Well here is some holiday listening! Three Adult romance authors with a love of the outback and the top end and the deep sea!
Featured music track:’Nullabor Song’ by Kasey Chambers
Recorded at the A.R.R. A conference , Melbourne 2017.
Today we hear from two authors who are classed as Romance authors but this genre is now so expanded that under books published by romance imprints along with the usual love stories you will find, crime, fantasy, science fiction, historical and in the case of Catherine Evans and her book ‘ The Healing Season’ – scientist romance! In Kelly Hunters novel ‘Wish’ we have a classic ‘ searching for a new life’ saga – but charmingly and satisfyingly told as a young mother struggles to start again.
Featured music track:‘The day that I lost You’ – Suzannah Espie; “ Back to the Sun” -Ange Takats
Recorded at the A.R.R. A conference , Melbourne 2017.
I have been all over this month collecting more reads for the Narratives Library. First down to Melbourne for the Australian Romance Readers Convention where I recorded over 20 romance authors with their themes ranging from crime, to science fiction and paranormal to regency and steampunk!
First up in this series this week are:
Michelle Somers with crime romance’ Murder most unusual”
Michelle picks up tips on crime solving from police contacts and weaves them into hot romances and thrillers.
I also recorded Lesley Truffle reading from ‘The Scandalous life of Sacher Torte’. Her other ripping yarn ‘Hotel du Barry’ will be uploaded soon.
Amy Andrews is another romance/crime writer. Listen to her read ‘Limbo; ( It’s hard to know whether to list these under’crime’ or under ‘Romance and relationships’!
And finally one for little kids who feel ‘different’ for whatever reason from their peers.
Carole Lander writes happy but realistic stories to help these kids cope in ‘Wheels of fire’ and Basketball tree.
Last week I also attended the Somerset Celebration of Literature which is the largest invited gathering of Young Adult Writers held in Australia.
There will be some lovely reads posted soon from that event also.
Click on the book covers to take you to the reads.
A semi-autobiographical tale of a Frenchman falling in love with someone new- when he was still married to another.
Hear Sarah read from her book about the irrevocable step we take when we decide to help someone in a desperate situation.
Click here to hear an interview with Sarah on Arts Canvass.