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Phillipa Nefri Clark is a USA Today best selling author. She writes mystery, love and suspense, and she really writes from the heart about all those things that are so important. Love, dreams, secret, discovery, and the sea feature in her books. She loves happy endings, heart pounding suspense, and characters who stay with you long after the final page has been turned. Phillipa has written 28 book...

A special On The Convo Couch episode featuring Guest Host Rachael Johns chatting to NYT best selling author Patti Callahan Henry. Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times, Globe and Mail, and USA Today bestselling author of seventeen novels, including her newest, The Secret Book of Flora Lea .  ​She is the recipient of The Christy Award “Book of the Year”; The Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of th...

Guest host Cassie Hamer chats to Sydney based author Sandie Docker about her latest release T he Red Gum River Retreat and the writing life. Sandie writes about love, loss, family and small country towns. Her debut novel, The Kookaburra Creek Café , was released in 2018, The Cottage at Rosella Cove  in 2019, the German edition of The Kookaburra Creek Cafe - Das kleine Café der großen Träume, was r...

Guest host Rachael Johns chats to West Australian author Anthea Hodgson about her new release The War Nurses . Rachael is a regular guest host on Writes4Women, and a best selling author of more than 18 rural romance and women's fiction titles, her most recent being The Work Wives . Anthea grew up in the wheatbelt of WA, surrounded by paddocks, wheat, sheep and her parent’s books. In a previous lif...

Amie Kaufman is a New York Times, USA Today and internationally best selling author of science fiction and fantasy. Her multi-award winning work has been translated into over thirty languages and several of her series are currently in development for film and television. Amie lives in Melbourne and is host of the podcast Amie Kaufman on Writing. Her upcoming release is the first of a series featur...

Guest host Meredith Jaffé chats to fiction author Emilia Hart about her debut release, Weyward. Weaving together the stories of three women across five centuries, Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world. Meredith chats to Emelia about the writing of the novel, developing the themes of misogyny and female power, writing during lockdown,...

Thriller author Rae Cairns joins host Pamela Cook to talk about the writing of her second novel Dying To Know . Regular listeners to the podcast will remember Rae as a Writes4Women Emerging Author from the early days of the podcast, and more recently as a guest host. Rae writes C rime with Heart – thrillers featuring everyday people facing extraordinary circumstances. Her debut novel The Good Moth...

Debut fiction author Diane Yarwood joins guest host Cassie Hamer on The Convo Couch to talk about Dianne's novel The Wakes. The Wakes is a bittersweet and irresistibly readable novel that perfectly blends laugh-aloud humour with poignant reflections on life and death and what really matters. It's s a book about living, drawing on Dianne's near-death experience and it's imbued with her lifelong pas...

Guest host, best selling historical fiction author Victoria Purnam chats to literary legend Jackie French about her new release Becoming Mrs Mulberry. Victoria is an Australian top ten and  USA Today  bestselling fiction author. Her 2022 novel,  The Nurses’ War, followed her 2019 book, The Women’s Pages , was an Australian bestseller, as were her novels,  The Land Girls  and  The Last of the Boneg...

Join Pam on the Writes4Women Convo Couch as she chats to three authors who feature in It’s All Connected , an anthology of Feminist Fiction and Poetry published by Spinifex Press. Spinifex Press was established in March 1991 by Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein. Over 30 years later and with well over 200 titles in print and most available as eBooks, Spinifex Press continues to produce award-winning...

Thriller author and guest host Rae Cairns chats to debut author Kerryn Mayne about her new release Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder Kerryn is an author, former wedding photographer, current police officer and terrible (but enthusiastic) tennis player. When not at work attempting to solve crime, she is writing about it or preparing an endless stream of snacks for her four children. Kerryn lives in...

Best-selling author and doctor Joanna Nell , author of four novels published by Hachette, chats to award winning short story writer and doctor Fiona Robertson about the craft of short story writing. Brisbane based writer Fiona Robertson's debut release, a short story collection titled If You Are Happy , was published in 2022 by University of Queensland Press to greater acclaim. The collection won...

