SPEAKERS
SANDY BARKER
Sandy is an award-winning, bestselling author, traveller and hopeful romantic with an ever-expanding bucket list. Many of her own travel adventures have found homes in her novels – including her real-life love story, meeting her partner Ben in Greece.
Their meet-cute inspired Sandy’s 2019 debut One Summer in Santorini, the first in the five-book Holiday Romance series with One More Chapter, an imprint of HarperCollins UK. She went on to write three more titles with One More Chapter, with her Christmas Romance series combining her favourite holiday with destination romance.
Sandy now writes for Boldwood Books, including the Ever After Agency series, set in a high-end matchmaking agency in London. Earlier this year, she published two stand-alone travel romcoms with Boldwood, and her 2026 Christmas romcom is out soon.
She’s been a judge for Romance Writers Australia for the past six years and is a manuscript assessor with the Australian Society of Authors.
Like most authors, she has a notebook brimming with ideas and she’s currently working on novel number twenty.
RENAE BLACK
Renae Black lives in Queensland with her husband and two young bookworms. By day she works as a social worker within the child protection industry. By night, she escapes to the romantic fictional realms of rural Australia that transport her back to her childhood home, a large property that bred cattle and hosted the odd ostrich sale.
Renae can often be found on her back verandah with her red heeler at her feet, a book in her hand and a sunset painting the sky. A proud member of the Romance Writers of Australia, Renae won the 2023 Sapphire Award for the best unpublished manuscript by a published author..
JAMES BLATCH
James is the presenter of The Self Publishing Show podcast, a long running favourite show among indie authors. He's also the founder and organiser of The Self Publishing Show Live annual conference in London. In 2019 James founded Fuse Books, a independent publishing company, which was sold to Vinci Books in 2024.
He remains a consultant, helping the company to position and market more than 100 authors and 1,700 titles. Since 2015 James has written and presented premium online courses on self publishing and book marketing at Learn Self Publishing. Finally, James is the author of Cold War military thrillers.
ALYSSA COLE
Alyssa Cole is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers, romance, and graphic novels. She currently lives in France, where she spends her free time wrestling with the French “R,” wrangling her menagerie of pets, and watching K-dramas with her husband.
Alyssa writes across (and blends) genres, including: thriller, mystery, suspense, contemporary romance, sci-fi romance, speculative fiction, historical fiction, fantasy romance, and graphic novels.
Alyssa and her work have been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, the Washington Post, Slate, Jezebel, BookRiot, Kirkus, Library Journal, and many other publications. She has also written articles, op-eds, and reviews for Oprah Daily, the Washington Post, Vulture, the New York Times, et al.
NAT CONNORS
Nat is a small-town romantic comedy writer, (former) medical scientist and (mostly-former) dance teacher, and also makes the Kindletrends newsletter for genre fiction authors. Kindletrends started when Nat got fed up with trying to make sense of the Kindle Store, and wanted a no-nonsense summary of the most important information.
He shared it with other authors, and now a bunch of people are getting value from it. Nat works at writing every day, and uses this information to help outline, write and publish - so it has to be focused, relevant and actionable.
LOUISA DUVAL
When Louisa Duval isn't writing small town romcoms about rural firefighters, she produces two podcasts - one about Bluey and another about being in bed with books. She lives in Brisbane with her family and a fat cattle dog-Kelpie cross.
Louisa been been shortlisted for Queensland Writers Centre’s Publishable and Adaptable programs. She has been published in Romance Writers of Australia’s Spicy Bites and Sweet Treats anthologies, the latter winning the Australian Romance Readers Association’s Members Choice Award for Favourite Romance Anthology in 2021. Louisa was a finalist in the 2023 Romance Writers of New Zealand's KORU award and a finalist in the Australian Romance Readers Association’s 2022 awards for best banter/dialogue, and best short/category romance story, and in 2023 for best banter and best romantic comedy.
JANE FRIEDMAN
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education.
Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Today Show, Wired, Fox News, and BBC.
DARCY GREEN
Darcy write's queer romance where nothing very bad happens to any queer people.
ANNA HACKETT
Anna Hackett is a USA Today bestselling romance author and successful indie author who’s passionate about fast-paced, emotion-filled romantic suspense and science-fiction romance. She loves writing about people overcoming unbeatable odds and achieving seemingly impossible goals.
