If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting! I have to say that on the whole I don’t associate hospitals with romance, perhaps because generally the time I’ve spent in hospitals has been visiting the ill, the infirm and the gratuitously...

The more I review, the more I realise how important a book’s cover is. Not simply because I’m the kind of reader who equates a beautiful cover with a brilliant read (I’ve been burnt a few times for succumbing to that particular lure), but because a cover is such an integral part of branding. Particular cover designs are associated with...

When a week or so ago an enormous care package filled with all sorts of Mills & Boon paraphernalia landed on my doorstep, I was quite chuffed, as my experience with M&B thus far has been a very positive one. M&B is brilliant at ensuring that its products are perfectly suited to its target audience (the feedback forms found in the back of M&B...

For Mills & Boon author Maisey Yates, part of the appeal of romance novels is that they are designed for the time-conscious. Romance readers, though falling across a broad demographic, are often mothers or working professionals (or both). “For me, the appeal of romance novels was that they could be read in a day,” says Yates. “As a mother...

Having catapulted into the romance genre’s awareness as the winner of the Mills & Boon New Voices competition, Perth’s Leah Ashton is making waves in the romance world. The competition has proved a boon to Ashton, whose second novel is currently getting ready to go to print. But looking back a mere year or so, and Ashton’s dream of publication was...