Writes4Women
255 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWrites4Women is all about celebrating women's voices and supporting women writers. It's about writing the voice, reading the voice and being the voice. Every week host Pamela Cook interviews an outstanding female, trans or non-binary author about their books, writing process and life. Each week discussion focuses on either the heart, craft or buiness of writing along with a new release featured author each month. Transcript available via the Writes4Women website. Video of most episodes available on the Writes4Women youtube channel. You can find out more about Writes4Women at www.writes4women.com
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New Release Feature Author: Mercedes Mercier, White Noise
June 24, 2022 00:10 - 53 minutes - 48.5 MBMercedes Mercier writes 'just-one-more-page' crime with twisting plots and relatable characters. As well as writing books, Mercedes works in the criminal justice system, providing her unique insight into the world of prisons, crime and offenders. Her debut novel White Noise has recently been release and she is currently writing her second novel, to be published in 2023. When Mercedes doesn't have her nose in her laptop and her mind in a story, she loves to read, travel, try new restaurants, a...
Business of Writing: Tik Tok for Authors with Stacey McEwan
June 17, 2022 07:43 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBIn this episode Pam chats to Stacey McEwan, an Australian author whose debut Fantasy title, Ledge, will be released in September 2022 and who procured the contract as a result of her presence on Tik Tok. After joining Tik Tok during lockdown, Stacey has gained over 300,000 followers in just a couple of years. In this interview she shares what's working for her and what she's seeing work for other people. There's so much talk out there in author circles about Tik Tok and whether we should b...
New Release Feature Author: Jackie Bailey, The Eulogy
June 10, 2022 04:53 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBPam's guest today is Dr. Jackie Bailey. Jackie' s new release, The Eulogy, was published last week by Hardie Grant. It's her debut release and it's a category referred to as autofiction, short for autobiographical fiction - fiction based heavily on fact. The protagonist of The Eulogy is Kathy Bradley who is in the process of writing a eulogy for her very much loved sibling, her sister Annie. It's a story about grief, family and loss, and so many other things which Pam and Jackie discuss in...
The Life of a Publisher Part 2: Rebecca Saunders, Head of Fiction Hachette Australia
June 02, 2022 23:59 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBWelcome back to Part 2 of Life of a Publisher. Join Pam on The Convo Couch as she chats to Rebecca Saunders, Head of Fiction at Hachette Australia. Anybody who listened to Part1 it will know that at the end of that conversation, Pam asked Rebecca about whether an author needs to get a manuscript report or even a professional edit done before submitting to a publisher. And then ended the episode on this cliffhanger! In this episode Rebecca answers that question and covers a whole lot of ot...
The Life of a Publisher Part 1: Rebecca Saunders, Head of Fiction, Hachette Australia
May 28, 2022 07:17 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBWelcome to Part 1 of Pam's chat with Rebecca Saunders, Head of Fiction at Hachette Australia. Rebecca started her career as a journalist and went into publishing in London where she spent 15 years working at various publishing houses before coming back to Australia to take up the role as Head of Fiction at Hachette. In this episode find out what a typical day at the office is like for an acquiring publisher, how acquisitions meetings work, whether social media is a must and so much more. The...
New Writing Directions Part 2: Meredith Jaffé, The Tricky Art of Forgiveness
May 13, 2022 04:28 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBToday's episode is the second in a two-part focus on writers taking new directions in their author career. Last week Pam chatted to Sasha Wasley and this week's guest is Meredith Jaffé. Meredith is the author of four novels for adults: The Fence, The Making of Christina,The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison and her new release The Tricky Art of Forgiveness. She has also published a middle grade novel, The Horse Warrior and was the founding director of Storyfest a fabulous writing festival ...
New Writing Directions Part 1 with Sasha Wasley
May 06, 2022 03:14 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBToday's episode is the first in a two-part series on rebooting your author career, featuring two authors who both have new releases, and who are both taking their careers in new directions with their two latest books. The first interview is with Sasha Wesley, and next week, I'll be speaking to Meredith Jaffé. Sasha is a West Australian author who had three books out a few years back in her Outback romance series: Dear Banjo, True Blue and Love Song. She also writes in the paranormal genre, ...
New Release Feature Author: Kelly Rimmer, The German Wife
April 29, 2022 01:10 - 47 minutes - 43 MBToday's guest is someone whose name is synonymous with amazingly written, turn the page, contemporary and historical fiction novels: Kelly Rimmer. Kelly is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of contemporary and historical fiction, including books like The Secret Daughter, The Things We Cannot Say and The Warsaw Orphan. Her new release is The German Wife, a dual timeline historical fiction title set in Huntsville, Alabama in the early years of the space ...
