This week’s spotlight is shining on Kayte Nunn and we’re showcasing Rose’s Vintage … Read an excerpt below. Kayte Nunn is a freelance book, magazine and web editor and writer with more than 20 years’ publishing experience and is the former editor of Gourmet Traveller WINE magazine. She is also a mother to two girls…
This week the golden spotlight is on Kaye Dobbie and we’re showcasing Colours of Gold Read an excerpt below. I currently juggle my writing with sharing an old house and big garden with my husband, as well as far too many animals. Sometimes writing anything is a struggle but I keep trying because I love…
Wednesday Wanderings with ARR authors Helene Young at the Outback Writers Festival I headed west to Winton last week to attend the Outback Writers Festival, which involved a one hour flight from Bundaberg to Brisbane, a two hour flight from Brisbane to Longreach, via Barcaldine, and then a two hour drive. It was lovely to see…
This week the spotlight is on Nicki Edwards and we’re showcasing Life Support Nicki Edwards calls herself a city girl with a country heart. Growing up on a small family acreage she spent her formative years riding horses, and pretending the neighbour’s farm was her own. A voracious reader, Nicki always wanted to write, and…
Rural romance author Cheryl Adnams talks about reading rural romance with her cousin Peter When I was about eleven years old my cousin left his family in the Northern Territory and came to live with us while he attended high school in Adelaide. Recently I caught up with him at my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. We…
Our spotlight is on Catherine Evans and we’re showcasing her debut rural romance novel, The Healing Season … Catherine Evans is a city-born throwback to country genes. After completing an Environmental Biology degree, she desperately needed to move to the country. A job in agriculture was the perfect escape. After spending eighteen years in agricultural…
Friday Favourites - with Nicole Alexander From the Station archives: The homestead my great-grandfather built in the 1890s. … First published by NICOLE ALEXANDER on JULY 2, 2015 on NicoleAlexander.com.au When my great-grandfather moved westward from the New England north-west region of Inverell in the early 1890s to our current property he built a homestead on one of two separate…
Congratulations Jennifer Scoullar on the release of Journey’s End Read an excerpt below and leave a comment for Jennifer to be in the draw for the giveaway - a paperback copy of Journey’s End GIVEAWAY NOW ENDED (Giveaway open to Australian postal addressees only. Giveaway ends midnight AEST Thursday 16 June 2016.) Sometimes a tree…
This week the spotlight is shining on Barbara Hannay and we’re showcasing Moonlight Plains Read an excerpt below. Barbara Hannay is an award-winning, bestselling author of more than forty novels published in twenty-six languages worldwide. She lives in tropical North Queensland with her husband. “I have always loved writing. Even before I could read or…
Wednesday Wanderings with ARR authors When Getting There Is Half The Fun by Cathryn Hein As many of you know, I was born and bred in South Australia’s lush lower south-east. It’s glorious country, rich and fertile and blessed with an overabundance of natural assets. My other half though, is from country north Queensland, and…