Last night, I had the honour of attending the Romantic Novelists’s Association’s RoNA awards at the splendid RAF Club in London’s Piccadilly.

As ever, the RNA threw a pretty fabulous party and here I am with the lovely, Belinda Jones, a fellow shortlisted author.

And here I am with the other nominees. What a lovely bunch of writers we were!

And here’s the shortlisted books for Best Romantic Comedy. I was so proud to see The Runaway Actress there!

The room was filled with glamorous writers, agents and editors and here I am with my own lovely agents, Annette Green and David Smith.

And, presenting the awards were TV’s Richard and Judy – book champions and writers themselves now.

It was a wonderful evening and BIG congratulations to all the winners especially Sophie Kinsella – one of my favourite writers – who won the award for outstanding achievement.