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Faye Acheampong has won Mills & Boon’s Love To Write competition for unagented romance writers from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds.
Acheampong will receive a one-book contract with Mills & Boon, a one-year mentorship with a Mills & Boon editor to help develop the submission into a full romance novel and a writing grant.
Acheampong’s festive romance Thawing For You will be published as a Mills & Boon True Love title in autumn 2023.
The Love To Write competition was hosted by Mills & Boon in collaboration with “Love Island” winner Amber Rose Gill, whose debut romance novel Until I Met You will be published on 7th July 2022.
The winner was selected by a panel of judges consisting of Amber Rose Gill, Mills & Boon author Nadine Gonzalez and three members of the Mills & Boon editorial team, Rebecca Slorach, Bryony Green and Nicola Caws.
Acheampong said: "I’ve always loved how fun romance fiction is, and I wanted the chance to contribute to the representation that Black British women have in this genre. I was shocked and happy to hear that I won the competition. Thank you so much to Amber, the judges and the Mills & Boon team for giving me this opportunity!"
Gill added: “It’s been a real privilege to be a judge on the Mills & Boon Love to Write competition. Diversity is so important in publishing and I’ve loved being a part of this competition. The entries were amazing and there was so much creativity in the stories. I am so happy that Faye’s story won. It was festive and fun and everything you want from a story, I wanted to read more! I can’t wait for readers to be able to pick up this story when it publishes.”