ERICA HAYES
Erica Hayes writes edgy supernatural suspense and dark, spicy paranormal romance. Her books have earned award nominations, starred reviews and the creepy, cultish devotion of an army of zombified readers poised to shamble… actually, she can’t back that last one up, but hey, a girl’s gotta dream.
Erica currently resides in the “murder capital of Australia” (coincidence? we think not) and if she’s not writing, she’s probably crouching alone in a darkened cinema watching scary movies, dancing in the street like an obsessive dark hero isn’t stalking her, or screaming her throat raw in some sweaty metal mosh pit
ANITA HEISS
Dr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of 25 books across genres. She is a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central NSW, an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the GO Foundation, and Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland.
Her adult fiction includes Not Meeting Mr Right, Avoiding Mr Right, Manhattan Dreaming, Paris Dreaming and Tiddas. Her novel Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms was shortlisted for the QLD Literary Awards, longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Prize and was the University of Canberra 2020 Book of the Year. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Prize for Indigenous Writing, was shortlisted for the 2021 HNSA ARA Historical Novel (Adult Category) and the 2022 ABIA Awards and longlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize.
In 2023, Anita re-released her rom coms, plus her first children’s book Bidhi Galing (Big Rain) illustrated by Samantha Campbell, all through Simon & Schuster. Soon after she released an Audible Original titled Red Dust Running. In 2023, she Anita also became Publisher at Large with Simon & Schuster, managing her own First Nations imprint, Bundyi Publishing.
Anita adapted her novel Tiddas for the stage and it premiered at the 2022 Brisbane Festival in partnership with La Boite theatre, and it was presented by Belvoir St as part of the Sydney Festival in 2024. Anita has just signed contracts for three more books, one epic historical novel, and two commercial women's novels, due for release in 2025, 2026 and 2027. Her most recent romcom is RED DUST RUNNING (Simon & Schuster). Her latest novel is THE PARADISE PACT (S&S, 2026)
RACHAEL JOHNS
Rachael Johns is the bestselling author of The Patterson Girls, winner of the ABIA for General Fiction, and a two-time recipient of the Romance Writers of Australia’s RUBY Award. With more than 30 titles to her name, she’s one of Australia’s most beloved authors of warm, witty women’s fiction and heartfelt rural romance.
A passionate advocate for books and readers, Rachael co-hosts two podcasts—Reading Between Deadlines and Dear Rach & Soph—and leads the 6,500-strong Rachael Johns’ Book Club on Facebook.
She lives in Western Australia’s Swan Valley with her family and their adorable Sheepadoodle. On her Substack, Pink Ink, she shares a behind-the-scenes look at writing life and publishes her hit romance serial, Meanwhile in Mount Merry Glen.
AMANDA KNIGHT
For as long as she can remember, award winning author Amanda Knight has been intrigued by the factors that motivate human behaviour, particularly crime, and especially, crimes borne of issues within relationships. (In fact, in the wrong hands, her Google research may take some explaining!)
In 2017, Amanda’s debut romantic suspense novel Situation Critical won her the Australian Romance Readers Association Best New Author award, and Australian AusRom Today Best New Romance Author award. Her latest book, A Guardian for Christmas won the National Excellence in Storytelling Contest (NEST) in 2025 and was a finalist in the Carolyn Readers' Choice Award - 2025.
When she's not writing about the light and dark of domestic relationships, antisocial personality disorders or uniformed heroes and heroines and love and loss in small town communities, Amanda, a certified life coach, spends her days helping people find and be the best version of themselves. With over twenty-five years experience in the field of people and culture, Amanda is dedicated to growing people, enabling potential and maximising performance (and loves to bring that knowledge full circle when creating her characters!)
Amanda lives in a beautiful beachside suburb in Sydney, Australia, with her husband, three adult children, a talkative kitty (who thinks he’s a dog) and the best ever (naughty!) good boy golden retriever pup.
LEANNE LOVEGROVE
Leanne Lovegrove is a lawyer, wife and mother and a lover of romance and reading.
Her law career created an addiction to coffee but provides countless story ideas. Leanne forever dreams of escaping to the country and that is why she writes small town and rural fiction. She likes writing sweeping love stories with happily-ever-afters with strong female heroines and set in the beautiful landscape of Australia. She lives in Brisbane, Australia with her husband and three children.