The Craft of Writing: Emotional Honesty in Writing with Lee Kofman
April 22, 2022 04:28 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBThis month's Craft of Writing episode is a chat with Dr Lee Kofman about her new non-fiction release, The Writer Laid Bare. It's part memoir, part a book about writing, and a fabulous insight into a writer's process. Lee is a Russian born Israeli-Australian author of six books, and an editor of two anthologies. A writing teacher and mentor based in Melbourne, Lee is multi-lingual and has been published in Israel in Hebrew but now writes exclusively in English. She is the author of two memoi...
New Release Author Feature: Megan Albany with Cassie Hamer
April 19, 2022 07:46 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBWrites4Women host Pamela Cook shares what she's currently reading before handing over to guest host Cassie Hamer who chats with debut author Megan Albany about her debut release The Very Last List of Vivian Walker. Cassie Hamer is a Sydney based author whose debut novel After the Party was an Australian bestseller. Her second book, The End of Cuthbert Close was published in 2020, and Cassie's third novel, The Truth About Faking It will be in stores in early May. It's about the three Trainer,...
New Release Feature Author: Genevieve Novak with Meredith Jaffé
April 08, 2022 01:04 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBWelcome to the April New Release Feature Author with guest host Meredith Jaffé chatting to debut author Genevieve Novak. Meredith is the author of four novels for adults, The Tricky Art of Forgiveness (released just a few weeks ago and, The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison , The Making of Christina and The Fence. She's also written the first in a children's series, Horse Warrior, which was published in 2019 and has contributed a short story emergency undies to the 2019 Funny Bones antholo...
Plan Your Writing Life with Audrey Hughey
March 31, 2022 23:21 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MBWelcome to the first Business of Writing Episode for 2022. Audrey Hughey is the founder of the Author Transformation Alliance, a community dedicated to uplifting and empowering authors at all stages to reach their vision of success. Step by step with a powerful network of support to guide them. Writing became Audrey's passion from a young age and notebooks quickly filling with high fantasy and science fiction story. What began his fiction writing evolved to consists mostly of report writing...
Convo Couch Special with Rae Cairns & Dinuka McKenzie
March 24, 2022 20:47 - 1 hour - 60 MBWelcome to a Convo Couch Special: debut crime/thriller authors Rae Cairns and Dinuka McKenzie chat about their novels, paths to publication, writing processes and publishing experiences. Rae Cairns is a former youth worker turned crime writer. She writes crime with heart; thriller and suspense novels featuring everyman (and woman) characters. Her first novel, The Good Mother, was shortlisted for Best Debut Crime Fiction in the 2021 NED KELLY awards. It draws on her background as a youth wor...
Cultivating Creativity with Eliza Henry Jones
March 10, 2022 23:06 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBIn this Heart of Writing episode Pam chats to Eliza Henry Jones about the creative process, writing trauma, her life on her beautiful flower farm in the Yarra Valley, horse riding, motherhood...and more. Eliza is an author, freelance writer and PhD candidate based on a little flower farm on Wurundjeri land in the Yarra Valley. Her latest novel Salt and Skin will be published by Ultimo Press in August 2022. She is the author of In the Quiet(2015), Ache(2017) and the young adult novels P is ...
New Release Feature Author: Shankari Chandran, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
March 03, 2022 23:12 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBToday's guest is Shankari Chandran, chatting about her new release Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. Shankari was raised in Canberra and spent a decade in London, working as a lawyer in the social justice field. She eventually returned home to Australia where she continued her work with the community. Her writing mirrors her passion for elevating the voices of the marginalised, the erasure of disposition and the connections we seek as a result of it. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens is Shankari's...
Emerging Authors Panel: Holly Craig, Valerie Miller and Alicia Thompson
February 24, 2022 22:04 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBSomething a little different in this episode… A Convo Couch chat with three emerging authors: Holly Craig, Valerie Miller and Alicia Thompson. This is the first panel chat on Writes4Women so I'm really excited today to introduce you to these authors. Holly Craig is a West Australian writer, English teacher and primary teacher. She has a fabulous blog where she writes about writing, and invites others to share their experiences in order to inspire lift, mentor, and motivate each other, to r...
