Celebrating 50 years of Romance

Welcome to the Romantic Novelists Association

Welcome to the website of the Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA). Romance is the most popular genre of fiction. According to our research, more than ninety per cent of all readers like to see a bit of romance in the books they read—men as well as women.

The RNA was formed in 1960 to promote romantic fiction and to encourage good writing and now represents more than 700 writers, agents, editors and other publishing professionals.

Please look around the site. You can find out more about us and what we do, the awards we make and our latest news. Please check out the activities we have planned, and if you wish, join us. Our features pages will contain regularly updated craft tips and interviews with some of the most popular authors in our genre. You could also head over to the RNA Blog, for an informal, personal chat with our writers.

The script you see on these pages is a font based on Jane Austen’s handwriting. What could be more appropriate? And our facts come from our own Archive, or Research done in 2008 on behalf of the RNA by Book Marketing Ltd.

We hope you enjoy your visit—and do come back again!

Katie Fforde, RNA Chair writes:

We are a group of writers (and readers) of romantic fiction in every form it takes — and there are many forms! We support writers who are already published and those still on the long, hard journey. Contact with others who create fictional worlds, people and situations and somehow make them credible is vital for a writer’s sanity.

Our parties are famous (not to say notorious) and our conferences are enormously friendly, supportive and informative. We have an on-line newsgroup too, so you can benefit no matter where you live. Do join us!