Ep 477: Alison Stuart on creating a successful career as a romance author

Meet historical fiction author Alison Stuart. Discover why you need to know the genre you’re writing in. And we have 3 copies of True Friends by Patti Miller to give away!

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Links mentioned in this episode

• Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature
• What Genre Is My Book? (4 Simple & Easy Ways To Choose!) by Cathy Yardley
• WIN True Friends by Patti Miller
• Buy So You Want to be a Writer – the book!
• Facebook group for So You Want to be a Writer

Writer in residence: Alison Stuart

Alison Stuart began her writing career half way up a tree in the school playground where she wrote her first (unpublished) historical romance. She writes historical romance for Harlequin MIRA, Escape Publishing and also publishes independently. She has twelve published novels as well as a number of shorter works. She also writes historical mysteries as A.M. Stuart and is published by Berkley Publishing (Penguin New York).

In her life outside writing, she enjoyed a varied career as a lawyer in a wide number of fields including the military and as a senior executive in the fire services.

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This podcast is brought to you by the Australian Writers’ Centre and our course Romance Writing

Find out more about your host, Valerie Khoo (@valeriekhoo on Twitter and @valeriekhoo on Instagram).

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