SUSAN MACKIE
Susan Mackie writes heartwarming, character-driven romance and women’s fiction. Small town stories with all the feels.
GEORGIA MOORE
Georgia is an Australian romance author who writes heartfelt and steamy contemporary romances. Her debut, FOUR NIGHT STAND, was released in 2024 with HarperCollins, and in 2025 she self-published the Christmas novella CHECKING YOU TWICE. Her stories feature competent heroines who are still figuring out what they want from life, and heroes with emotional baggage to unpack.
Outside of romance writing, Georgia works full-time as a copy editor. When not consuming copious amounts of pop-culture (mostly romance novels), she can be found singing in a choir, eating an endless amount of carbs, or being overly competitive at board games and trivia.
You can find Georgia online @GeorgiaMooreWriter
EMMA MUGGLESTONE
Emma Mugglestone is a Queenslander who lives in Melbourne, Australia with her family and dogs. When she’s not writing contemporary romances filled with small town charm and swoony characters, she can be found chasing sunrises, binge reading rom-coms like it’s an Olympic sport and trying to remember her passwords.
Connect with Emma Mugglestone
Facebook: www.facebook.com/emmamugglestone
Website: www.emmamugglestone.com
Instagram: @emma.mugglestone
TikTok: @emma.mugglestone
SAMARA PARISH
Samara Thorn is a romance writer and CliftonStrengths coach with Becca Syme’s Better-Faster Academy. She is unnervingly good at interrogating people, which is how she helps writers uncover their ‘why.’ Why are they stuck? Why are they burnt out? Why are they making such interesting money decisions? With these answers, she helps them align their creative practices and careers to their natural talents.
She has tackled her own flawed beliefs, including the idea that you can purchase both solutions and happiness (you can’t), and that impulsive spending made her a bad person (it didn’t). You can find her at samarathorn.com.
ASHLEY POSTON
Ashley Poston is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of magical contemporary romances, and swoony young adult novels. After graduating from the University of South Carolina with a BA in English, she moonlit as a book cover artist, a marketing designer, a social media coordinator, a hotelier, an ice cream cashier, a barista, and a library page. Now, she writes full-time from her little grey house, and spoils her three cats. When not writing, she bides her time between South Carolina and New York, and all the bookstores between.
STELLA QUINN
Stella Quinn has published four books with Harper Collins (HQ Fiction imprint) and has a further two under contract, all within the aussie rural romance genre (or romantic dramedy, as she likes to call them). She has also indie published three novels and published a title with a small US-based press.
She shortlisted in the 2020 ASA/HQ Fiction Commercial Fiction Prize which resulted in a two-book contract with Harper Collins. She has won numerous awards through Romance Writers Australia, including the Emerald, the Sapphire, and the Valerie Parv Award. Writing as Nicola Wardley, she won the Domestic Malice category of the Sisters in Crime Scarlet Dagger Awards in 2020 for a crime short story.
Also writing as Nicola Wardley, she won a week’s mentorship at Varuna for a middle-grade fiction work with the Affirm Press children’s editors. The same manuscript was shortlisted in the Hardie Grant Egmont Ampersand Prize in 2021. She came second in the Tasmania Writer’s Prize 2018 for a short story which went on to be published in an anthology by Forty South Publishing.
Stella is a graduate of the University of Queensland’s Writing Editing and Publishing program, attaining a Graduate Certificate in 2018. She is a member of the Queensland Writers Centre and frequently attends Writing Fridays. (The peeling dymotape labels in the QWC kitchen have been immortalised in her June 2024 fiction release, in fact.)
ALISON STUART
Award winning author Alison Stuart is the published author of 16 novels and counting, most of which were written using Scrivener. She has run workshops and online classes on Scrivener (for beginners) for multiple conferences and organisations (including RWA) both in Australia and the USA. She writes historicals with romance as Alison Stuart and historical mysteries as A.M. Stuart. She is also the author of Taming Scrivener... a 4 part teaching module designed for beginners.
T.L SWAN
T L Swan is a Wall Street Journalist, USA Today and #1 Amazon Best Selling author. With millions of books sold, her titles are currently translated in twelve languages and have hit #1 on Amazon in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and Germany. She is currently writing the screenplays for a number of her titles. Tee resides in Sydney, Australia with her husband and their three children where she is living her own happy ever after with her first true love.
