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Three things I learned while writing… House of Wishes

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2020 has become more interesting by the day and in the coming weeks and months ahead remember that your old friend—a good book—can provide lasting comfort in its pages. Welcome to blog contributor Jenn J McLeod! Jenn writes fiction about small towns with big hearts and all the quirky, lovable Aussie characters readers enjoy. Jenn joins us here today to tell us about three things she learned while writing ‘House of Wishes’.

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New $30,000 Australasian literary prize celebrating historical fiction genre

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Australia’s leading infrastructure and facilities service provider ARA Group has partnered with The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) to announce a new major literary prize, set to award $30,000 to an outstanding historical novelist. The new ARA Historical Novel Prize gives Australian and New Zealand historical novelists the chance to be recognised in a class of their own, with the most significant prize money for any genre-based prize in Australasia. Entries will be judged on excellence in writing, depth of research, and reader appeal. ARA Group Founder, Executive Chair and Managing Director Ed Federman said as a patron of historical …

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Three things I learned while writing… One Summer Between Friends

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Valentine’s Day had been and gone for 2020, but remember your romance with books and reading can be every day of the year! Welcome to blog contributor Trish Morey! Trish is a USA Today Bestselling Author who loves to travel and loves being a writer! Trish joins us here today to tell us about three things she learned while writing ‘One Summer Between Friends’.

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MARCH OWL | Spell Casting: an introduction to the craft of writing with Karina Coldrick

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Hindsight is 20:20 by Karina Coldrick When I decided I wanted to shift careers and become a writer, I made a big mistake. One single assumption that cost me years of thrashing around with grammar and punctuation and throttling my creativity. If I had a time-turner and could change one thing, it’d be this: become a storyteller.

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The RuBY Monologues | Maddison Michaels

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Welcome to our 2019 RuBY winners spotlight – this month I’m pleased to introduce – Maddison Michaels! Maddison won the RuBy in the historical category. The story follows Devlin Markham, the notorious ‘Devil Duke’ of Hungtington, who who’s looking to secure his fortune with a marriage to Lady Sophie Wolcott. However, Sophie is a blue stocking heroine unimpressed with the Duke’s rakish and rougish ways. When Devlin’s dark past threatens to place not only him, but Sophie in danger too, they’ll find that not just their lives are in jeopardy, but their hearts too.