New Release Author Lizzie Pook chats to Maya Linnell on the Writes4Women Convo Couch
February 17, 2022 22:26 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBToday's New release Feature Author episode features debut author Lizzie Pook chatting to best-selling rural fiction author Maya Linnell. Lizzie's historical fiction title, Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter is a rollicking adventure set in 1896 on the rugged coastline near Broome, Western Australia. Her protagonist is Eliza Brightwell, a feisty young woman who sets out to uncover the mystery of her father's disappearance. And as she scours the streets of Bannon Bay and the seas beyond she ...
Heart of Writing: Josephine Moon, Autistic in Residence
February 10, 2022 22:52 - 46 minutes - 42.1 MBJosephine Moon writes warmhearted contemporary mashups of uplit and foodie fiction: stories about life, love, careers, and food. Sometimes set in Australia, sometimes overseas and always with a great feel-good vibe, Jo's novels are published internationally and her collective sales are approaching a quarter of a million. She describes her novels as books that are like chocolate brownies: rich, inviting, a treat for the soul, but with chunky nuts to chew on, and a dash of sea salt that linger...
Craft of Writing: Lyn Yeowart, The Silent Listener
February 04, 2022 00:02 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBWelcome to 2022 and Season 3 of Writes4Women In this Craft of Writing episode Pam chats to debut author Lyn Yeowart about her writing process for The Silent Listener, including using fact to create fiction, writing trauma and the role of voice and tense in creating plot and character. There's also a Heart of Writing element to this conversation as Lyn talks about imposter syndrome and finding the courage to put her work out into the world. Lyn has a lifelong love of books and words and has...
Writes4Women 2022 Sneak Peek
January 27, 2022 07:36 - 6 minutes - 6.21 MBPam here, popping into your ears and onto your screens to give you a little sneak peek of what's coming up at Writes4Women. We're only a week away from the first episode coming out in little over a week and I'm so excited about the line up. Tune in to find out more and get set for the first Convo Couch chat on Friday February 4 with Lyn Yeowart, author of The Silent Listener. SHOW NOTES: Writes4Women www.writes4women.com Facebook @writes4women Twitter / Instagram @w4wpodcast W4...
Merry Christmas from Pam and Writes4Women
December 23, 2021 23:55 - 8 minutes - 8.17 MBPam pops into your ears and onto your screens to wish you all a very happy Christmas and say a massive thank you for your support in 2021. There's also a few hints about guests and plans for 2022 and news on a survey where you're invited to share your thoughts on the podcast, provide guest suggestions and be in the running to win a $30AUD book voucher. Stay safe everyone, have a happy Christmas and see you all in 2022. SHOW NOTES: Writes4Women www.writes4women.com Facebook @writes...
Heart of Writing: Nikki Gemmell on her New Memoir, Dissolve
December 17, 2021 02:44 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBIn the final episode for the year Pam talks to best-selling international author Nikki Gemmell about her memoir Dissolve: The Journey of a Creative Woman Roaring to Life in a Man's World. Nikki is the best-selling author of thirteen novels and four works of non-fiction. She pens a weekly column for The Australian newspaper and also writes novels for children Four of Nikki’s books, Shiver, Cleave, The Bride Stripped Bare and The Book of Rapture, made the longlist of “Favourite Australian Nov...
Christmas Special: Bookish Gift Recommendations from Pam & Friends
December 09, 2021 21:57 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBJoin Pam and a bunch of writer friends as they share the books they'll be gifting this Christmas and the ones they're looking forward to reading over the holidays. You'll be hearing from all members of The Inkwell: Pamela Cook, Michelle Barraclough, Laura Boon, Rae Cairns, Terri Green, Joanna Nell, Penelope Janu, Terri Green and Angella Whitton, along with Sandie Docker, Meredith Jaffe, Leanne Lovegrove and Maya Linell. So many fabulous book recommendations from crime to romance, historical...
Convo Couch Facebook LIVE Special with Fiona McIntosh, The Spy's Wife
December 03, 2021 04:33 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBFiona McIntosh is a bestselling Australian author of 40 books. Currently known for historical fiction titles, Fiona also writes crime, fantasy for both adults and children and time slip. She's also penned one non-fiction title: How to Write Your Blockbuster. Fiona spent many years in PR, sales and marketing in the travel industry and her very first attempt for at writing fiction garnered the attention of a global publisher. She's been writing fiction ever since. She also runs fantastic mast...