HSU-MING TUO
Hsu-Ming Teo is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Macquarie University, Sydney, and an ardent aca-fan of romance novels. She is the author of "Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels" (2012), the co-editor of "The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction", and has published a range of other books and journal articles about sheikh romance; historical romance, including Bridgerton, Holocaust romance, and Australian convict and colonial romance; sports romance; and cultures of romantic love. She is currently researching the historical fiction and rom-coms of Anita Heiss
SARAH YOUNGER
Sarah Younger is an Executive Agent at the Nancy Yost Literary Agency. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she began her publishing career at Press53 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she helped launch the company’s digital publishing program. She went on to earn a graduate certificate from the University of Denver’s Publishing Institute before relocating to New York City. Since joining NYLA in 2011, Sarah has built a dynamic and diverse list of authors, with a focus on bestselling adult commercial fiction. She became a member of the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA) in 2014. To learn more, visit www.nyliterary.com.
SANDY BARKER
Sandy is an award-winning, bestselling author, traveller and hopeful romantic with an ever-expanding bucket list. Many of her own travel adventures have found homes in her novels – including her real-life love story, meeting her partner Ben in Greece.
Their meet-cute inspired Sandy’s 2019 debut One Summer in Santorini, the first in the five-book Holiday Romance series with One More Chapter, an imprint of HarperCollins UK. She went on to write three more titles with One More Chapter, with her Christmas Romance series combining her favourite holiday with destination romance.
Sandy now writes for Boldwood Books, including the Ever After Agency series, set in a high-end matchmaking agency in London. Earlier this year, she published two stand-alone travel romcoms with Boldwood, and her 2026 Christmas romcom is out soon.
She’s been a judge for Romance Writers Australia for the past six years and is a manuscript assessor with the Australian Society of Authors.
Like most authors, she has a notebook brimming with ideas and she’s currently working on novel number twenty.
DARCY GREEN
Darcy write's queer romance where nothing very bad happens to any queer people.
ERICA HAYES
Erica Hayes writes edgy supernatural suspense and dark, spicy paranormal romance. Her books have earned award nominations, starred reviews and the creepy, cultish devotion of an army of zombified readers poised to shamble… actually, she can’t back that last one up, but hey, a girl’s gotta dream.
Erica currently resides in the “murder capital of Australia” (coincidence? we think not) and if she’s not writing, she’s probably crouching alone in a darkened cinema watching scary movies, dancing in the street like an obsessive dark hero isn’t stalking her, or screaming her throat raw in some sweaty metal mosh pit
ANITA HEISS
Dr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of 25 books across genres. She is a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central NSW, an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the GO Foundation, and Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland.
Her adult fiction includes Not Meeting Mr Right, Avoiding Mr Right, Manhattan Dreaming, Paris Dreaming and Tiddas. Her novel Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms was shortlisted for the QLD Literary Awards, longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Prize and was the University of Canberra 2020 Book of the Year. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Prize for Indigenous Writing, was shortlisted for the 2021 HNSA ARA Historical Novel (Adult Category) and the 2022 ABIA Awards and longlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize.
In 2023, Anita re-released her rom coms, plus her first children’s book Bidhi Galing (Big Rain) illustrated by Samantha Campbell, all through Simon & Schuster. Soon after she released an Audible Original titled Red Dust Running. In 2023, she Anita also became Publisher at Large with Simon & Schuster, managing her own First Nations imprint, Bundyi Publishing.
Anita adapted her novel Tiddas for the stage and it premiered at the 2022 Brisbane Festival in partnership with La Boite theatre, and it was presented by Belvoir St as part of the Sydney Festival in 2024. Anita has just signed contracts for three more books, one epic historical novel, and two commercial women's novels, due for release in 2025, 2026 and 2027. Her most recent romcom is RED DUST RUNNING (Simon & Schuster). Her latest novel is THE PARADISE PACT (S&S, 2026)
AMANDA KNIGHT
For as long as she can remember, award winning author Amanda Knight has been intrigued by the factors that motivate human behaviour, particularly crime, and especially, crimes borne of issues within relationships. (In fact, in the wrong hands, her Google research may take some explaining!)
In 2017, Amanda’s debut romantic suspense novel Situation Critical won her the Australian Romance Readers Association Best New Author award, and Australian AusRom Today Best New Romance Author award. Her latest book, A Guardian for Christmas won the National Excellence in Storytelling Contest (NEST) in 2025 and was a finalist in the Carolyn Readers' Choice Award - 2025.
