Thrilled to hear that Novel Studio alumna Hannah Begbie has won the Joan Hessayon Romantic Novelist's Award for her debut novel, Mother, out later this month with HarperCollins. As if that wasn't enough, TV rights have now been sold to Clerkenwell Films, after a four-way auction, with her husband, Bafta-nominated screenwriter Tom Edge poised to adapt the novel. It's proving to be quite a year. Congratulations, Hannah!