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Wednesday Wanderings Throughout the year dedicated personnel and volunteers work to protect or save - on land, sea, and in the air. We celebrate them all, and here are a few we’ve written about in our rural romances! … Read what the authors have to say about the characters they created in their books, the…
Wednesday Wanderings with ARR authors Romance Writers of Australia annual conference (in Adelaide this year) recently saw any number of rural romance authors and rural fiction authors together. From the many authors writing our favourite genre, here are a few photographs of our own Australian Rural Romance website authors. It was a big conference…
Wednesday Wanderings We’re welcoming back Alissa Callen to Australian Rural Romance authors’ website. Many of you will know Alissa and will have read her rural romances, but did you know there’s a new book on the way? When Alissa Callen isn’t writing she plays traffic controller to four children, three dogs, two horses and one…
Wednesday Wanderings with ARR authors Jennie Jones, her tool belt, and her kick-ass boots This blog post was first published on JennieJonesRomance.com Little did I realise when I took my daughter for a horse ride thirteen years ago that it would be the start of the rest of her life (so far, anyway). Although she did…
Wednesday Wanderings The Dog Blog: Jack the kelpie & Clancy of the Overflow This post was first published on NicoleAlexander.com.au There I was. Clancy of the overflow (With apologies to Banjo Patterson)… heading towards the yards… So Jack raced to wheel them—he was running on the wing, where the best and boldest kelpies take their…
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…
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…
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…
Wednesday Wanderings with ARR authors Guess who’s having a sea change - Jenn J McLeod, whose latest release is The Other Side of the Season Yes, I’m back at the beach! Back on the Coffs Coast after almost 12 months on the road—a trip that took us and the caravan as far north as Airlie…
Wednesday Wanderings with ARR authors Catherine Evans takes us on a road trip to Tibooburra Now, and then ~ Tibooburra lies in the north-west corner of NSW, quite as far from anything as you could find. The Sturt National Park and Cameron’s Corner (where NSW, SA and Qld borders meet) are the drawcards to the…