When she's not writing about the light and dark of domestic relationships, antisocial personality disorders or uniformed heroes and heroines and love and loss in small town communities, Amanda, a certified life coach, spends her days helping people find and be the best version of themselves. With over twenty-five years experience in the field of people and culture, Amanda is dedicated to growing people, enabling potential and maximising performance (and loves to bring that knowledge full circle when creating her characters!)
Amanda lives in a beautiful beachside suburb in Sydney, Australia, with her husband, three adult children, a talkative kitty (who thinks he’s a dog) and the best ever (naughty!) good boy golden retriever pup.
RACHAEL JOHNS
Rachael Johns is the bestselling author of The Patterson Girls, winner of the ABIA for General Fiction, and a two-time recipient of the Romance Writers of Australia’s RUBY Award. With more than 30 titles to her name, she’s one of Australia’s most beloved authors of warm, witty women’s fiction and heartfelt rural romance.
A passionate advocate for books and readers, Rachael co-hosts two podcasts—Reading Between Deadlines and Dear Rach & Soph—and leads the 6,500-strong Rachael Johns’ Book Club on Facebook.
She lives in Western Australia’s Swan Valley with her family and their adorable Sheepadoodle. On her Substack, Pink Ink, she shares a behind-the-scenes look at writing life and publishes her hit romance serial, Meanwhile in Mount Merry Glen.
STELLA QUINN
Stella Quinn has published four books with Harper Collins (HQ Fiction imprint) and has a further two under contract, all within the aussie rural romance genre (or romantic dramedy, as she likes to call them). She has also indie published three novels and published a title with a small US-based press.
She shortlisted in the 2020 ASA/HQ Fiction Commercial Fiction Prize which resulted in a two-book contract with Harper Collins. She has won numerous awards through Romance Writers Australia, including the Emerald, the Sapphire, and the Valerie Parv Award. Writing as Nicola Wardley, she won the Domestic Malice category of the Sisters in Crime Scarlet Dagger Awards in 2020 for a crime short story.
Also writing as Nicola Wardley, she won a week’s mentorship at Varuna for a middle-grade fiction work with the Affirm Press children’s editors. The same manuscript was shortlisted in the Hardie Grant Egmont Ampersand Prize in 2021. She came second in the Tasmania Writer’s Prize 2018 for a short story which went on to be published in an anthology by Forty South Publishing.
Stella is a graduate of the University of Queensland’s Writing Editing and Publishing program, attaining a Graduate Certificate in 2018. She is a member of the Queensland Writers Centre and frequently attends Writing Fridays. (The peeling dymotape labels in the QWC kitchen have been immortalised in her June 2024 fiction release, in fact.)
ALISON STUART
Award winning author Alison Stuart is the published author of 16 novels and counting, most of which were written using Scrivener. She has run workshops and online classes on Scrivener (for beginners) for multiple conferences and organisations (including RWA) both in Australia and the USA. She writes historicals with romance as Alison Stuart and historical mysteries as A.M. Stuart. She is also the author of Taming Scrivener... a 4 part teaching module designed for beginners.
HSU-MING TUO
Hsu-Ming Teo is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Macquarie University, Sydney, and an ardent aca-fan of romance novels. She is the author of "Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels" (2012), the co-editor of "The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction", and has published a range of other books and journal articles about sheikh romance; historical romance, including Bridgerton, Holocaust romance, and Australian convict and colonial romance; sports romance; and cultures of romantic love. She is currently researching the historical fiction and rom-coms of Anita Heiss
JAMES BLATCH
James is the presenter of The Self Publishing Show podcast, a long running favourite show among indie authors. He's also the founder and organiser of The Self Publishing Show Live annual conference in London. In 2019 James founded Fuse Books, a independent publishing company, which was sold to Vinci Books in 2024.
He remains a consultant, helping the company to position and market more than 100 authors and 1,700 titles. Since 2015 James has written and presented premium online courses on self publishing and book marketing at Learn Self Publishing. Finally, James is the author of Cold War military thrillers.
NAT CONNORS
Nat is a small-town romantic comedy writer, (former) medical scientist and (mostly-former) dance teacher, and also makes the Kindletrends newsletter for genre fiction authors. Kindletrends started when Nat got fed up with trying to make sense of the Kindle Store, and wanted a no-nonsense summary of the most important information.
