. With rationing, bombing and the constant threat of death all around her, Barbara must unravel the complexities of her home life and the difficulties of her emotional relationships in this gripping coming-of-age wartime drama.

www.fenellajmiller.co.uk

Elizabeth Bailey THE CONQUEROR'S DILEMMA

Ebook

September 2012

£2.93

The daughter of a social outcast finds the path of true love proverbially rough when she reluctantly falls for an arbiter of fashion…

www.elizabethbailey.co.uk

April Releases

Adele Parks ABOUT LAST NIGHT
Headline Review
12th April
£6.99
'I need you to say that I was with you.' For thirty years, best friends Steph and Pip have been through thick and thin. There's nothing they would not do for one another. Until these simple words change everything. Steph, eternally solid and dependable, is begging her friend to lie to the police as she's desperately trying to conceal not one but two scandalous secrets to protect her family. Pip, self-consigned to the role of scatty hot-head, is overwhelmed;she's normally the one asking for help in a crisis. It's a big ask. So what would you do? How far would you go for your best friend?

Alison Sherlock THE DESPERATE BRIDE'S DIET CLUB
Random House on 26th April 2012
£6.99
Violet Saunders is astounded when her boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes. At size 18-20, she can't think why anyone would want to marry her and euphoria quickly turns to horror as she contemplates squeezing herself into a wedding dress. When a leaflet from dieting club New You! drops through her letterbox, she hurries to enrol, but is soon traumatised by the terrifying Trudie, who secretly despises her fat clients. Things go from bad to worse; everyone just gets fatter on the horrible New You! drink shakes. At work, Violet's half-Italian boss looks on in amazement and finally persuades her to take a break and lunch with him at his family's delicatessen. All at once Violet experiences an explosion of beautiful tastes and textures. Inspired, she persuades her fellow dieters to form a new club, with secret weigh-ins at her house - while pretending to Trudie, of whom they are all petrified, that it is the New You! diet which is transforming them. Fabulous Italian recipes gradually begin to work their magic, but can Violet the duckling really become Violet the swan in time for her wedding?

Electra Shepherd LOVE MACHINE

Ellora's Cave

ebook

4 April 2012

US$4.45 (appx £3.00)

If you’ve got a six-foot hunky robot offering to relieve your sexual frustration, you’re not going to say no, right? Even if he is sort of…well, definitely…blue?

http://www.electrashepherd.com

Toni Sands TRADED INNOCENCE

Xcite Books Ltd

16 April 2012

£5.91 Paperback - 3 novellas

Early 19th century well-born Rebecca, desperate to escape marrying a tyrant, tumbles from the sand dunes to land at smuggler Jac’s feet. Danger awaits him as he helps plot her escape. Jac also has to fight his own conscience as secret meetings with her bad boy transform Rebecca’s girlish innocence into a woman’s passion.

Annie Burrows CAPTAIN CORCORANS'S HOYDEN BRIDE

Harlequin Historical

Miss Aimee Peters craves respectability after a life spent dodging scandal.  Captain Corcoran wants a wife by any means.  But neither of them is ready to trust a member of the opposite sex.

Noelene Jenkinson BARRATT'S RUN
Whiskey Creek Press
$5.99
April 2012
Anne Gray is forced to marry for the chance of a better life. Until she learns that her cruel husband murdered his first wife and now threatens her, so she flees Devon and escapes to Australia.
James Barratt emigrated from Sussex to Australia to make his fortune. After his fiance jilts him, he takes a mistress, vowing never to fall in love again. But she convinces him to try again.
In Australia, Anne changes her name and answers James' advertisement for a wife. But her blossoming romance and marriage is shortlived when her past returns to haunt her and, once again, she is forced to flee. Pregnant and homeless, Anne struggles to resolve her future until James finds her and the real truth is uncovered. http://www.noelenejenkinson.com 

Vanessa Devereaux TAKE A CHANCE ON ME (Perfect Pairing Series)

Evernight Publishing

E Novella

April 12th

Thanks to a witch named Sadie, who's been sent to the Department of Love for punishment, two lonely souls who never thought they'd find their dream partner, meet through her Perfect Pairing service.

