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Bestselling Australian authors Rachael Johns (The Other Bridget, The Patterson Girls) and Sophie Green (Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society, The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle) talk about writing and books and all sorts of things - and they welcome questions from…
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Romance novels and new starts (opens the original)
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A year ago, on the podcast, we talked to Chloe Berry , who was in the process of launching a digital marketing agency for authors and also planning to become a literary agent. Chloe is in her twenties and has worked in publishing as a marketer for romance and other genre fiction. Starting her own agency was, obviously, risky - starting any business is a risk. Since then Chloe has been working as a bookseller and has not only successfully launched the digital marketing agency but very successfull
Writers need to have confidence - and other topics of interest (opens the original)
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Listeners-slash-viewers a.k.a. liewers, you’re going to have to watch or listen to find out why, quite early on in our latest episode, Rachael says, ‘This is not a poo podcast.’ We're not giving you any hints! What we will say is that we recorded this ahead of her going to the RWA conference in Darwin, at which she taught a day-long workshop, gave the opening keynote speech and was made a lifetime member of the RWA. In short, she was an RWA rock star! Our main business in this episode is to answ
An unintentional conversation about rural romance (opens the original)
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At the time of recording this episode Rachael was preparing her day-long workshop for the RWA Conference, which is happening this weekend. Sophie was meant to attend but, due to personal circumstances, had to cancel, so we aren’t seeing each other in person as planned. Yet we are together on screen and in audio in this episode, which we recorded about three weeks ago. We meant for this episode to be the follow-up to the 9th episode of the season, which was answering questions from aspiring and e
All about The Frock Shop (opens the original)
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As has become customary, each time Rachael or Sophie releases a book, we devote an episode of the podcast to discussing it. This time it’s Sophie's turn, with The Frock Shop , which was published on 21 July 2026 (blurb below). We had quite the discussion about clothes and why Sophie chose to write a novel about them, as well as the characters and much more besides. Rachael is hard at work on two novels at the moment, one written solo (her usual mode) and the other with Mercedes Mercier (the new
Petronella McGovern on her new novel, Every Time She Wakes (opens the original)
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This episode of the podcast was recorded a few weeks before Sophie's latest novel, The Frock Shop , was published and Rachael asked her some questions about it, including how she manages writing multiple points of view (there are give in this novel). Sophie also mentions some events and how at the time we recorded there weren’t booking links for everything - but there are now! However, The Frock Shop is not the focus of this episode - we’ve recorded a separate episode for that - because we have
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