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Kate Allan's Blog – September 2011 Archive (5)

Press release: Shortlists for Brand New Romantic Fiction Awards Announced

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Shortlists for Brand New Romantic Fiction Awards Announced

26 September 2011. The Festival of Romance is delighted to announce the shortlists…

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Added by Kate Allan on September 26, 2011 at 13:14 — 4 Comments

The Perfect Man: the nation speaks!

In August the Festival of Romance polled 58 UK romantic novelists about the attributes they thought made the perfect man. Over the last month, UK women were invited to take the same poll and here are the results.

The poll asked whether a long list of different attributes were "essential", "desirable" or "not important". Romantic…

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Added by Kate Allan on September 25, 2011 at 9:57 — No Comments

Editor interview: Gillian Green, Rouge Romance (Ebury)

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Added by Kate Allan on September 20, 2011 at 23:00 — 5 Comments

The Great Slogan Competition

What happened to the good old slogan competition? You know those advertising straplines that are just so memorable: 8 out of 10 cats... Beanz Meanz... Vorsprung Durch Technik, Compare the Meerkat. Well, it's back!

The Festival of Romance is on the search for a slogan and here's your chance to win a super prize. There is a pair of day tickets (worth…

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Added by Kate Allan on September 16, 2011 at 17:01 — 24 Comments

Two British publishers announce new romantic fiction imprints

Within the last month, two major British publishers have announced new romance imprints. At the beginning of August Transworld relaunched the famous Loveswept line as a digital imprint. Loveswept was a major romance publisher in the 1980s and 90s and published 917 titles between 1983 and 1999. The line launched many now big name authors including Tami Hoag and Janet Evanovich and will make classic Loveswept romances…

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Added by Kate Allan on September 10, 2011 at 12:17 — 6 Comments