It feels like forever – but on Saturday the 13th of August we can finally celebrate our nominees at our Gala Dinner – in person! Are you as excited as this little Blog Coordinator is?!? Kudos to our contest team, reader judges, organising committee and contest co-ordinator Sarma Burdeu! You can read all the nominees here. Thanks to Ebony Mckenna for setting this up for us once again. Please put your hands together for the Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year finalists for 2022! Congratulations everyone, what an amazing effort! And the finalists are… Romantic Suspense Caitlyn …
Member New Releases | August 2022
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Kiss and Tell | Stella Quinn
Brimming with warmth and humour, Stella Quinn’s new rural romance, A Town Like Clarence, roped me in from the prologue and kept me smiling throughout. There’s so much to love about Kirsty and Joey’s story, from the town committee who spends just as much time planning a community event as they do on project ‘Find Farmer Joey A Wife’, to the restoration of a vintage aeroplane with special significance for pilot Kirsty. Sassy eight-year-old Amy, also deserves a special mention (and quite possibly her own story) and although I’m not usually a poetry fan, I was delighted by the bush …
Member New Releases | July 2022
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FABULOUS FICTION with Stella Quinn & guest Maya Linnell
Welcome to Fabulous Fiction, which celebrates books so good, you just want to hug them when you’re done reading. From country show baking to raising orphaned lambs, bestselling author Maya Linnell writes about the life she lives and loves. A keen bookworm, wannabe flower farmer and former rural journalist, Maya also hosts a monthly online show called Library Lovers, for the digital app Libby OverDrive. She lives in rural Victoria with a menagerie of animals, sweeping gardens, three young bookworms and the odd tiger snake or three. For those of us in the RWA community, we have been on the …
Building believable characters | Paula Roe
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Workshopping your Work – How to find out what readers think | Sarah Gates
Give your work the best possible chance in the increasing tough world of publishing. Learn how to self-edit your work. Polish your work and present it to others at its very best.
Why Romance Readers Love Third Person Point of View
Give your work the best possible chance in the increasing tough world of publishing. Learn how to self-edit your work. Polish your work and present it to others at its very best.
Member New Releases | June 2022
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Kiss and Tell | Sasha Wasley
This month’s Kiss & Tell guest is West Australian writer, Sasha Wasley. The author of three rural romances in the ‘Daughters of the Outback’ series, plus two stand-alone fiction titles, Sasha is also on the cusp of releasing a children’s book for middle grade readers under a pen name Ash Harrier. Her 2021 release Spring Clean for the Peach Queen was one of my favourite reads of 2021 and I’m excited to get stuck into her newest release, A Caravan Like a Canary. RWA members heading to the 2022 conference will also have a chance to meet Sasha in person …