Nell Dixon EASTER HOLIDAY

Astraea Press 

£1.95

Cornish farmer, Noah Penwarren is sworn off city girls, especially deceitful ones. Posy Carmichael is a city girl through and through. When romantic sparks start to fly will Posy’s secret end their Easter romance before it’s even begun?

Kate Johnson RUN RABBIT RUN
Choc Lit Publishing 
7th April 2012
Paperback £7.99 ebook £1.99
Sophie's in trouble. Must be a Tuesday. Book five of the Sophie Green mysteries.

Anna Jacobs THE TRADER'S SISTER

Hodder & Stoughton

£19.99

Ismay Deagan has one wish, to leave Ireland and join her brother, Bram, in Australia. But her father orders her to marry their vicious neighbour Rory Flynn. After Rory brutally attacks her, Ismay runs away. After meeting Adam Tregear on the ship, she finally starts to believe her dreams of future happiness may come true.

On the way, however, she’s flung into adventures in Suez, Ceylon and Singapore. Dare she tell Adam the truth about who she really is? Does he have secrets of his own? Or will her past catch up with her and ruin her new-found happiness?

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=The-Traders-Sister&bookID=64

Chrissie Loveday TIES THAT BIND
Chivers
Large Print hardback

“Sophie’s dream is to be a fashion designer and the dynamic Adam is determined to make it happen. But dare she love this man with a reputation and can she overcome the conflicts always in her way? Why does the glamorous Rachel figure in their lives?”

Chrissie Loveday TO LOVE AGAIN

Peoples’ Friend Pocket Novel

April 5^th 2012

£1.99

The fourth story in the saga if the Vale family. Lizzie is the youngest daughter, facing the traumas of WW2 ending in her role as a nurse. Working with physically and mentally injured men, she finds life tough until Daniel begins to fill her life. Can their love possibly conquer the obstacles?

Liz Fielding Beaumont Brides Collection - Wild Justice, Wild Lady and Wild Fire in one volume

Available to buy or borrow on Kindle, from Amazon  $4.99

http://www.lizfielding.com

Victoria Connelly MR DARCY FOREVER

Sourcebooks

1st April

$14.99

Two estranged sisters meet again at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath but what tore them apart and can the magic of Jane Austen help to bring them back together again?

www.victoriaconnelly.com

Victoria Connelly THE RUNAWAY ACTRESS

HarperCollins

12th April

£6.99

A romantic comedy about a movie star who swaps Hollywood for the Highlands in an attempt to find out who she really is.

www.victoriaconnelly.com

Lucy Felthouse THE SECRET LIBRARY – SILK STOCKINGS

Xcite Books Ltd

16 April 2012

£5.91 Paperback - 3 novellas

JL Merrow CAMWOLF
Samhain Publishing
3rd April 2012
Paperback

$15.00  discounted to $10.50 for limited time only.

Dr. Nick Sewell. Cambridge fellow. Werewolf. Struggling with his feral nature and with a visceral attraction to Julian Lauder, a troubled young German student—until a strange wolf is seen around college, and Julian disappears.

http://store.samhainpublishing.com/camwolf-p-6792.html 

Lindsay Townsend THE LORD AND ELEANOR

Ellora's Cave Blush Line

Historical Romance Novella(15000 words)

ELLORA'S CAVE BLUSH LINE

April 19TH

$2.49

Their love breaks all bounds. Richard is lord of Wykeford—and Eleanor’s lord. She is a former bondswoman, now free. When they meet, their lives change forever as a love that cannot be denied flames between them. She is strong and fierce. He is a gentle warrior. Together, they fight for their future against all odds.

But there is one in the lord’s household who is not pleased and who will stop at nothing to break Richard and Eleanor apart, even at the cost of murder.

http://www.lindsaytownsend.net 

Kate Jackson MICHAELMAS JOLLY AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING RING

The People's Friend Fiction Special No 58

£2.50

Sherlock Holmes has Watson. Victorian boy detective, Michaelmas Jolly, meets his own partner while solving the mysterious case of the missing ring.