He shared it with other authors, and now a bunch of people are getting value from it. Nat works at writing every day, and uses this information to help outline, write and publish - so it has to be focused, relevant and actionable.
LOUISA DUVAL
When Louisa Duval isn't writing small town romcoms about rural firefighters, she produces two podcasts - one about Bluey and another about being in bed with books. She lives in Brisbane with her family and a fat cattle dog-Kelpie cross.
Louisa been been shortlisted for Queensland Writers Centre’s Publishable and Adaptable programs. She has been published in Romance Writers of Australia’s Spicy Bites and Sweet Treats anthologies, the latter winning the Australian Romance Readers Association’s Members Choice Award for Favourite Romance Anthology in 2021. Louisa was a finalist in the 2023 Romance Writers of New Zealand's KORU award and a finalist in the Australian Romance Readers Association’s 2022 awards for best banter/dialogue, and best short/category romance story, and in 2023 for best banter and best romantic comedy.
ANNA HACKETT
Anna Hackett is a USA Today bestselling romance author and successful indie author who’s passionate about fast-paced, emotion-filled romantic suspense and science-fiction romance. She loves writing about people overcoming unbeatable odds and achieving seemingly impossible goals.
RACHAEL JOHNS
Rachael Johns is the bestselling author of The Patterson Girls, winner of the ABIA for General Fiction, and a two-time recipient of the Romance Writers of Australia’s RUBY Award. With more than 30 titles to her name, she’s one of Australia’s most beloved authors of warm, witty women’s fiction and heartfelt rural romance.
A passionate advocate for books and readers, Rachael co-hosts two podcasts—Reading Between Deadlines and Dear Rach & Soph—and leads the 6,500-strong Rachael Johns’ Book Club on Facebook.
She lives in Western Australia’s Swan Valley with her family and their adorable Sheepadoodle. On her Substack, Pink Ink, she shares a behind-the-scenes look at writing life and publishes her hit romance serial, Meanwhile in Mount Merry Glen.
GEORGIA MOORE
Georgia is an Australian romance author who writes heartfelt and steamy contemporary romances. Her debut, FOUR NIGHT STAND, was released in 2024 with HarperCollins, and in 2025 she self-published the Christmas novella CHECKING YOU TWICE. Her stories feature competent heroines who are still figuring out what they want from life, and heroes with emotional baggage to unpack.
Outside of romance writing, Georgia works full-time as a copy editor. When not consuming copious amounts of pop-culture (mostly romance novels), she can be found singing in a choir, eating an endless amount of carbs, or being overly competitive at board games and trivia.
You can find Georgia online @GeorgiaMooreWriter
T.L SWAN
T L Swan is a Wall Street Journalist, USA Today and #1 Amazon Best Selling author. With millions of books sold, her titles are currently translated in twelve languages and have hit #1 on Amazon in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and Germany. She is currently writing the screenplays for a number of her titles. Tee resides in Sydney, Australia with her husband and their three children where she is living her own happy ever after with her first true love.
RENAE BLACK
Renae Black lives in Queensland with her husband and two young bookworms. By day she works as a social worker within the child protection industry. By night, she escapes to the romantic fictional realms of rural Australia that transport her back to her childhood home, a large property that bred cattle and hosted the odd ostrich sale.
Renae can often be found on her back verandah with her red heeler at her feet, a book in her hand and a sunset painting the sky. A proud member of the Romance Writers of Australia, Renae won the 2023 Sapphire Award for the best unpublished manuscript by a published author..
RACHAEL JOHNS
Rachael Johns is the bestselling author of The Patterson Girls, winner of the ABIA for General Fiction, and a two-time recipient of the Romance Writers of Australia’s RUBY Award. With more than 30 titles to her name, she’s one of Australia’s most beloved authors of warm, witty women’s fiction and heartfelt rural romance.
A passionate advocate for books and readers, Rachael co-hosts two podcasts—Reading Between Deadlines and Dear Rach & Soph—and leads the 6,500-strong Rachael Johns’ Book Club on Facebook.
She lives in Western Australia’s Swan Valley with her family and their adorable Sheepadoodle. On her Substack, Pink Ink, she shares a behind-the-scenes look at writing life and publishes her hit romance serial, Meanwhile in Mount Merry Glen.