On The Convo Couch with Rachael Johns & Elin Hilderbrand
November 25, 2021 21:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBThis week's episode is hosted by well-known bestselling author of rural romance and life lit Rachael Johns. Rachael is a long time fan of Elin Hilderbrand so we reached out to her and invited her along for a chat on The Convo Couch. Rachael is currently Australia’s leading writer of contemporary relationship stories around women’s issues, a genre she has coined ‘life-lit’. She continually places in Booktopia’s Top 50 Aussie Authors poll and lives in the Swan Valley with her hyperactive husba...
New Release/Heart of Writing Episode: Sara Foster, Writing the Near Future in The Hush
November 19, 2021 00:42 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBPsychological thriller author Sara Foster's new book The Hush is a near-future thriller which has been described as 'smart and considered, the book I wish I had written' by best selling crime author Dervla McTiernan. It's an unflinching look at a society close to tipping point. A story for our times and one that is very reminiscent of what we're actually living throughout at the moment in this pandemic. The Hush highlights the power of female friendships - something Sara is passionate about ...
New Release Feature Author: Emily Madden, The Buchanan Girls
November 12, 2021 01:28 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBHistorical fiction author Emily Madden joins guest host Mary-Lou Stephens (author of The Last of the Apple Blossoms) on The Convo Couch to talk about her recent release, The Buchanan Girls, a sweeping family saga about betrayal, forgiveness and the cost of love. Sydney, 1941: Olive and Ivy may be identical twins, but they couldn't be more different. While Olive is focused on marrying a man appropriate to her station, Ivy wants to do more, to be more. Joining the Australian Women's Army Servi...
Business of Writing: Tips From an Industry Insider with Laura Boon
November 04, 2021 23:51 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBWelcome to the November Business of Writing Episode This month Pam chats to romance author, editor and publicist Laura Boon about her new non-fiction release Tips from An Industry Insider, out on the 19th of November. Laura also writes the Hearts Talk column for the Romance Writers of Australia monthly magazine and the book is an updated compilation of these columns with additional new chapters. Laura's vast experience across the whole spectrum of the publishing industry informs this wonder...
Ask Natasha: Best-selling Author Natasha Lester on Writing & Publishing
October 28, 2021 20:28 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBNatasha Lester joins Pam on The Convo Couch to answer listener questions and discuss her writing and publishing life. Since her last appearance on the show Natasha has become a New York times bestselling international author. With 6 novels historical fiction novels under her belt and her books flying off shelves in Australia, the US, UK and a whole range of different countries, her experience in the publishing world is really growing. Natasha had a fantastic post a little while ago about th...
Craft of Writing Special: My Top Ten Writing Craft Books with Pamela Cook
October 23, 2021 03:32 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBIn this episode host Pamela Cook shares her top ten writing craft books, plus a couple of bonus titles. If you want to see the books you can actually watch the video on the Writes4Women YouTube channel, and you can find the video on YouTube or on the Writes4Women website. Whether you're a newbie writer or more experienced you're sure to find something of interest in this top ten list which includes books on inspiration, plotting, showing not telling, Nanowrimo and more. Pamela also gives h...
October Business of Writing: Annie Seaton, Being A Hybrid Author
October 14, 2021 23:16 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBMy guest on the convo couch today for this Business of Writing episode is Annie Seaton. Annie is an award-winning Australian author, and her inspiration comes from the beauty of the Australian landscape that she sees around her on her many and varied travels. In 2016 Annie's novel Kakadu Sunset was shortlisted for the RWA Ruby awards, and in 2018, Whitsunday Dawn was voted book of the year in the AusRom Today Reader's Choice Awards. You can guess from the titles of these books that they are...
October Craft of Writing: Trust Your Instincts with Sarah Winman
October 07, 2021 21:15 - 58 minutes - 54 MBWelcome to a very special craft of writing episode of Writes4Women featuring Sarah Winman talking about the writing of her new novel, Still Life. Before turning her hand to writing Sarah was an actress. She worked in theatre in her twenties and early thirties, but by 1992, she'd decided that she wanted to write a novel. Her highly acclaimed debut novel When God was a Rabbit, is a story about childhood eccentricity, loss, and love. It was an international bestseller and won Sarah multiple a...
Heart of Writing: The Last Exiles with Ann Shin
October 01, 2021 01:57 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBToday's episode is a combined Heart of Writing and New Release episode. My guest on the Convo Couch is Ann Shin. Ann lives in Toronto with two daughters and her partner and she's a documentary and filmmaker as well as an author. Her documentary, My Enemy, My Brother was shortlisted for a 2016 Academy Award and nominated for an Emmy. Her previous documentary, The Defector: Escape from North Korea won multiple awards for Best Documentary and Best Documentary Director and was made in conjuncti...
