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So You Think You Can Write Winner Announced!

And the winner is… The 2014 Harlequin So You Think You Can Write competition came to a dramatic close yesterday when Harlequin Presents Editor Carly Byrne made THE CALL to our winner…Amanda Cinelli for her fantastic entry, Resisting the Sicilian Playboy. Amanda has won… Read More

Lost in Romance #31 – What Women Really Want

Does my bum look big in this…? ‘No’. The answer is always ‘No’! You see there are times in every woman’s life when honesty is not the best policy, and those little white lies are undoubtedly preferable to the truth. It’s moments like… Read More

5 Reasons Why Reading is Good For You

In our recent website poll, 86% of you said that your favourite way to relax is to curl up with a book. Well, this just goes to show that you’re our kind of people. We LOVE books here at Paradise Heights and here are 5 reason why books are good… Read More

Lost in Romance #30 – Fear or Fantasy…?

If there’s one night of the year that doesn’t suggest a happy-ever-after, it’s Halloween. On this ghoulish eve, any hint of sentiment is well and truly dead and buried, replaced with swollen, manically grinning pumpkins, crooked witches hats, stick-on warts, gruesome masks and thousands of terrifyingly realistic… Read More

Reader’s Choice Book of the Year 2014!

As 2014 comes to a close, we’ve been thinking about all the new books we’ve been able to publish this year. We must be one of the luckiest publishers in the world to have such loyal readers and fabulous authors! We are now searching for the Reader’s Choice Mills… Read More

Sorting Out My Digital Life with the Mills & Boon App

I’m one of those perfectionist types that thrives on organisation. Or I would be if I had the time. For now, every drawer in my flat is on the verge of exploding into a glittery cloud of eyeshadow, dry shampoo and crumpled cinema tickets. My digital… Read More

Lost in Romance #29 – An Editor by Day…

As the clock ticks past five in Romance HQ, slightly dishevelled editors begin to emerge from flurries of paper, their screen-fuzzed eyes blinking against the evening light. Stretching our stiffened muscles, reapplying our smudged lippy…we begin to feel more human again. Read More

Lost in Romance #28 – A Horticultural Heartthrob…

It was only a matter of time before the glittering lights of the ITV studios came calling for our very own Joanne Grant, Senior Executive Editor at Mills & Boon! And so, it was with stars in her eyes and butterflies in her stomach that Jo appeared… Read More

What it’s like to be an M&B author by Kate Hardy

Twelve years ago, I was holding my author copy of my very first Mills & Boon, ‘A Baby of Her Own’. It just doesn’t seem possible that this month heralds the release of my 60th,… Read More

Lost in Romance #27 – Happy-Ever-After by Christmas?

Don’t panic, but the countdown has begun…it’s 83 days until Christmas! Somehow the crinkled autumn leaves seem to be slipping from the trees and the sneaky little month of October has rather crept up on us. And as winter extends its frosty hand, the panicked hearts of… Read More

How to Make the Perfect Marriage Proposal

Fiona Harper’s The Little Shop of Hopes & Dreams is a gorgeously romantic novel and the perfect treat to curl up with!  We’re thrilled to introduce Nicole Harrison, the heroine of The Little Shop of Hopes & Dreams, released this Friday. Read More

How I Relax: Author Sarah Morgan

We are very excited about the publication this Friday October 3rd,  of Sarah Morgan’s final book in the Snow Crystal trilogy, ‘Maybe This Christmas’. We caught up with Sarah  to find out what she does when she’s not busy writing bestselling novels…… Read More