Terri Green writes historical fiction - amongst other genres - and joins Pam on The Convo Couch to talk about her long and winding path to publication, her recent releases and the value of being in a writing group. Like most writers, Terri was one of those kids with her nose perpetually stuck in a book, and wanted to be a children's author when she grew up, but detoured into physiotherapy instead....

Guest host Meredith Jaffé chats to Kylie Ladd about her new novel I'll Leave You With This . Kyle is the author of seven novels, a psychologist and freelance writer. Her novels have been published in Australia and overseas, and The Way Back , has been optioned for film. She has also co-edited and co-authored two non-fiction books, and her essays and articles have been published in The Age and Sydn...

Welcome to this new release feature author episode which also has a good dose of the heart of writing. Guest host Mary-Lou Stephens, chats to debut thriller author Jo Dixon about her new release The House of Now and Then. Over ten years ago, Jo moved from suburban Brisbane to rural Tasmania. Since then, she's been wrangling an ever-growing collection of animals, bringing up two sons, and attemptin...

Today's special episode features THREE Australian YA authors: guest host Jo Riccioni chats to Nina Kenwood and Meg Gatland-Veness about their recent releases, writing processes and finds out their top writing tips for emerging authors. Nina Kenwood is an award-winning Australian writer. Her debut novel, It Sounded Better in My Head won the text prize and was a finalist for the American Library Ass...

In this week’s episode Pam chats to Australian author and writing mentor Lisa Ireland. Lisa has published novels across various genres, she has established herself as a thoughtful, nuanced voice in modern historical fiction and women’s fiction. Lisa is a passionate community builder and enjoys supporting organisations that advocate for human rights and the arts—twin passions she explores in her la...

Welcome to Season 4 of Writes4Women! Today's guest really needs no introduction. New York Times best-selling author Natasha Lester has been a guest on the podcast numerous times and today she's back to discuss how she created tension in her recent release The Three Lives of Alix St Pierre. After writing and publishing seven historical fiction titles Natasha is an expert at creating tension through...

Pam celebrates 10 years of being a published author this month with a special edition of the podcast where she shares 10 important lessons gleaned from her time in the publishing industry. There may be a few bonus tips as well! From prioritising the writing, to dealing with rejection, finding your writing tribe and everything in between, there's plenty of foo for thought for aspiring and emerging...

Writes4Women joins forces with Talking Aussie Books to talk all things Romance at the Romance Writers of Australia Conference in Fremantle 2022. Pamela Cook and Claudine Tinellis chat with authors whose work ranges from historical and contemporary fiction to crime and rural romance, romcoms and domestic thrillers. We wanted to know what being part of an organisation like the RWA meant to each of t...

Guest host Meredith Jaffé shares her top four book recommendations for gift giving this Christmas. Meredith is the author of four novels for adults— The Tricky Art of Forgiveness (2022), The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison (2021), The Making of Christina (2017) and The Fence (2016.) Her bestselling novel, The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison, was voted in the 2021 Booktopia Favourite Australi...

Four fabulous book recommendations for Christmas gift giving and holiday reading, specially selected for the special people in your life. Michelle is an author and website designer at Fresh Web Design where she specialises in websites for authors. If you're in the market for a new website check out her services at https://www.freshwebdesign.com.au/   Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/write...

Guest host Meredith Jaffé chats to novelist and nature writer Inga Simpson about the writing of her new novel Willowman . Inga’s debut novel, Mr. Wigg was published in 2013 and shortlisted for the 2014 debut fiction award at the Indies. Her second novel Nest was long listed for the Miles Franklin and the Stella Prize and her 2016 novel Where the Trees Were was also long listed for the Miles Frankl...

Contemporary women's fiction author Cassie Hamer , author of three fabulous novels, including The Truth About Faking It, shares her four top recommendations for books to gift this Christmas. And they're all writing craft books! Cassie also shares how she used the Save The Cat beat-sheet in writing her most recent novel and explains how she applied the advice in the book. Grab a pen and paper and g...

Romance author and editor extraordinaire Laura Boon shares her ideas for xmas gift giving and holiday reading  with a fabulous selection covering romance, thriller, historical and non-fiction books. 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 experie...