The Craft of Writing: The Conflict Thesaurus with Angela Ackerman
September 23, 2021 23:05 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBToday's episode is a Craft of Writing episode with Angela Ackerman, co-author of eight best-selling resource books printed in eight different languages through which she shares her passion for the writing craft. If you are a writer, you may have heard of Angela's first book, The Emotion Thesaurus, a tool which helps writers show emotions through body language and internal reactions. The desire to help writers in new and innovative ways led to a website called one stop for writers. It's a u...
Podcasters Special: Celebrating 400 Episodes of Words and Nerds with Dani Vee
September 21, 2021 04:23 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBWelcome to a very special episode of Writes4Women. Last week I had the pleasure of recording this episode with Dani Vee, Claudine Tinellis, Ashley Kalagian Blunt and Allison Tait. Those of you who love to listen to writing and reading podcasts might recognize some of those names. We were getting together to celebrate the 400th episode of the Words and Nerds podcast produced and hosted by Dani Vee. It was really such a pleasure to be able to celebrate this occasion with Dani. She's a prolif...
New Release/Business of Writing: The Five Year Plan with Jodi Gibson
September 17, 2021 05:21 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBWelcome to another episode of Writes4Women. This one is a New Release/Business of writing episode with Jodi Gibson. Jodi is an author of contemporary women's fiction, or as she likes to call it, fiction with all the feels. Her debut novel was The Memories We Hide, independently published in August, 2019. Her next novel, The Five Year Plan is a lighter women's fiction title and combines travel, food and romance. Jodi is a graduate of Fiona Macintosh's master class from 2017, and has worked ...
September Heart of Writing Episode: Living Wholeheartedly with Terri Connellan
September 10, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBToday's episode is the September Heart of Writing episode. And my guest is Terri Connellan. Terri is a certified life coach, author, and accredited psychological type practitioner. She has a Master of Arts in language and literacy, and a successful 30 year career as a teacher and leader in adult vocational education. Terri's coaching and writing focus on creativity, personality, and self-leadership, especially for women in transition to a life with deeper purpose. She works with women globa...
How Hannah Bent Wrote a Love Letter to her Sister
September 03, 2021 01:24 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBWelcome to another episode of Writes4Women. This one is a mashup between a Heart of Writing, Craft of Writing and New Release episode featuring debut author, Hannah Bent. Hannah's book, When Things Are Alive They Hum has recently been released to great critical acclaim. Hannah was born and raised in Hong Kong. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art Film and Photography at Central St. Martin's School of Art and Design in London. She undertook post-graduate study in both directing a...
Characters Inside and Out with Emily Maguire
August 27, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBIn this Craft of Writing episode Pam chats to Emily Maguire on characterisation in her latest novel Love Objects. Emily is the author of six novels, including the Stella Prize and Miles Franklin shortlisted An Isolated Incident and three non-fiction books. Emily's articles and essays on sex, feminism, culture and literature have been published widely, including in the Sydney Morning HeraldThe Australian,The Observer and The Age. Emily works as a teacher and mentor to young and emerging wri...
August New Release Feature Author: Mary Lou Stephens, The Last of the Apple Blossom
August 20, 2021 06:32 - 1 hour - 64 MBWelcome to the August New Release Feature Author episode Mary-Lou Stephens has worked as an actor, singer, radio presenter, and music director in both commercial radio and at the ABC here in Australia. Now Mary works as a novelist. The Last of the Apple Blossom was published by Harper Collins, just a couple of weeks ago. Young schoolteacher Catherine Turner rushes to the Huon Valley to find her family's apple orchard destroyed, her childhood home in ruins and her brother dead. Despite her...
Ther Business of Writing: Alka Joshi on Author Branding and The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
August 12, 2021 23:26 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBWelcome to the August Business of Writing edition. Today's guest is Alka Joshi, author of The Henna Artist and The Secret Keeper of Jaipur. Born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, in India, Alka has lived in the U S since the age of nine. She spent many years working in advertising and marketing copy after being encouraged by her husband to try writing fiction. Alka took evening workshops before enrolling in an MFA program in creative writing at the age of 51. The Henna Artistt, Alka's debut novel pu...