EMMA MUGGLESTONE
Emma Mugglestone is a Queenslander who lives in Melbourne, Australia with her family and dogs. When she’s not writing contemporary romances filled with small town charm and swoony characters, she can be found chasing sunrises, binge reading rom-coms like it’s an Olympic sport and trying to remember her passwords.
Connect with Emma Mugglestone
Facebook: www.facebook.com/emmamugglestone
Website: www.emmamugglestone.com
Instagram: @emma.mugglestone
TikTok: @emma.mugglestone
SAMARA PARISH
Samara Thorn is a romance writer and CliftonStrengths coach with Becca Syme’s Better-Faster Academy. She is unnervingly good at interrogating people, which is how she helps writers uncover their ‘why.’ Why are they stuck? Why are they burnt out? Why are they making such interesting money decisions? With these answers, she helps them align their creative practices and careers to their natural talents.
She has tackled her own flawed beliefs, including the idea that you can purchase both solutions and happiness (you can’t), and that impulsive spending made her a bad person (it didn’t). You can find her at samarathorn.com.
T.L SWAN
T L Swan is a Wall Street Journalist, USA Today and #1 Amazon Best Selling author. With millions of books sold, her titles are currently translated in twelve languages and have hit #1 on Amazon in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and Germany. She is currently writing the screenplays for a number of her titles. Tee resides in Sydney, Australia with her husband and their three children where she is living her own happy ever after with her first true love.
ALYSSA COLE
Alyssa Cole is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers, romance, and graphic novels. She currently lives in France, where she spends her free time wrestling with the French “R,” wrangling her menagerie of pets, and watching K-dramas with her husband.
Alyssa writes across (and blends) genres, including: thriller, mystery, suspense, contemporary romance, sci-fi romance, speculative fiction, historical fiction, fantasy romance, and graphic novels.
Alyssa and her work have been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, the Washington Post, Slate, Jezebel, BookRiot, Kirkus, Library Journal, and many other publications. She has also written articles, op-eds, and reviews for Oprah Daily, the Washington Post, Vulture, the New York Times, et al.
RACHAEL JOHNS
Rachael Johns is the bestselling author of The Patterson Girls, winner of the ABIA for General Fiction, and a two-time recipient of the Romance Writers of Australia’s RUBY Award. With more than 30 titles to her name, she’s one of Australia’s most beloved authors of warm, witty women’s fiction and heartfelt rural romance.
A passionate advocate for books and readers, Rachael co-hosts two podcasts—Reading Between Deadlines and Dear Rach & Soph—and leads the 6,500-strong Rachael Johns’ Book Club on Facebook.
She lives in Western Australia’s Swan Valley with her family and their adorable Sheepadoodle. On her Substack, Pink Ink, she shares a behind-the-scenes look at writing life and publishes her hit romance serial, Meanwhile in Mount Merry Glen.
LEANNE LOVEGROVE
Leanne Lovegrove is a lawyer, wife and mother and a lover of romance and reading.
Her law career created an addiction to coffee but provides countless story ideas. Leanne forever dreams of escaping to the country and that is why she writes small town and rural fiction. She likes writing sweeping love stories with happily-ever-afters with strong female heroines and set in the beautiful landscape of Australia. She lives in Brisbane, Australia with her husband and three children.
SUSAN MACKIE
Susan Mackie writes heartwarming, character-driven romance and women’s fiction. Small town stories with all the feels.
ASHLEY POSTON
Ashley Poston is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of magical contemporary romances, and swoony young adult novels. After graduating from the University of South Carolina with a BA in English, she moonlit as a book cover artist, a marketing designer, a social media coordinator, a hotelier, an ice cream cashier, a barista, and a library page. Now, she writes full-time from her little grey house, and spoils her three cats. When not writing, she bides her time between South Carolina and New York, and all the bookstores between.
SARAH YOUNGER
Sarah Younger is an Executive Agent at the Nancy Yost Literary Agency. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she began her publishing career at Press53 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she helped launch the company’s digital publishing program. She went on to earn a graduate certificate from the University of Denver’s Publishing Institute before relocating to New York City. Since joining NYLA in 2011, Sarah has built a dynamic and diverse list of authors, with a focus on bestselling adult commercial fiction. She became a member of the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA) in 2014. To learn more, visit www.nyliterary.com.
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