Finding Joy in Creativity with Karyn Sepulveda
August 05, 2021 23:42 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBWelcome to the August Heart of Writing Episode. Karyn Sepulveda is an author, podcast producer and creator of short, guided meditations. Through writing about characters triumphing over adversity, interviewing women about their strengths and designing meditations that help the listener tap into their own creativity, Karyn hopes to spread compassion and connection. In this episode Karyn joins Pam on The Convo Couch to discuss creativity, meditation and her new release the Women’s Circle, pu...
July New Release Feature Author, Christine Wells, Sisters of the Resistance
July 16, 2021 01:00 - 48 minutes - 44.9 MBChristine Wells writes historical fiction featuring strong, fascinating women. As a child, she never considered a career as an author because authors were 'magical beings', not flesh and blood mortals like her. Instead, Christine went into law, specialising in corporate mergers and acquisitions. She might still be a lawyer if she hadn't accepted a challenge from a friend to try her hand at writing a novel. The minute she began to weave that story, she fell in love with writing. Christine has...
Naidoc Week Rewind: Claire G. Coleman on Writing the Future to Understand the Past
July 08, 2021 08:59 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBA Naidoc Week special... Award-winning first nations author Claire G. Coleman chats to Kel Butler about writing speculative fiction and how writing about the future can help us understand the past and the present. Claire also talks about where she draws her inspiration from, her writing process, the shock of having such a successful debut novel, Terra Nullius, and the different reception she received for novel number two, The Old Lie. Grab a cuppa, sit back and enjoy this special rewind ep...
Rewind: Lightbulb Moments with Tess Woods
July 02, 2021 02:07 - 42 minutes - 39 MBWelcome to the first rewind episode for July 2021. It's an episode that has been previously. released - my chat with Perth author Tess Woods. Tess is the three novels, Love at First Flight (2015), Beautiful, Messy Love (2017) and Love and Other Battles (2019). In addition to being an author Tess is a physiotherapist, a mentor and a writing teacher. She has two children, and manages to fir so much into her very busy life. This is an edited version of my original chat with Tess, done at the...
The Pros & Cons of Republishing with Rania Battany and Michelle Montebello
June 24, 2021 22:11 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBSomething a little different on The Convo Couch today. Pam talks to Indie Authors Rania Battany and Michelle Montebello about republishing a previously published book. Michelle Montebello is the international best-selling award-winning author of The Quarantine Station, Beautiful, Fragile and the The Lost Letters of Playfair Street. The Quarantine Station was a finalist in the 2021 international book awards for best historical fiction. The Lost Letters of Playfair Street won the 2020 Austra...
Where Do You Hang Your Hammock? A Heart of Writing Episode with Bella Mahaya Carter
June 18, 2021 06:40 - 48 minutes - 44 MBWelcome to the June Heart of Writing Episode featuring Bella Mahaya Carter Bella is an author, creative writing teacher, empowerment coach, and speaker, who helps writers (and others) experience greater freedom, joy, and peace of mind. She believes in the power of writing to heal and transform lives and I view publishing as an opportunity to deepen self-awareness, nourish meaningful connections, and delight in peak experiences while being of service. Her new release Where Do You Hang Your ...
Pamela Hart Launches Digging Up Dirt plus June New Release Round Up
June 11, 2021 03:41 - 1 hour - 66 MBIn this special edition of Writes4Women Pam hosts the launch of Digging Up Dirt by best-selling author Pamela Hart recorded at Berkelouw's Leichhardt on June 10. The two Pamela's have known each other for quite a few years and apart from sharing a first name also share a love of writing and books, particularly stories about women toughing it out in difficult circumstances even when all the odds are stacked against them. Pamela has written across many genres, as Pamela Freeman and Pamela Ha...
Turning Fact into Fiction in The Warsaw Orphan with Kelly Rimmer
June 05, 2021 03:01 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBKelly Rimmer is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and worldwide best-selling author of contemporary and historical fiction, including The Secret Daughter, The Things We Cannot Say and Truths I Never Told You. Kelly announced that she would become an author when she was still in kindergarten. For decades, she wrote for herself always hoping to be published, but it wasn't until her mid thirties that she was ready to even show family or friends, any of her stories. And then one...
Turning Fact into Fiction in the Warsaw orphan with Kelly Rimmer
June 05, 2021 03:01 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBKelly Rimmer is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and worldwide best-selling author of contemporary and historical fiction, including The Secret Daughter, The Things We Cannot Say and Truths I Never Told You. Kelly announced that she would become an author when she was still in kindergarten. For decades, she wrote for herself always hoping to be published, but it wasn't until her mid thirties that she was ready to even show family or friends, any of her stories. And then one...